I don’t do any banking via an app. It’s only from my desktop, never my phone. If they required an app, I’d change banks.

Adding more friction to driving might yield better transit options. Let’s do it.

Did most people have bad literature teachers? I’ve encountered many people who have this idea that literature has a single correct answer you have to find, rather than the more correct (and fun) mode where it can mean anything you can defend. Author’s intent is a suggestion at best.

Generally, the fewer people driving, the better the experience is for those who do drive.

I like to say, half joking, that no one should be allowed to hold high ranking offices if they can’t win every victory condition in civilization.

What do you mean, let Ubisoft die? That’s not the presidents decision to make.

I don’t know about france specifically, but in general the state has many options to prop up a failing capitalist endeavor.

Yeah I’m probably suffering a little because I don’t have any real social media, and my GitHub is all private contributions for work. I should probably do some free work to show off there but I resent that

I don’t think the reasons why matter all that much. If someone’s not coming to the shared experiences (a party, a get together, a nice chat, whatever) then they’re not paying into the relationship.

A friend of mine is convinced they all feed into sketchy private data broker systems, and reject candidates based on personal and political stuff. Algorithm determines you’re kind of a lefty? Reject.

We have like no rights here in the US with regards to labor, so they can basically do what they want so long as they cover half of their ass.

Almost done with People’s history of the united states. I already had an unfavorable opinion of the US, but this added more fuel.

Most coding challenges are stupid. You’ll have a job that’s just working on a basic ass API in front of the database, and they’ll be like “can you solve the traveling salesman problem?”. You don’t need to know if I can pull fancy algorithms out of my ass. You need to know if I can cover the basics and take feedback.

Though the last code challenge I had was “can you remove duplicates from this list of integers?”. I was like, "can I just convert it to a set?’ and they were like “…ok”. Didn’t get the role, but the pay was bad, it was in office, the company is surprisingly politically conservative, and they’re rewriting their codebase “to support AI development”. So maybe that sas for the best.

There was a job I applied to that wanted the exact thing I had done at my last job. Same tech tech. Same early startup. Same kind of project. They rejected me without even a phone screen for “someone more in line with their needs”.

There’s no incentive for them to do a better job.

Saw a store that was just rubber ducks. They had celebrity ducks and colored ducks and all sorts of similar things.

American treaties have a long history of being ignored. Treatment of the native peoples, for example.

If you’re ever wondering why something in the US is bad, it’s almost always racism. Sometimes it’s corporate profits.

By the time you’ve read this it’s too late not to read it.

But maybe you meant longer content than just a headline

Go on? Are you splitting the hair on not owning the music, since the artist retains copyright? Please elaborate.

You could perhaps still have enshittification in a worker owned organization. It seems more likely to happen when the decisions are being made by rich ghouls and absent shareholders, rather than the people who actually made the product.

A big problem is often lack of competition.

I pretty much only have drm free music

No one needs that much money. The people who could deserve it don’t get it. We’ve got teachers in poverty and this fucker has more money than he’d ever need. Fuck him. Fuck his enablers.