A similar issue I have is when people text me constantly. I feel immediately obligated to respond, even if I’m in the middle of something, because I think they’ll get mad at me for ignoring them. Which means I have to juggle between texting and doing the other thing, causing me to get stressed out. I wish I could just ignore them for hours… I leave myself on offline mode a lot so I can actually try and focus without the constant distraction.
The link where I saw it is gonna be impossible to find simply because I have a folder of a couple thousand webcomics I’m going through. I’m only posting ones with the watermark or credit in the image though and trying to make sure I credit the title in the name. I will start grabbing the top sources that they seem to use though and putting those in the description. Seems only fair. Still, thanks!
Well, the father says to the son to practice safe sex. Ten years later the son is in a sexual encounter that involves lethal weaponry being used, thereby making it inherently unsafe sex. The son says “I don’t think my dad would approve” because he’s referencing the safe sex conversation from childhood.
Somewhere, in the back of my memory, I have recollection of an old school comedy sketch with a title like “foghorns in disguise”. Monty Python or Kids in the Hall or something similar. Wherein people would start a conversation with someone, only for that someone to respond by being a foghorn. But all attempts at googling this sketch has ends in total failure. I thought it might be the enshitification of Google search results, but I tried a few others too. Now I think I might have dreamed it.
The enshittification of Google results does NOT just apply to Google. Even if we don’t count the “engines” that use Google as a backend, like Startpage and Metager, every search engine nowadays has been indexing fewer and fewer useful pieces of content. Time was, if you wanted to find a comment on Reddit or Tumblr or what have you and you knew some part of it word for word, you could put that portion betweeen quotes and you’d find it immediately. Now you’ll just get nothing. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Qwant, Bing, none of em’ll do it. Not even pushshift works properly anymore.
Do not get me started on the trash fire that is Searx. Hosting your own search engine sounds cool until you realize it means running your own indexer and only getting results from sites your individual instance has crawled.
Also, did you hear that Gigablast, the only open-source search engine apart from Searx, shut its doors for good earlier this year?
If you can, always set the title of whatever window you're working on to capital bold letters, preferably red, saying PRODUCTION SERVER - DON'T FUCK IT UP. This has saved my dumbass a few times when I looked up before hitting enter.
I use IntelliJ for this and my prod connection is red, has warning symbols and it’s read only. I can switch on write mode if necessary, but it will prompt for it. Saves me a lot of stress.
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