The other day some guy was walking his dog outside in the city. The dog took a shit, and the guy just kept walking. I made eye contact but didn’t say anything. Just shook my head and kept walking.

We were heading in the same direction and after a bit I got to my destination and stopped. He stopped a little ahead and let his dog take another shit. He looked back at me and said something like “you wanna pick this one up? Coward.”

I don’t know but for that moment I was emotionally ready to murder him. He’s literally making the world a shittier place, and for nothing. I don’t want that kind of selfish shithead just walking around without consequences.

Well, lucky for me I’m not armed and have impulse control. He was bigger than me and I don’t know how to fight. I yelled at him that he’s a shithead or something inarticulate, and he laughed and kept walking.

Fuck that guy. I hope he gets hit my a truck and bleeds out in a shit filled ditch.

I had an issue with installing mint. Never figured it out. Got the older LTS and it worked fine though. Maybe try a different version?

Living somewhere where you need to drive is a whole other set of problems.

I’ve enjoyed seeing movies at alamo drafthouse and similar. It’s okay if you don’t. But I stand by my original claim that more people would go if they had more money.

I did say “more people” not “all people”.

Also, go to better theaters. Alamo Drafthouse (I think they settled their union busting problem) for example will kick people out for being disruptive, and has pretty good food delivered to you at your seat.

Also there’s a pretty big gulf between “Let’s spend $60 for dinner and a movie” and “let’s spend $1600 for a home theater setup”

People are social creatures, and many people enjoy watching something with a crowd.

Me, I prefer watching at home so I can be comfortable and piss at my leisure. But every so often as a change of pace I’d go see it in a theater.

I’m confident more people would see films in theater if they had jobs that paid better and worked them fewer hours. My friend with a full time office job and bartending gig at night trying to make rent isn’t spending a lot of time and money on theaters.

It’s like that meme with the dog saying “no take ball, only throw”. The rich don’t want to pay us any money, but they want us to spend a lot of money.

Yeah this feels like another thing that’s downstream from low wages.

Movies are a luxury. If most people are struggling to get by in debt, they’re less likely to splurge.

I think a lot of people are struggling economically, and movie theaters are kind of expensive. If labor had a bigger slice of the pie, more of them would probably spend it on movies.

I used to go to a theater that served food and drink right to your seat, and enforced silence from the crowd. It was pretty good. But that’s also like $50 a go.

Right. And that probably leads to criticism of capitalism (the owners want to make more money more than anything else). Or at least the primacy of money (this small developer put ads in his app because he needs money or society will let him die)

I think a lot of people have internalized parts of our society and don’t really look hard at them anymore. Like, “if you don’t labor you’ll be allowed to die of exposure” is kind of fucked up. So is “you don’t have to labor if you have enough money. Then you don’t need to do anything at all, and you can live a nice life”

Zitron’s posts are generally pretty good.

He doesn’t really propose effective solutions, though, I don’t think. Like, yeah you can tell people that the internet sucks because some assholes made it that way. But if it wasn’t these assholes, it’d be some other assholes. And we’re not going to get most people to care about things.

The problems are structural.

The megacorps need to be broken up, at the very least.

The ultra rich need to not exist anymore. Either because they were taxed down to size, or they met the guillotine.

Without touching those parts of the problem, nothing’s going to get better.

Groundhog’s day if the day is pretty normal. Not like a day where I have the flu or AWS is down. There’s a lot of books to read, movies to watch, one night stands to have.

Also I think my friends would believe me that groundhog day was happening. Might be able to get a slightly better situation than the movie.

Windows sure is bad, though I haven’t seen an actual blue-screen in years. That’s some foul luck.

“a peaceful movement”. Ok. Unilaterally disarming seems like a dubious move to me.

I don’t think protests where you just stand around and chant are especially effective. Maybe in 1950 when seeing people get firehosed was shocking, but the world is different today. Media is captured by the wealthy and most people don’t care.