Wouldn’t doubt it. Hopefully, they’re gone before it gets worse.

The administration is penalizing prospective students and visitors for shielding their social media accounts from the general public or for choosing to not be active on social media.

Damn that’s creepy. Not active on social media? Screw you then.

I graduated college in 2019 and most of the people I went to school with didn’t find work or related work. My gf has been looking for accounting work for the past 3 years or so? I keep hearing about the whole AI issue and how that’s making it hard for companies and people to find each other. I also keep reading about people with masters degrees, unable to find jobs, so that’s kinda scary.

I was lucky to find work, but it also terrifies me that if I leave, I’m going to end up with something less stable or harder for me to handle.

It really feels like the whole system is messed up. Makes me a little jealous/fearful when I see people who are able to job hop for promotions.

Sorry my thoughts probably aren’t very coherent today

Does anyone else find it ironic that the employees were hesitant to do this? I’m sure many of them have their reasons for working that job. But it seems funny when AI is built off of stolen data, and then the employees are like “hey wait a minute, though. Don’t use my data.”

This comes just after the whole “Make fps great again” issue happened. Not a good time to be on that team

Sometimes I like to imagine what it would be like if nice people had a lot of money and power instead

No idea what happens nowadays also probably depends on your location too, but a friend of mine downloaded fallout 4 when it released and his isp disabled their houses internet until he went to a web page and checked off a box saying “i have deleted the following file(s) from my machine” lol

It was a tame outcome relatively speaking, but it could have been worse.

But they spent far too long mysticizing and building up the epstein files and importantly it reflected a value that they collectively held - to protect the children.

This is the part that mind boggles me. I think the issue is that I keep thinking with broad strokes rather than MAGA as sub groups.

Generally speaking, I don’t think Maga cares about children overall, but some must.

-Education cuts

-school lunch cuts

-People against “hand outs” like food stamps

-The general American Healthcare system

-People who are anti abortion who then don’t support adoption or who wouldn’t adopt a child themselves etc.

I just find it so weird that this is the line they draw when Trump has been so outwardly creepy for decades.

*sorry for my shitty mobile formatting

From needs to slow their roll a bit. People might get tired. That’s a crazy release schedule. That being said I am curious as to what it’ll be

I’m digging indie titles taking some risks and trying new stuff. They’re usually decently cheap and fun with some friends. As AAA titles begin to adopt the new $80-85 price tags, indies have a time to shine.

Live action seems like such a weird choice for this

I kinda wish it was more Mario, but I’m excited that they’re trying something new. I’ll definitely try it eventually. Not now, but one day lol

Got a 7.4 critc score and a 4.7 user score on metacritic for those who are interested

I have purchased far more than I’ve ever obtained. In some cases I’ve double dipped and purchased multiple times.

The main issue is “can I obtain it legally and pay the original creators?” And secondary is “is this item reasonably priced and delivered in an accessible way?”.

The last game I grabbed was the Sims 4 + dlc a very very long time ago. The last show i grabbed was probably an anime with fan subtitles.

Specifically in this year? Hmm, I mean for all of the complexities and hurdles, I’m just grateful to be here.

I think while technology is a double-edged sword, the benefits it can bring are massive. I’ve learned so much because of the internet. I’ve also met many amazing people. So in that way I’m grateful.

If I could bring back one thing from past eras, I would bring back a slower, more grounded way of living and tighter communites. I think technology has advanced, but the owning class has used it to min max everything, so we haven’t seen the benefits.

I think people need more time for rest and taking care of themselves and their families. Our most precious resource is time, and we lose so much of it, often for arguably not enough compensation.

That sounds frustrating! I’ve been seeing similar messages on various comment sections now. You would think there would be some kind of QA testing prior to launching this lol.

Kinda not surprising though, because youtube seems to launch experiments very haphazardly.

I’ve been looking for a copy locally for years. I feel like I gotta just grab a copy off ebay at this point

I’m not sure why but I’m able to disable them on mobile. The tricky part is guessing what the original track is. I’m on YT premium which might be why?

I think the ideal functionality would be having (ORIGINAL) next to the audio track that isn’t dubbed and have that set to the default setting.

I think if they can get the dubbing correct and actually working as intended, that would be incredible for opening up cultures for everyone. I think crossing language barriers is really cool.

Other than the obvious money windfall, I genuinely don’t know. I actually think about this a lot. I thought I would have figured everything out by now, but I feel like I haven’t figured out anything 15 years later.

I think if I were older and knew everything would work out, I would want to know. Heck I wana know that now. But if it doesn’t, then…idk maybe I would give myself advice to just min max my time to ensure max happiness?

I think that’s really interesting. I often think about these moments of community/humanity. The closest I can get is if I have a nice conversation with a neighbor if I have the time. Or finding like-minded people online to chat with.

Smartphones became common place in my last year of high-school, but even at that point mobile data plans weren’t large enough to cause a major impact, but community gathering spots were already gone by that point where I live, so school was the community place. Once I graduated, that was gone. Very weird time to grow up. I’m meeting a lot of people in their early 20’s now who don’t even have the luxury of remembering those simpler times.

It feels super odd because it seems reminiscent of old stories passed down from generations. I hope that this trend ends positively in the future and that the future youth remember these terrible years as a paragraph in a history book and how we overcame these issues.