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There are a lot of great paying shitty jobs. Working on pipelines, any remote construction etc.

It’s a mystery! I’ll never understand why the week after yet another price hike, I quit because of the price hike. I guess I just act randomly in response to price hikes.

Neat! I hadn’t thought about that. I’ll try moving my cat’s less used scratching post to a better spot…!

A few things happened pretty quickly.

During the pandemic, tech profits soared which led to massive hiring sprees. For all the press about layoffs at the big guys, I think most still have more workers than they did pre-pandemic.

Interests rates soared. Before the pandemic interest rates were ludicrously low, in other words it cost almost nothing to borrow money. This made it easier to spend on long term or unclear projects where the hope seemed to be “get enough users, then you can monetize.” Once interest rates rose, those became incredibly expensive projects, so funding is now much more scarce. Companies are pulling back on bigger projects or, like reddit, trying to monetize them faster. Startups are also finding it harder, so fewer jobs.

And of course, AI. No one is quite sure how much that’ll change the game but some folks think most programmers will be replaceable, or at least 1 programmer will be able to do the work of several. So, rather than hire and go through everything severance etc might entail, I think a lot of companies are taking a wait and see approach and thus not hiring.

Ahaha, dang I got so excited before google pointed out I’m an idiot and meant season 4. (But on the other hand, did find out it was renewed for a 4th, so that’s groovy!)

I think of it like those people are subsidizing my free content.

If no one subscribes, we don’t get Love, Death and Robots season 3 4!

Like everyone else says, depends what you want.

If you can afford it, Vancouver is amazing (though, I am a biased Vancouverite.) In a good season, there are local ski mountains about 30 or 40 minutes from downtown, Whistler is a couple hours away. There’s awesome food all over the place, the underground scene is a blast and even some of the licensed etc venues can be pretty awesome. In the summer, everyone wants to be outside and if you’re into sporty stuff, there’s a boatload to do. The weather is generally pretty mild (though climate change is messing with that.)

The transit system can be amazing, depending on where you live. (In the suburbs, like most other cities, it’s kind of trash.) But there are trains, rapid busses etc if you live near any hub. And of course, bike paths galore!

Thanks for supporting and thus making it available for others!

CS50 covers pointers, objects, classes etc and will give you a solid foundation. Fully recommend though, fair warning, it’s challenging. Tideman nearly crushed my soul.

It seems you are fundamentally misunderstanding. I’ll try in a few bullet points, that might make it easier for you.

1. Social justice on social media is now the primary target for multiple successful right wing politicians. Earlier moments, like gay marriage, tended to be suplementary issues whereas now they are more or less the entire focus.

2. In America at least, an overwhelming majority of people support climate change action, gun control, universal healthcare etc.

3. Despite that broad support on most progressive issues, left wing politicians are losing winnable elections.

4. The right wing policies that come about as a result of their successful anti woke campaigns have disastrous climate effects.

5. Climate change will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people on Earth.

I hope that helps make things a bit more clear for you!

Edit: Actually, your car comparison, while pretty unrelated to any point I’m making is kind of useful here. Much like cars, social justice comes with a cost. Insisting that there is no cost is just as silly as when climate change deniers argue that cars don’t have an impact or that we all need them anyway so what are we going to do etc. Social justice, while fun (who doesn’t love a chance to be snarky on the internet in defense of the oppressed without any work or sacrifice?!?) is coming at a cost which we refuse to acknowledge.

Instead of leaping to what aboutism, look at what I wrote and tell me what part is incorrect!

Republicans don’t run on issues, they run and WIN on being anti woke. As are many other leaders who have reprehensible and deeply unpopular views, Bolsonaro, Mielei, la Pen, trump and all the would be Republicans etc.

Like I said, I don’t have a solution but the fact is that the ones destroying the world are doing so by running in opposition to social justice despite having massively unpopular positions on issues. It’s upsetting but also the truth.

But, if you really want to compare, okay. I’m imperfect but do my best; my device is refurbished, my furniture is almost all second hand (except a chair and my mattress), my clothes are almost all second hand or sweat free (I couldn’t find ethical jersies for my team or camping fleece), I haven’t had a microwave for almost a month because I’ve been trying to find one second hand, while I do eat meat it’s almost never beef and despite working out and eating a boatload of protein try to make as many veggie meals as I can. Despite making an upper middle class living for most of the last decade I’ve been car free until last year (I didn’t want to get covid on the ski bus with a bunch of kids again.) Hell, even my cat is second hand. My biggest sins (I think) are probably my tv and speaker as I haven’t found ethical/second hand versions. How about you?

Edit: Oh right, I also take a significant pay cut to work at a non profit so that more marginalized youth can go to University as so believe that’s the best anti poverty engine around.

It’s not either or. You don’t have to choose to only care about one thing.

On a personal level, absolutely.

But, we just, and probably permanently lost a huge swathe of the Amazon in part because Bolsonaro won votes on a vague anti woke platform.

The American public iirc, disagrees with the Republican party on most major issues like climate change, gun safety and healthcare. But, children are still shot in schools because Republicans don’t need to campaign on issues, they campaign on being anti woke.

I don’t have a solution. I don’t think we can or should stop talking about marginalized groups. But, the fact is that social justice is also enabling things that have and will have increasingly devastating effects on the most vulnerable people on Earth.

You know who doesn’t have to use the bathroom? Dead Palestinian kids who might still be alive if we changed the statistics quo and dismantled the military industrial complex instead of incredibly narrow culture war battles.

You know who has serious bathroom problems? The literally billions of people at risk from climate change because we are stuck in the status quo and fighting culture war battles on the margins.

In an ideal world, yeah, everyone would agree with me on everything. But as that’s not the case, we have to prioritize. And I think that while trans bathrooms are a tragic issue, being drawn into those fights keeps the status who and condemns billions to suffer.

It’s like we’re trying to win the battle but lose the war except we’re only managing to stalemate the battle while also losing the war.

In my more conspiratorial moments I wonder if social media driven social justice is encouraged by the elites to keep us fighting over whether the movies have enough gay/Black/trans actors, critical race theory, trans bathrooms etc so that inequality and serious change never come up meaningfully.

Were I one of the wealthy elite, I could think of no better ally in the fight to support the status quo than twitter social justice.

To be clear, I think most of those folks are doing what they believe is right and I generally agree but it also creates a giant schism between Left and Right when it should be about Haves and Have nots.

Gotta love the “everyone I disagree with is a shill/bootlicker” playbook.

And my local mosque isn’t the sole representation for all Muslims, but if I falsely claimed they advocated rape, I’d be being pretty bigoted.

At least be consistent; you got annoyed when I pointed out that the articles you posted show that rape is absolutely not an Israeli government position. But this comment takes the opposite tack.

As you grow up, hopefully you’ll learn that reality is a thing and not just whatever suits the argument at hand.

Bye.

And to your larger point, you are welcome to create your own server or community and allow whomever to say whatever they’d like, regardless of how bigoted or incorrect they might be!

As many have said, this isn’t a fediverse problem, nor is it a suggestion to improve the fediverse, this is a you complaining about mods doing what the commubity expects of them.

Have a good night.

So if someone commits a crime, fair to accuse them of all crimes?