I sat there for 5 minutes reading them and then I tried to type something, and realized I couldn't think of a single thing. Just a bad day. I love that you made this, though. It's inspiring.

When it comes to what the OP was talking about... those of us who are conflict-averse and can't get ourselves to make dozens of unanswered phone calls, are we just shit out of luck if we get into that situation? As much as I hate it now if it involves disputing a mistaken Amazon purchase, I imagine I would just give up if I were already suffering. Is handling bureaucratic gatekeeping the only way to get care, outside a top tier cancer center, in your opinion? My dad's got some money, he's got private insurance. I want to say that if I were him I would have hired an advocate of some sort, to process all of this. I don't even know if a thing like that exists.

But the website itself is awful. I mean, it's impossible on desktop or mobile to tell what buttons are active or disabled. There is basically no UI at all to tell you what you're dealing with or what you get if you unlock it by signing up.

And I'd say I appreciate the raw simplicity of the dark mode interface, except it also looks like it's LLM-generated, even if it's not.

So, I'm not sure what the gains were here, really. I like the hand-written approach, but wish it had some sort of personality. And not to be a debbie downer, but the purpose of this site is also to entice some long tail of small game developers to pay to feature their games with influencers on youtube, twitch, etc. which, as a business model, fine, parasitic but fine, but maybe the most depressing thing I've seen all year even in the middle of the death of most of the industry. On top of that, you're making people pay to sell dead games to dead-eyed streamers on a site that looks like a fucking mortuary. At a glance, there are even more influencers dying to get paid on this site than there are shitty AI slop games going out now; and I don't even know who's playing them; so zayt gezunt to everyone involved.

The best thing about this is that it was written in C, without AI. Ostensibly. Everything else about it makes me want to shoot myself.

My art director critique: make some fucking bright pink rollovers on the buttons or something. At least. Add a stupid pink polar bear as a mascot. Don't make me feel like I'm selling my soul to satan by signing up for it.

edit I'm still confused by which assets were compiled into the C .exe. Are there assets?

Not sure what to make of your note about transgenderism... I think that gender, sexuality, race, religion, ethnicity, borders, abortion, and inequality have all been deployed as boogeymen by parties on both the right and left to scare people into voting one way or another.

You helped me clarify my thinking in one way, though: "Divide and conquer", which has been a theme in this thread, implies that both left and right parties are working together simply to confuse the populace. Or to put it more plainly, "divide and rule" implies that there must be a conspiracy in which the people doing the ruling don't give a damn either way; they only use social and economic issues to keep people divided to prevent an uprising.

I don't really think that's how it works, and to tell you the truth, I think that believing in that sort of thing is not just juvenile and historically illiterate, it's actually harmful to a well-functioning society. And I'm seeing it all over the place, even just implicitly in half the comments in this thread. That's not how the world works. Fascists and socialists and centrists don't actually get together with industrialists and arms manufacturers and oil producers to think up things like "how can we distract the genpop with transgender stuff while we pump the atmosphere full of more carbon." The world is a much more complicated and subtle place; many actors are on the stage, each with their own agenda, and no one is pulling all the strings behind the curtain. In fact, that's what's even more terrifying than a cabal of sociopaths: No one is in control, no one at all. The train has no brakes; the ship is burning, but there is no captain; sixteen people are fighting for control in the cockpit of the plane. That's why I don't like those kinds of reductive assessments.

>> @mgol94 Capital owners always want to split the workers to more and more groups so it’s easier to antagonize and manage them

>> @nkmnz Communists always want to de-individualize humans into a single group with a coherent identity so it's easier to ideologize and agitate them.

And I don't disagree with either of them per se, on the merits, but I see in both of them a major flaw in the way the point is argued.

Surely there can be no counterargument to your final analysis of the pointlessness, the end of life.

I'd posit something different that you might sleep on: That your existence is worthwhile and, in fact, unique once and only once in all the history of the universe. That your ability to observe phenomena actually solidifies and collapses indeterminate waveforms. That you're living in the one and only terrarium that we know of, and belong to the most intelligent species that we know of, and that you therefore:

Have an obligation to the universe be worth more than what you're saying you believe in the prior statement. Of course, you can be whatever you want to be, and if that's merely believing that the smartest-sounding thing to say in a chat forum is that we're all meaningless and that the earth will be swallowed by the sun in a few billion years, then have at it; you're no doubt still a credit to your species for realizing things like that. Dogs, for instance, have no idea. But still, it's very disappointing. I mean, you have a vast number of upvotes on HN. Surely you must have something more interesting to impart about Life, the Universe and Everything? Even if it's just about fish?

>> Capital owners always want to split the workers to more and more groups so it’s easier to antagonize and manage them

First of all, is that a profound left-wing critique of capitalism?

Secondly, I've read Orwell extensively. I don't think he would have had much truck with a troll posting Animal Farm style slogans.

There is a vast darkness, eons of empty space around us, and no other known life in the universe.

Every lizard is special. Every crab and spider and snail is special. Every person is especially special.

Your attitude about that is, let's say, demented as a result of hating your own species and your inability to love yourself or the people around you, or even the people you hate.

But I have to argue with you about one thing: Everyone is special.

Nothing about code is not blue collar if you actually code for a living. Unless you have visions of grandeur. And the truth is, no founder actually codes for very long. They never did. The managers and the business school graduates don't, either. Their job is to fool people into giving them money, and tell other people what to do; not to know how to make anything. They're white collar; they're parasites.

Three decades of those dumb fucks have gone by, plus the wave of idiots trading NFTs, plus the wave of idiots using AI. Craft code, use your brain, make it right, and it will be a representation of your thought process. In the service of a business. And it is a good job, and it is a blue collar job. Because to the business you're working for? If you're doing your job right, you're a plumber, or a general contractor.

TL;DR, coding has always been a blue collar job, to those who code as mechanics to make and fix things. But long live us: We make things, and the business class is basically helpless without us. LLMs or not; they're pathetically incapable of doing anything technical for themselves.

We see this coming, and we intend to survive and have nothing to lose...