Apparently you can also try with Labubus.

One time I was working as a customer advocate in a hosting company and I had one supervisor that never wanted to concede and refund the clients. It wasn’t an issue with other supervisors, I was following policies and he was kind of an asshole.

At one point I told him he was wrong and he replied with the French expression “you will not live on love and water alone”, meaning do what I say or you will be fired and won’t have money to live.

Well, as this happened before lunch break, I went to lunch, wrote my resignation letter and sent it via email. When I got back at the office he was incredulous and asked if I was joking. Nope.

I didn’t have the monetary meams to quit and I had to go back to my previous job, that I also didn’t like, but at least my old supervisor was not such an asshole.

Especially Carl. But luckily for whales, Carl is a bastard because he shot a harpoon in the captain’s face.

Oh yeah, otherwise don’t hesitate to go faster than the speed limit and male a bit of noise with your sports car, cuz it impresses everyone.

I can’t say I hate everyone, but its more of a “I don’t like people” in general kind of vibe.

When I was a teen in the late 90ies I was depressive and suicidal. I have had several episodes since then but I’m curious and so far I go on, just to see how cruel, dystopian and fucked up the world will become. So far it’s one part that is not disappointing.

But then you learn more about them and realize that the “fine specimen” are as damaged as the rest of us.

Some can be super nice to you yet very mean or cruel with other people.

I always at least try to give the benefit of the doubt but I very often end up disappointed.

EDIT: Quote from Quark

Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people… will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon.

Sorry to hear about that person’s psychological state.

Odds about living nearby are low but sometimes the world can be pretty small. Let’s see. I’m in a high rise near PdA in Montreal, 7th floor, so the person I can hear yelling is probably on the 6th or 8th floor.

I have a neighbour like that, I think. I’ve been living in the same place for years but a few months ago I started hearing someone yelling through the walls/floors. At first I thought it was a couple arguing because I kept hearing "“FUCK YOOOOU FUCK YOOOU FUCK” and “HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME?”

Then the same thing again a few minutes later. Maybe he was watching sports.

But he also yells the same things randomly. Sometimes at 2AM, sometimes at 2PM. Sometimes a few times in a row, sometimes just once. So I think he’s probably playing video games and just can’t help himself.

Close! But those lines are from the second one: Everyday Normal Guy 2

Anecdote about how this song is still fresh in my mind: I went to Saint Martin last winter. There are hiking trails on a private property called Loterie Farm, leading to Pic Paradis, the highest point of the island. They also have pool parties with loud music, kids playgrounds and stuff like that, but I went for the hike. Depending on your angle on the hill, you can clearly hear the music at the bottom. So there I was, hiking in a tropical forest, when all of a sudden I hear this remix of Everyday Normal Guy 2. I had forgotten this song for years and now my brain associates this specific remix with this moment.

I’m not disregarding electric cars. However they are not presented as an imperfect solution but rather like what everyone that has a car needs to do. Just swap for an electric car and don’t change anything else!

Don’t change habits. Dont talk aboout the other problems created by cars. Let’s forget about the millions of animals and humans killed by cars. Worldwide, there is one human killed every 30 seconds by a car. Electric or not.

But people just want to continue their current lifestyle. They will buy anything they are told will do that. Anything as long as they can all continue just as they are doing right now, but green!

IF you have to have a car, of course, the electric one will be better for the environment. But they are hyped and presented as a simple easy solution for everyone. They’re like Stanley cups. Everyone wants one, or two. They are objects of consumption.

Buying a car is not good for the environment in any way, shape or form, yet people are eager to do so.

Humanity is not running to ruins. It’s taking a car.

🎶Yo, what can I say? It’s just a day in my life.

I’m up early in the morning, in bed early at night.

To be productive at work, I gotta be well rested.

Yeah, motherfucker, you heard what I just said.🎶

Don’t worry if you can’t get in the electric car (EV) club right away. The important thing for the economy environment is that you are planning to buy another car, but electric!

Or just ditch the working car for an electric one. Nobody gives a fuck if it’s ecological or not. They just want to continue using a car and ignore all the other problems like microplastics from tire shedding, heat islands, or using a two tons metal box to move 1.5 person everywhere.

Electric cars only exist so the car industry can continue to sell cars. So don’t worry and consume. Greenwash your conscience.

I don’t want to gatekeep and you do what works for you.

I can only hope that you are kind enough to stop torturing this poor Debian with WSL, and can find it a proper home.

Or have you considered getting therapy for this?

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If it’s an “outside cat” it can just be hanging around the place. My parents have a cabin in the countryside and there’s farms around. One day a cat just showed up. They pet her and give her food once every few days, but she’s independent and pretty much just wants to be petted. Very affective and always seeking human attention. She just decided to hand around the place. I also have a cabin deeper in the woods on the same land and the cat is often just following us when we walk from one place to another.

So when they had a house built there, the construction workers just had a cat hanging around. She was coming out of the woods to be petted, then went back in the woods or just went chilling in the barn until her next round. Feeding her is pretty much just extra, because she can take care of herself.

I’m not talking about menopause, but about the scenario in the meme. Some millennials already had children five years ago, so what age target are we talking about when we say “when I was your age”?

I’m and old millennial but even some of my younger friends already have teenagers that lived through the pandemic.

Millennials are starting to get a bit old to have futire kids. Not impossible obviously, but wouldn’t that apply more to zoomers?

An American kitten.

Yeah. I work in IT. Or worked. I’m not sure anymore.

I was doing level 1 support on the phone for a few years and was able to put a bit of money aside during the pandemic.

A few months ago my employer took a new client, an oil company. As I hate them with all my being, and the work was more about telling low wage employees to wait business hours instead of helping them, I quit.

I absolutely don’t miss Windows, Teams, Office, Microsoft products… Salesforce, Citrix, and all those. I’m so happy without them in my life.

But I need to pay rent and eat, so I started looking for work again and, OMFG, I really don’t want to go back to that shit.

I’m sure there’s other “old” people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn’t want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.

And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can’t believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.

Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn’t believe I didn’t need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don’t stream music. No, I don’t stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.

Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we’re absolutely not there, I’ll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.