@clarity speaking as a never-will-be-recovering Rimworld addict, i found that editing the start scenario to add in tons of pre-researched tech helped me eradicate that "from scratch" aspect.
@annika oh, how my palms did itch to post the relevant Rick & Morty clip, and then reason prevailed, and my palms and i fell silent. the only remaining evidence of that passing folly is... this post. fuck.
these days i comfort myself by watching scenes from movies and TV shows in which characters are kind to someone with no expectation of reciprocal kindness. i bawl every time.
as frustrating as the technical failings of Mastodon truly are, there are great benefits to a social media platform that filters out sensitive complainers and people who require perfect-seeming functionality.
oh, the faux-butthurt mods at Stack Exchange wrote me a sad and vaguely threatening email about my having deleted my answers from their site (which i did because they partnered with OpenAI).
i revised and expanded my initial response ("go fuck yourselves") and hopefully improved upon it. i'm still mad tho! time to take a walk.
fuck the New York Times for using the passive voice to erase the identity of Katherine Maher's social media attacker, right-wing sleaze Christopher Rufo.
I hate when people continue to call it Twitter, and I also hate when people give in to calling it X. then I realized I just want never to hear it mentioned again in polite society as long as I live
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