That we as humans are living beyond our means in terms of population and resources. Particularly if everybody wants to live above the poverty line. I really didn’t think this was news to anybody at this point.

Depends what you mean. If you’re talking about reparations I don’t agree. In this world, there are a lot of people materially suffering and we shouldn’t be picking and choosing who gets free gift cards and who doesn’t based on race. Unfortunate things happened in the past that set the current stage. There’s a lot of suffering out there and everyone seems to think they have an inalienable right to reproduce despite the consequences. So reparations to me is scooping water out with a coffee cup from a sinking ship. It’s also the quickest way to lose elections. Nobody will go for it when we’ve all seen our material conditions worsen over our lifetimes, even in the debt-ridden “rich nations”.

Japanese people as a whole are severely lacking when it comes to acknowledging the atrocities committed by their country

And when educating people, we need to change the way the message is delivered to start taking collective responsibility for the bad things, the “bad people” and acknowledge that everybody of every culture or ideology is capable of being evil, and has been before, and will be in the future, that Nazi Germany wasn’t a “them” issue, it’s an “us” issue, and we need to do way less elitist finger wagging from some implicit position of detached moral purity.

When we teach that “X culture did Y thing to Z culture N decades ago”, we need to stop focusing on the X and Z part.

No, we don’t need to seek revenge, we don’t need to “right the wrongs”, because every action has consequences and trying to “undo” one bad thing will make more bad things. Just learn and move on, trying not to make the same mistakes. That’s the best we can do.

If you get the balance wrong in either direction, you’re in trouble, but I’ve never known anyone IRL who’s ever been put in danger by my country’s comparatively cheaper plug.

Can’t deny it’s more robust and safer, but you also can’t deny that other plug designs are less expensive to produce. Pros & cons.

I let myself see the positives of negatives and the negatives of positives.

You’ll “lose” time and time again in life, but how you process those losses will determine what gains come along with them.

We need some credits-based resellers of youtube premium. I would buy credits if they don’t expire, or take a good long while to expire. Paying for social media is a psychological thing. I don’t want to use social media more – if anything I want to use it less. Opposite situation to paying for a gym membership hoping the knowledge of paying for it will persuade you to go.

Aka shitty human nature. No human civilization has ever existed without slavery or some equivalent form of oppression. Probably never will. We’ll just create people made out of metal and silicon to be the new slaves and tell ourselves it’s okay because only homosapiens have souls

I used to use CD-Rs for music because it was hit and miss whether a CD player would play a CD-RW or not.

Sure, I get it. Everything zero-sums in the end. But it doesn’t stop the gazelle from not wanting to be eaten by the lion, or the lion from not wanting to be killed by the bacterial and fungal infection caused by eating the gazelle. Even though that system saves them from overpopulation and starvation.

It’s difficult walking up to somebody who is focusing on a great loss in that moment and has trouble seeing the traded gain, and saying “your loss is part of a greater gain” or “It’s God’s Plan™️” and expecting them not to tell you to fuck off.

This is what right-wing politics understands and exploits while the left plugs their ears closes their eyes and goes “lalalala can’t hear you over all that white/male/western/ablist/historical/etc privilege”. And then lefties are stunned when they lose elections to fascists.

Anyway, rant rant…

Being a white male doesn’t mean you’ll coast through it. You still have to put in the effort, otherwise you end up like the guy holding the cardboard sign in the back of the grocery store parking lot near my house in 30 degrees F, and it’s not even January yet.

Americans have been getting poorer and poorer for decades, even though it doesn’t appear that way due to influx of cheap goods from the far east, but when you look at the cost of American labor, paying for any good or service that earned Americans a living wage, that’s when you get a true picture of how far your money goes.

Environmentalists not knowing how to react to this headline

What does Guyana want? I didn’t see that mentioned in the article.

My employer has both a technical and a non technical route, but even the technical route will include some small amount of team/project leading.

Ok here’s my personal gripes/nitpicks

Music:

• overlay band name on band tile. I know the name is up top, but I don’t recognize a lot of those tile pics and have to go one by one trying to find the right one.
• when I click a band tile, the “Albums” icon is too small. Ideally have album tiles horizontal along the bottom, but at least make the icon bigger and put next to Instant Mix, also a “all songs” next to “albums”.
• Instant Mix is confusing, it seems to be shuffle just name it shuffle, and if you hit shuffle from a band details I’d expect it to shuffle just that band, vs “Shuffle All” from main screen, or Shuffle album from album details, etc.
• when playing and play/pause is focused, if I could push “up” to focus the progress bar, and then left/right to fast fwd/rewind, or “ok” btn to enter a time to skip to (think, where I left off in this 20 hour long audiobook)

Movies section had some nitpicks too. Like wishing there was a quick bar when you focus a movie, or at least putting “un/mark watched” in the asterisk menu instead of having to drill into it. The rest is probably just me needing to get used to the playback button design, like pushing up I’d expect to see progress bar and some quick functions but instead I see file info which doesn’t seem like a common thing I’d care to look at. Similarly, being able to click the progress bar and skip to a time would be wonderful vs hitting “right” a hundred times on my crappy Roku remote 🙂

Hope you found my complaining useful!

Somebody can be a “tremendous source of advice and guidance and wisdom” and yet make poor decisions. You’re framing people as if they’re “good or bad” with a neat little ribbon tied on the box. People are a constantly fluctuating mix of good and bad things at all times, and depending on your perspective in this moment, you’ll experience one or the other. I’ve seen wisdom in the otherwise dense, and I’ve seen ignorance in the otherwise sharp. I’ve seen wickedness in the otherwise gentle, and I’ve seen compassion in the otherwise cold. Really just depends when you happen to look and if you allow yourself to see it

I have both currently. Only reason I’ve kept Plex around is bc the jellyfin Roku and android apps need a bit of polish.

Some of us are sensitive to SLS, (the micro-abrations they create in the gums cause canker sores in some people), and it’s not easy finding a toothpaste that has flouride but doesn’t have SLS, so i buy the natural stuff then have a separate flouride rinse I use.

Teenagers: “I wish I was never born!”

Parents: “World’s not fair. Don’t complain, could be worse.”

Now to get all our lazy family and friends to stop supporting ad terrorists and support something worthwhile for once. Life is exhausting