I’m 40 something. I would love to be able to have a nap at lunch. Yesterday I ate microwaved soup at my desk in lieu of a break.

british detected 🚨🚨🚨

what about something like fairphone? why is pixel better?

Bridge Ices Before Road on every bridge, comes to mind

growing up in the 80s and 90s in the uk, I never heard the end of how the (slur for Pakistani people, applied to all people from South Asian countries) are ruining everything, then the Kosovans/Bosnians, Romani people, Muslims… I saw less black/African racism but I didn’t see none.

However, in my home town - which has a cathedral and a mosque - racial tensions got so high there were murders in the streets.

normal

yeah the list is just people who have not given him money in the last 6 hours.

is it a samsung? they sent me some clips to put on the knobs because it was easy for pets to turn on

4chan greentext

I support them in concept, I don’t personally use them because I get Adobe through work.

in Photoshop: brush tool, then click the butterfly at the top

Illustrator is more complicated:

Line Segment Tool (keyboard shortcut \) to draw a straight line across the artboard (twice for 2 axes - horizontal and vertical)

hide the line by changing the stroke color to None.

Go to the Layers panel and click on the circle next to the layer to make it a double circle.

overhead menu > select Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform.

Check Reflect Y and input 1 for the Copies value. Click OK.

yeah I only know it from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, but doesn’t fit the context

I wouldn’t mind if they write off my mortgage.

in Europe people are vehemently against you driving after any amount of alcohol at all. even a half pint of 3% beer.

before silica was commercially available people used to use rice (in salt shakers, to dry electronics…)

rice contains naturally occurring silica.

also, silica is the same composition as quartz and opals.

I mean you’ll have to take my word for it I guess.

I volunteer for an organization that promotes fiction penned by women and minority communities, we have a guy on the board who used to be a software engineer in the 70s–90s before he retired, he doesn’t know the first thing about social media. Struggles to remember the name of Facebook which is the only one he’s used.

My father in law wrote software for both JPL and government oceanography equipment, and is a big fan of Musk’s SpaceX work and vehemently against his political stuff, saying “he needs to dump that political stuff and get back to work!” frequently.

In my experience, people are complicated and immune to a lot of online pigeonholing, no matter how insistent online voices (mine included) are about that - there is a break between online discourse and real life day to day humdrum quotidian lived experience

there’s no need to make it personal to me, I’m just telling you about a guy I know.

I think its very reasonable in America that one wouldn’t be exposed to specific anti-Musk language if one didn’t engage with social media or news.

I think this is a case of

random people on the street flip him off, and some people have thrown stuff at him. He thinks they’re weirdos and it’s kinda funny. 🤷‍♂️

also I’m not going to tell the bosses husband people think he’s a nazi. I’m going to take my pay and enjoy my weekends and vacations.

this is not an endorsement of Musk or of Tesla or of cybertruck drivers - but this is a Very Online take. My boss’ husband drives a cybertruck, he doesn’t know what tiktok is, he doesn’t know what a meme is nor does he understand them when he sees them (he asks who it’s a photo of), the only news he consumes is in regards to logistics and supply chain and a little bit of the stock market.

I imagine he has as much understanding of why people hate elon musk as to I do as to why people love Sidney Crosby and hate Alexander Ovechkin - two people I had never heard of or know nothing about before googling “hockey players people love and hate.”

I won’t even remember their names in 5 minutes. I imagine a fair amount of cybertruck owners are like that.

holy shit I used this exact method this week at work to extract a paid-for database for free.