Also, the usefulness of AI and how it’s going to replace a lot of jobs is vastly overrated. It can’t even translate most simple instructions without creating accidental poetry.

So far, humans are still needed just to review and correct the work of AI. Unless you want slop. Which can be fine but still slop. And it doesn’t seem to be getting better.

It’s a quote from an episode of the Simpsons. I don’t know who wrote that but I left it verbatim.

Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow had the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.

The great Daria Morgendorffer once said:

“Life sucks no matter where you are, so don’t be fooled by location changes.”

However, because life will suck wherever you are, you can also go ahead and be depressed while travelling. It’ll distract your mind a bit and change the scenery.

I was depressive and suicidal in 2016 but my therapist convinced me to go visit a place where I wanted to go. So I went to Europe and was still depressed. It didn’t cure anything, but it made time pass a bit differently. I remember one time spending the whole day laying in the bed of my hotel room, feeling guilty not to visit the place. But I did the other days and even if it wasn’t much, I’m still glad to have done the trip.

It was difficult to accept but after talking with a therapist, and years of being discouraged every time I talked to her, I made the same realization and stopped telling her about most of my life. Everyone is much happier if we don’t talk about this. Otherwise she will tell me I took all the wrong decisions and that I should have stayed miserable because that’s how it works.

She (and all of her family) is afraid of pretty much everything. So as soon as you can secure a job, you keep it; for life! Even if it destroys your body or your mental, you have a job so keep it! Don’t go to school, it’s just a waste of money. Don’t look elsewhere because it’s not going to be better anyway. It’s even causing conflict in her family because one of her sister is a nurse and is “too educated”. They consider her snobbish.

It’s my mother, I love her, but I can’t tell her anything or it’s going to be worse for both of us.

AFAIK they did that because of GSM interference and the phenomenon mostly disappeared not because those cheap little speakers are mostly extinct, but because the technology used by cell phones changed. In fact, GSM is being phased out in most countries.

Apparently you can also try with Labubus.

One time I was working as a customer advocate in a hosting company and I had one supervisor that never wanted to concede and refund the clients. It wasn’t an issue with other supervisors, I was following policies and he was kind of an asshole.

At one point I told him he was wrong and he replied with the French expression “you will not live on love and water alone”, meaning do what I say or you will be fired and won’t have money to live.

Well, as this happened before lunch break, I went to lunch, wrote my resignation letter and sent it via email. When I got back at the office he was incredulous and asked if I was joking. Nope.

I didn’t have the monetary meams to quit and I had to go back to my previous job, that I also didn’t like, but at least my old supervisor was not such an asshole.

I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and I gave up because I already had a simple IRC setup that’s working for me and my friends.

Some IRC clients are now web based and it’s been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There’s also push notifications and it’s mobile friendly.

Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do video chat but I’ve never got it to work.

I’ve recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I’m pretty sure my friends are going to stay on “modern” IRC anyway.

Especially Carl. But luckily for whales, Carl is a bastard because he shot a harpoon in the captain’s face.

Oh yeah, otherwise don’t hesitate to go faster than the speed limit and male a bit of noise with your sports car, cuz it impresses everyone.

I can’t say I hate everyone, but its more of a “I don’t like people” in general kind of vibe.

When I was a teen in the late 90ies I was depressive and suicidal. I have had several episodes since then but I’m curious and so far I go on, just to see how cruel, dystopian and fucked up the world will become. So far it’s one part that is not disappointing.

But then you learn more about them and realize that the “fine specimen” are as damaged as the rest of us.

Some can be super nice to you yet very mean or cruel with other people.

I always at least try to give the benefit of the doubt but I very often end up disappointed.

EDIT: Quote from Quark

Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people… will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon.

Sorry to hear about that person’s psychological state.

Odds about living nearby are low but sometimes the world can be pretty small. Let’s see. I’m in a high rise near PdA in Montreal, 7th floor, so the person I can hear yelling is probably on the 6th or 8th floor.

I have a neighbour like that, I think. I’ve been living in the same place for years but a few months ago I started hearing someone yelling through the walls/floors. At first I thought it was a couple arguing because I kept hearing "“FUCK YOOOOU FUCK YOOOU FUCK” and “HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME?”

Then the same thing again a few minutes later. Maybe he was watching sports.

But he also yells the same things randomly. Sometimes at 2AM, sometimes at 2PM. Sometimes a few times in a row, sometimes just once. So I think he’s probably playing video games and just can’t help himself.

Close! But those lines are from the second one: Everyday Normal Guy 2

Anecdote about how this song is still fresh in my mind: I went to Saint Martin last winter. There are hiking trails on a private property called Loterie Farm, leading to Pic Paradis, the highest point of the island. They also have pool parties with loud music, kids playgrounds and stuff like that, but I went for the hike. Depending on your angle on the hill, you can clearly hear the music at the bottom. So there I was, hiking in a tropical forest, when all of a sudden I hear this remix of Everyday Normal Guy 2. I had forgotten this song for years and now my brain associates this specific remix with this moment.

I’m not disregarding electric cars. However they are not presented as an imperfect solution but rather like what everyone that has a car needs to do. Just swap for an electric car and don’t change anything else!

Don’t change habits. Dont talk aboout the other problems created by cars. Let’s forget about the millions of animals and humans killed by cars. Worldwide, there is one human killed every 30 seconds by a car. Electric or not.

But people just want to continue their current lifestyle. They will buy anything they are told will do that. Anything as long as they can all continue just as they are doing right now, but green!

IF you have to have a car, of course, the electric one will be better for the environment. But they are hyped and presented as a simple easy solution for everyone. They’re like Stanley cups. Everyone wants one, or two. They are objects of consumption.

Buying a car is not good for the environment in any way, shape or form, yet people are eager to do so.

Humanity is not running to ruins. It’s taking a car.

🎶Yo, what can I say? It’s just a day in my life.

I’m up early in the morning, in bed early at night.

To be productive at work, I gotta be well rested.

Yeah, motherfucker, you heard what I just said.🎶

Don’t worry if you can’t get in the electric car (EV) club right away. The important thing for the economy environment is that you are planning to buy another car, but electric!

Or just ditch the working car for an electric one. Nobody gives a fuck if it’s ecological or not. They just want to continue using a car and ignore all the other problems like microplastics from tire shedding, heat islands, or using a two tons metal box to move 1.5 person everywhere.

Electric cars only exist so the car industry can continue to sell cars. So don’t worry and consume. Greenwash your conscience.

I don’t want to gatekeep and you do what works for you.

I can only hope that you are kind enough to stop torturing this poor Debian with WSL, and can find it a proper home.

Or have you considered getting therapy for this?