scrubbles

scrubbles, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

The older I get the more I eyeroll at the political posturing. It’s definitely worse than when I was younger, but also it’s all happened before. It’s just loud people trying to be loud to keep us all afraid and obediently going to work, then every 4 years it gets loud again so we vote for who they want us to.

Real convenient the border is such a huge issue a few months before the election.

Of course we still have to take it seriously, the minute we let our guard down they start implementing stuff, look at roe v wade, but even then they didn’t know what to do after that. It’s all about staying in power for them

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Yes, I’m lucky enough to have a good salary, but I can tell people there is no top limit. Once you have your needs met then you’re exactly right, it’s about retirement planning and savings, and there could always be more. The fact is that the only true money amount that will make someone happy is the amount that allows them not to work anymore

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Nail on the head. Racism now stems from people feeling like they’re no one, but they have an excuse to feel better than this person for an arbitrary reason so they take it.

There’s a reason most of the racists are poor uneducated white people

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Honestly for selfhosters, I can’t recommend enough setting up an instance of Gitea. You’ll be very happy hosting your code and such there, then just replicate it to github or something if you want it on the big platforms.

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Damnit of course it was. Thanks for letting me know, now I’ll have to redo my 100+ repos.

scrubbles, 1 year ago

It’s more I don’t have them all checked out, and a good chunk are mirrors of github, so I’ll have to list out each one and push to a new remote, mirrors will have to be setup again, and I also use the container and package registries. I’m pretty embedded. It’s not impossible, but it’s a weekend project for sure.

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Most comedy specials, the George Carlin post today reminded me of that. If you listen too frequently they’ll lose their punch, and you’ll stop listening to what they’re saying. Every few years I’ll listen to him (and a few other comedians) and it reminds me of everything

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Oh another one I just thought of. The Mass Effect trilogy.

Used to do it every year and got burned out, now every 3 years or so I jump back in and save the galaxy. Wait - this might be three years this summer!

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Meanwhile Mitch is just stroking out a bit in the corner

scrubbles, 1 year ago

I had to teach myself last year that you can be an informed voter and also not constantly not watch the news. With Ukraine I realized I was constantly in a rolling panic attack and I couldn’t get out of it. The news was sensationalized so much. (Not downplaying the events, but they also rolled out experts who talked about how likely nuclear annihilation was and I was not handling that well). I realized it was all to keep me glued to my screen and clicking, and that made me kind of disgusted with them. Here’s a war going on with actual people affected, and they’re worried about how many clicks they’re getting.

I stay informed, I know the issues, but that doesn’t mean I need to be subscribed to /c/news and have a constant feed. I vote in every election, and if there’s something I don’t know I look it up. But I don’t need it daily.

scrubbles, 1 year ago

For me, definitely. I’ll read the news before an election but even then it’s pretty targeted.

I realized that I trip up with anxiety with world and national news because there’s nothing I can do. Literally beyond voting there’s really no change I can make, so I don’t need to stay updated like I can do that.

Even our grandfather’s only had a daily newspaper to stay up to date. We humans just aren’t meant to consume that much, there’s no way our tiny soup brains can consume all of that and we stay mentally healthy

scrubbles, 1 year ago

My wife put it to me well.

On the off chance that the world doesn’t end this week, let’s go ahead and keep living our lives

It was a joke but it stuck with me. Yeah it could all end. History says it won’t though. There are some real threats out there, but for my own measley self I should keep planning on tomorrow

scrubbles, 1 year ago

The Whale.

Very happy to own it, watched it in 4k. Will keep it forever. It will be a very long time until I watch it again. It was amazing, but if you’ve watched it you know why.

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Second for namecheap. It’s reliable, easy,. … and cheap

scrubbles, 1 year ago

George Carlin knew the world exactly for what it was. He simply held a mirror up to it and we simply laughed at it, because at its core our society is ridiculous.

Wars, racism, hatred, government. All societal things built up because we humans can’t control ourselves, because we’re still just brains swimming in chemical soup dictated by instinct.

I’m not joking when I say he was a modern day prophet.

scrubbles, 1 year ago

It’s actually kind of neat. They have their own “state” codes for the Air Force or Navy, and that’s how the mail is handed over to the military. They do have to give an apo or the like, but the deployed know that before leaving so family knows how to write.

It gets murkier once it’s inside how they route the mail, don’t know for sure, but as long as you follow USPS guidelines it’ll get to them. So, part of your answer at least

pe.usps.com/text/pub28/28c2_010.htm

scrubbles, 1 year ago

Peak boomer humor

scrubbles, 1 year ago

I did it with blob storage, ended up being much cleaner and cheaper. You’ll need to toy with it a bit, but from scratch will be a lot easier than the migration I had to do. You’ll easily eat up 100+GB in pictures, which on the cloud on a VM’s drive that’s a fair chunk of money. Object storage is pennies.