How so? Most governments around the world are a collection of many independent bodies which have their own interests and powers, which is why people usually call a government “the bueraucracy”, since it’s a clunky machine instead of the single unified command structure like how the media portrays it.

I hate that society in general is of the culture of “taking initiative”, which mostly translates to “exploit others for your selfish gain”, and people see it as completely normal.

I guess this is why so many people fervently oppose when the culture starts to shift back to wanting egalitarianism and people getting a fair chance.

Many people I live around genuinely complain about Medicare, public transport and social housing being expanded just because they got very slightly higher taxes this year.

Either software engineer or game developer, but both are, just like others have mentioned, more about babysitting AI agents rather than doing the iteration work if actually writing the code.

I guess the career im going into is either some other tech job via an internship or just work for the council government as an urban planner.

A swear jar, it helps me save. /S

Honestly tho, I’ve had the same pair of wired Apple earpods for over a decade and they’re still working perfectly and the cable sheath only has a small cut 5cm of length away from the jack, and that’s with the abuse I gave it when I was younger, like swinging it into the desk or accidentally pulling it by forgetting I had them on.

There were even pop up stores around me that basically sold earpods with official internals but coloured plastics for like $2AUD each, though the store I’ve seen in person closed a few years ago after having been in my local shopping centre for like 3 weeks.

Is this the year of the Linux desktop AI bubble popping?

Nothing would’ve prepared me for that beautiful analogy

Awwwww

Rolled over in bed, yearning to make an earl grey for the glory of the empire!

1337

Instructions unclear, I ate the second one before the first and now I’m levitating

Eh, why not, why shouldn’t I have a 10th deviled egg?

“We’re funding numerous infrastructure projects to finally modernise our infrastructure!”

“WHAT ABOUT POTHOLES!!! ARE YOU ROAD PHOBIC!!! THE RADICAL LEFT HAS DONE IT AGAIN, FUNNELING MONEY INTO CORRUPTION!!!”

Olympus has fallen in my ass

I remember one of my peers from high school dropped out to start gambling his money on the stock market (ASX), and didn’t have any other plans for careers or anything. I wonder how it’s going for him.

I’d say all generations are affected by this.

My dad (gen X) for example, he has tiktok, Instagram and Facebook on his phone and watches YouTube shorts on his tablet. It’s everyday life for him to scroll on these platforms for over 8 hours per day. It’s like he becomes brain-dead every time he comes into contact with a glass sandwich.

For myself (gen Z), I used to scroll Instagram reels for at most 2 hours per day when I was in high school, but now I barely touch it, instead I prefer long form YouTube documentaries and sandbox games. The worst of it is my around 5 minutes or less of YouTube shorts daily and browsing lemmy for around tops 2 hours per day but effectively 1 on average.

I also believe that the stereotyping of gen Z being addicted to everything digital is a bit dubious, since we’ve lived through life as “digital natives” and are likely more able to avoid addiction. The ones I worry about are the older generations, since many fall into the trap of accidentally integrating these addictive services into their routines and get more severe health consequences such as early Alzheimer’s or putting too much faith into LLMs and for example change their medication dosages without actual approval from their doctor, and many other examples.

Reminds me of the chill ass cat I saw on a walk a few days ago. My siblings and I thought it was a stray until the door of the house the cat was outside of opened and the owner sternly told it to come back inside.

Bro was just trying to eat some grass in peace

Or if you’re short enough they won’t see your baldness from the sun reflecting and blinding them

Captain Janeway, is that you?

The DoD, they just had to choose a nice round 25 years since last time. /s

mandatory fun