I’d give em the “two wolves inside you” talk - like negativity and positivity. Gotta keep the moral lessons at preteen development levels with these sorts of folks.

What you said is all true, and there’s no excusing that level of rottenness, but I do think there’s a deeper component to it that do not acknowledge.

They want to feel good about themselves, which at the core is not unreasonable, but they’ve built up this whole misogynistic mythology where they need a conventionally attractive woman mind, body, and soul, in order to feel safe and happy.

But I’m convinced that even if they somehow stumbled into this unlikely relationship they would still be miserable.

It is a gift

It’s a good joke

Even if something you actually need is only on Bezos’ website, I’ve had some luck contacting a seller directly and arranging a sale that way.

Agreed that hope is Defiant (pun intended), but disagree with assertion that replicators are the backbone of post-scarcity (yes I know it’s a work of fiction by many writers, but hear me out).

Under capitalism the invention of replicators would just lead to the introduction of artificial scarcity, in order to maintain the current power structures. We know this because everywhere in the world already exists the technology for all to have plenty, yet somehow these obvious needs aren’t met.

In a nutshell: tech won’t save us.

Thank God it’s not just me

Don’t need to have played Sim City 2000 to see these data overlays as a problem.

Nice to be able to get objective measurements. Now let’s hope these get used to reduce the emissions at these plants.

Love an e-waste rescue story 💘

lol

Wow that’s curious. I distinctly remember my first time. I held the cigarette in a strange way so that my hand covered my mouth when I hauled, and my roommate made fun of me lol.

It gave me the spins and kind of perked me up when drinking, but that was the extent of anything noticeable.

The immediate like sedating effect I only noticed when I started smoking in the morning.

Yes. I stopped and started smoking and vaping for the past 20 years.

Cigarettes only relieve stress if you’ve developed the pathways that let the nicotine behave as a dopamine agonist.

If you give someone who’s never smoked a cigarette it’s not going to relax them.

Cigarettes don’t relieve stress.

At least not until you’ve smoked long enough to get addicted.

That’s fascinating that you have so many parties. Do parties not have a lot of power at the “federal” level? Also curious if you have coalitions between similarly aligned parties!

Stay my hand means to hold my hand back from what it was going to do. Censor doesn’t quite capture it (too active), but more passive, like left that part unwritten.

It’s a somewhat archaic way of speaking. :)

That’s what I love so much about open source. Currently have a fork of kiTTY going, working on tracking down a little bug I found in my daily use.

False

Wow that’s a first for me. I usually find the opposite with my old android.

I do try to be honest, since the main purpose of a diary for me is to process my baggage, stresses, etc. On that same note, I’m also mindful of who’s feelings I might hurt in the hypothetical case an entry were read aloud… Unlikely, but still.

It may have only occurred two or three times in the last decade, but I can think of a specific case where I was writing about some stress with a family member, and then decided to stay my hand on that particular entry, because I knew they were under investigation for a crime (not against a person, but an institution) and there are no specific protections in my country for diaries. So out of an overabundance of caution, I just cut that entry short and just wrote about the weather or something for that day haha.

I usually try to stick reasonably closely to the recipe the first time I’m trying something out. That way if I don’t like the result, I know it’s not just that I ruined the recipe with my modifications.