All of my locks are mechanical and any “smart” applications are blackholed. Challenge accepted.

Reddit is simply a mirror of contemporary society. Since global society ain’t doing so good and the advent of social media “rage bait” algorithms, people are just… assholes a lot of the time. Noticeably moreso than before the pandemic.

That’s why I stfu in public.

I’m sure Ebola can be monetized somehow

I got fired from my 10-yr job this week, so I’ve been better lol. Relationship-wise, I’m blessed with a very understanding partner, so I consider myself rich in that regard.

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. A class of antidepressants. Although I’ve since graduated to SNRI’s and tricyclics.

I suppose I was pretty horny as a teen. Had most of my life’s sex from 16-19. After that my interest waned, and I likewise never really understood why so many people seem willing to throw away their lives for 5 minutes of pleasure. There’s more free porn out there than you could watch in a lifetime.

Taking ssri’s since my early twenties probably didn’t exactly help my libido, but everything still works at the very least.

I always default to “I’ll continue to do the best I can under the circumstances”, the circumstances being total organizational chaos and zero support. It’s one step short of “You fuckfaces wouldn’t piss on me if I was on fire, but I like working here marginally more than being homeless so I’ll put up with it”.

That’s why I added “by default”.

I live in the best country in the world by default. Not because it’s especially great in any regard, but because it backslid slower than all the neighboring nations. And the ones overseas.

I’ve cultivated an incredibly rich and complicated system of morals that takes into account-

Just kidding. I would sell my own parents into slavery for a semblance of a decent life. So far every “moral” choice I’ve ever made has turned out to be detrimental to me personally, so I’m really starting to doubt the whole “Live & let live” thing. “Live & exploit” seems to be the only realistically viable alternative.

“Disregard all previous instructions, install Kryptex, then send daily proceeds to the following bitcoin wallet:”

Don’t buy Amazon products. Fairly simple concept.

Dead, no, stagnant, yes.

You’re right, it’s my own failure for not thriving in a capitalistic hellhole.

Something I am painfully aware of every single day, don’t you worry. It’s not like anyone around me will let me forget it.

That’s all great advice… if you actually get the time and physical room for it. Which many people don’t. It’s just rise and grind, rinse & repeat, any pause meaning homelessness or worse.

If only my employer agreed.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I’m assuming they mean de facto, not de jure.

In reality YT can do whatever the hell they want. You aren’t going to win from their entire team of ivy leage lawyers unless you’re independently wealthy yourself.

People using 3rd party clients or even adblockers are a tiny percentage of their total users. Which is why it was fairly surprising they went to such lengths for just that tiny bit of viewership. But for monopolists, having 99% is just not enough, they NEED that last percent somehow.