You live in a fantasy invented by your own propaganda. I don’t even know how you’d measure what you’re saying at a mass scale, much less notice it while living in a country. “Oh man, if we were in a capitalist country, Jim would have invented a new form of sliced bread, but alas we are unmotivated by our available housing and food.”
there is nothing I could possibly do that would alter how much it affects me unless I suddenly got a lot wealthier
Congrats on your Bush era islamaphobia you ghoul
I mean, that is a possible thing for your e-mail admin to do. They just generally don’t.
I’m going to take this in an incredible dark direction and say That’s Just the Way That I Feel by Purple Mountains. This record is essentially a suicide note for artist David Berman, who killed himself shortly after it released.
It’s more sad rather than angry at the world, but the poetic lyrics just tear me apart:
Course I've been humbled by the void
Much of my faith has been destroyed
I've been forced to watch my foes enjoy
Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude
And as the pace of life keeps quickening
Beneath the *removed* and the bickering
When I try to drown my thoughts in gin
I find my worst ideas know how to swim
Yoku’s Island Express. Before playing it, I didn’t like pinball or search-action games (metroidvanias). I ended up loving it. I still don’t really enjoy pinball on its own, but I now have a deep love for search-action.
I think it’s because Apple has a “fandom”, whereas when’s the last time you heard someone being a weird fan of Microsoft outside of Xbox? It just doesn’t really exist. The people with Apple devices are often “fans” of Apple, not simply people who bought a product. I think it’s that simple.
because they gave me a license anyways
I think the people who already really like Apple would be okay with it and find a million reasons to justify it. I don’t think that’s a good thing.
The new album rules. My favorite of the year so far.
LOUD BARK DEEP BITE
Create and contribute to open source projects.
Write music.
Make little video games.
Write short stories.
Learn a new language.
Basically, a lot of stuff I already do as a hobby, but I would have more time/energy to devote
It’s absolutely possible and there are several studies on the subject going back to 2020. Probably a part of why people are getting sick with things like RSV more regularly too.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72718-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01113-x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47720-8 (this one’s a study about LC patients immune dysfunction improving over 8 months)
for the purposes of this survey, Dippy is 100% a tankie. Read it in their own words:
Unfortunately one of the problems with tankies is they don’t call themselves that most of the time.
No I’m not [a tankie].
Dippy’s a tankie, you heard it here first. This person loves crushing people with tanks. This person is an authoritarian monster that crushes people with tanks. Dippy’s actually the tank driver in the tank man photo. Don’t look up the video, Dippy 100% crushed that dude. Any video showing tankman walk away is an AI fabrication.
A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself.
I used Ubuntu for a long time, because it was easy to use and I wasn’t really a power user on linux (was just using it on a cheap laptop for classes a long time ago). When I built a server for myself recently, I didn’t really explore distros and plopped Ubuntu on it.
More recently, I got a new laptop and ended up installing Fedora on it. So far, I like Fedora a lot. I know there’s probably a better distro out there for me, but this one worked without fiddling and I’m liking it a lot more than Ubuntu. Ubuntu snaps kinda screwed my server for a year or so. I need to replace Ubuntu on that soon, I’m just not looking forward to dealing with that so it silently stays Ubuntu.
Probably Contact. I cried at the line:
“They should have sent a poet.”
Andre 3000 making a flute album was unexpected and I wasn’t even in a coma for 20 years. It’s good
that’s right
Babylon 5 did an incredible job showing how fascism can slowly take power. Great show.