It’s funny, Connor. I used to be demanding of our corporate artists. Change this, do this, don’t do that. But as soon as “AI” came out, I’d let any old dogshit go to print. It turned out that all I wanted the whole time was to be in charge.

it's funny

Time for your regular PSA that cherry coke at freestyles isn’t cherry coke. This is sad.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I think advice as to how to meet more people might need to be more specific “volunteer, get hobbies, go outside, invite people over!”

The volunteering was online, my hobbies are at my house, I’m outside on a bike not talking, and the friends I invite over do not bring extras”

how people do this

Trans men are NOT biological females.

Man there really is an article to be written about the devaluation of expertise and the idolizing of irresponsibility in the modern era

Like it’s a real bummer to be stuck where you’re at the moment. And it makes sense you’re dealing with the grief of having something you love taken away from you for reasons that aren’t in your control. But your identity isn’t what you get paid for, it’s so much bigger.

Ultimately most people have to decide what aspects are most important to them at any given point in their life - and that’s a fluid thing. Right now you’re in one place and have one set of needs, but that will change, and probably frequently over time.

Idk it’s a complex calculus. Jobs aren’t just about fulfillment - there’s the money part (which is impacted by things like health and family needs), the lifestyle part, what you’re good at, what the market needs, what you like. And it’s unfair to expect yourself to be able to meet 100% of all it.

Can be really liberating being able to be a little detached. And then your actual creative output can be entirely your own.

At work the same way I’d approach a themed entertainment design problem.

There’s also a huge benefit to not being in a creative role at a company - you’re not subject to your creative output being limited by the corporate desires or someone else’s decisions. It’s not your monkeys and that

I also do lots of stuff on the side. My job limits my energy for how much of it I can do, which is a bummer, but it’s great to have that outlet. I also channel some of those skills into other tasks - some of my creative energy goes into training programs at work, and I approach problem solving

And there’s lots of places in between. Over time I’ve gotten to a place where I’m not necessarily doing THE thing I wish I was, but I am getting to do it in the industry I want to be in. So idk maybe there’s a way to be in an art industry without having the role of artist.

Meaning and interest often also come from doing the thing or learning more about it. The bulk of what I do every day and have turned into a career isn’t something I initially has much interest in, but the more you learn about it, as long as something about it can tickle your brains needs it helps

I think when your career isn’t your passion it’s absolutely crucial to find ways to exercise that passion outside of it. It’s also really useful if you can to find a job or career you can at least find some meaning or interest in

it’s absolutely great when the thing you love to do most can also be the way you meet your needs. But ultimately that’s a confluence of factors that might sometimes be true and sometimes not. You can still make art an should still do what you love even if it’s not monetarily lucrative for the moment

For most of human history, there’s what people need to do to survive and their identity which might overlap but aren’t directly related. The idea of your career as the thing you need to feel your ultimate fulfillment from and pre-ordained purpose is a modern invention.

Can we have more cross platform games? The Mac hardware is amazing these days, and pretty much most other mainstream software is cross platform. And Apple even has a game porting toolkit. Let’s just do it already. I want to play tiny glade and planet coaster natively

Words literally do not mean the same thing to the different groups. The young group doesn’t think the older groups experience is possible and the older group things what were in is just some sort of temporary bad behavior and not structural.

The capitalism of today after 50+ years of needing to increase quarterly profits, financialization,deregulation is instead ubiquitous in constantly cutting corners, making shit, rent seeking behavior, monopolization, offshoring, and other extractive cynical business practices only focused on winning

I do think one of the factors that plays into the difference between how young people and older people talk about capitalism is older people experienced a capitalism that was largely based on making good products and reasonable profits, emphasizing long term stability

It from time to time occurs to me that as a trans person so many of the things I want cis people get for free, and if they’re even possible at all for me, they costs thousands

But it does have me wondering, do trans people get something for free that cis people would need to spend thousands for?

Also no I would never actually use LinkedIn for this purpose. That would be weird. Which is why is should be a spinoff where people have consented to it.

But idk call me crazy for wanting to know what people are passionate about and do with their lives in addition to knowing what they look like.

But like the dating apps are so bad and useless.

LinkedIn is the only place online that has anything close to that.

And again yes I know this is a terrible idea and half of LinkedIn is insufferable and jobs aren’t all of a person and encouraging the impression of workplace romantic crossover is bad and would lead to harassment .

Like sorry, a handful of photos and 2 quips are just not enough for me to know enough about a person - but jobs, biographies, posts or articles they’ve written about things they actually care and think about - you can get an actual sense of a person.

This is a terrible idea, but I almost feel like LinkedIn should spin off a dating app version of itself.

Like I know in real life it would be insufferable, but you see so much more about who a person actually is and what they do day to day than on actual dating apps that are useless

Also “an orange makes a bad apple” is not terribly insightful.

Look, as a person who works in themed entertainment who has strong opinions, I’m all for intense criticism. But for the love of god do the research so you’re not just out here demonstrating you have no idea what you’re talking about. Ruins the credibility of whatever decent observations you have.