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@ShadowJonathan This is rather like those code libraries or repositories I hear about sometimes, where half the internet is built on this thing, and it's just one person in obscurity, obsessively keeping it updated, in their own time, with no compensation or recognition.
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@ShadowJonathan I had one friend who bought a headlight polishing kit and he honestly went around and cleaned up all of his neighbors' old headlights. I believe this is absolutely true.
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@ShadowJonathan I feel this in my soul. If I didn't need to work for a living every computer in a 30 block radius would be fixed and kids would have free coding lessons.
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@ShadowJonathan this is so fucking true. Source: am one of those freaks
@ArcMother me 2!!!
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Walking out of the bathroom at a house party and going up to the host to say "you know how the handle on your toilet jiggled a bit and needed to be held in just the right way to flush? It's fixed now." is one of my favorite things.
@gbargoud @ShadowJonathan I've found my people!!!
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@ShadowJonathan We don’t have such system yet because for each million of freaks there’s a billion of normies who will abuse & scam the shit out of it
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Walking out of the bathroom at a house party and going up to the host to say "you know how the handle on your toilet jiggled a bit and needed to be held in just the right way to flush? It's fixed now." is one of my favorite things.
@gbargoud @ShadowJonathan I would replace so many flappers!
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@ShadowJonathan I 100% would go door to door updating OpenStreetMap fulltime if I could afford to, socioeconomically.
This obsession spawned out of maps not updating fast enough in Portland 20 years ago to reliably run a courier service and kinda getting screwed by that, ultimately leading me to learn about and start contributing to OpenStreetMap just to have accurate navigation in a city that was changing the street grid daily.
@BalooUriza @ShadowJonathan Thank you for your service! :3
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@ShadowJonathan Not only that, but a lot of what people have to do to pay the bills is actively harmful. Imagine if all the people doing cold calls all day could just stay home and play PlayStation. Everybody wins!
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@ShadowJonathan I love Post 10!
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I would voluntarily organize, sort, alphabetize anything and everything.
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@ShadowJonathan we need #ubi
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@ShadowJonathan We don’t have such system yet because for each million of freaks there’s a billion of normies who will abuse & scam the shit out of it
@d_olex @ShadowJonathan booooooo you're the reason we have a billion slaves and a million unhappy workers rather than a million fully realized people and a billion moochers. BOOOOOO
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Feeling seen here.
Turning off TV's lazy-ass 'fitness' freaks leave blathering from idle machines at the gym.
Snowshoeing popular dog walks through the local park after a fresh sky drop.
Doing computer shit for pals who hate them.
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@d_olex @ShadowJonathan booooooo you're the reason we have a billion slaves and a million unhappy workers rather than a million fully realized people and a billion moochers. BOOOOOO
@municipaladhesives @ShadowJonathan Sure I am, there’s no way to have sustainable society with 1/1000 proportion of decent people to moochers
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@municipaladhesives @ShadowJonathan Sure I am, there’s no way to have sustainable society with 1/1000 proportion of decent people to moochers
@d_olex @municipaladhesives @ShadowJonathan an official assessment from a qualified psychologist certifying the freaks as fully qualified, would reduce the moochers
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@ShadowJonathan In fact, there are guys who will go around obsessively fixing every clogged heating pipe in a 10-mile radius out of spite against the system that tries to stop them.
@raganwald @ShadowJonathan I *loved* that movie
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@ShadowJonathan I've had someone show up in my mentions with an encyclopaedic knowledge of fountain pen restoration and repair, help me successfully nurse a vintage fountain pen back to life and then promptly disappearing into the ether, this is the sort of thing we are missing out on.
@Owlor I feel so called out by this thread.
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Obsessive weirdos with extremely niche special interests MUST BE SPONSORED.
Who ELSE is going to do that work, if not the person who was born to do it?
There are enough people, and enough resources. There is no excuse not to do this.
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@ShadowJonathan Not only that, but a lot of what people have to do to pay the bills is actively harmful. Imagine if all the people doing cold calls all day could just stay home and play PlayStation. Everybody wins!
David Graeber wrote a book about this, called "Bullshit Jobs"
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