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Oh, I don’t mind them at all, and people who do are weird for that. There’s a use case for plastic straws for people with certain disabilities but it’s rare. The important thing is that I still understand what that push was trying to do. I can be ok with the results while not being blind to the true motivations.

Oddly, though, they’re all massive bootlickers and will try to find any reason why billionaires are totally fair and good hardworkers. TheyMre just pathetic.

I’d take a shitty Leaf over any Tesla any day. Being seen in one would be enough reason to never go near it.

The stupid part is that it 100% is. The plastic straw thing was to shift blame onto consumers so we’d blame ourselves instead of the big energy companies. The “AI data centres are cool” people are the same ones as before, now telling everyone how we need to give up more of our meager existence to serve the rich. Energy companies also love it because they can check prices to the fucking moon.

We need to be at least slightly resistant, though. At the moment most people are like some ancient old smoker with an immune system as fragile as a generic brand garbage bag with just a bit too much stuff in it. The shit people are falling for is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable and they should be mocked mercilessly for hearing “the minorities are who’s ruining your life” and going “yea! I’m gunna dedicate my existance to shilling for billionaires now!”

The Steam Deck is objectively excellent, what the hell are you talking about? Yea, that’s way more expensive that it was only a few years ago and people need to not accept the price, but still.

One night I had the weird headache out of nowhere. Still don’t know what it was or where it came from. No idea why, but I ended up on the couch just thinking “everything is bad, I’m bad, why even bother, I fucking suck at everything, etc.”

I’m pretty good at separating myself from my own thoughts, especially when things get out of hand, so I knew to just sit and let it blow over. This was very, very good because in that moment I caught a glimpse of where someone might be if they were thinking of commiting suicide. It was such a strong force of self-hate and hopelessness all I could really do was lie there and hope it would pass.

Had a normal day after that, but holy hell. There’s not a lot of logic to it, the best you can really do is be kind to people and pray they see the lighthouse in the storm.

My car needed a clutch and throw-out bearing and I only changed them last weekend. It sat for a month and half before I could get back to Ottawa to fix it in my parents’ driveway but until then it didn’t really matter. I don’t even drive it much when it does work!

I had a recruiter call me up and ask me how I hadn’t found a job with all these postings. Like, lady, they’re not real!

These jobs are the ones where they don’t hire enough people and they genuinely believe that they you can give them 100% every minute you’re on the clock. It’s high-pressure and fast-paced because they’re stupid and set insane deadlines with the client without consulting you first. Nevermind that they’ll bust out the “well, I stay late every day, too!” and you’ll get fired soon after if you say “yea, and your quality hugely suffers for it.”

Their definition of “lazy” conflicts heavily with reality. They work hard, not smart, producing rushed, shitty work that takes them twice as long to do because they haven’t given themselves even 10 minutes in the last decade to learn a new skill or tool in the software. I worked with a grown adult in 2023 who wouldn’t upgrade from AutoCAD 2013 and he was the drafting manager. He wasn’t the only one like that, either.

Every single person who has voted “strategically” has gotten us here, alongside their dipshit sidekicks, the conservative voters who think that Mark Carney is too woke. And they’ll still pat themselves on the back because “PP would have been worse” as if there’s any functional difference between those two parties. We can’t even be fucked to show up for provincial or municipal elections.

Fuck all you centrist, ignorant, and/or cowardly fucks. Canadians have empty heads and no spines.

Yea, and the LPC has already shown us that they refuse to make that happen because they know what would mean. The Conservatives would never, but the LPC literally ran on it and then through away any changes because it would mean denocracy would destroy them. They don’t give a flying fuck about what we think, they only want power, and they’re certainly not going to make things better if we keep electing them.