You’ve been a teenager who can’t vote and also someone who went to the mall in the past with a same sex partner and got dirty looks from older conservatives within the last few months. You live in a city with rolling blackouts in America.

As a teenager below voting age you know groceries are a luxury now compared to the past. Everything leads back to third party voting with you, again a teenager below voting age who went to the mall with someone you were dating as a social activity.

You are really bad at trolling.

So you’re challenging me to tell you what I think of you doing what I suggested?

Sure. Like if you enjoy doing that stuff it would be totally worth it I’m sure.

There is a particular kind of person who prefers setup and config to doing anything with a computer, and it’s hard to hide my disdain for that sometimes but that doesn’t make it wrong. It also doesn’t mean I’m doing anything with a computer. We’re biased towards ourselves, I get that.

Like, we just put a dog down so I was thinking about my own mortality and how much time I have in life. It’s not a lot, and the idea of making sure an email address is functioning today sounds like hell.

I’m leaving the original statement up because I don’t think enough people walk back hasty statements online.

It sounds like a win win for you and I like that for you.

I print a few exceptional photos a month to save.

I sell my time for like $30/hr. How much money would self hosting cost me vs a data leak where my information was actually used? I have a feeling it’s more.

It’s a nice hobby and I’m sorry I ruffled feathers with my opinion.

You should live the life you imagine you’re protecting with all this security theater.

It really do be like that sometimes

I like metal. I don’t like discussing metal. I tell people I listen to everything, but what it literally means is I’m not offended by anything you play.

My grandpa was always really interested in whatever I had going on, especially when I didn’t think it was worth celebrating. We spent a lot of time golfing together when I was a kid and he taught me a lot about staying calm and looking at me today vs yesterday instead of me vs where I wish I was.

Everybody we ran into seemed to really like being around him. We used to play with a lot of people we rolled up to on the golf course. I try my best to be someone people are happy to see; like they were for him.

I miss him but I carry so much of him inside I feel like I can still hear what he would say. I hope I can be as important to someone as he was to me.

Well yeah. What would someone admitting responsibility do? I really want you to think about it, I’m not just trying to have an argument, I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

We want someone specific to blame, that person gets fired, we move along. What did we accomplish besides getting someone who likely didn’t act unilaterally fired?

We are in the era where we realize there is no enforcement mechanism for anything but property theft, and we’ve shrunk that to tangible property theft (vs intellectual)now that AI is around.

I’m afraid the journal’s regrets are all you can expect and in the future you won’t even get that.

I pondered my orb and now I’m just an orb pondering itself.

Per my last reply…you’re not voting.

You’re old enough to get it, it’s okay to drop the act.

You’re also old enough to know you could be petitioning to change voting laws in your area to not be first past the post if you really wanted to do anything.

But you don’t. You want to post about Linux and help people with that and that’s fine. You can’t do it all. Maybe stay in that lane instead of encouraging behavior you know won’t do anything to advance your purported cause. It’s absurd of you to pretend you’re doing something by voting third party. Like, really think about it.

I’m gonna write in JFK. Is this Leftism? JFC man.

You’re not voting anyways, so feel free to not worry about it since you aren’t doing anything either way.

Sometimes there’s tacos though!

See you took what I wrote really literally. Thanks this is helpful. What I meant was saying “how’s it going”, but you took it as I would literally ask “how’s your day going”. Like, I would always use quotes to indicate a specific word usage but you have no way of knowing that.

Also I’d never use the same kind of language or approach to anyone I knew personally. Everyone needs something different. There isn’t a formula to get it right without listening and knowing. How are you doing is how are you feeling where I come from btw. How’s it going is hi. How’s your day is “how’s today no details”.

Oh cool that’s good to know!

I had a layover in Frankfurt and my bags didn’t make it on the right flight and the German lady was basically like “I don’t know how you could let this happen”. Nice overall but very direct.

There’s a lot of spectrum concentrated here. I’m on the adhd end and my thinking tends towards connections, allegory, and metaphor and I have a real hard time filtering shit down to something people who think extremely literally will like to read.

For me, everything is connected and anything could be a stand in for anything else. Not the case for a lot of people here.

Someone told me not to ask strangers how their day was (like in the real world) if I didn’t really want to know (like that someone’s dad died) and I just had to put my phone down for the rest of the morning. It’s great experience for learning how to talk to others though overall.

How’s your day Judah?

My dad died six months ago.

Sorry to hear that, what I meant was I see you are in my vicinity and am being polite. Acceptable responses include: “good”, “living the dream”, “trying to make it to the weekend”, “better now that you’re around”, and so many more that don’t willfully ignore how 90% of people behave.

I spent 12 hours once downloading a limp bizkit song on dial up and it wasn’t even a limp bizkit song. I feel nostalgic for that kind of deception. It feels so quaint.

This is the most unhinged response to how society works I’ve ever seen someone be upvoted for.