I see consequences of this in my workplace weirdly enough. There’s been a huge brain drain in recent years that was accelerated through the pandemic, and then again by egregious financial mismanagement by leadership that really fucked us and of course the workers at the bottom all paid for it.

Training materials were last updated like 15 years ago, the systems we use have all undergone massive changes rendering those completely useless. Everyone’s crunched because we have less employees, and the new employees all need to be really baby sat and have things explained to them, because there’s no other way for them to gain the knowledge how to do their jobs other than having one of the few employees who are still here to walk them through these things and take on the role of teacher and full time tutor while still managing their increasing workload.

It fucking sucks ass and of course all the older employees are jaded and bitter about it, but its become this self perpetuating cycle of incompetence, crunch, and catch up because no one wants/has the capacity now to put in the work in up front to get some sort of training materials set up for new workers - but that just means that same work will end up being done in a much more frustrating and crushing way of constantly dealing with simple mistakes.

This was kinda a tangent, but the problem and solution are so obvious - but there’s no collective will to try and improve this for all of us to make our lives simpler, so people end up instead becoming so bitter and resentful of each other rather than the fucks who refuse to address this issue above us. And I get it - its so fucking frustrating dealing with this shit and having it grind you down in the context of a workplace, of course people want to be like “fuck this I’m just hanging around until I’m stable enough to fuck off somewhere better.”

I see this same shit playing out in society with people having the same attitude. I don’t know what to do about it, and I don’t like it. I do my part trying to build solidarity, but fuck me if it ain’t a one way street that ends up feeling like wasted effort most of the time.

Edit: multiple spelling and gramatic errors because me mad

Aww shit I just started season 2 after finally watching season 1 all the way through, and Dr. Not-Beverly-Crusher has already annoyed me with the smug. I guess I’ll strap in for this season.

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Give me a fucking break, man fuck Texas. All my homies hate Texas

Wait a second I already saw this movie.

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Windows 10 when I made the switch last summer. A full year now on EndeavorOS and I’ll never go back.

Rimworld would be my top suggestion, as others have noted.

I picked up Old World (excellent native Linux support BTW) during this summer sale and have not been able to put it down. If you’re a fan of Civilization style strategy games I’d highly recommend checking it out. I haven’t really enjoyed a Civ game since Civ 4, and Old World feels very similar but fresher and with less jank. it’s got a Crusader Kings style dynasty system with randomized events that adds a layer of role playing your leader and securing their dynasty through heirs you can train/influence.

As for the repeatability, Old World has tons. Each culture plays significantly differently, and each leader has different bonuses that encourage an interesting style of play. Games don’t play the same because of the mentioned event system, but also because learning new technologies is “randomized” as well. New techs are researched based off a selection of 4 drawn tech cards once you finish a previous technology. The card system makes it so you can’t just rush straight to archers and dominate the early game to snowball into a power house every game, but its not truly random so you can “game” the system in your favor to get the techs you want with the tools the game gives you through either unique leader powers, or specific governor roles for example.

The game is super deep while not being off puttingly complex.

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My steam deck gets so much more play in the summer. My home office and desktop are in the hottest room in my house (because I’m dumb), so being able to hang out on the couch in my cool living room playing Fallout 1 has been a godsend

One of my favorite jobs was working in a cemetery as the guy who digs the graves in my 20s. I got to be outside 8 hours a day maintaining the grounds (mostly doing gardening work, occasionally picking up trash that blew in, etc) and digging big ass holes.

The pay was the absolute minimum wage the company employeeing me was legally allowed to pay, kept my hours under the threshold to provide me any benefits whatsoever, and constantly tried to exploit my labor, but I liked the work itself. My customers never complained and that was pretty great.

The death industry is fucking despicable though, I am very happy to not be a cog in that machine anymore. Still though, it was pretty nice having a job that kept me in shape and I took my work seriously to be respectful to both the dead and the families that would visit/attend. Met some pretty cool people doing that work.

But seriously, don’t pay these fucking vultures the ridiculous rates they charge. They feed off peoples grief and they do not give a single fuck once you leave. I’ve personally watched funeral directors take sledgehammers to old vaults that shifted to make space for their current clients, toss remains in the trash, mix up peoples ashes and not give a fuck.

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“Arbeit macht frei” exact same shit

The way the text and image in this specific meme are utilized in the same context as the original source of the meme is refreshing. I feel like I see this meme template used in weird ways that kinda-work-but-not-really more than other templates.

Anyway, good quality well made meme, got me laugh

I haven’t seen that video in at least 7 years, but this comment brought it straight back to my minds eye as vividly as if I had just watched it. How weird

I got this game on sale a couple years back and only just started playing it, but I’ve been having fun. Im not very familiar yet, but the basics seem simple enough. I don’t really understand how the portal cords work or having a base planet, but I’ll try and figure it out if y’all will have me.

Rimworld has a new expansion coming out that oozes SCP vibes that I’m excited for. I want to hold off on getting into a new game until the expansion drops, but I’ve got a real itch to play.

Great excuse for me to prune my mod list though.

I got some barefoot Jim Green boots for about $200 last month, and they’ve quickly become my favorite boots.I wanted a comfortable very mendable boot, and so far they’ve exceeded my expectations.

Windows -> Mint -> PopOS -> EndeavorOS

I tried Mint for a few days, enjoyed it but wanted something a bit more gaming focused. Tried Pop, had issues getting it set up, got it set up and didn’t like it. Moved to Endeavor, and after a brief learning period, its been everything I wanted in an OS.

I fucking love EndeavorOS