It's actually even worse than that.

I'm sorry, sir. I'll get off your lawn ASAP!

Probably more like petite bourgeois. But still more in common with the person in the chair than the actual bourgeois .

I would agree, and my advice is getting active locally. Getting involved in your community is great for many reasons.

Privilege is blinding. The dentist can't fathom how a "normal" person they are speaking to couldn't afford to go to a dentist. It doesn't even register. The dentist then must assume it was pure laziness or apathy.

I will grant that social media has given us access to all of the misery we want all of the time, and that those algorithms also prioritize content that makes us angry.

However, it would be toxic positivity to say that things are actually fine or even pretty good.

Things are objectively getting worse. Income inequality is somewhere between near gilded age levels and worse. The planet is dying in front of our eyes. Fascists are taking power in many governments.

Things are actually pretty bleak. That doesn't mean there's no hope. But burying your head in the sand and pretending things are fine ... well, I can understand that impulse. And I can understand that for some, it's a coping mechanism. And for sure, do what you gotta to get by and all. But it's not helpful in the broader sense.

You can't be depressed! Your life objectively sucks!

For small programs and scripting, Node is amazing. I've even written some CLI utilities in Node as standalone executables. I think most people who bash it have either never used it, or haven't used it lately.

I have no love or brand loyalty, but the color laser printer i have from HP has been great. I've had it a little over three years, and when I bought it, printers were hard to find. So I couldn't get a Brother at the time.

That one's tough. I went in blind when the steam version released and had a blast. The actual "game" part is not challenging once you figure out the basics. The fun of it is the stories that spring up that are mostly out of your control.

So, I'd say going in blind, but being open to asking questions or googling specific things is a great way to play it.

I got to go to Ireland last year. It was great. Everyone was lovely.

Except for the tiny roads, flanked by by penny walls with no shoulders, and traffic going 80kmh. That i didn't love.

Everything else was awesome, though.

Great message, hate the image.