Amos [he/him]

It exists among the skilled trades within the construction industry, where the value of one’s labor is tied to a very tangible and measurable output. High producers are able to command a higher wage because they earn the bosses more money (or they’ll take their skillset elsewhere).

It’s a Garbage Pail Kids gag from 20 years ago.

Darktable

The FOSS alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator have really come a long way in the last 10 years.

Alcohol consumption among millennials is plummeting, and Gen Z never fucked with it much to begin with.

In my experience they straight up don’t know how to engage with you. Typically they get defensive about their own habit after you say “no thanks”.

Wife and I drank casually (but still too much) and stopped last year. We lost weight and our baseline sense of well-being is much higher. Once you get far enough away from drinking, it becomes alarmingly clear that people are straight-up poisoning themselves, and have no idea how to socialize without it.

I’m feeling genuine fear. Need to log off