JGrffn

joined 1 year ago
[–] JGrffn 8 points 1 year ago

He did like 3 of those, one per year, consecutively

[–] JGrffn 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like I've been falling into that stereotype for a while, but it's purely because I DON'T want to be that, ironically. As a bilingual software dev in a third world country, being able to get jobs with US-level salaries means I earn more than pretty much every salaried worker in my country, and probably still earn more than most business owners as well. I have the kind of salaries that congresspeople of my country earn. I can easily 2x my salary as well, if I sacrifice mental health. This means I'm the provider by default. Thus, I feel the pressure of having to be the provider, not because of gender roles, but because having such ease of access to high salaries puts me there. The goal, as it should be for everyone, is to save up and retire young, to not work ever again. I don't care what my role is as long as I get me and my family there, but I do indeed feel that pressure to provide.

[–] JGrffn 18 points 1 year ago

That's when it clicked for me too. Now knowing about the hyperloop existing just to kill a public transport bill, it's infuriating that I didn't see it before. He played us good for a looong while.

[–] JGrffn 3 points 1 year ago

I usually rely on 1337x.to for most of my torrents, with erai-raws over in nyaa.si for most of the anime.

[–] JGrffn 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Nearly 2000 movies, over 200 series, over 50 anime movies and about 300 animes in mine, sharing it with 30 other friends and family. Currently looking into automations for it. This is the way.

[–] JGrffn 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you're probably oversimplifying a lot and this may not be the biggest issue you have with the service companies, but if payment method is what's keeping you from getting the services, can't you go to the bank the companies rely on to do a deposit directly into their accounts, then mail/message their billing department with your payment voucher? Pretty sure you don't need to have a bank account to do this. The bank may deny you a bank account but I doubt they'll do something about a cash deposit, and the service companies should be able to receive a manual transaction record.

[–] JGrffn 12 points 1 year ago

I don't think they care about what goes onto the canvas as much as they care about the increased traffic this brings. How many reddit refugees are going back just to vandalize /r/place? Even if that demographic is relatively small, this still drives up engagement from all demographics, and the greedy little pig boi needs those numbers for his IPO. I'm guessing he's going with "any publicity is good publicity".

[–] JGrffn 3 points 1 year ago

X2! David Malan is an excellent teacher, OP! I hate academia and prefer learning through YouTube, but CS50 is an EXCELLENT way to get started with learning about computers and programming!

[–] JGrffn 25 points 1 year ago

Yeah honestly it's pretty appealing of an idea to go back just to make a mess on the canvas or send a coordinated message, but - and I know most won't do this - the best strategy is to just...not engage. Avoid participating, avoid going to check the canvas or the site... just pretend it isn't happening.

Sadly, it's pretty much a fact that this will bring back tons of traffic, even if the event itself results in popcorn-worthy drama. Spez seems to be subscribed to the notion that any kind of publicity is good publicity, and it might just work out for him and his IPO.

At this point, the best that we can do is just care for our mental health and let things be. It's what I plan on doing, and I can't put "sticking it to reddit" as a priority while doing so, it's for me and for me alone.

[–] JGrffn 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty much same as you: If it works for NASA or it's a heavenly body, it works for me. Main PC is called SATURN V (SATURN for most things). Laptop is called HYPERION. Currently saving up to replace SATURN with ARTEMIS. Might throw in a GAIA NAS/virtualization server at some point, if cash flow allows for it. I'm not as picky about my family's devices that I've set up, though... They'll keep their randomly generated names, mostly out of laziness.

[–] JGrffn 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don't understand how the name of the store ever took off

[–] JGrffn 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man what the fuck, "rule of thumb" sounded like the most innocuous and random shit, why must you do this to me.

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