Hilarious juxtaposition with his latest rant.

confused about that last sentence. in my experience, adding more people to the mix drastically increases the chances of ostracization

the older you get, the more health problems you have, and let me tell you, health problems can make you involuntarily unhappy.

idk, i didn’t realize how people segregate themselves by politics when I signed up. I have lemmy configured not to show instances. It’s all the same to me.

I see solar panels pretty often in the US rural county I live in

One of my favorite books of all time, Evasion, was written by an anonymous person detailing their years-long delinquent protest against capitalism.

They really walked the walk. I’m talking about totally tramping it up. Surviving mostly by dumpster diving and shoplifting. The writing is a perfect blend of practical experience, mundane details, and anarchic romanticism. The book taught me to see all this absurdity as a playground.

Human space exploration seems a bit gratuitous to me. Probes can do almost anything crew can do, and many things that crew cannot. The only thing human space flight seems to do is help us get better at human space flight.

I cared a little bit. Then the astronauts started blathering about the bible.

Damn Small Media Player. Loads instantly. Plays mp3s. Takes up 850 KB on my hard drive and ~15 MB RAM while playing a song in a large playlist. Now that’s what I call software.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/

lets you easily see what old websites and software looked like, often over multiple years.

When I lived alone, I only closed doors for HVAC efficiency. But I prefer to leave them open. (It’s actually better to keep them open if you have central air heating, but I had baseboard heaters)

I don’t see how any utopia could make up for the universes where people are literally tortured their entire lives. Such a multiverse must not be allowed to exist.

Thanks.

Another way to frame “do you feel valued” is “do others find you useful?” I can report with confidence that no landlord or capitalist finds me useful and I take pride in that.

My answer has nothing to do with ai, but… no.

And that’s okay.

There are things worse than being invisible. Like being stuck with a bunch of crackheads, for example.

heart disease

The whole concept of a ‘weak’ passport and a ‘strong’ passport is baffling.

What does it even mean to block as an admin? Wouldn’t that be abdicating your responsibilities?

You are arguing from the rights consumers are supposed to have. Everyone else is arguing from the rights consumers do have. Hope this clears up the confusion for you.