Oddly enough, there’s actually a lot of room for ethics and morality in business. Unfortunately for the vast majority of people there isn’t a lot of room ethics or morality in personally enriching yourself to new, more disgusting levels each quarter while refusing to take even the slightest hit to your stock portfolio. Shareholders don’t care about strong businesses with happy, loyal employees, they care about number go up and if the business implodes it’s just simply not their problem as they pull all their assets and go invest somewhere else.

We do ok sometimes. During covid we were top-10 on fighting global inflation, for example. We’re still full of moron conservatives who act like they’re in the US and we’re attached to the center-right party like we’re in an abusive marriage(they literally act like there’s no one better and threaten us with Conservatives winning in order to get votes which is coercion and theft in my books). Montréal is the only city which can be said to be significantly well built but the obviously corrupt mayoral candidate and her obviously corrupt party are polling high while turnout will likely be low. I’m not kidding there, during a housing crisis she’s hanging out with developers, was found to have taken an illegal security deposit recently, and one person in her party is a journalist who took money to speak favourably about corporations.

The center-right party, meanwhile, is doing some heinous, even further right shit and even tried to demand that the highly exploited Air Canada flight attendants end their strike. Luckily the union told them to fuck off anyway. That said, I haven’t seen them do the same to the public transit workers who will be striking for a month here in Montréal so time will tell if they think public transit is as important as an airline.

We are not doing great, and it’s getting worse largely because we don’t laugh the far-right into obscurity and we’re locked into a highly abusive, strategic voting relationship(I’m not personally, but I will accept that I am still Canadian and part of the country as a whole).

I don’t care about the quality of life of the wealthy in the US. In fact, I hope it gets much, much, much worse and I hope many cease having a life with a quality to measure.

The US middle class is also dogshit to the point where it almst just doesn’t exist. It has no power and is constantly losing money, often propped up just by credit-card debt. They watch their buying power decrease every year and their job secuirty tank just like everyone else. Many have to live far away from nicer areas in order to afford the things that make them look like they’re middle class and the also means that they’re all forced to drive cars. They still get screwed by the US “healthcare” system and many will only tell others that they’re happy with things because they’re ignorant, voluntarily or otherwise, of anything better.

The only people in the US who have any real power can whether any significant storm are the very people who deserve to be shot in the street, not those who actually work.

It’s not even that much “upkeep”, honestly, to the point I wouldn’t really consider it as such. But these things are attached to men, and despite being a man myself it is amazing how alienated from my own gender I feel whenever the topic of basic personal hygiene comes up. I’m Captain Man right up until I use a public washroom and the seat’s got piss on it and the dude’s walking out of there without washing his hands like bro.

That still counts, though. Why would you not count that?

Try to do online games with my best friend once a week, I do jams with people in public once or twice a week, will probably be dancing in some capacity once a week, and I’ve got a second date coming up soon. Then there’s weekly D&D, of course, and any of the unique plans that come up during the week.

Of course non of that stops me feeling sorry for myself when I have even one day where I lay around and do nothing but I try to just let the feeling pass instead of worrying about it too much.

Do you not have hobbies? Not ever once a week or month?

When was the last time you saw an even semi-modern laptop? There’s no space to jam disc-drives in them and you’d have to cut the body for the slot if there was no option to switch out part of it for something that had one. I frickin’ love modifying stuff and tinkering but that’s just not a reasonable expectation to have for everyone.

I am aware of how to open a laptop, I even have all the bits to do it, I’m just not living in the early 2000s and understand that my needs and how I use stuff are not the only valid ways.

Yes, tech literacy had a small window and now we’re all dumb again but I don’t think it’s why you think it is.

(Different guy here) the same thing applies to 3.5mm jacks. I also the “slippery slope” argument on USB-C ports feels a bit premature, though I’ll never 100% say that a CEO wouldn’t ever do anything like that.

Their point about optical drives literally said the word “laptop” and no, laptops are not modular to the point where you can just slap any old disc-drive in them. You can, however, get an external one that will take a USB slot but you’ll live. It’s going to be hard to successfully argue against the other guy if you’re not even reading his comments properly.

