South park had an amazing episode about addiction where Satan broke it down as being an extension of our survival instincts. The issue is we survive too easily so some people keep chasing the high they’re missing from food, hunting and shit.

Freemium Isn’t Free/Script

| Satan | Then allow me to explain the darkness of the human soul! [moments later he’s on Stan’s bed, the fiery light gone] So you got dopamine, right? That’s the chemical that gets released in your brain whenever you do something pleasurable, like eating, sex, and that’s just nature, right? Like rabbits and fish and shit. They need dopamine so that they want to consume and reproduce.

| Stan | Okay.

| Satan | But because humans have progressed and now have access to all the shit they want whenever they want it, it’s easy for them to overdo and have dopamine problems. You know, it’s not fuckin’ rocket science, this stuff.

| Stan | So there’s nothing spiritually wrong with me?

| Satan | Fuck no! It’s like, okay, it’s like being diabetic. You know, it’s like you can eat wrong and eat wrong and chemicals get released from your liver in a weird way, you know, you’ve been eatin’ gluten and shit, and then eventually you’ve got a chemical imbalance from your liver. And something clicked, and now you’re diabetic forever, right? So like, if you keep doing something too much, eventually there’s, ummm, a dopamine fuckup, right, and you’re kind of screwed up for life.

| Stan | So what does that mean? I I can get addicted to everything so I can’t enjoy anything?

| Satan | Yeah, that’s pretty much what it means.

Down the rabbithole you go

I thought it was a poke at Minority Report

I want your code in my editor

DevOps much?

and the rest of us will be collateral damage.

You don’t need to go back in time for that.

Just go visit the Amish!

From what I’ve learn (mainly from mainstream media) I respect their choice to maintain thier culture and lifestyle. Something to be said from having no rat race and living a simple life off of the land.

Ahora tengo gato would’ve worked just as good

Wired is king.

If I gotta do wireless I get one with a RF dongle/base.

Astro A50 Wireless. Needs a dongle but it’s waaaay more stable than any bluetooth headset. Both on range and audio quality.

Simple Spanish too. You could read this with a bit of American high school spanish

For real…

No I mean take a regular shower and let her stand behind you and hold your wee wee while you pee pee.

… Didn’t think I needed to spell it out.

Yeah the shower is a much easier solution

Fucking propaganda machines.

I went to a restaurant that had this as a gimmick. They were clearly having fun with it though. Rude words with fun delivery.

I think it was dicks last resort.

Maybe it’s also the fact that you’re older and more mature?

What if you had a stream of income in your youth from family supporting you?

Generational wealth.

I definitely would’ve been more spontaneous instead of work two jobs while going to college in my early 20s.

This starts with corporations.

The masses can start doing paper and glass, but corps are by far way more wasteful with plastics.

3m recently invented a great replacement for packing supplies. Instead of plastic bubble bags you get this paper that opens into cushionlock

Or because most major news outlets are owned by the billionaires that want those sweet sweet trump tax cuts?

Fox News is the preferred station by older republican audiences. They’re also the most consistently voting. So all the propaganda they push gets swallowed due to the lack of journalistic integrity.

I always prefer self checkout because too many people suck at bagging.

Don’t put a leaking pack of meat with my deli you dumb shit. All while I see people pushing full carts that have meat touching produce…

The only place I trust to bag for me is Trader Joe’s. Tetris masters over there.

It’s cheaper to catch shit early.

This is a huge takeaway. Insurance doesn’t care about your longevity, health, quality of life or even long term costs.

People hop insurance providers all the time so the companies are literally focused on profits quarter by quarter.

Yeah. I’ve found new logic by asking GPT for improvements on my code or suggestions.

I cut the size of a function in half once using a suggested recursive loop and it blew my mind.

Feels like having a peer to do a code review on hand at all times.