Time to roll over and die then I guess.

Yes, the options are bleak and the honesty is thin on the ground when it comes to politicians, but this narrative has wandered back into “chop off your nose to spite your face” territory just in time for the election. Weird how that always happens.

Doing nothing allows the absolute worst people to seize more power and hurt more people. If you’re that disillusioned by the whole process then you should be looking up schematics for guillotines, not trying to drag others down into your apathy and ruin.

“Casted”

The past-tense of cast is cast. “The fisherman cast their line into the river.” “The actor was cast in the leading role.”

Casted makes you sound like a child.

The problem is, every warning or piece of hostile architecture reads like a challenge to any colonists that come after us.

The pyramids were believed to contain dangerous curses, and there were warnings against opening the tombs of the pharaohs, but that didn’t stop people cracking open those sealed boxes.

This image from the article is rough. I have watched three grandparents decline mentally before they passed, and that is the face of someone who is not sure where they are but is doing their best to pretend they aren’t lost and scared.

As much as I hate the man for evil he has put into the world, that is not Mitch anymore, and I legitimately feel sorry for the lost mind trapped inside his body. I hope he passes soon, for everyone’s sake.

Grint is stepping back into the role of Ron Weasley in The Cursed Child on Broadway.

He can say he supports the trans community, but it sure seems like a pay check and a misguided hope at a return to cultural relevance is all it takes to stop caring.

I mean Grint is on the side of the transphobes, and Charles has admitted to sexting with 16 year old boys, so I’m happy to throw the lot of them onto the pyre.

I pay Mullvad. They pay the Founder. The Founder makes a large donation to anti-immigration parties.

Is that really enough abstraction for you?

Benefit of the doubt that you aren’t asking in bad faith.

Most people aren’t demanding Mullvad fire the founder, but that also doesn’t mean that we have to give him money to donate to fascists.

Mullvad are free do what they like with their right wing founder. Just like customers are free to refuse to fund anti-immigration policies. If Mullvad doesn’t like that, it’s up to them to decide how to appeal to customers.

Nobody is denying that Mullvad is a good product, but I need this specific vpn less than I need a safer future for my children.

Wait til you find out about all the things they “can’t do” to women and children, but seem to get away with anyway.

Wouldn’t be much of a stealth group if people were talking about it on here.

My version of this is “casted”.

The past tense of cast is cast.

Inde Navarrette was not ‘casted’ as Rogue in the X-Men, but she was cast in the role. I’m sick of hearing illiterate idiots use that word every time some sort of movie news comes out.

Considering some of the bootleg movies I’ve seen in my time, the quality couldn’t be any worse than what they were doing before.

I think if you obsess over ‘figuring out’ the person, it can be weird.

I have definitely checked post history and upvotes on some users just to get context for their comments. It has saved me wasting time trying to have a discussion with someone who only seems to ever look for fights.

That’s two more hamburgers than any Nazi deserves, especially on a recurring payment plan.

I also don’t know if failing to disclose the seizure of a server (that contained no readable user data) is worse than supporting the far right. It also feels like if that’s enough to end your search for an alternative, you weren’t searching very hard.

My only major change would be to remove Mullvad.

One of the founders has made major donations to far-right groups in Sweden. People have argues that it’s his money to donate, but if paying for Mullvad puts money into the pockets of a major donor to the far-right, I’d rather support an alternative provider.

I have had a very similar user experience with IVPN, and I have heard people suggest AirVPN as a similar alternative.

I have been on the job hunt side of things. I applied for +50 jobs in a week with unique cover letters and CVs catered to the fields I am applying for. I have qualifications and experience in the fields I was applying to.

I got three responses.

One was a scam. Another was a 2 week temp job with “the opportunity for further work”. So another scam. The last one was the only legitimate offer I received, and it paid the minimum amount it could under the award.

I can empathise with an employer not wanting to sift through AI submissions or fly bys, but all they’ve done is turn that back onto applicants. Then they act entitled when people don’t want to jump through their hoops and say stupid shit like “if you can’t write a cover letter maybe this isn’t the job for you”

It’s not just your small business though. It’s Every. Single. Application.

Could I use a template? Actually probably not as more and more businesses are asking for specifics in the cover letters to combat templates and AI use.

To the business owner it’s only a few minutes to write cover letter, but when people are applying for dozens of jobs a day, that all ask for unique responses, and quizzes, and forms that are identical to the CV you are required to upload, it gets very hard to write an even vaguely inspired response to “why do you want to sell kebabs out of my food truck for minimum wage?”

“Walk into that startup and ask to talk to the CEO. Give him your resume and be sure to shake his hand confidently. That how I got my first programming job in the 1920s.”

I don’t believe for a minute that this will be a ‘give us a rough age at setup’ situation. That would be entirely too sane, and place responsibility on the parents to do anything.

Microsoft is going to want your SSN and full facial scan “to protect the children”.

Hank has been an advocate for knowledge for far longer than LLMs have existed. His recent use of them is disappointing, but I fell like this does not discredit the work he has done throughout his career to push curiosity.

What he does next will be important and will decide how I interact with his content going forward. It seems like he is aware of his missteps and is looking to make a change.

I am not a perfect human and do not expect celebrities to be perfect at all times.