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  • You know what’s hyper fucked?

    Back when I was a baby republican (read: a parentally brainwashed child) and just learning about gerrymandering in school, my reaction was basically “well that’s shitty, but at least it’s the people I like doing it”.

    I’m pretty sure that’s very common thinking amongst hardened republicans. I don’t even know how you convince someone to not be like that either, I just changed when I was out from under my parents boot and finally allowed to learn about the political effects of racism.

    Tldr; common think pattern leads me to believe Texas is fucked until reepublicans lose their power there.



  • What an interesting problem!

    Are you able to use other styles of casing? Like underscore casing might help because you can see the spaces so it’s strike_through_offset Whitespace_width Etc Or maybe, if you have to stick with camel, it’s every syllable (if you work on a team, I would not recommend this, but for personal stuff it should be fine)

    I don’t think it’s a case of get good so much as it is a case of you parsing things differently depending on brain state, and you not having a tool to help you over come it/return to the previous brain state that could tell you which letter to capitalize.

    I think your best bet might be to come up with hard arbitrary rules and practice those until it sticks. It’s all vibes until experience hardens it into an opinion, basically

    My initial kneejerk reaction though was “you’re thinking too hard about it, just let it flow” but idk if that’s helpful in the slightest lol certainly wouldn’t help if there’s a mental bump at play, so I think simplifying the rules into something regular is probably the best place to start




  • I do web dev and I can say I was super guilty of this back in the 2010s. I bit the hype hard, and now we’re getting right back to the circumstances that made ie such a POS to work with. (In my defense, I got my dev job in 2013 and had to develop for ie6. It’s not a good defense, but I think that really lead to my overhype for google. I had no knowledge of chrome’s bloated whale carcass days, so it always felt like the browser that “just worked ™”)

    Market monopoly inspires evil in the good intentioned. Market monopoly also inspires nefariousness in the evil.

    I’d say this is the sort of thing that inspired Google to remove the “don’t be evil” from their guidelines.




  • So the interesting thing about this is that I personally don’t think just because you haven’t had those experiences doesn’t mean you can’t write about it (for the most part, I think there are likely exceptions I would draw the line at). However, as someone who hasn’t experienced those things, my reasoning goes, it’s part of your duty to ensure it’s not going to cause harm, and that takes a lot of research into the topic (ideally with people who have experienced what you want to write about) along with a healthy dose of empathy.

    I think you’ve made some mistakes in the past that you’re currently feeling growing pains from. Don’t feel like you’re a bad person just from your past actions, you seem to be growing. You’d be a worse person than you are if you were continuing to do it on purpose despite realizing all of this.



  • The only issue I currently take with it is when it’s presented as real. Otherwise, creative writing is a good thing in general. It’s like the set of emotions one uses to approach the content with is different when one thinks it’s real vs when one knows it’s fake, and people get real sore when they feel like their emotions have been exploited for any reason, even if it’s only for internet points that don’t matter for anything.

    I really hadn’t considered the trauma perspective, I seriously don’t understand why someone would fake a story about enduring trauma for internet points… But that’s my perspective.

    Personally, when I find out reddit stories are fake, I usually just feel a little annoyed and roll my eyes, but then I move on. I don’t think it’s really anything to beat yourself over. Keep writing, just advertise it for what it actually is (just my opinion of what the best path forward is though, this is not a command lol)

    In the words of one of my favorite memes that I’m too lazy to learn how to link right now: '“who would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?”