My mom’s still on Facebook so I gotta watch the occasional shit she shows me while doomscrolling, but today was a doosy and a half. She hits me with some version of the reptile replacement theory where she found a video that compiles like a bunch of weird shit happening like Selena Gomez tripping and her leg doing a weird bendy thing, Hillary Clinton behaving weird etc. And she believes it. And I am so… SO baffled by this. I’m still stunned thinking about this as I am typing this.
I mean we out here get it, we’ve been thru the “all the celebrities are reptiles” thing, but I just sit in silence as I can’t think of a proper way to refute this bullshit. I know it’s basic ass engagement bait. But as my mom isn’t technologically savvy, she obvs doesn’t get it and falls for this shit.
Sorry I just have to vent about this because AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
She likes to think of herself as not stupid, being able to recognize AI shit and generally not liking it (tho she does show me the occasional AI image still) then hits me with this.
I think people like us who’ve been thru much worse than the tape of Reagan getting cut up live have a good shield for this stuff… But mane how do you metaphorically hit someone with a table to get them to stop thinking shit? I should also point out at this moment she also loves that show Ancient Aliens, but that’s a separate rant I don’t want to get into.

Ahh, thanks for the explanation. I’ve heard the term incel here and there, but always just took it at face value. I had no idea that the whole alpha male thing originated from there.
Obsession with sex and hatred for women does sound highly contradictory to me, but I’m not gonna question it. This does not look like a fun rabbithole to fall into. I will agree, however, that this is deserving of mockery and ridicule.

Thanks for clarifying. That’s really strange tho. I don’t think of incel as a insult so it’s strange to me that you’d mock them. And for the meaning of the new “-cel” suffix to stray so far from its original context… weird.

One thing tho: -cel isn’t a suffix. Incel is a portmanteau of involuntary celibate, i.e. someone who wants to have sex but doesn’t.
Codecel should thus mean someone who wants to code but doesn’t, which honestly sounds like what a vibecoder would be.

So recently I’ve tried finding an alternative but when researching deeper into them I just found worse shit than mullvad. Like AirVPN having their servers seized.

For what it’s worth, I think mullvad is still the best option and worse case scenario you’re donating less than $5 to nazis which is like 2 hamburgers.

Discord malware needs fewer permissions than this /s

amen

Couldn’t have put it better myself

I hate C++ but I hate Adobe more

Fair. YS really is to BBT what BCS is to BB. So if you already don’t like BCS then YS is a hard sell.
Do keep an eye out for Stuart Fails to Save the Universe tho. Sci-fi sequel to BBT, sadly weekly episodes but quite enjoyable from the 2 episodes I’ve watched.

ugh I really like that show, it’s one of my comfort shows, and I really like the extended Big Bang Universe. It’s sad the show gets such a bad rap but it’s also not entirely unwarranted. The characters do feel really fleshed out, like they’re actual people who are the result of their life experiences. But if you can’t stand the way that Sheldon is, or the laugh track, or any combination thereof, the show really is impenetrable.
And annoyingly Young Sheldon goes on to be a really amazing prequel, but you need to watch and enjoy BBT first to get the most out of YS.
Honestly I hated BBT for the longest time too. Only a few years ago could I actually get into it.

You are forgetting number 4 which is already impacting the industry: people preferring to watch TikTok instead of playing games

I still have rather fond memories of shopping at Walmart in Germany. Tho I was a child and it always was more of an experience than a chore. Then Wexit happened and the world’s gone to shit ever since

For most players right now, Elytra is installed and may be running in the background, but it is not yet enforcing anti-cheat protections.

Neat, so it’s safe to assume this stuff is already reporting stuff back to HQ. Sure that’s just speculation, but why else would you run a program on your players’ PCs if it isn’t doing anything yet. Happy to be proven wrong but it’s sus.

The job is killing my mum and idk how to help her. Sadly because she doesn’t have education she can’t get any high paying jobs so she has just been doing warehouse work the past 10 years. Although she works in production they make her do warehouse as well. she’s physically exhausted every day, has nightmares and tells me she’s sometimes afraid to fall asleep…
And I feel so helpless…
I mean if I as a experienced dev can’t even find a job anymore, what luck does she have of finding smth new.

I was just making a joke don’t take thing so seriously

Just my two cents. Because I’m so broke my wallet doesn’t hold more than that

HOLY SHIT IT WORKED! Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

ok this is surprising, ill try it out in a few