Vent thread

@Selaphiel
 
I take offense to a good 60% of that yea tea sippin’ rice eater.

@Zincy  
You’re a special case, Hickster.

@Selaphiel  
Are hipsters even relevant in the social conscience anymore? I remember the early 2010’s when the media put a lot of attention to them and now it looks like mainstream fashion got adapted from hipsters because of Millenials.

@Selaphiel  
Don’t forget the Apple devices, the Retro clothes and the eternally contrarian atitude.

@ILoveMyoozik  
They still act like the stuff arent status quo.

@Selaphiel  
Which is amusing because they believe in nonconformity yet all of them dress the same, listen and watch the same things, and usually have the same attitudes and beliefs.

@ILoveMyoozik
 
Same shit different time.
 
Inevitably, all nonconformists end up looking the same.

@ILoveMyoozik  
They also act like they’re fighting the system when they’re actually feeding it and when they are the system.

Cringy yet hilarious as fuck.
 
@Count Adramélekh Sear ov the Far East  

@Count Adramélekh Sear ov the Far East  
I know how you feel…..

I just found one of my favorite restaurants went into debt and closed down in my city two years ago.
 
Sweet Tomatoes.

@PonyPon  
Happened to one of my favorite restaurants back in my hometown. “The Green Derby” was a great place to eat, then they got bought by new owners who brought in an entirely new cooking staff and fired all the originals… but they kept the name due to the cred it got from the locals.
 
The locals hated the new chefs and the menu. A year later and “The Green Derby” was no more =/ .

@PonyPon  
Unfortunately, I also know that feeling. Isn’t a nice feeling.

@Zincy
 
@Selaphiel  
Exactly, which is why I’ve always had some sort of an animosity towards them back in high school.

@PonyPon  
Was it locally owned?

@Mikey  
There still locations in America, so i guess not.

@PonyPon  
Ah. That still sucks tho

@Mikey  
Such is the fate of a lot of cool places of business from our collective childhood / young adulthood. Can’t even count on both hands all the losses =( .

Why dont we just outfit everything building with solar panels and retrofit substations into capacitor banks?
 
Boom, no more power plants. Or at least only need a few of them.

@Zincy  
That would make too much sense.
 
@Joseph Raszagal  
Indeed

@Zincy  
While we’re at it, why don’t we fund more research into the process of converting ocean water into drinkable water and look for ways to make it cheaper. With these droughts out west, we could sure use it.

@Lord Goku
 
We have the tech, its just no one wants to invest.

@Zincy  
This.
 
While we have the means to make power cheaper for the masses by utilizing renewable energy, there’s just no money in it, so nobody’s in a hurry to implement such things on a national scale. Same story with things like water conversion plants, mass recycling centers, and permanent nuclear waste disposal sites.
 
We have the technology, but the companies that (by and large) run those sectors don’t want to be put out of business. And, in the instances of monetary gain not being involved (such as hazardous waste management, nuclear and otherwise), lobbyists tend to cripple attempts at organizing such efforts by labeling funding for these types of programs as “reckless spending” of the national budget, preferring to see the money get spent on other endeavors that are closer to their own interests.
 
Long story short, trying to make a difference with renewable energy, waste management, clean water production, and infrastructure improvement is very, very difficult for all of the wrong reasons.

It’s St. Patty’s Day, but my local Red Robin isn’t doing the green beer for some reason.

FFS Mozilla, STOP LYING TO ME. You claim every time that your newest update is the “latest in speed and privacy”, and yet every single time I update, your browser gets measurably slower to load up, sucks up more resources, and demands yet again that I sign up to be monitored.
 
If there weren’t a couple things in my life that outright force me to use Firefox, I’d have uninstalled it ages ago. Seriously, fuck Mozilla and fuck their “better internet” lipservice.