I fully acknowledge their existence. I'm sure I most certainly engage into equivalent antisocial behavior in some way or another wherever I most lack awareness, and my sole point is that, for most of us, when we are doing that, we dumb.
Slightly veering OT:
While I get the sore need for a place to vent after being subjected to a customer-facing workday, the website you keep linking to gives me in aggregate the rage farming vibes that are as prone to distort everyday reality as blind naïveté could be.
There's a minority of people wealthy enough to grease everything with money or really powerful connections. In a conversation involving people doing their own shopping and eating at places where you are presumed to take your tray to the bin I wasn't even thinking about them.
Those who lack that surplus wealth are "leaving money on the table", so to speak, by not caring about others. That's dumb.
And her pedigree or whatever gave her those aristocratic ways didn't save her from mild ostracism at the end of the story, so... That's social capital she left on the table. That's also kinda dumb even if she had enough money/power to enable god mode. It's even dumber if she didn't have it.
> I've read far too many stories of people who don't clean up after themselves at a store or restaurant, justified by "no need - they pay someone to do this" or even "it's a good thing I do this otherwise you wouldn't have a job" to know it's simply intellectual ability.
That they can barely articulate a verbalized post-hoc rationalization* for that kind of behavior doesn't prevent them from lacking the minimum processing power needed to achieve awareness of how they are leaving ungreased the machinery of the commons. Into which they will keep being embedded, pulling levers left and right all day long.
Even a moderately zero-sum minded sociopath can be aware of the perks of investing a modicum of well-placed niceness; if for no other reason, just to avoid losing social capital.
* And probably a memetic one, hardly an original thought.
It'd be interesting to get a new CEO that gets organically exposed to the same corner-cases roulette you play on a MBP with an actual second screen attached. After more than a decade of straying from the happy path I gave up and was bullied into clamshell mode for my own sanity.
They seem to be able to more easily acquire flags of convenience from further away, and optionally some kind of nominal insurance from different providers likely to pass muster at a first glance (I have zero maritime expertise and just wanted to add some supplementary context to the parent of your post).
A problem created for absolutely no reason by a bunch of idiots[1] playing world police under obviously false pretenses for the benefit of absolutely no one of their constituents. They played with the thermostat, left things hot and some unrepentantly notorious twat[2] is still hungry and ready for seconds.
Tech and the occupation of Palestinian territories have enough overlap to warrant organic self-interested flagging, and that isn't even accounting for any coordinated or state-sponsored activity.
Most people don't like seeing their employment, the stock they hold or their retirement plans stained by this kind of shit hitting the fan. It's one thing to let some token CEO boogeyman catch some flak every now and then, and another thing to be made aware of your own complicity by holding MSFT or HPQ or whatever.
> My eyes seems to defocus, and it becomes harder to make out letters.
I don't understand the inner workings, but I get the impression that there is some fuckery going on when keeping the same distance to the screen and heavily diminishing the amount of light reaching the eyes. There may be a threshold (varying among individuals) beyond which the pupils become too open to clearly focus on the text.
I have a slight photosensitivity and most outdoors daylight conditions are too much for my naked eyes, but many dark UIs are too high or too low contrast and feel worse for extensive reading than their light counterparts in a screen matched to a moderately illuminated room (and this also also includes changing screen settings to match environment light conditions when switching between light/dark themes, not just trying with the same settings).
This leads to a life where my screens are stoically dimmed way past their sweet spot most of the time. Colors suck a bit, but at least I can always focus on light UIs without strain and it avoids text persistence (burn-in) in the eye.
Lately I'm trying GitHub Dark (not Dark Default) in VSCode for dim environments at night; it's the lesser offender while retaining some legibility/contrast. Dark Discord seems bearable for a while, too.