I was guilty of that very thing once. During my first programming class back in college, I wrote an Asteroids clone as a project. My professor kept sending it back telling me to fix it. I really racked my brain trying to figure out what he was sending back to me (he wouldn’t tell me, I was supposed to find and correct the error). The game ran just fine. Finally a gave up and asked him to tell me the answer of what my code was doing wrong. He showed me that I had one line of code that was basically making a new instance of the entire game for every screen refresh. (I wrote it in Java, so Java was just correcting it for me in real time.)

It’s funny to me to see people mythologize how perfect video games were before they could be remotely updated.

Sure, game developers rely on fix-it-later updates much more than they should today, but games had bugs back then too.

One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.

With the exception of the spending bill, everything that’s been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.

Did you make a group?

Did you make a group?

Hello, my fellow Episkopol! I’m new here myself too. If you start one up I’ll subscribe!

They were so… Innocent.

Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?

I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.

Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.

Of course we were joking. I kind of thought that would be obvious.

You are right. I should just deal with it.

“Yes, HR, I need to file a complaint. I’m told by all the women here that I’m supposed to be making more than them but that doesn’t actually seem to be the case. Will you please look into addressing that discrepancy?”

“Men aren’t relevant”.

@whaleross@lemmy.world is right. It is the ultimate acceptance.

Welcome to the club, boys. Now you are on your own. Enjoy the privileged life!

Trans men are men.

So they can just get over it.

I think “so many people meet at work” because many people don’t have any meaningful IRL social connections outside of work.

Do you feel guilty when you are paid for your work?

No. You are an employee and you work and you are entitled to payment for your work.

Same goes for government assistance. You are a citizen and you are entitled to that assistance. It’s literally no different. Our democracy set that assistance aside for you. It’s yours, and until Congress changes the rules, you are entitled to it.

People might want to skiddley-poo but you actually have to meet someone IRL outside of work to do it.

The Winter Olympics is being absolutely dominated by nations with… checks notes … cold winters and mountains.

Making money… So that they can buy a tv so they can spend their last two hours of awake time alone watching tv.

It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with community.

People aren’t having kids because communities have been hollowed out.

I think “invest in IRL social institutions and socially encourage and incentivise people to be positively involved in their IRL communities” and the babies will come soon enough.

But, instead the constant “your miserable life is for work” message doesn’t really make people want to skiddley-poo.