Do you think there is anything unknown at this point that’d actually make a difference? Even saying Trump could rape a child live on Fox News wouldn’t hurt him is old hat now. I don’t buy into the idea that his voter base and staff will magically grow a conscience in response to…anything. The people opposed to him, is there something that gets them to actually organise and do something about the rot? I’m on the outside looking in so idk.

Reading that, my mind goes to a scene from Honey I’ve Shrunk The Kids when the girl is nearly drowned in mud from the lawn sprinkler system 😅

Morals are subjective, I don’t consider myself the arbiter of truth and I also reject theistic positive claims stating otherwise such as objective morals or free will. Personally I know I can survive without eating animals, so I’d rather not be indirectly involved in the killing of other animals where it is reasonably possible and I don’t consider humans more important/superior to any other animals, generally.

I think you could get a lot of people to even admit to valuing very old trees over a lot of people too so even some plants are worth leaving alone, according to some of us. Like Red Wood giants in Cali, for example. All the land cleared of wildlife to grow food for billions of humans is disturbing stuff at least to me as well. The planet is actually kinda… small. I’ve come to realise. I fully reject humanity’s unearned superiority complex.

I acknowledge it’s hard/impossible to be absolute in the vegetarian ideal given all the ramifications of industrial overpopulation and just casually participating in the society I was born into. Best I can do on this suffering planet, that I never consented to being born to live temporarily upon pointlessly, is to minimize (elimination is unrealistic) the suffering my life inflicts on others.

In other words, I don’t owe anyone jack shit, not even Mommy Dearest. Yet I still stand by this moral position. Although I’d argue this is just who I am and always was. The justications put into words and labels applied came later. You’ll notice I didn’t condemn meat eating in this comment and that’s quite deliberate. You are not me. I just explain my position when asked and it’s up to others to adopt it or not.

Visit Canada where wait staff don’t have a separate minimum wage yet still we have American tip culture.

I can’t remember a year with more rain all at once like this. Farm fields looking dire.

Lazy! CachyOS sets up system snapshots and I could one click install gaming related packages. It’s not much really, I could install regular Arch instead but meh.

6’5" here. Because very few people are noticeably taller than I am, when I meet someone who is it’s a crazy experience especially 7ft+.

I can recall being stun locked by having to look up at someone much taller than me 5 times total in my 35 years alive so far since middle school.

The opposite doesn’t really phase me until I’m physically holding a significant other. Then I’m like holy shit you’re tiny! Dunno why it doesn’t quite register until then.

Pretty low ROI brainrotting a couple thousand people I figure, not worth bothering. Tankies do it for free.

2001: A Space Odyssey

I like behind the scenes footage far more than the movie. I can appreciate how it’s made but I absolutely can’t stand to actually watch the resulting movie.

Well he’s a hyper active poster beyond just comics, so now you get to see his fucking name everywhere.

I was thinking about:

Server costs, vast increase of bad actors and bots, legal scrutiny, international government narrative manipulation. Overall quality drop from LCD majority who aren’t typically early adopters of any new social platform. Stuff like that.

This is your first comment on your new account and you chose to be an asshole. Congratulations.

And suffer all the problems popularity brings.

Nothing, officer. I didn’t see who keyed the car.

Oooh very accurate. There is some “mandatory” signing sheet for reading the monthly safety info but anyone can edit it and most people are incompetent with computers. Took only 2 months for my name to get deleted by somebody and I just…never signed it again. Nobody noticed.

Maybe something intended for weak hardware and older versions of Windows:

https://github.com/win32ss/supermium

A Linux install with something lightweight like XFCE for desktop environment would do better probably.

I think the AUR isn’t possible to keep using as-is so hopefully they come up with some sort of vetting process. Invite system like a private torrent tracker? Idk really.

I try not to use AUR. A few exceptions being the actual program developer maintaining the AUR repo and recommending that method for Arch users on their github page or whatever.

I’m aware of the omissions of 90’s Alberta public education 🤭 Being made to stand for anthem and Christian prayer every morning was also pretty creepy. Special needs were bullied heavily and segregated from general school population. The Eugenics programs had only just ended there in 1990. I didn’t even know about residential camps until it became an international scandal. Embarrassing to find out at the same time as the rest of you.

I’ve been mainly focused on the history of languages, medieval period, and the Canaanites as of late. Indus Valley Civilisation makes the list now. I guess Bill got it wrong, damn. Still a catchy vid.

That’s certainly a historical gap in my education tbh.

I agree about hunter gatherers. I was coming at this from the perspective of when civilisation started “in a dank river valley near you” as Bill Wurtz put it with a few small huts beside the field owner’s bigger stick figure hut :p

Hierarchy was there right from the start so I don’t agree that we were ever on the same page as to why we do anything.