How do you do, fellow kids? You gettin’ indoctrinated on the world wide web? Radical!
Come on down to your local Burger Baron restaurant, rated the #1 pizza in Onoway, BC! First established in Edmonton, Alberta…is one claim amongst many!
The latest puzzle: what the viroids doin’ in our guts? Nobody knows, we are only just realised they are widespread and not exclusive to flowers or whatever Anton told me. Tiny simple RNA smudges that are too simple to even qualify as a virus.
I feel like they’re as close to abiogenesis as we’ll ever get, with these living fossils.
I don’t think the increase in death and maiming injuries bothers this voting base.
Paper route at 10 years old until I was 14 or so. I bought a PS2 and my first computer with that money.
Then I worked part time at a pizza joint until I was 19, just as a cook. I sometimes did opening shifts on weekends but not often. By Grade 11 / 17 years old I only attended high school until lunch break for my last two years there (I exploited a few specific classes, had 52 out of 100 credits in my first year alone) and then started work by noon and working until 7pm. A lot of my friends worked there too so they’d do 4pm - 7pm after school, just the supper rush.
If you think about it for 3 seconds the story falls apart yeah. That’s no fun. Door Dash would blacklist as soon as the ex complained.
But if nobody complained and the lemons are getting paid for, I wonder if anyone would try to stop you doing this 7.5 times a day and how long it’d take.
No, 7G only gets rid of the human superiority complex.
https://michieldb.nl/other/cursors/
These are also available on KDE when you click the get more button or whatever it’s called (I’m not at home) in System Settings.
A preview of a few but open the website, they’re animated. Plus there’s multiple styles and dark modes.
Do you actually want to? My ability to maintain online friends or even a desire to bother faded with age.
I hate to say Discord but…Discord. If I wanted to make online friends I’d jump in a local over 30’s channel in my own city, or a wider net via a co-op game group seeking channel. Emulation communities were my past haunts. Use your imagination from there I’m sure there’s someone catering to your specific online hobbies out there.
I still occasionally talk to the small community chat members on https://goontu.be/ which is run by some SomethingAwful forum members. People submit videos and it’s a watch party. It could turn into something more, I see the opportunities, I just don’t want to anymore but my point is you could.
Tldr: seek out small tribes. Too much noise on corpa social media. Too big.
If you’re serious then possibly I have advice for once and I’ll risk yapping for a minute but I’ll spoiler because most people find such points of view offensive.
I would support that decision. If you go through with sterilisation then allow yourself to check out, please. In my view this is opting out of the racing part of the human race, it’s no longer your problem. Word filter the internet. There’s browser extensions for this, I don’t just mean fediverse. It’s comment sections that get me upset faster than the articles themselves too I’ve learned. I set up an RSS feed instead for my downer days. I want to stay in the loop but not too much. I turn the filters on and off depending on my mood but cold turkey for a while is best practice when you’re just starting out. I’m no longer emotionally involved so it hurts less now to read the nasty stuff. It didn’t at first, not an immediate internal change.
The future isn’t your problem to solve, not that it ever was solvable to begin with. There’s no ultimate goal to begin with. No satisfactory answer. The void is silent on all matters. This is why I turned to Absurdism. It’s the cruel mindless nature of life at play on a finite planet that’s not usually pleasant to live on in this very hostile universe. Mindless evolution for the sake of it. It’s just chemistry, entropy gone wild. Humans are not an exception as much as they love to tell themselves they are to prevent going mad in unhealthy ways. Unfortunately, most humans opt for unhealthy ways. Religion is a big one.
Even if humans were perfect little angels, it won’t stop the Sun from becoming a Red Giant and eventually a white dwarf. There is no end goal besides obliteration. Legacy is meaningless. There will be one very alien to us day where not a single living thing is left to remember what happened here, the good and the bad. No matter how it plays out. Personally, that brings me comfort. In a sci fi future where we escape the Sun? Universal heat death is still in play. There’s no escaping extinction. It’s a matter of when, not if. Frankly, I think I’m being rather optimistic we make it long enough for the Sun to get too intense. I think we’ll be long gone before the oceans boil and evaporate into space.
People worry these views would make me a selfish monster but it doesn’t work like that. We have too much empathy, I hazard to guess. That can’t be avoided or ignored. Not in a healthy way. Remains no matter what we do. That’s the whole problem that is paining us here to begin with OP, no? That’s what I meant by “like-minded” so if not then this whole screed is a waste of your time.
