MonkeMischief

American here. I would totally take you up on that hug there, mein bruder. This feels pretty damn awful. :(

I'm still holding out some kinda vague hope for the "final numbers" but...right now I'm not alone in feeling a little lost and confused at what we're about to go through and what the heck life will look like in the near future.

A lot of previous elections felt like empty hype and doomsaying but this one feels like we're gonna feel it immediately.

God help us all.

Also I don't want more Americans moving here.

I have a sad feeling the rest of the world feels the same way.

I'm at the point where I want to leave these borders. I want to go somewhere relatively quiet and developed that has worker's rights and isn't some major turbulent player in the game of global domination.

I'd respect my new home and integrate and do my best to get along with my new neighbors.

But I'm pretty sure we're stuck here to endure this madness.

The rich have already departed though. So you'll probably end up with less humble American refugees and more pompous real-estate moguls. And for that, I'm sorry.

Dammit, Manjaro. Why you gotta be WEIRD?! I used to love their branding, but they keep doing crazy things that would clearly alienate the userbase that's left...

NGL on pretty much any install, I'd end up looking up pros and cons of every filesystem AGAIN...

... It's BTRFS now. Simple. Easy. Lol

But it was a lotta research to reach that conclusion. So yeah I get that newbie apprehension!

An INT-maxxing Druid? :p

To be fair: "For each answer it gives", nah. You can run a model on your home computer even. It might not be so bad if we just had an established model and asked it questions.

The "forest destroying" is really in training those models.

Of course at this point I guess it's just semantics, because as long as it gets used, those companies are gonna be non-stop training those stupid models until they've created a barren wasteland and there's nothing left....

So yeah, overall pretty destructive and it sucks...

Why's this feel like a car-dealership special: Where you negotiate and negotiate and FINALLY they seem to relent...

...but it's still in their favor and they simply shifted the numbers to different variables so you feel like you're getting a fair deal...

Probably because in many cases we can't afford to freakin' move and resettle or sometimes even travel in our own country, so it becomes trivia knowledge instead of practical knowledge lol.

Black Mesa? Ha ha. Fat chance.

Okay yeah this is me too. Ideally I'd start working early, get to shut off at some reasonable time but...

Nope, apparently my "Let's actually do this" brain might kick in around 14:00.

And I wonder why I don't get to have fun anymore. =
I'm considering just stacking boxes somewhere, if it wasn't for commuting. I long for independence but can't seem to manage my own time.

Have fun with that. But last I checked, lots of us don't have the freedom to just migrate across the globe to a region that isn't collapsing and this would spell misery and anguish for countless people across the globe.

(Yes, if the U.S destabilizes, further global power imbalances will follow.)

So giving up and pretending to take the high ground over it isn't exactly in anybody's best interest.

(The US civil war comes to mind)

I mean hey you're right, we're still here...but we'd really REALLY like to prevent a second one of those...From the reviews I've read it wasn't a fun time for pretty much anybody involved.