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MonkeMischief

@ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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  • The vicious cycle

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  • This is how I feel about work. I got a new job, I liked a lot of the tasks, they feel meaningful and it's a heckuva lot better than the one that I used to have!

    Less than six months in and I'm like "Okay, this is no longer new to me. I've already peaked here. Sure it generates currency but I have to come back already?? "

    I'm trying to remind myself I don't want a job that's consistently a new and novel challenge, because that will burn me out on choosing new and novel challenges for myself.

    Still! Frustrating. If this was skilled work like the 2014-ish tech industry I could just jump in 6 more months and double my salary, but it's not. Lol

  • What tool or website did you find this year that made your year?

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  • I think I ended up with a hybrid of your approaches haha. I run Proxmox with a VM running Open Media Vault, and that VM ended up hosting all my Docker apps because it has a REALLY nice interface for managing all of them!

    I only have my PiHole and 3D printers on separate VMs

    Downside right now is, a lot goes down if that OMV server does, so reminder to everyone (including me lol) backup lots!

  • What tool or website did you find this year that made your year?

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  • Yeah as a warm blooded human being I'm all for a little spicy entertainment, but I feel like the mainstream of that industry is becoming even more depraved and unhealthy because, like everything else, it relies on the attention economy and prioritizes addiction. It's also notoriously cruel and exploitative of its talent.

  • Eating

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  • Ah that explains it. I was thinking new slang just dropped.

    "THEY GOT GreatestOfAllTimed!!!" (Air horns, John Cena, etc)

  • Nepal to scrap 'failed' Mount Everest waste deposit scheme

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  • Wow, never been within many thousands of miles of Everest, but I'm quite frankly shocked by that "50 tonnes" estimate. Yikes!

    I wonder at what altitude this is, like is it piled up near a bunch of camps towards the base, or higher up?

    I always pictured it more akin to a much more vertical Antarctica or something.

    That's really sad. :(

  • you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!

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  • Seriously if we just hardcore PSA'd even basic media literacy skills into our culture, MAYBE people would stop thinking that random internet anecdotes (which are likely largely bot-driven these days) constitute "scientific evidence."

  • you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!

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  • LOL I wish it were like that. The "kids and their superior grasp of technology." That's how it's supposed to be. They're supposed to be smarter than us.

    Indeed, with desktops and internet forums it really did seem to be going that way...and then with smartphones becoming specialized as content consumption and attention-capture devices, the kids started going backwards.

    Yeah, they can swipe their lil' fingers and use instagram now, but so can a chimp. It's designed that way.

    Using files and folders or printing their homework? Relegated back to the esoteric and arcane arts. It's tragic.

    But this kids who do make a point to learn and teach themselves are doing incredible things.

    So I guess, the average has dropped, and now we're seeing more dramatic extremes on either end of the spectrum. 🤔

    .../TED_talk lol

  • you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!

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  • And somebody's gotta spray that RoundUp... hasn't there been numerous class actions about the effects of that stuff on people who had to use it? 😬

  • Drew this for a Christmas gift. Was well received

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  • That's SO cool.

    I always hoped one day I could make creative things as gifts that people would actually think is valuable, but not just like in that..."I'll hang it on the fridge" kinda way hehe.

  • We wouldn't listen, anyway.

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  • There's your "Loading screen game tip" for today lol.

  • We wouldn't listen, anyway.

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  • This reminds me of an excerpt in David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs", where he quotes a sailor from like, the East India Company or something.

    Something along the lines of "Many suspect the monkeys of the island can speak, but wisely choose not to, knowing they would be taught English and put to work."

  • We wouldn't listen, anyway.

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  • Haha yeah I always thought it was like the Japanese or Portuguese "Ne?" , or British "In'nit?"

    It's like a statement followed by a "You agree too, right?" Lol

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • So much. It feels like an offshoot cousin of clickbait, basically.

  • ;DR blame the dev

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  • Weak ideas with writing that tries to sound strong.

    I move to make this the new definition of "Marketing".

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

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  • Sure would be freaking nice. I very much wish cities were significantly more walkable and compact, and cars were reserved mainly for road trips!

    Going anywhere feels like the traffic commute is a big unpleasant chunk of the day.

  • Trump wants to bring Japan's 'cute' tiny cars to America — but it may not be easy

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  • That's an interesting point to consider, actually.

    I was in the frame of mind of comparing the U.S vs. Japan's situation, since that's mainly what the article was about.

    Do China and India both have a large market for tiny vehicles for interstate travel? Do those have airbags and adequate crumple zones and such? (I think that might've been a separate thread) I'd like to see how they handle it.

    You didn't need to be a smug ass about it to a total stranger though. :) The internet isn't strictly a friend-or-foe dichotomy. Sometimes people are just incorrect. Lol

    Anyway, thanks for your insight. Hope you have a good one. <3

  • Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is 'Domestic Terrorism'

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  • The problem is not the federal force which is why it might seem like we aren't doing as much. The problem is the 50% of the country that still buys into the indoctrination and would vote the same people in again. A lot of focus in the general population has shifted to trying to educate and win over those people.

    Bingo. Spectators like to see everything in an easy, convenient Good vs. Evil standoff.

    There's a lot of decent people who are, for lack of a better word...stupid, but as a product of their environment. They grow up in right-wing areas, repeat the right-wing talking points from their right-wing parents watching fascist propagandist television.

    The smaller number of Really Bad People's whole goal is to influence a lot of decent but maleable people to champion irrational and horrible things, usually out of fear.

    It's a hard battle but we're making some progress in cutting through the noise. Like leaving a cult, people are highly resistant to admitting they've been getting screwed the whole time, for generations, sometimes even.

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  • But it would be sad if we lose USA entirely to this Russian bullshit

    From the bottom of my heart: Thank you.

    So many people are viewing this crisis from afar as some sort of sardonic entertainment, even cheering for the whole country to go down along with everyone in it, because of what one incredibly loud and rich minority is doing to the country and her neighbors.

    They don't understand what that would do to a lot of damn good and decent people, and that attitude isn't helping anything. They don't understand threats just like this one are testing the fences in their very own backyard, looking for a single weakness to throw all their fundamental institutions into disarray.

    We are still trying to stop this as reasonably as we can. We're still trying to pressure our remaining sane lawmakers to do the right thing. We're still pushing back while struggling to pay our friggin bills because, as it turns out, "full-time revolutionary" is a very limited-opportunity career path.

    We're trying to do this cleverly and safely, because if the excuse to enact "martial law" hits, we're all in very real danger of state violence where nobody will be able to speak up ever again.

    A lot needs to change, and it needs to change drastically, but just because we aren't sandbagging at the Capitol doesn't mean we aren't fighting.

    Thank you for at least understanding and feeling the loss of what this is doing to very real, very good people. I appreciate you dearly.

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  • Time to invest in some monkey bars like it's 2002, baybeeeee! 😎