People who don’t drink water make me unnaturally irritated. It’s just so crazy. “I don’t breathe air because don’t really like the taste”.

I know I sound like an asshole. It shouldn’t matter to me what you do. It’s your body and your life.

Still…c’mon, like what? It’s water. It brings life. It’s the original thirst quencher. It’s what your body needs. Just drink it.

The Genie knew. Genies are jerks.

PCs and all devices will become more locked down, with a small rebellious minority. Pretty much what we have today, but the divide will become greater.

All consumer devices are designed for the consumer to consume content. Music, Movies, Books, TV Shows, Web Sites, Social Media, Video Games…all of it. Very, very few people at the consumer level use computing power to perform complex calculations or process large datasets.

All of that content is someone else’s creation, and they want to get paid for their creation. Either by you directly purchasing/subscribing to what they’ve created, or via advertisers. Everyone has rent or a mortgage and bills to pay and they want to buy food and buy stuff for their kids.

Any time you sit in front of a screen, whether it’s a TV or a PC or a smartphone and begin to consume content, think about that. Whoever created what you’re looking at wants money, just like you want money.

So when a PC isn’t locked down to make sure you’re somehow paying for the content you consume, that upsets the entire supply chain that is delivering this content to your eyes and ears. They have to make sure they’re somehow getting paid…

I mean getting 4 or 8 or 12 or 16 hours a day of work out of me is kind of ridiculous anyway. I don’t have a job where X hours = Y production. “40 hours” a week is just my employer’s antiquated way of quantifying my work. I would prefer they just let me handle my responsibilities.

I work a 4x10 workweek right now. Huge improvement on my quality of life. I use my free weekday to handle chores and shopping and appointments, then actually spend my weekend with my family. I’ve been doing this for about 3 years.

I know I’ll lose this someday. Eventually somebody will use it against me. That’s the day I’ll start entertaining new opportunities.

Cabin in the Woods is fine art.

10/10 Premise 10/10 Execution

I’m helping my teenager get through all the horror tropes so we can watch Cabin in the Woods together.

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Why is the Original Tribal Chief in this meme, tho?

Totally agree but for the opposite reason.

Wrasslin’ is very story driven. Not everyone has time to watch, and the sports news outlets is all spoilers.

It’s like a Harry Potter fan opening their news feed to “Snape kills Dumbledore after epic battle!” plastered all over the news on the day after the book came out. (my apologies to any Harry Potter fans who haven’t read all the books or seen all the movies by now, in 2025).

I know professional wrestling is as real as the MCU or the latest episode of Severance. I am still entertained by all three.

Wrestling winds up in the “sports” section because news outlets have to classify it somehow. That’s not the fault of wrestling fans.

There’s really no need in life to yuck other people’s yum. If it’s not for you, that’s cool.

Fair enough. In the Elon one there are probably some people that would want to hear more. It was hard for me to come up with an example.

We shouldn’t downvote the unpopular opinion, we should upvote it. It’s counterintuitive but we’re actually asking for unpopular opinions. I see a lot of truly interesting unpopular opinions in here that are getting downvoted and I’m not sure everyone is on the same page.

The “unpopular opinions” that should be downvoted are the opinions that aren’t really unpopular opinions and are just trolling. You know them when you see them.

What are the “unpopular opinion” rules on Lemmy?

My original understanding from outside Lemmy is you should upvote the truly interesting unpopular opinions for visibility.

For example:

• “I think potato chips are gross” - that is an unpopular opinion and I am truly interested in why you would say that…upvote.
• “Elon Musk makes some good points” - not interesting at all and probably political bullshit trolling…no upvote and a downvote if enabled.

I bet they’ll do it in Waterfall too.

Nah B. This will be Extreme Agile XP with testing exclusively in Prod. Xitter will be the code repository.

Where is your God now?!?!

Your basic needs aren’t being met. That is horrible for any human. I’m sorry… I’ve been there.

The part that really sucks is you don’t get to really understand this until you’re in your 30s/40s. We spend all this time trying to fill a hole in ourselves that can’t be filled with stuff.

There are people reading this right now who are like “yeah, right”…

Yep. Once your basic needs are met and you’re not in poverty, any happiness above that line has to come from within yourself.

Meh. I grew up dirt poor, and I am now what past me would have considered successful.

Funny thing about it, though, I’m still me. I’m that same dirt poor teenager, just older. It didn’t change me like I thought it would.

Absolutely, the lack of money will make you unhappy. Without a doubt. But I’ve never got a 20% raise and felt 20% happier. You’re always gonna be who you are, money or not.

Google Assistant on Android and Home devices gets markedly worse as time goes on. My Google Home can barely even figure out how to turn on lights anymore. Things that used to be amazing have devolved into “I don’t understand”.

It’s really quite shocking and hurts a little bit because it feels like everything in the world is degrading and decomposing like in some dystopian novel or something.

How can such amazing technology get worse? Is it really just “we can’t make money off this”?

That song would work! Now to convince all the Taco Trucks to play the same song so we know when they’re around the corner.