The Suspicious Orange

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

developers moving all their bug tracking and suggestion management to discord is like if you could only access customer support if you joined a facebook group. we need to start shaming people who use discords as a replacement for an actual proper repository

like discords cant be searched with a search engine. all the info is locked behind a membership gate. if someone's already had the same issue as you and solved it you have no way of knowing because all the troubleshooting was in a random channel 3 months ago. if someone has the same suggestion as you, you cant back them up with your support and spitball ideas. youre actively sabotaging yourself if you use discord for dev utilities.

big tip for all neurodivergents you’re supposed to let everyone make you uncomfortable all the time but if youre weird in any way youll be shot at point blank range and itll be your fault

It's so fucking baffling to me that hospitals went back to not masking. Like good news, we have lots of empirical evidence that masking prevents infections! Now to go back to walking around this absolute petri dish of a building filled with extremely vulnerable people unmasked

mutuals if I like your vent post I promise I’m acknowledging your post and sending happy thoughts and hoping your ok bc I don’t know what to say and I promise I’m not happy you’re in pain

"Write character relationships that are normal" WRONG ☝ CODEPENDENCY BEAM 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

Get a little wet when I find a fan translation that has a whole document of translator notes to accompany it explaining all their choices. Like yes yes add the context that may be lost in the jump to English. Yes yes tell me why you used specific words. Yes tell me why you choose to give a character a specific speaking quirk to give off the same vibes as something in the original language. Hahahah yes tell me tell me