"... We provide access while offering more variety, but let people pick and choose how they want to participate. Like, mahjong is super popular now, mostly with women but men, too. It brings people together..."

Okay, I don't know a single person who is Gen X who plays mahjong or EVER played mahjong. But maybe I don't know anyone.

why is calling food craveable a thing you're literally advertising "it is possible to desire this" as if that's a high bar

@rpmik @ai6yr huh I haven't seen it at all out west aside from grannies here and there

@lain @lebronjames75 WE AINT FOUND SHIT

There is no such thing as a “micro” drama

@Mrfunkedude don’t feel like eating any brains though

I would love to say that this is just AI psychosis, but at this point I'm asking Claude to write the code, review it, monitor the deployment, identify structural flaws, design the next architecture, etc. My taste and judgment are there, but how much longer can I cling to that? And if I'm saying that, how must *juniors* feel?

Even a year ago you needed a lot of elbow grease, but the mistakes and hallucinations have really gone down since then. The trajectory seems terrifyingly clear.

@artemis Lately (for the last couple of decades, anyway) I find myself thinking: "what is the US such that defending it is vital and opposing it is traitorous?" not to mention "why should I be upset if we were somehow meaningfully invaded by another country whose government is clearly more egalitarian than ours? What, exactly, would I be defending, and why?"

...and I keep coming back to the idea that nationalism is basically an authoritarian trick to keep people in line. The things we're being told to be loyal to are not the things that actually matter.

or rather the actuality of what CFS actually is, and not the general idea of what it is