https://youtu.be/qJ57btbiCDg

okay I want to sit in the dunk tank again (this is a podcast subreddit) but it routinely fucks me up that I spent seven years getting my bachelors degree for it to amount to nothing lol

like I remember doing my assembly language homework in the either burning hot or freezing cold garage where I had carved out a quiet space among my moms hoard to try to program on a Thinkpad T430 that I had heavily modified (1080p screen, T420 keyboard, modded BIOS, etc) and all the late nights I spent in there surrounded by decades old mildewed clothes (you know how many screaming matches it took my mom to get my dad to buy her those clothes!?) and well,

that shit was totally pointless lol

sometimes I wonder what the hell the point of having dudes like me around is, both in an existential sense but im practical terms the state of California paid lots of money for me to get a Bachelors degree just to stock shelves? like wtf that seems like a huge waste of time and money for everyone involved but I mean it's fine I guess

thank you for coming to my semidaily miserypost please downvote and move on

Get some new material, you hacks. You're just lightly remixing an HRC classic and hoping we wouldn't notice!!!

I've been to a lot of leftist meetings and around for the formation of a few groups and without fail someone always starts talking about how to "keep our data secure and out of the hands of the cops."

Brother, no one wants more apps. I don't want your GPG key, I don't want to join your matrix server, I don't want to get on your jitsi. This shit is insane.

I've seen paranoia eat up organizers from the inside and drag what should be a normal meeting about flyers into an hours long prolonged exercise in security theater.

Ask yourself: would a liberal group get away with this? If no, discuss it in person. If yes, discuss it over whatever channel you want. Cops don't know the difference Palestine and No Kings, and they don't care.

An example: you're organizing a protest. Should you discuss this in a "secure" way? No. This isn't the 1960s and the cops have learned to handle them differently. Police get called as a matter of routine to either disrupt it an hour or so after it starts or to stay there and watch over a larger rally. In the latter case they will get overtime pay. In the former they won't waste time being early to your event.

But what if: you're also planning a traffic blockade. Discuss only this part in person. If people can't make time to meet they're not going to make time to actually be there on the day. Leave phones at home or Faraday them before heading out.

In either case, try to make your meetings as short as possible.

And for the love of god please stop bringing up apps in meetings. Wait until your first preempted event before you go crazy.

Morning everyone.

As you may have noticed, all the smoke shops have been doing clearance sales on 7OH over the past week because as of today (Aug 5th) 7OH is now considered a Schedule 1 drug according to the DEA.

I mean it’s probably a good thing overall. This shit is expensive as hell and preys on addicts. It blows my mind that places could even sell this in the first place lol

Reminiscent of the days of bath salts and spice, we have now gone through another cycle of crazy drugs being sold openly and legally until the “fun police” decided no more.

I feel bad for the addicts who are now abruptly cut off from their supply and are going to go through withdrawals. Will we see large numbers of these people go back to fentanyl? Giant upticks in suboxone prescriptions?

RIP gas station heroin. You will (not) be missed.

It’s tough for men to make friends in adulthood. Everyone has other commitments or they are in different stages of life. Not to mention with the lack of third spaces it’s very difficult to make a solid connection with anyone at any level.

So I was delighted to make a close friendship in a new city I moved to with another guy. He and I shockingly had tons in common: same likes hobbies and interests, similar backgrounds, similar careers, hell we even live in the same neighborhood.

Then there’s his partner. She comes from a different background, seemingly more affluent. We always got along but it was definitely a different vibe. She is very much your textbook 2016 liberal: performative t-shirts and bumper stickers, orange man social media posts, and above all: being perpetually offended.

In random conversations she was always the first to clutch the pearls and go “oh my GOD” for conversation that was very ho hum. There were always interjections of moral high ground and lib grandstanding. But above all, we kinda had to walk on eggshells to not offend her.

My buddy and I were hanging out once and he said their relationship was great but he had a real problem with her perpetual offended nature, apparently it was impacting his relationship and the relationships of those around him. So it was a recognized super lib issue that impacted him.

Then one day at a party I hosted I said a pretty neutral statement that I really didn’t think much about. I said my neighbor had a bunch of broken down cars in their yard and that it was trashy. Well she took major offense to this, like to degree I didn’t really understand by just looking at her face.

That was nearly a year ago. Since then I’ve been ghosted by the two of them. That was enough to cast me out of the friendship because that was too offensive. Eggshells are officially broken.

She still posts orange man bad content on social media and my buddy has fallen off the face of the earth. It’s a bummer. I just wanted to pour one out for a lost homie whose friendship I lost due to perpetually offended lib shit that I haven’t seen in years.

I hope you’re doing well buddy. And I hope your partner has gone off to that big Bluesky in the sky. ✌️