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C.Maybe this marks me out as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a> , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/listicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#listicle</a>, I may mute you entirely.It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/EmptyCalories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EmptyCalories</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#information</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InformationSphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InformationSphere</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/JunkFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JunkFood</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/JunkInfo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JunkInfo</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/JunkContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JunkContent</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InformationLite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InformationLite</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PetPeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PetPeeve</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/peeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#peeve</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/grumpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grumpy</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/GrumpyOldMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GrumpyOldMan</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#content</a>

MattBI'm 52 years old, I'm hoping my day job as a developer for an information management company can exist long enough for me to retire.I'm a big time AI pessimist.Organising your information based on some rules, auto categorising it, archival and disposal... even if AI gets some of those things wrong, companies/organisations will still think it's a good deal and cancel contracts, fire juniors. <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/AIRant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIRant</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/NoAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoAI</a>

Jason844Just filled out the ballot for 4 of the 7 so-called non-partisan positions on the local shitty, er, city, council (aka The 7 Dwarves).Yeah, city elections are in the 'off' years.Hard to get good info on these idiots, er, candidates. Voted against 2 of 3 incumbents. Didn't really vote for the 3rd incumbent, the other 2 seemed worse.Hopefully these people will get elected and improve things. But I'm not counting on it...<sigh> 😫 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LocalElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LocalElections</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elections</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

hush404Maybe I'm just getting old... but I prefer my electronic and computing systems to actually turn off. I want them to shut down their OS, go into a mode of simply ready for that power button to start its power up process. Too often these days our computers, TVs, streaming devices, phones, tablets and other tech chooses instead to hibernate or sleep and pretend it turned off. That's not enough, dammit. TURN OFF. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/thoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thoughts</a>

Jason844<gets back to soapbox>Same to the idiots who just started shooting of fireworks!!!!!!!<walks away grumbling> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldPeopleOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldPeopleOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a>

Jason844<comes in off patio> <set up soap box>To all the idiots with loud motorcycles, cars, and trucks: GET A MUFFLER AND/OR JUST SHUT DA FAQ UP!!!Thank you for coming to my TED talk.<walks away grumbling> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldPeopleOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldPeopleOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a>

Jason844It's Sunday, 1038pm PDT. And the usual f***ing idiot is setting off loud fire works. Started with a few in early June. Been hearing more as it get's closure to July 4. And it's from the same direction as in the past 20+ years, so I think it's the same f***ing idiot.Hope they blow their hands off...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldPeopleOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldPeopleOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NotDoing4thOfJuly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotDoing4thOfJuly</a>

Jason844Big news for eastern Washington state! The first Chick-Fil-A has just opened in Kennewick, WA! It's the lead news item, too!Oh. Joy.Now MAGA can get their religiously prepared chicken. Except on Sundays (of course...)Checking Google maps... And it's located right next to Hobby Lobby! All your christian business at one location!🤮🤮🤮 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoycottHobbyLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BoycottHobbyLobby</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BoycottChicFilA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BoycottChicFilA</a>

JamesHave to go home and finish mowing the lawn. Better not be any kids on it when I get there. <a href="https://feistycricket.org/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a>

7fqx<a href="https://coracle.social/topics/curmudgeon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a> lol I quite like him. Never watched the show tho

GogglesYou know when you were a kid and another kid would repeat everything you said? Remember how annoying that was?When on the train, I'd love an app that listens to a nearby passenger's phone conversation and then uses various silly voices to repeat what it hears, with a variable delay for maximum distraction, but cancels it from my headphones.Yes, I am a <a href="https://kind.social/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a>.<a href="https://kind.social/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#app</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#innovation</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/idea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#idea</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/defend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#defend</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/polite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#polite</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/impolite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#impolite</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travel</a>

mtpAt this point in my life, I'd prefer to work through merge conflict markers by hand in a text editor without any sort of fancy GUI or other weird magic presentation.Just show me the damned conflict, and let me work it out as text in the usual way.Your GUI that re-arranges everything in terms of "yours" and "theirs" can die in a fire. I ain't got the energy to keep track of how that shit gets reversed in a rebase versus another flow.<a href="https://proud.social/tags/SWE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SWE</a> <a href="https://proud.social/tags/Git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Git</a> <a href="https://proud.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a>

AllpointsIt's not that I'm too lazy to Google it, it's that googling it has become less efficient than actually interacting with my colleagues for basic questions. Pretty soon the kids will be using their phones to actually speak with each other.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a>

Alison Wilder<a href="https://sunny.garden/@theotherbrook" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@theotherbrook</a> People hear at most 20% of the lyrics of a song. They cherry pick which phrases they notice, then interpret them to mean what they want them to. All without even thinking about it!So yeah, pretty much the same as everything people do everywhere else. People are impressive.<a href="https://io.waxandleather.com/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a>

stoicmike<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/thinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thinker</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/old" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#old</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/foolish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foolish</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a>

inksharkWhen i need a tutorial for a technical task, i don't want to look at a human talking or hear their dumb voice droning on for a 2-3 minute video when i could just silently read the info in 30 seconds. If i desired to be around people, especially to "learn" "things", i would stop having gills and slither back out of this cold, ominously dark pond<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/PostTranscriptsYouAssholes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PostTranscriptsYouAssholes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AncientSlimeBeastUsingTheInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AncientSlimeBeastUsingTheInternet</a>

Jason844Oh joy. I've been adulting. Just made the extortion payment to the state/county/local guberment to get new auto tags. Well, some people call fees and/or taxes, but I prefer the term 'extortion payment.'Will pick them up tomorrow or Thursday.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldPeopleOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldPeopleOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a>

Steven BersonNot digging Bluesky's 250 character limit, Mastodon has a 500 character limit and even that feels too short to me. And I don't like the 1/x, 2/x, etc. dividing of posts either. Trying to get folks to join me at no limits Diaspora or Friendica, oh well. <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23curmudgeon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23socialmedia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a>

Gay CurmudgeonWith Maggie and Vira, preparing to film "Gay Curmudgeon" quotes for next week. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dogs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doglover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doglover</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/doglovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#doglovers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#canines</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pets</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pomeranian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pomeranian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shitzu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shitzu</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jackrussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jackrussell</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#curmudgeon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/equalrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#equalrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gayrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gayrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gayrightsarehumanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gayrightsarehumanrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humanrights</a>

Jason844Oh joy. Just had the first neighborhood firework. It's 358pm PST.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NYE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NYE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curmudgeon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Curmudgeon</a>

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