Maybe around 2003? It was a weird little device that was also an MP3 player. It had a headphone jack, play/pause/next/prev, and that was it. Was like 128mb and played mp3s in order they were written to the device, I think.
I thought it was really cool, but maybe not my best purchase.
Nationally, 66% of young people ages 18-29 voted for a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 31% for a Republican candidate (NORC Civic Health & Elections Project).
There’s always this ~30% insane floor. Like, about a third of the population are just broken in their heads. I don’t know how you can run a society indefinitely like that.
They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.
I work at a multinational mega Corp, but not one you’ve probably heard of. I am very disengaged.
For one thing, I’m technically a “contractor”. I have to go to all the meetings, but I don’t technically work for them. They give me the legal minimum of paid time off, but only after I looked up what my rights are and fought them for it. They don’t pay for holidays. They say “have a nice Thanksgiving” and then dock me two days pay.
The pay is insulting. I’m making less than I made ten years ago.
There’s no technical leadership. These people are supposed to be doing python. They don’t know what unit tests are. They barely know how imports work. Trying to change everything is a months long battle and emotion massaging exercise. The people in charge don’t understand or care.
They do love AI though. Lots of AI generated code. They don’t understand it but it looks so slick. Vomit.
So fuck them. I used to go out of my way to fix problems and promote good practices. Not anymore. I hope the upper management and owners suffer.
They’re probably not even renewing contractors past the end of the year anyway.
The part of capitalism where the owner sits back, the workers do the work, and the owner keeps the profits is not necessary. It is in fact fucked up.
You can have competition without that. (You can have other bad things too- it’s not a magic cure-all for workers to own the business)
Good. I’m sick of this “oh you’re not an employee we just treat you like one” nonsense.
The place I work abuses “contractors” like that. Full time responsibility, but less pay and no benefits.
This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.
I wouldn’t be interested in going hunting myself.
I would disapprove of hunting for sport.
If someone does hunt and it’s actually for food or whatever, I don’t like it but it’s not such a priority that I’m going to die on that hill.
That’s a lot of money that could have been spent on useful things. What a scum bag
I called my reps today to tell them I do want impeachments and criminal investigations.
One of them I got a live person who said she’d fielded similar calls this week.
Interesting. Not my preferred input, but maybe now I’ll replay them on the steam deck.
Though they’re both games I think I’ve started a dozen times and only finished once or twice. I like them a lot, but they have their flaws.
I think the dragon fight at the bottom of the first one’s mega-dungeon always pisses me off. It’s more of a numbers game that a tactical challenge, and that’s not fun for me.
I haven’t heard of it being banned. Source and details?
Oh I played the shit out of the shareware version of one must fall. Great game. Loved the RPG-stats tournament mode
Damn metaphors getting me excited.
I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable
One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.
Good. There are some many times I take longer to get places because I don’t feel safe biking on the street. And outdoor dining is a much nicer use of space than parking.
There were sines. Sometimes her stories just didn’t add up. She always called my favorite band derivative. She always said I was being obtuse.
No. Minimizing spending until / unless I get a better job. Fuck 'em. Fuck the capitalist dogs. I’ve got a library full of books and a decade of old games.
I’d be okay with getting even on my behalf.
I don’t think so. I think it looked like a normal rectangle flash drive, but with some buttons on one side.
Oh! It was the creative nomad muvo, the model without the screen. Looking online it was actually two pieces- the flash drive part slid onto the audio part? Man, it’s been a while.