- I just caught myself writing a few paragraphs long comment on [Lobsters](https://lobste.rs) without really understanding what the author of the comment meant in the broader context of the discussion,
after which I deleted my comment and gave myself a pat on the back for avoiding accidentally derailing the discussion.
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- this is an unfortunate side effect of the tree-based structure of Lobsters.
as much as I like tree-based forums, as they let you focus on many different (off-)topics without cluttering the main thread,
- therefore, if you ever find yourself writing an essay about just how wrong someone is, think to yourself: am I _really_ understanding what's going on in this discussion?
+ this is kind of weird, but recently I have noticed I no longer keep up with slang
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- the fuck is a skibidi??
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- maybe this is because I no longer browse memes.
not on our friend circle's private Discord, not on Reddit, pretty much nowhere
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- memes largely arrive to me directly from specific people.
I don't go out to kill boredom with memes anymore.
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- at some point I realized browsing memes adds nothing to my life, and I just stopped doing it.
obviously something had to take their place in killing time, and that became... reading [Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs).
I think that's a net positive since you can genuinely learn a lot from people's writing about computing, but getting time for that required abandoning memes.
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- the realization that I gain nothing by browsing memes is probably what one could call a piece of _wisdom_; life knowledge, stuff that shapes your worldview.
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+ but by gaining more wisdom, I have lost knowledge of popculture
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- not that you can define _popculture_ in today's society that well anyways.
there are so many little corners of culture that it's hard to tell what's popular anymore
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- ...don't tell anyone, but I like it that way.
I can focus on my art and making it unique.
no need to chase trends.
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- even if it means being called an old fart at some point.
- aka how to sound like the most boring software developer ever.
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- I can't count the amount of times I've heard this phrase.
You say it, and it sounds so profound.
So grand.
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- *You. Build. Things.* after all.
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+ but behind those no words is no substance.
You build things, so what?
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- [the film starts, the film ends. nothing is said inbetween.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SILVQpqmH7U){.secret}
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- [humpty dumpty sat on the wall...](https://youtu.be/AIxY_Y9TGWI?t=475)
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- if you're so uncreative as to _only_ be able to say you build things...
yeah you're not very creative are you.
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- liquidex yells at cloud.
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- there's a reason I call myself a programming wizard.
that one word tells you so much more about my nature than "I build things."
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- the wizard part is about wanting to go deeper, to explore every nook and cranny of the software I obsess over.
uncover arcane knowledge few to no people know about.
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- fucking, EVERYBODY builds things in this industry, arrite
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- "I build things" is something literally _every_ creative can say.
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+ by the way here's a funny: <https://godly.website/>
have fun browsing bad UX design xoxo
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- this website feels like it never had a UX designer look at it either.
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- explore the [directory](https://godly.website/directory)---a list of categories, each of which is a link that takes up the entire width of the screen,
so you never have any space to autoscroll with your middle mouse button
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- the fact the categories include boring garbage such as: "Agency", "E-commerce", "Startup", "Development", "Mobile App", "Finance", "SaaS",
and of course the badges on the front page start with "AI" and "Web3" tells you a lot about the creators.
"quality" my ass.
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- this website doesn't even work without JavaScript, even though it's purely static content.
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- look I know treehouse barely works without JS, but _at least you can read it._
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- an entry on this website provoked me to write this.
I don't want to call out the specific one because it would be missing the point.
