{"id":438,"date":"2022-03-07T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/?p=438"},"modified":"2023-06-08T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:19:07","slug":"bitterness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/2022\/03\/07\/bitterness\/","title":{"rendered":"bitterness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many years ago I saw a comment on Slashdot that just exuded raw bitterness.  It was so good that I had to save it.  Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t find the actual comment anymore for the citation, but here is what it said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As someone for whom the precipice of middle age is steps away, it doesn&#8217;t bother me if something I create becomes smarter than me, surpasses me and even sidelines me in the future. I will toil away the rest of my life working for The Man doing trivial things on a game I never wanted to play, for people I wouldn&#8217;t piss on should they catch fire, to further goals I don&#8217;t agree with.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">edit:  <a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=6271801&amp;cid=48507105\">Found it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago I saw a comment on Slashdot that just exuded raw bitterness. It was so good that I had to save it. Unfortunately, I can&#8217;t find the actual comment anymore for the citation, but here is what it said: As someone for whom the precipice of middle age is steps away, it doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tGEc-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}