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You consider the US a success?

Man I can't get into this stuff at all because the curiosity and uncertainty alone would kill me. This thing, the cicada thing, that reddit number subreddit thing. Ugh.

You're right, it's the only place I found John Addison's soundtrack for the Movie Sleuth (1972, Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier).

Man I'll relay the message, he'll be super happy.

I'll take the gun please.

I thought the same way until I realized that 99% of the people I'm bantering with online are only in my life because they are accessible. Neither of us would ever put the effort towards actually meeting up and hanging out. I only have a couple of people I want to retain contact with so ditching FB and all other chats was simple. I'm able to actually DO things now instead of being in this weird digital limbo where my life is a moving data point and social media is the measuring stick. I couldn't come up with a good answer to "Who actually are these people I chat with all day?"

Actually you just described a front-end developer, which I guess you call "UI Development". Which is really a scam by companies to overwork one individual with two jobs. UI and actual development should remain separate as there is a seriously massive workload for each. These "full stack" roles only make sense extremely early on in the company or on a greenfield project, anything where iteration and field testing take priority by virtue of simplicity as a result of time.

>You can choose from six broad personalities

That pun made me chuckle.

The difference between those hobbies and the ones 0xffff2 mentioned is these are (most of, not all) hobbies where you consume, whereas his are hobbies where he creates.

I hope he tries his hand at building an AM analogue synth.

Checkout "Christ." as well. 3rd early BoC member, he's sort of struggling but his music is amazing. He's one of the only artists to ever get an encore from John Peel.

He's reissuing one of his best albums on vinyl and is only 64 preorders away from fulfilling the goal - https://www.diggersfactory.com/project/203/christ-curio-volu...

1) Christ. - Pylonesque - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXipXsYg1_U

2) Christ. - Glenbrook - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yIicModMLw

3) Christ. - Perlandine Friday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcaNsuqOzwY

His music got me through some times. Especially 2 and 3.

Yeah, two birds stoned at once.

What's with the ellipses? Always so awkward reading messages from people who always do the ellipses thing.

I need this. I just about have a breakdown at work every single day because I work in an extremely loud open office setup with no escape to a place of solitude. Everyone on the floor sees me as a wretched asshole, because it's true. Where should I start with meditation?

This perspective is romanticizing their hardships. The reality is probably that they have no way out and they are stuck in a cycle.

Desperate times if you're bad at what you do.

There's a special place in hell for people that make jokes and post massive animated memes in issues.

An army of Chinamen writing CSS.

That's me, people find me tough to handle and so I spend all my time on my own work. It's liberating in a way.

>"Fuck being Googley" (direct quote).

I'd probably get fired for bursting out laughing.

Hahaha those perfect post-its. Wonder how much that ran them.

Then you are already part of the collective.

>After that, I think you will find that you are no longer being stomped in the face every day.

Yeah, all of that is all well and good, for you. What you wrote has no effect on me as I've already made the same realizations way way back. They weren't even conscious realizations worthy of merit. I've just always lived this way.

I don't care about anything in my life except my hobbies. Day job -> piano. I hang out with a couple of people a couple times a year.

Currently saving for a remote cottage way out north so I can isolate myself and work on my music. That's all I want to do.

And that's what I mean about the invisible boot. Just to have a modest dream like that here where I live, I need 250k minimum for the land+cottage and all things included in that.

Even the tiniest dreams are straight impossible. Owning any semblance of a property that is close to the downtown core if you're not a multi millionaire? Hahahahahaha good luck. 0% of my friends will be buying property in their life times, which means they will move further and further away.

The invisible boot is the stagnation of wages and the exploding cost of every day things, combined to shatter any and all dreams.

There's nothing to actually live for, and I don't mean folks like me who are in the unique position of being in a highly paid job without any "life strings". But my friends? It's over, working their entire lives just to maybe afford necessities for that month.

What part of it isn't true though? Don't look at how it reads, just read the words.

I feel the same way, like you're being stomped in the face every day by an invisible boot except nobody knows who's wearing it, but we all feel it.

We are collectively losing our identities and blending into one due to how hyper connected we are and how available cheap forms of entertainment are.

It's all quite eerie. I still haven't really found a way to articulate it but I'd love to chat with someone more in depth about it.

That's all well and good but we've hit the top. Neither of those were billion dollar corporations.

There was for a brief period what I like to call the "wild west" of the web. All just shitty phpBB and whatnot boards for every topic. There was no concept of social media. I genuinely got to know the people, mods, smods, gmods, admins, superadmins (the list of "positions" was always comically long and induced great drama on most communities). I visited many of those people I formed connections with online, in person. I feel like social media has swallowed the people from these communities and created large "highways" instead of communities.

Facebook groups just aren't the same. There's something comforting knowing it was "just some fucking guy" hosting the website for fun.

Theory and history, then technical training (scales, chords, arpeggios, ear training, sight reading, and etudes), then my repertoire which currently consists of Bach's BWV 903, LVB's op. 13, Brahms op. 118 no. 1 & op. 118 no. 2, Gershwin's three preludes, Berg's Sonata op. 1, and Webern's Variations.

I manage to practice 6-8 hours a day and I work full time. Just leaves me with absolutely no time for anything else once chores are taken care of. Can't wait to buy a tiny remote cottage so I can practice full time with minimal bills.

> How much hubris do you need to think that you alone know how best to allocate not only the scarce resources of this planet but also the lives of every single human being on this planet, and to sit in judgment of what work is worthy and what isn't?

By looking at their merits? Giving a sandwich to a guy sleeping on the street does infinitely more for them than us reaching Mars.

Are video games worthy? Anything consumer for the sake of consumption is arrogance in its purest most refined form.

You must have grown up with a Mommy and Daddy that got along well and always provided for you, so you think space exploration is something noble, when in reality its a rich elitists nationalistic jerkoff game, where you engineers are the pawns fueled by childish and selfish ideals. Yes, you might discover something that helps elsewhere, but coincidence is hardly synonymous with intention.

Repeat to yourself how silly it is to look for aliens. "I am looking for aliens." Repeat that 1000 times to yourself until you realize how stupid of a goal that actually is.

By virtue of not pursuing something that doesn't efficiently get basic necessities to everyone, I don't need evidence as you're doing the work for me.

Great, but they could have added more if they abandoned space altogether and used all those billions on aid.

There is quite literally no point in wasting money on manned interplanetary missions. It's futile because we can't move at light speed, so even if we did find something it'd prompt an "oh, ok, cool" and everyone would move on. And we'd still have slavery and poverty and starvation.