You’re a kid now, you’re squid now.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Bullshit.

And the fact that she comes back after the vet indicates that she’s willing to make that trade off.

I think it’s more that they see Trump as a confirmation of their world view.

They feel scared and threatened, they seek evidence to confirm their feelings, and Trump provides them with the reassuring narrative that affirms their world view.

If people could get help dealing with the things that they’re actually afraid of struggling with they wouldn’t be as engaged with fear mongering.

You can always check a clock.

I understand what it feels like to think you don’t deserve anything good, but please be open to the idea that you could be wrong.

Maybe it’s not as important to get what you think you deserve. Another way of thinking about it is relearning to accept and reject the things that are given to you.

I believe in you.

What gives you the right to determine what you “deserve”?

Satisfying game design tbh.

Apologize while you still can. Gets harder to let go of after they pass.

But isn’t it easier if I just ignore the nuance of economics and just place all the blame for my unhappiness on corporate greed?

I think it’d also be interesting to see the total production cost of each Mario Kart, and a total sales/revenue generated by each game.

You can’t make it the “year of the Linux desktop” for anyone but yourself.

Wide implementation of this technique would certainly explain why anxious/nervous people would have fewer friends.

Considering how many people are already walking around with smartphones, isn’t the hypothetical “no privacy” future you’re scared of already here?

I know people are going to hate me for saying this, but based on your stated priorities recommend getting a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. As much as I love ricing Linux and playing games, I use my MacBook Air for 90% of all my computing and coding. MacOS provides the most polished user experience out of the box (although it’s going down hill with every update they push). And once MacOS hits the enshittification event horizon you can switch to Asahi.

I suggest at least going to an Apple Store and dicking around with a display model to get a feel for the UX.

Hey, nature, do I really need allergies? 🤨

Then they came for the gamers, but there was no one left to speak up.

How many lives have they destroyed?

I was in a thread the other week where someone said they hated “religion” but didn’t have a problem with “faith”. I think I’m starting to understand what they meant by that.

When people reduce their faith to religion it loses its power and leads people astray.

It’s not just reading, people don’t want to mentally engage with things. There are people who would rather read movie reviews than go watch a movie and form their own opinion on it.

Engaging with material will always require something of the audience. We can try to make things as accessible and easy to understand as possible, but that doesn’t “solve” the problem, it just lowers the bar. Lowering the bar isn’t bad, but it seems like the wrong strategy for the current era. I think a better strategy is attempting to foster and enthusiastic community at a local level. Get together with friends on the weekends and mess around with stuff in person, talk about it.