I remember months ago people were like “I guess you guys gotta fight us and kick our asses” and I’m lol no buddy, fix your own problems.

Buy whatever you want, but as a standard 3’ is fine. My desk is cable managed properly and the powerbar is mounted under my desk. You can use zipties or 3M tape, and if you’re worried about aesthetics 1) if you do it correctly then it’ll be nice and 2) you’d already be the kind of person to use individual wall outlets for everything so yea I doubt it worries you that bad.

I like a 2m cable for sure but a 3’ cable should reach most any table, desk, or nightstand. I only have one 6-10’ cable and it’s because it’s routed through my desk. A 3’ standard has been working fine for most people for a long time and saves on materials.

I’m 30 and it feels boomerish to say but I love my first gen BRZ for having not only red seven-segment displays for everything but also a large range of dimming.

“You can’t program your phone and sideload custom built apps!”

“Do you do that?”

“Well, no…but I could!”

I think more open phones should be the norm whether or not we’re using the function that much but also I agree that I really just don’t need to run some crazy shit off it, either. I even spend probably too much time with my phone and still don’t get it!

Trump is, despite a lowering crime rate in DC, claiming that DC is full of crime and that he needs to take direct control over the police and military and have them run around the place intimidating everyone.

The US is a deeply fucked country and now they’re just going full mask-off. They’ve been setting for this for a long time so it looks, to someone less informed, like it shouldn’t be happening this quickly but really none of this is surprising.

Look, as long as I have time to clean up afterwards there’s no shame in her asking for help and then adding on something extra if she’s feeling it. I will always do what I promised to do and anything more is, well, more.

Besides, showing up without tools and expecting sex is fucking weird and fixing someone’s stuff out of the kindness of your heart is rewarding no matter how the evening turns out.

I have zero desire to be a kid again. What I want is finacial stability and trust in people in leadership positions to not be huge pieces of shit who make houseflies look like members of MENSA.

The desire to be a kid, I think, is far more rooted in wishing for blissful ignorance.

Is awful, why do you like stuff?

I ain’t against some good hentai but my lord there is way too many images where the character looks like they’re in distress and it’s creepy as fuck. This one looks terrified.

You’re gunna be sad, and that makes sense. I mean, why wouldn’t you be? You’ll have moments of being mad at them, too, and that’s ok as long you don’t act out on those feelings.

It’s important to keep yourself occupied, not to distract from the pain but keep yourself moving forward and remind yourself that you are your own person and have value outside of the relationship, alone or with friends or however, you are still a person and not just their ex. You’ll be sad a lot, and some days forward will feel like backwards, but you’ll get there in time.

I wrote a journal, just on my phone, for a year. It’s amazing how much you’re expecting to write about how bad your day had gone but by the time you get writing you’ve had time to be outside of the big feelings for a bit and most days are, even if not great, better than you’d thought.

If you can get access to a therapist, and even if all you do is talk at them, that can be awesome for getting things off your chest, too. It can help you set these feelings down for even an hour and get used to that lightness. Therapy doesn’t have to give you answers, sometimes all it needs to do is give you relief enough to find them on your own.

And lastly, it’s ok to miss them. You aren’t spiralling when you miss them, you’re thinking about good things and you shouldn’t force yourself away from those thoughts. Give yourself time to recalibrate and get used to the fact that you’ll always have good memories, and in time they will weigh less and not hit as hard.

I agree with 95% of this message but don’t love how it sounds like you’re encouraging them to try to force themselves to not think of it as it’ll just come back. I agree that finding things to do is great and will ease you out of the pain but if you’re trying to stay away from the painful thing the best you’ll get is being just unprepared for the next time it, or something similar, happens.

Hobbies and stuff are awesome for reminding yourself that you still have value outside of the relationship or that you can find new enjoyments and aren’t locked into only one way of being. They can also bring new friends, or at least aquaintances, and that can help bring variety. But trying to force not thinking about the issue will likely just delay it.