Bruh 💀

Because more money buys you more time.

If you got 7 hours and 500 bucks, you’ve got 7 hours.

Why? Because you’ve paid people to take care of all your chores.

If you’ve got 7 hours and 0 bucks, you’ve got 0 hours.

Why? Well you’re taking the bus to the discount grocery store, you’re doing your laundry, cooking your meals, you’re commuting 1.5 hours each way on broken trains to work and pay £20 for the privilege, you’re looking for new jobs because you think you’ll be fired, and then you won’t be able to make rent, you’re doing 1-way AI-led recorded video job interviews and pumping out cover letters and CVs for job applications, yet never heard back, you’re comparing payday loans to pay for heat, you’re listening out for debt collectors, you’re chasing up your GP for that blood test result from 6 months ago you never got, you’re trying to find a cheaper place, you’re doom scrolling your bank account balance, wondering whether you can cut down on something, anything, maybe a thicker jumper to sleep in during the winter.

At the end of the day, you might have a few minutes to kiss your partner, or apologize to a friend you still haven’t got back to for weeks, and not much else.

So yes, most people cannot afford hobbies. The only thing people can risk it on is something that promises lots of money and an escape from misery, and it’s almost always a grift.

Now there’s no such thing as a hobby coder, it confuses the average person that someone could, as an adult, just make an app for them and their friends, as just a fun thing, as art, as expression or project or whatever.

It is only a thing you either grind for to make money through and pay your dues to the tutorial grifter culture promising big bucks selling endless courses on YouTube by people who are suspiciously not themselves employed as software engineers, or you don’t do it at all.

Noooo, 20 years ago was the 80s!! /s

Still considered a child in America at 21 I think so there’s a that

Wild. I’m not American but I don’t think watching movies and shows is an exclusively American thing.

Well, welcome to the world Gen Alpha, it’s a bit shit.

Final Destination? Darn I didn’t know this place had underage people in it.

Either way though check 1, 2 and 3 out, they’re not high brow masterpieces or anything, but decent 2000s blockbusters, especially if you’re someone that goes on or around planes, rollercoasters and subways a lot and makes regular visits to the dentist.

It’s not really about hours alone.

In the UK the average salary (no data on median) in 1980 was ~£6000, but average house price was £23000, or 3.8x the salary. This is during a recession.

In 2024 the median salary is ~£34000, but the average house price in the last 12 months is £299000, or 8.7x the salary.

And that’s just housing. Everything else is more expensive too. And you need more things to participate in society.

The country is FUBAR’d by neoliberalism and austerity policies. The houses that go for millions are barely fit for a dog shed, rotten through and through with mold, filled asbestos, insulation that kills you with gas when it burns, and boy will it burn once the boiler older than the 5 day work week finally explodes.

Almost no young people, few as they may be, have any interest in anything beyond making it to the top 1% and why would they? For them CompSci was a grift, and FOSS is just how you get something in your resume. So maintainers get defensive, and well meaning but less apt coders get discouraged too.

For our generation it doesn’t matter if you know git and vim, or only meth and hopelessness, you live in the slums same as everyone. I’m in the top 20% of earners and I couldn’t really even justify a big mac as a treat nevermind spending time on passions.

First time I ever girlmoded was to ‘Paralytic States’ about 10 years back, 6 months into HRT.

It was at school, the last week I’d ever be there. People was in shock whispering all sorts of nasty shit, others looked with bemusement, but I didn’t give a fuck anymore I’ve been through hell up to that point. Now just this year I had SRS on the NHS at last, my journey’s done. All that’s left is to change name now and get citizenship.

The opening setpieces were always so well done in those first three movies

The way I knew it in the UK is:

AC - singular air conditioner

AC’s - air conditioner’s [something]

ACs - multiple air conditioners

A natural next step is to make a Steam Deck Mini of some sort once the compat is good enough for at least a hundred games or so.

Oh no I totally understand that I’m privileged as all hell.

That said I also learned a helluva lot more outside of my degree during said degree and after.

Formal teaching is really like YouTube and it’s meant to introduce you to what you don’t know more than anything, and as I said that’s a good thing as an introduction, but the vast majority of content is written, and you learn far more from it.

Too expensive for what it is, no £1k or so for the game with all DLC? Bit of a ripoff. Even DCS is cheaper.

I have a BSc in CompSci and an MSc in Cybersec & Dig. Forensics and I’m actively employed as a mid level engineer in the field on a fully employer-sponsored Skilled Worker Visa, doing everything from vulnerability management and triage to GRC for ISO27001 to advising product and engineering teams on implementation details for best practices and compliance for a multinational org to DR&BC tabletops etc etc. I think this counts as IT.

Perhaps even more impressively though: I use Vim btw (to program in C).

I am not necessarily trying to brag very much, only to establish my own perspective, I don’t consider myself particularly talented or intelligent or successful - otherwise I’d have gone into research, but I am currently (and kinda always) studying to improve my skills and stay up to date.

Just recently I decided to take a look into pentesting to learn the l33t side of things more as my education only ever briefly touched on it, I started in August as something to keep my brain sane during studies for the settlement visa (Life in the UK) test, and I’ve made it to Hacker Rank on HackTheBox a week ago or so. I think I watched a grand total of one Ippsec video, the rest of everything I read.

I don’t know where you got the “game show hosts” from my comment, and I’m not aware of this if it exists as some broader trend. I don’t see YouTube shorts it’s all long blocked for me since release haha.

Yes YT tutorials and whatnot are good, but they are only good as broad introductions to a topic, personal opinions, or a particular historical narrative (Dr.Chuck on C’s history for instance). Those are few good nuggets between an endless sea of scams selling you a course or some other grift.

At a certain point you should start going a bit more in depth and reading - actively engaging with the material, move beyond simply knowing or purely copying and pasting terminal commands and understand why things work the way they do.

You don’t become an electrical engineer or something by watching electroboom, you learn what it’s about yes, but the rest you learn by reading and making, even basic arduino/breadboard projects will teach you more.

The best thing about YouTube is how good it is as background noise.

This is the way. Let those content creators sucking up your time be the background noise they were always meant to be.

Or just call them Content creators, recognize they don’t really produce value for anyone but YT’s grab on the attention economy and start living in the real world.

Show women/men sounds like a 70s porno “medical” exploitation film

Bruh that dude is a CONTENT CREATOR, not a filmmaker 😂🤣🤣

His internet videos are colourful animations meant to serve ads while capturing attention and summarizing Wikipedia articles giving some thoughts on them, and I love them, but it’s called content for a reason.

Bruh like I’ll give em any money

Wild to see the BBC report on this. To me they and other British media are just as culpable in what happened with Brianna as the Georgian government is in this.

It’s the obscure ones I’m more worried about. I got a wilga off of simplaza and it’s like the most fun I had in the game since it came out

Are any of the stock msfs planes good these days? I remember the A310 was alright, but not even A32NX or inibuilds A300 level.