Fetterman has been a thorn in his party’s side on a host of issues.

And the thorn that the Dems are welcoming.

Don’t we all?

Cats do love to play as snake.

Ignoring social media has been the biggest mistake of the left across the world. In my home country, an objectively better and progressive candidate was outvoted by the son of an ex-dictator by a landslide, because the said candidate is an old school progressive who still does the old-fashioned way of convincing voters, by going door to door and relying on legacy media, instead of presenting a brand of herself in social media like Mamdani does. That’s when I realised “yup, social media is now where the frontline is, whether we like it or not.”

Yeah I am aware that managers will just put more jobs on to you if you do it quick. That’s why I don’t tell them if I finished a task early.

I actually like using AI in my workplace to rid the need for tedious data entry. But i realised that if I told people about it, the management might see that they may not need me anymore so i won’t teach anyone how to efficiently use AI.

Gen Z has actually become more religious than previous generation.

It’s alright. Story wise it’s lukewarm and the humour isn’t as funny as its predecessors. However, the multiplayer was fun so i can see why it is extremely popular.

Yup. Mamdani is teaching the modern left how to spread the message. There is a lot of disdain from the left on social media. A lot of us are smart enough to recognise that socmed is vapid and shallow. But we’re not too bright to recognise that that is where people are at these days, no matter how dumb socmed is. That’s why the often criticism of the left is the poor messaging. Now I understand what that criticism mean.

Social media is the new plaza, like how radio, cinema and TV were during FDR’s time. As a matter of fact, the Nazis also recognised the potential power of radio. One of their early policies is to buy everyone a radio; so that the Nazis could control information. This is not different from today in which oligarchs and the far right also recognised the potential of socmed as a tool for control.

I just let it go if I know that the person is religious. I was pretty religious myself until I grew out of it in my mid 20s. So, I know why a religious person might say to thank their god. It is saying basically to thank some divine deity for giving you such talent. They mean well so I just take it like a compliment and nod if I were you. But i can see why you might be annoyed by it, especially if you did not have a religious upbringing.

In hindsight, I am lucky that I wasn’t interested to drive way back when because I was scared of driving (I’ve gotten some practice now but it turns out it isn’t too bad). Over time, I learned that car maintenance is expensive so my initial decision feels vindicated.

But still, I want to buy a car in the near term now that I have financial security. I may have financial security, but there is few freedom without a car, especially the country I live in has piss poor public transport.

We do have GPS in our brain. But it doesn’t seem to work for some people, including my ex and my dad 😂

The American Dream was built on genocide. If there are people, kill them. If there are no people, claim it is underdeveloped. It makes the land cheap. Then build your dream!

If you are in a secure job and happy with your position, sure. But for those of us either unemployed or looking to move to another company, this is a pain in the hole. I used to get more messages from recruiters or get invitations for interview.

Because it is all about emotions with bigots.

When EA was good. I lament some of the best gaming companies have been captured by greed.

Even college educated jobs are being off-shored. In my field, some companies are moving to India.

Funny enough I never saw any of these gurus in YouTube.

I think the silent and war generations who grew up struggling during the Great Depression and experienced WWII, who held their Cold War era presidents accountable because of their experience, are vanishing. Their descendants, us, became complacent and pampered by material wealth. We barely struggled compared to the older generations, so we don’t know how to fight for our rights.

Whether intentional or not, or just progressive improvement on algorithms, youtube thrives by providing a need, and then providing it poorly so you keep your watch time going forever.

It depends. I’m a huge nerd and my YouTube browsing habits are relating to educational videos and long form essays. My news sources on YouTube are also less sensationalist.

On algorithm, I kinda minimise its bs by turning off my watch history. I bookmark my YouTube page to my watch later playlist, so I could chip away at my nearly twenty years of backlog of videos to watch.