If you adopt some of these views I promise you’ll still mostly act the same, vote the same ways. You can volunteer. Have hobbies, love someones. Whatever makes you a little happier. There’s no reason for us to pull the ladder up behind us but we don’t have to personally hold it in place either against a sea of unending assholes. Throughout history nothing good lasts very long. Someone will come along and fuck it all up.
Capitalism, fascism, whatever man. You make an anarchist utopia? Fully atheist? Some humans will come along and absolutely ruin any system you stand for. Or the fucking planet itself will. Or a space rock, or the Sun farts and fries all electronics on one side of the Earth, the poles flip, whatever. This is a constant back and forth fight throughout all of bloody not just human history.
Unlucky we were born in a decline era. Make the most of it but also make peace with the fact our quality of life will slowly or rapidly diminish until we die or get killed and rest easy knowing you won’t inflict this living hell on a new mortal human life which would end the same way no matter what their life was like: in their total obliteration. The same as you and I, no matter what internally dishonest cowards tell themselves and us about after-lives and various contradictory gods with not a sungke solitary shred of evidence to back them up.
There’s no point “rising up” prematurely either. Until the rest of these idiots around us get on board and they won’t yet. Still too comfortable and naive. When something realistically worth participating in shows up you and I could aid then, if only to try and make our own remaining years alive less awful.
“Rise up!” shouted everyone, not really knowing how and vehemently disagreeing with each other on the goals.
Idk man I’m just not having kids.
Conservatives around me still like her, and why would that be shocking? She represents them.
https://338canada.com/alberta/
This isn’t hurting their polling very much yet if it ever will.
Oh intelligent and educated people have less stupid beliefs without evidence to back them up on average? Huh.
Oh, and I’m supposed to respect magical thinking of ignorantscand cowards as if it were equal to science? Huh.
I think this head cold is wrapping up after 9 fucking days. Just in time to go back to work, hooray.
I’ve got a family reunion coming up and my mother decided to host this time. Probably…no, for sure it’ll be the last time her siblings will all be alive for one since she’s the youngest of 8. I’m secretly feeling out of place and pointless in my participation. Everyone in my extended family lives nowhere near us and I haven’t maintained contact at all. Nobody cared to after I deleted Facebook in 2013. I’m feeling rather conflicted but will still show up because I don’t want to make my mother sad.
That’s so no matter how much knowledge we gain we can never escape the bad place to kill the Demiurge.
Sweet, I use them for my domain name. If Runbox ever dies I’d move email over too.
You know something I don’t!
Sure I see it the same way as you but that’s just local to us in our own time. Looking at global history outside of the sanitized lie by omission lessons taught by the school system reveals we’ve always been pretty monstrous throughout all of written history. The only thing that I can’t figure out is how things are ever allowed the breathing room to temporarily improve in the first place.
Capping does nothing, neither does vsync at the moment. You can see ProtonDB which confirms this is true.
It’ll run a little better if you turn graphics down to medium/low but there’s still some microstutter even then. Gotta wait for updates.
Figure out why you feel compelled to constantly look first because there’s a variety of reasons why we can be stuck in a rut. Mine was indoctrinated into me. 1990’s school and family taught me to feel shame for not keeping up with current events. My dad seemed to think it was his duty to watch cable news.
Your reason(s) could be different. I had to learn that disconnecting isn’t shameful and isn’t actually harmful. I’m a peasant with very minority progressive points of view in Alberta. I can’t really affect very much at all with knowledge not even through voting under a FPTP system. Nothing peaceful anyways and anything else is taboo still since things haven’t declined far enough yet. If my mood is particularly sour, I can disconnect entirely up until I have to make a potentially important decision. Then, I already know where to go looking to get caught up on relevant information immediately. You would too, I’m sure you’re well practiced.
I replaced corporate algorithms and content aggregators with RSS feeds for news. I replaced short form video content with nothing since I don’t think there’s a healthy form of it. I lost word of mouth information especially when it comes to entertainment and local activist information. That’s replaced with email newsletters. Took a lot of time to set up but I feel locally connected in a healthier way now.
I word filter Fediverse. Not always, just when I feel burn out. I can with this instance or I could use an app for Lemmy based instances lacking the feature. I have a separate browser extension called FilterBubble for platform agnostic filtering. Again, I toggle my lists on and off depending on my mood. I don’t sub to too many meme or news communities here, peace of mind. My RSS feeds are higher quality and match my tastes. I really don’t need to see anything posted by media owned by American billionaires or Post Media. Stuff like that.