Solarpunk noooo

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Cake day: June 7th, 2025

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  • I was contributing to SO in 2014-2017 when my job wanted our engineers to be more “visible” online.

    I was in the top 3% and it made me realize how incredibly small the community was. I was probably answering like 5 questions a week. It wasn’t hard. For some perspective, I’m making like 4-5 posts on Lemmy A DAY.

    What made me really pissed was how often a new person would give a really good answer, then some top 1% chucklefuck would literally take that answer, rewrite it, and then have it appear as the top answer. And that happened to me constantly. But again, I didn’t care since I’m just doing this to show my company I’m a “good lil engineer”.

    I stopped participating because of how they treated new users. And around 2020(?), SO made a pledge to be not so douchy and actually allow new users to ask questions. But that 1% chucklefuck crew was still allowed to wave their dicks around and stomp on people’s answers. So yeah, less “Duplicate questions”, more “This has been answered already [link to their own answer that they stole]”.

    So they removed the toxic attitude with asking questions, but not the toxicity when answering. SO still had the most sweaty people control responses, including editing/deleting them. And you can’t grow a community like that.



  • My American healthcare:

    • Its so much more expensive under Trump. It went from $250/month for my family, to now $1100/month.

    • My kid hurt themselves and we were in the urgent care waiting area for 2 hours. Then a professional looked him over, said they’ll be fine, and gave us some expensive pain killer pills.

    • I have to schedule my appointments 4-6 months in advance.

    • I had to get a referral for some health services and after two weeks, they finally had a slot to actually start scheduling the appointment. Then they asked about my insurance and told me that they are out-of-network, and recommended another practice. I now have to wait another few more weeks, just to hopefully be seen.











  • My kid got in a fall and I had to leave work to go to Urgent Care. Three hours for a doctor to give my kid a pain med and a bandaid, and costing us $2k.

    Ive been helping my unemployed ex-teammates find work and stay motivated.

    My wife’s side of the family messed up on their paperwork and because they’re also dark skinned, I’m worried about ICE.

    I took my other kid to the park last week and was called a sexual predator by another mom. Ive been pretending to be okay as the women in my family all blame me for “looking how I look”.

    My cousins have called me twice in the past month concerned about bills, and I’m sending them food money.

    Oh and the Europeans on Lemmy is yelling at me for being an American because I’m not doing enough to stop Trump.