Absolute free speech is overrated. You shouldn’t be able to just lie out your ass and call it news.

The fact that the only people who had any claim against Fox for telling the Big Lie was the fucking voting machine company over lost profits tells you everything you need to know about our country

Factorio uses all the same parts of my brain as my programming job, to the extent that I can’t play it during the week without risking exhaustion and burnout.

• breaking down a complex problem into simple ones
• organizing complexity
• tracking inputs and outputs
• managing edge cases
• error handling
• designing generalized, reusable components
• tracking side effects
• working under time pressure
• handling feedback from biters users

Seriously, if you like factorio and are looking for a career go into some flavor of IT/programming.

Born & raised in the US, lived in Poland for the past several years. Speak a good bit of polish, enough to navigate most interactions with strangers but not enough for deep conversations with the father-in-law.

Fastmail has been great for me for years now

Just-in-time supply chains mean that a day of lost work fucks things up for a week.

Companion cube

Obviously I’m aware that people face all kinds of challenges and stressors, it’s the entire fucking point of my first paragraph. I wasn’t trying to start a “who’s more stressed” contest here, it was a throwaway half-joke attempt to make OP feel better.

Seriously, internet, can you chill? Do I have to speak with absolute precision and clarity at all times?

I think in general people should be understanding of each others’ situations and make things easier on them where possible.

Speaking as a parent, I can pretty much guarantee that you are living a less stressful life than your coworkers with kids. Not sure it means much but hey

After a lifetime of allergies, I’m really good at Dracula-sneezing in the least bad direction

the fuck is a chegg?

Tractor pulls

iPhone 3G. I’ll never forget the day I put the internet in my pocket

Raised conservative christian, took a disgustingly long time to lose some of my shittier takes

Delete the middle.

“I pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all”

dude I just live here

Moved to Europe

i build websites

I’ve always wanted to write a bot that replies to comments that say „I have no words” with a list of random words

Yes, “It’s us or the porn”, yes this will certainly go well for the republicans, no notes

You don’t even need grub to boot Linux; the kernel can be its own bootloader.