Notices by gentoobro (gentoobro@gleasonator.com), page 2

@sun Depending on how you define "rock", there are tons of bands still. They're all on smaller labels, or self-publishing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBoOMWyUqs

@caekislove @leyonhjelm Zoning is why American cities suck now, and why all the remaining "good parts" were grandfathered in from before zoning laws ans somehow managed to escape being bulldozed to build a freeway or parking lot.

@hazlin There is a vast gulf between "help" and "do everything for you with little to no effort on your part". Too many church people expect the latter. The reality is that God expects all the effort you're capable of, which is a hell of a lot more than you think it is. Otherwise you would not grow.

tbh, I've never once seen that. All I find are people trying their best. And, Christians telling them they aren't doing enough.

Then we have attended completely different types of churches, full of completely different people.

Most of the church people I've been around seem to think that believing in God eliminates their obligation to work hard and be responsible. And I don't mean at their jobs. They go through very little personal growth because they put almost no effort into the truly hard parts of life: intellectual understanding and emotional maturity.

They sit in sermons, hear everything, but understand nothing. They go home and watch football or Netflix, while ordering pizza they can afford neither in the wallet nor the coronary artery. They never read anything philosophical on their own time, much less the Bible. They ship their kids off to horrible public schools to get indoctrinated by nutjobs. Then they end up divorcing, or in a horrible loveless marriage, because neither of them has learned to put their personal emotions aside for even a moment. And all along the way the say platitudes and ask for prayers that God will somehow magically solve their problems.

Their mouth will tell you they are trying their best and want to fix their problems. Their actions say otherwise when faced with basic steps like "pray for lower blood pressure, but also stop drinking soda" or "pray for a raise, but cancel your subscriptions in the meantime" or "pray for a better marriage, but also honestly consider the other person's concerns before yelling at them and storming out of the room" or "pray for a good wife, but also move somewhere that actually has available quality women then actually go out and socialize".

I've known a fair number of real Christians who are not like this, but they usually aren't church people. They can't stand the hypocrisy and heresy rampant in the churches. Sometimes they meet in the park or at someone's house, but it's no Church by any normal definition. No more so than the believers arguing on the fediverse constitute a church.

It just isn't the Gospel. And, has nothing to do with Jesus.

The parable of the talents is about using all the facilities God gave you the the maximum of your ability. The master's talents don't invest themselves, and the servant who didn't put those talents to work got scolded and punished. God gives everyone a little to start with and then gives more or takes away what they have based on what they do with it, and how earnestly, of course with some degree of grace because we are all flawed.

The world sucks right now, but that's life. Some of the harvesters worked all day, and some only an hour, but all were paid the same at the end of the day.

today we're going to ban everyone who says they don't like carolina barbecue sauce

Finally some sane governance

$5000 a month

$60k/year isn't even middle class anymore. Even $60k takehome isn't middle class in most places where you can find such jobs.

If someone can't live comfortably on 5K a month then something is seriously wrong

You can easily spend over half that just on rent and utilities for something that isn't a sardine can and isn't an hour drive from your job. You can easily drop $1k/mo on health insurance, unless you like gambling or you think that "you employer pays for it" doesn't just mean "taken out of the labor budget on a different line". Used car loans are averaging over $500/mo now. Food easily that much too. Now think about trying to save on top of it...

I survive on 2500

Yes. You are among "the Poor". So am I. So are most Americans. It sucks.

But $5k/mo still isn't much either. It's also Poor. Double it and then maybe it would be a figure where you wouldn't have to worry about basic expenses going up. Probably more like triple it.

My rent is $1080

My old 600 sq ft apartment in an old building in a small town in rural Montana goes for more than that now.

I run Linux

based.

shitty life in general.

You're barely holding on. You won't be able to do that for much longer with the economics in the US, I'm sorry to say.

Move to Mexico. You already live worse than many people here live on far less money. At least you'll be able to afford to buy fresh food at the market and go out after work for some beers with the bros (in Spanish). Restaurant work won't make much here, but we have this crazy thing called a "functional economy" where there's lots of opportunity for anyone with a good work ethic and a little wits about them.

I raise a family comfortably on less than $1000/mo. A single guy could get by on less than $500/mo easily. There's a sign on the corner of my block where someone is renting a room (utilities included) for $70/mo.

@sickburnbro @VikingWays "A few hours" is basically instantaneous in a lot of areas out there. It might take over an hour to simply get the closest cop to drive out and block off the road, much less an engineer, much less a road crew equipped to actually do anything about it.

@sickburnbro Happens all the time in the northern Rockies. The soil is very bad for building roads. It's like a fine gravel.

@icedquinn That's the most retarded excuse I've ever heard. Who the fuck streams textures across the internet? It's hard enough to stream them between your ssd and vram smoothly...

@daya Though I must confess that to check the youtube link I had to pause the national band of Mexico. (Rammstein)

Discupla, carnal.

@daya https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2IaFaJrmno

It's the opening line of the national anthem of Germany, but for a period of time the phrase referred heavily to Nazi beliefs that Germans were superior to everyone else. When you say "X uber alles" it's a joke meaning it's the "Master Race" or "Ubermensch" or whatever.

I considered posting "Heil Gentoo!" instead, but chose not to because that would imply Gentoo was a person, whereas "Gentoo uber alles" implies it is a country, ideology, or movment.

@daya Gentoo uber alles

i don't really like anime that much.

sus

and while i do enjoy latin women, i'm hung up on slavic and finnish women.

To each their own. My wife is asian. But lots of guys on here are terminally single with no prospects, and a big tiddy latina who loves them is a hell of a lot better than humping an Eva Braun dakimakura until they work up the courage to take the trip to animeland.

elderly ass

There's no good single young women in the US. They're all fucked in the head or have been snapped up by the top 10% men.

what happened to the days when men were men?

Boomers sent their kids to public schools full of communist teachers and now act surprised that their kids have become blue-haired commies.

@PurpCat @parker @laurel @p @0 @ins0mniak @catmanmancat @mischievoustomato @threat Hey now, that's not fair. I'm constantly telling them to move to Latin America, get an anime-respecting big tiddy latina gf, and write video games while living in a house made of mud bricks in the middle of the city for $70/mo.

Nobody listens, but that's not my problem. Horses and water and whatnot.

@graf @p @laurel @BiggusDiccus @threat I started on Slack all those years ago. It did Just Work (TM).

@LivingSpaceStudios @DrBtc @BowsacNoodle @YeetLibs It's far too dangerous here for people who don't know how to integrate and when to not cause problems. It's perfectly safe for people who are chill (and don't buy hard drugs).

@LivingSpaceStudios @DrBtc @BowsacNoodle @YeetLibs There was once a small enclave in China in I believe the 1800's that eventually integrated and diffused into the population in general. Interesting photos.