Every day is a new day, and the old ones are gone and past. Yes, those days helped form the way you turned out: but you’ve got a bright new start, and now You get to decide how you turn out. It gets better, especially as long as you want it to, and work to make it so, even just the tiniest bit each day.

Also, therapy is always recommended.

Maple Walnut FTW

Anything that has an intransparent, engagement driving, ad laden algorithm that determines what you do and don’t see is thoroughly unappealing to me. At least now that I’m a little more tech savvy and anti-corporate.

Hear hear. Under the guise of Engagement, corporations have weaponized algorithms to maximize the time you spend on their platforms, and it’s absolutely been a race to the bottom, prioritizing Outrage above all else. Hard pass, thanks.

Corporate goals don’t align with that of users like they used to.

Flute! I started learning it last December, it’s been nearly a year and I’ve learned SO much. Going to keep at it and get even better!

It’s not AI, it’s an LLM. It doesn’t know what misinformation is because it doesn’t Know anything

It’s a Doctor’s diagnostic desk from the film, “Idiocracy”

Marketers be marketeering.

I’m in tech and have been lucky enough to work in a few departments with some laid back, chill people who don’t have egos and just want to do their work and go home.

A lunch a little while back featured 8 of us sitting around the table, and I realized that among us were two Muslims, a Hindu, two Protestants, a Catholic, and two Atheists; and we all got along famously, bonding over our mutual hatred and distrust of upper management.

I know that this isn’t a universal experience, but it’s nice to know that it’s possible. :)

What a vapid exercise in marketing

Fave Movie: The Darjeeling Limited

I just like it, that’s all.

You have contributed nothing of value to this community, and need to rethink your entire approach.

First thing, try and breathe to see if the unknown new world has an atmosphere compatible with the one I’m accustomed to. If not, I guess I’m dead.

Second thing, determine if I’m in a wasteland / nature setting, or a civilized one.

Third, regardless of the answer to the second, take stock of my current resources and seek new ones. Water is highest priority, food second, shelter third.

My mother in law’s stories. She keeps repeating these stories over and over but we’ve all heard them a dozen times before and then when we say, “oh, we’ve heard this one” she takes it as encouragement to keep going

Lemmerites?

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Hear hear

It’s okay, we’re just a little more anti-corporate on average than most. Various events that led many of us here have contributed to that. :)

I mean, it’s called a “fake ad” but it’s basically just an ad. The punchline is “buy product”

Words, possibly numbers, letters, punctuation, and maybe some symbols

More sugar