It's brutal. It also just kind of becomes normal, eventually. Do what you can to protect your hearing going forward to prevent it from getting worse. Good luck.

That's super rad.

Makerspaces? Maybe just hang around at bars near your local conference/convention center?

Just a big "fuck you" to entropy. Yes please.

Please, and I hesitate to use this phrase, touch grass.

I am going to disengage at this point.

Just came across the saying, "a government big enough to give you anything is big enough to take everything"; but, y'all, I don't think something without the state violence to take everything can even be considered a government.

There's a bear there right now!

that's a lot of text for someone who's wrong. neoliberal governments worship their leaders, capitalism captures the state apparatus, and minorities are violently suppressed. Fascism.

If we do get one can it be :antinatalist:?

When did you last change your pillow case?

I'm so sorry you have to go through that, comrade

I feel that hard

There was a calc class where I took the final with a scientific calculator and the guy next to me took it with a laptop with Mathematica. I wish I could have bought good grades too.

That's my secret, I never run the code. That's the testers' problem.

Think of how much we could do if we taxed it all!

Beautiful analysis

Hey look, buddy. I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems.

Not problems like "What is beauty?", 'cause that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of !philosophy@hexbear.net.