Someone who’s around 40

As a “child of the internet,” my history brought to light by opposition research would unite the country.

It would unite them in their hatred of me lol

Literally NOTHING.

The us has the largest military by far even when combining the contenders militaries. Add to that most world “leaders” are feckless cowards just looking for their next payout. There will be no stopping the US. :(

True, but have you considered oil?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131?brid=wlqvUB7AkpITkYll_EiZnw

I will literally step out of a running shower to do something as it popped up in my head because I KNOW 5 seconds later it will be gone, never to be remembered again until it’s too late lol

It was Bill Gates. It’s why he’s not the richest person anymore. He bought all the games to train windows AI to play games for you so now there’s a global games shortage.

Now you might be thinking, but Asafum Bill Gates only needs one copy of each game. He doesn’t need all of them! And to that I say: listen I’m not Bill Gates, I don’t make the rules. It’s just something he does. He’s the sole reason the video game market is so huge. Stupid Bill Gates…

“Kids on the beat, beat kids!”

Been a while since I heard that one lol

Honestly having the time to take those courses was why I even left my last job to take this factory job, but then COVID happened and everything got put on hold and the “omg recession” cycle started.

Unfortunately no, the shitty factory job gives nothing but some pie before thanksgiving. At least they give something I guess lol

I’m 39 and feel like it’s definitely too late for me. I’d be 42+ by the time I’m done and with the way the economy is and the job market in general I don’t think there would be any positive for me to go through that expense.

I basically just missed the boat, all my friends went to school for computer science when they were ~20 so they’re safe now and make an absolute killing. If I were to try that now I’d just join the like millions that can’t find work in that field… For the last 5 years every single day the news has been “omg a recession is coming, it’s coming, it’s definitely coming like tomorrow! Be afraid, it’s coming!” So I never left my shitty factory job, but now I just feel stuck…

This whole useless chain of comments was simply an attempt to inform you that there was a type of job that was lost after lightbulbs and electricity came into use because you made a comment that suggested you didn’t know it existed, that’s literally it, anything extra is you jumping to make assumptions. No one is suggesting that there weren’t jobs gained afterwards…

Probably sat around doing nothing thinking “man I started this job and called it an electrician, but I can’t find work because no one even knows what electricity is. Hell I don’t either.”

There were people who went around lighting oil street lamps and stuff like that before the electric lightbulb.

It’s a masterclass in externalities: local communities face the consequences of the resource consumption by the data centers.

Job loss: were all told the “knowledge market” is where you deserve a good salary. AI threatens a lot of that work. Blue collar factory work will go as soon as AI can be properly integrated with nimble robotics that aren’t quite there yet. With how disgusting our society is (in the US) there will be no consideration for the people who can no longer find work.

Wealth built on theft and gambling: people like Altman become fabulously wealthy with a system that makes 0 profit and has been built off of the stolen works of millions of people.

Capacity to manipulate: we’ve had enough trouble with bad faith actors on the Internet with real people. Now we’re going to have an endless army of “intelligent” actors that will be weaponized against populations worldwide to secure the position of the ultra wealthy over all of our governments.

I didn’t before much, but now I REALLY don’t have a positive outlook on our future because of this…

The timing of this is hilarious to be honest, they just released their only anime school girl character in the patch that dropped like 2-3 weeks ago lol before then there wasn’t anything really like that.

This recent patch goes against the whole feel of the game and was created as a “love letter to anime” as people seem to be describing it as. It’s chock full of references to anime where the main game does do that, but not nearly to the extent this patch did lol

and is thankfully not nearly as sexualized as the theme often carries)

Until you see her M6 art reveal lol…

I tend not to recommend them because you never know who has a gambling problem (

That’s a fair point. They even got me for a while, I got too comfortable being ok with “supporting” the company since I loved the game so much and before you know it 6 months later I’ve spent like $700 on it…

I can understand wuthering waves. I never in 10000000 years thought I’d be saying something like this about a gacha game, but wuthering waves is probably my favorite game in like God knows how many years. The combat is really fun, it all looks absolutely amazing on pc, the story is great even side quests and side stories (a freaking character side quest had me crying as a 40 year old man…) it’s really just a good game.

I’d honestly suggest more people try it, you 100% do not need to spend any money whatsoever to enjoy the game and its story. When needed you get “trial” characters set to the appropriate level to complete story stuff and they’ve actually made a main character who isn’t complete and utter dogshit. They’re good in many team compositions.

The only place you’d feel like maybe you want to spend is if you want to do the dick measuring sweaty gamer endgame fights at the hardest difficulty, but it’s still doable without them.

I’m not sure I do cope! What I do know is I don’t think I’ve come across a single ADHD meme that I haven’t seen myself in, but I’ve never been diagnosed lol

This is how I feel literally every single day, and somehow every single day gives me a new reason to feel like this… I’m so sick of this timeline…

I haven’t smelled it in a while, but I don’t think I remember it smelling rotten. It wasn’t pleasant but also wasn’t really disgusting, it was just odd.

I don’t know what it is, but I can smell a somewhat metallic type smell on some specific people’s breath. It always smells very similar between different people. They generally aren’t very healthy, but no one seems to know what I’m talking about.