GarfieldYaoi [he/him]

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This capitalist is alright.

Whatever shit’s been preserved in the permafrost that’s bound to come back.

I’m checked out of voting, I live in Texas. Nothing but card-carrying neo-nazis in this shithole. Shame too, because I’d love to live in Austin if I could afford to.

Maybe I’ll just vote PSL or something.

Deodorant: Anything aluminum-free

Liquid soap: Dove. The important part is that it is antibacterial, sulfate-free, and unscented.

Also, if you shampoo/condition every day: stop. You’re better off getting some bougier hair care and not adding product as often.

Pecan pie. I may like to dunk on my state, but they’re spot on when it comes to pecan pie. However, I like to use maple syrup instead of corn syrup because I hate the antichrist .

I’m still a babby programmer and I still haven’t graduated from “hello world” tier for most things, but I pretty got permission from this web development professor I was taking a class under that it’s almost normal to copy/paste code, even in the industry. So I feel less ashamed in doing so.

Which is good because I have made up my mind to finish my long abandoned CS degree, and eventually get a master’s in biotech specifically if I don’t find any other subgroup of coding I particularly like. Even if I don’t like my working life, I want to solve problems, dammit.

No particular order:

• Being a furry/furry sympathetic.
• A science major of any kind. IMO the S needs more love in STEM.
• Ever overhear them say “walkable” in a positive light.
• Hobbies besides media consumption
• Not “too cool” to learn something. Likes learning for fun.
• Not to concerned with looking cool or badass, either. Look at CHUDs, I made a joke the other day that I can sense a decent bit of residual 90’s 'tude in modern CHUDDery, and I think I’m onto something.

Holy crap, Lois. Where do I even begin?

• Microsoft on my desktop. Want to try out Linux but even boomers would make fun of my tech skills. That, and more games are on Windows.

• Cars. Born in bumfuck nowhere, and cities with public transit are expensive as hell. If I ever get a better paying job, I’m selling that shit and moving anyways, because cars are also a huge money sink in and of themselves.

• Google. I’ll give them props, it’s a good search engine even in its enshittified form, some of the ads I can deal with because if I am looking for a new t-shirt or something, then it would make perfect sense a Uniqlo ad would pop up. But its privacy that’s the problem, and I try to be as “normal” as possible in this KiwiFarmsified hellscape. In the panopticon, the winning strategy is to not be interesting.

• My iphone (inb4 avocado toast Venezuela). It would be silly to trash this thing now by principle, but once when its unusable, I’m going for a Linux Pinephone.

• YouTube. It’s a Monopoly and my broke ass doesn’t want to subscribe to curiosity stream. It’s like Texas though, while it’s mostly derivative cringe, there’s small pockets of gold that keep me there.

• Linkedin. Pretentious garbage

• Suburban life. Again, I am not a suburbanite by choice, decent paying jobs are tight and it’s even harder to find an apartment in a state I know I probably won’t be killed in AND I can afford.

TL;DR: I REALLY need to start learning 2 tech so I can navigate tech alternatives. Oh, and I need to get my shit together in life so I can afford to live in a blue city.

Not niche per se, but I do watch BritMonkey and CPG-grey. Both are s, but it’s nice to hear a voice of someone who disagrees with leftism but doesn’t smugly dismiss it all, and actually have someone interesting content. Britmonkey in particular, I recommend enter the pleasure cube and The housing crisis is the everything crisis. The latter even inspired me to take up housing as my “pet” issue to rant about.

Now that we’re on the topic, an idea for an eCafe where there are plenty of physical books, but you can plug in the reader to a machine to fully download the book so you can read it offline.

I think I want to learn more about coding and find a bunch of leftist buddies and make shit that’s actually “innovative”.

The one good thing about enshittification is that they make the free, open-source versions the superior choice.

For once, greed actually is sometimes their undoing.

• Sly Cooper trilogy: Although it was made in the 2000s, I like Sly Cooper because it gave me a curiosity for other cultures and isn’t just set in America. Also, the soundtrack is GOATed.

Fox News for millennials.

Did Rupert Murdoch or any WASPy oil oligarch ever fund 4chan by any chance?

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I should have just majored in STEM, without giving a shit I probably would have been a C student.

Now I am unemployable and going back rather late because I refused to heed the “STEM or GTFO” demands of employers.

: “It’s not corruption if you legalize it!”

Enshittification my dear comrades.

Granted, the more academic term is known as rent-seeking. Even lib economists warn against this and is the source of so many ills of society.

The planet is being cooked by oil companies benefitting from your tax dollars and you’re thrown in jail for disagreeing with it…

but then they want to lecture you about “freedom” when you mention regulating pollution in any capacity.

For anyone here looking for “anti-Musks”, here’s a list:

• Peter Rawlinson: the founder of Lucid and the chief engineer for the Tesla model S. He’s a capitalist , but at least he isn’t Elongated Muskrat.

-Zhang Kejian: the current directior of China’s National Space Administration

• Li Yue: The president of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation

• Xi Jinping to some extent, who’s trained as a chemical engineer

• Lê Thị Thu Thuỷ: CEO of the Vietnamese EV company VinFast