the new testament ?

Either chill "tea" enjoyers or agents of chaos.

No middle ground.

I'm always up for some "drama" as long as that means "yapping about things that aren't as serious as someone I care about dying/suffering something grievous". 🤷

Why doeth thou ask?

AKA younger siblings, if you're into the whole brevity thing

I think they just mean they like witnessing it.

I hate pinging. My ping is 345,600,000ms.

Do you even grindset, bro

are those people even people?

“Maybe you feel the need to compensate, but that doesn’t mean everyone does.”

For real though, that’s bizarre. It’s okay to not perform at 100% all the time, that’s how you fast track to burn-out. Thank goodness my workplace isn’t of the “grind employees until they’re dust” mentality. Last time I showed signs of work stress, my boss actually sat with me to plan out some mental health days for the coming months.

Let's touch base to synchronize at a quick standup lunch, yeah? 👍

That's the thing though. If someone has used chat gpt to find information and then spent the time to verify it independently, they rarely, if ever, start a sentence with "I asked chat gpt...".

The ones that say that usually just stop at the first response they get from it. Even if what they say ends up being correct, you now know that they're the kind of person that'll blindly believe an LLM.

yes!! I was setting up Lyrion Music Server and I'm kind of an idiot, so when I had a specific question about that I asked a clunker. There's very little documentation or discussion about it (weirdly, it's awesome) so it was extremely helpful. But yeah for the most part I don't use it.

Ever thought of checking the factory service manual or prodemmand or all data? It's not hard to find this sort of info....

Is this a reference to Morlocks?

I would sympathize with this one, honestly.

I think we all (in the US at least) grew up with a very skewed and generalized / propagandized version of its history, one that's specifically designed so we identify proudly with it. (I'd imagine most countries are similar on that last bit but idk)

The more time goes on, the more atrocities come to light, the more insanely layered and nuanced and complicated it all is, it's quite an overload with everything else we have to deal with as adults. (Especially when most of it is crap we can't even do anything about.)

The constant realizations that approach closer to the truth are often painful. Nobody likes realizing they were lied to so much in their formative years.

Yeah, I too would like if my country was run by virtuous people trying their best, and if unknown badass action heroes stopped the bad guys, instead of living in an evil empire run by those bad guys, and if hard work actually meant something.

Politics are an extension of ethics so you kinda have every reason not to associate with someone whose moral compass is all fucked up (and so are their political takes).

Depends on the country and the party. I won't stop being friends with someone who disagrees with me about the best way to assure solvency of pensions (even if they support a private scheme), or how to best support transitions to clean energy, whether we should forbid the installation of gas heating or wait for the cost advantage of heatpumps to speak for itself.

In some countries however the discourse is whether some people should be executed on the street or not if they displeased a thug with a gun, or if their choice of sexual partner is not of the liking of the government.

I totally would be good with someone not being friends with me due to my politics. It would be a great passive filter.

that is true. also due to your username, i love you and you are my best friend now

No and see that's the funny thing. I've had people try to call me stupid or the r slur, but like, they couldn't even be bothered to spell "you are" you're correctly. That always makes me laugh, because oh the irony!

The one that irritates me is "the customer is always right..." How people can simply forget the rest baffles me.

I like to hit them with "If there are 2 bad cops, and 98 good cops who don't turn the bad cops in. There are 100 bad cops"

It especially irks me when the use it to infer the opposite of the quotes original meaning.

Yeah, few bad apples is one of the sayings that people use completely backwards, the other ones is "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" which people abbreviate to "blood is thicker than water" to mean the exact opposite.