I used to use CD-Rs for music because it was hit and miss whether a CD player would play a CD-RW or not.

Being a white male doesn’t mean you’ll coast through it. You still have to put in the effort, otherwise you end up like the guy holding the cardboard sign in the back of the grocery store parking lot near my house in 30 degrees F, and it’s not even January yet.

Americans have been getting poorer and poorer for decades, even though it doesn’t appear that way due to influx of cheap goods from the far east, but when you look at the cost of American labor, paying for any good or service that earned Americans a living wage, that’s when you get a true picture of how far your money goes.

Environmentalists not knowing how to react to this headline

When you’re juggling too many interrelated tangents in your brains RAM and start getting cache misses like crazy and go full core dump

Because people have been more and more conditioned to obey year after year. To be absolute pushovers who never fight against the grain, never question groupthink, etc. Grandfathering the criminalization (using violent enforcement) of something like smoking a cigarette is a shining example of what’s to come.

What on earth happened to all the small businesses in my “poor” rural village? Oh right, that pedestrian unfriendly stroad next to the freeway with the Walmart and all the fast food restaurants sucking up the village’s life force happened.

Unless it’s meat synthesized in a lab, it requires the forced breeding, enslavement, abuse, and eventually murder of sentient animals which don’t jive too well with the golden rule.

I personally could give a hoot about it’s negative impacts on environment. Gd bacon memes, humanity can go extinct good riddance

Ah yes, 2023. The year I wore a pirate hat and touched more grass. Soon they’ll be bribing the govt to make going outside illegal.

Was there ever a point? lol

Make your own point fren

Is first pic near the peak district? I may have been there, unless there’s more than one bridge like that

Pleasure from Dopamine release happens after a painful stimulus ends, so it’s not exactly pleasure, but I do find running and cycling enjoyable. Nice time to be in my thoughts, see some natural beauty, feel the sun and wind on my skin, earn a feeling of accomplishment, etc

Genres are for normies

By this logic, is it fair game to eat people who eat animals?

Microsoft wants to move me fully to the Linux

The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic

The universe appears to be zero sum and I try to balance a non-dualistic perspective with a healthy dose of practicality… for now

I hate nobody more than anybody else, I blame nobody more than anybody else. We seem to all be equally victims and perpetrators swimming in this trauma soup.

For many things, I’ve become like a national geographic cameraman observing from the bush, though for now, I will step in and stop human brutality if I see it… I don’t know if I always will.

I’ll continue pondering, and make changes as needed.

Ahh, the fine line between “must cut all contact with the bad people” and “oh, are we an insular cult now?”

Reminder that AdBlock doesn’t block all ads. It blocks ads that hinder usability across the web. Without AdBlock, I simply would never visit 3/4 of the internet.

I think, instead of on/off filtering mechanisms like block, ban, de-federation, NSFW, etc, we should be able to share filtering preferences. Like, an instance curates their own and you can choose to adopt it or not, customize it, etc. Every new user would start out in G-rated land, and could “whitelist” their way to enlightenment.

“Not Safe For Life”

There’s worse things on the net than dodgy porn