For anyone who’s confident Trump is going to cut social security, you can earn money by predicting that correctly: https://polymarket.com/event/trump-signs-bill-cutting-social-security-before-july?tid=1741193398789

There are two possible outcomes: either Europe takes over Ukraine’s defense successfully, or they can’t.

If they can’t, then what the US really did is the exact opposite of giving Ukraine to Russia: it made Russia pay a million lives for it.

What do you think I mean by “with an open hand” here?

The Democratic Party is extremely democratic.

They lost my vote this election because they skipped their primary. It’s not democratic to skip an election. That’s the death of democracy.

Oh no not the CFPB

Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.

Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.

Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein

Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.

what?

Slam the door on slamming

By “restrictive voting laws” do you mean voters having to show ID? Like every other country on the planet?

Nazis used to be flesh and blood. Now they’re phantoms

The answer is Burning Man?

So catching errors and doing nothing? That exists in every language except maybe BASIC?

Quick! Somebody link to one thing the US government has said about China.

You lose points by googling, because everyone upvoting surely has seen the US government say something about China and knows where to find that document.

Wrong.

It’s so inefficient to have these different instances defederating from one another. We should prevent defederation and make it illegal to have redundant instances.

There should be a Chief Efficiency Overlord to make all this happen.

The reason corporate social media sucks is its monopolistic nature. “Instance wars” are why lemmy is better than reddit, which consists of exactly one instance.

I’m an uber driver. The pay is atrocious, but the work is super easy and I feel energized after a long shift. I may go back to tech, but in a talking job like sales or support. I’m just not built to write code all day.

I stopped taking all the stimulants at some point before being fired. Even after the panic attacks stopped, I still couldn’t get to a point where I could write code more than two hours per day. As a full-time dev I was expected to account for 9 total hours including 8 billable hours per day. It never worked out.

But I stopped taking the stimulants and discovered my productivity was just as high without them. Which with code means still pretty low. But any other kind of work I can go twelve hours without issue. I’m really productive so long as I’m not making precise and articulated decisions all day.

I’m an excellent driver, but the rules don’t change. Driving is the same set of rules every day, every road condition. There’s like maybe 150 rules to memorize and then all I have to do is implement them perfectly. As an autistic I’m really fucking good at that.

Programming is like doing construction, except:

• You never build the same thing twice
• The tools change daily
• The building code changes daily
• The properties of the materials change daily
• Physics changes daily

I’ve done a lot of different jobs and programming is easily the most mentally taxing. I always say if you’re doing the same thing twice as a programmer, you’re doing it wrong because you could have automated something.

I just can’t be that creative all day every day.

My mental health increased massively when I stopped being a programmer.

I had to do neurofeedback training to reduce the beta wave amplitude if my brain. They were three standard deviations above normal even when I was having an incredibly calm day.

The neurofeedback clinician had me skip my ritalin for a few days before doing that baseline scan. The day of the scan I felt a calm like nothing I’d felt for months. Even in that state my beta waves were three standard deviations above normal.

The neurofeedback training put a stop to my panic attacks.

Anyway, beta waves are used in logical decision-making (the thing a programmer does 10,000 times per day), and they’re also used in fight or flight response. Good thing to know about how the brain works.

Luckily as a software dev I had the money for the neurofeedback. I spent about $7k on that in total, in chunks of about $1500 at a time.