All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.

Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. "This is collapsing, that's more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They're cracking down here and forcing ads there." Etc etc.

When I'm knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!

But yeah, "How next money tho?" Usually starts the mental downward spiral.

I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don't get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.

The world outside of what I'm choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.

Like damn I don't need much, can't folk just be left alone? Lol

Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?

Man those EVE Online corporate sabotage shenanigans are getting SERIOUS.

...In all seriousness though, this is rather concerning that this is happening and nobody's really sure who's doing it.

True! It was then technically named after a meme...which the coin named itself after, as it was supposed to be a "meme coin".

Still stands though.

"Government agency named after meme. Such dumb. So chaos. Woooooow." Lol

"mostly". The optimism in this statement LOL.

Gosh, same. I can do the charisma thing and chameleon whatever I'm supposed to say, and heck, even be good at the damn job...

...too good.

Once it stops being interesting, I start trying to find ways to make it fun, or squeeze in creative projects during downtime, and uptight types don't like discovering that I've still got the spark they sacrificed right out of business school.

Disclaimer: Not claiming to be a genius or anything.

never touch something that looks like a carrot plant in the wild, because it could be that one plant that kills you 3 times over.

Okay so when you said "Never touch" I was thinking casually "Oh, don't go messing with it or munching on it or whatever. Sound advice."

Looking it up, oh...poison hemlock...you were being dead-exact.

Source

"As his doctor, Christopher Hayner, MD, pointed out, LeBlond didn't have to eat the poisonous plant to fall ill. "Anything you can touch, you can also inhale," he explained to Good Housekeeping. When LeBlond used a chainsaw to cut down the hemlock, tiny particles scattered in the air, and when he breathed them in, they almost killed him."

Oh holy crap. ~~Kill it with fire~~!

"If you do find a suspicious stalk and want to remove it, wear gloves, a face mask, and protective clothing. Dig it out from the roots, rather than cutting it, and never burn it, as the fumes can cause a reaction."

Not even fire can sate its lust for indiscriminate killing?!

Apparently it's a "recent problem" that this stuff is spreading all over the place.

It was as I suspected. Going outside is overrated. 😬

Lol sure, resilience and grit are great markers of success!...Provided you can afford enough resilience and grit until you succeed! Lol

died

Wait. Sorry, what?

"That's some high security clearance to have a computer rapidly tap auto-complete for entire paragraphs, hoss...wait it pays how much?(Ahem) I shall take this solemn responsibility of the highest order so very seriously!" Lol

I get where this is coming from. In the Blender space it can be pretty intense because it's such a popular project, but I cringe so hard when I see these whiny posts like

"Why can't the lazy devs just get off their butts and fix [my specific issue]?!?!"

People got so used to "customer-brain" they forgot how to be civil.

Even today, Deus Ex proves to be relevant and provokes discussion. True art.

Who's reinstalling it right now?

"Sorry your pacemaker has the silliest little flaw but the patented blobbed firmware could only be updated with some vendor program on Windows XP that was reliant on XP-specific libraries but Service Pack 2 broke it after the company went under..."

Same stuff with car electronics. Maddening.