Hanrahan

while there might be some crazy people like that man of them have different options to the status quo and provide me with food for further thought. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything there, but that thay the same with any instance.

i find how we are in this world isn’t because of the likes of the opinions on .ml bit the apathy and opinions of the average voter and citizen, so normal (as in under the bell curve) is the new crazy.

an example

Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction.” — Kurt Vonnegut

this is the US now for example…

i wanted an instance that wasn’t defederated from them.

i’ve never had the need or want to use any AI, so that’s a none for me dawg

Samsung has been doing this with Dex for many years ffs.

Polymath Bertrand Russel, 1932…

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

https://files.libcom.org/files/Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness.pdf

I’ve discovered my body’s secret to cold immunity is going backpacking with a hammock and no under quilt when the lows are in the 20s, with a sleeping bag that lied about its rated temperature.

ahh yes fellow hammock camper, i gave up at 3am, started a fire and stumbled around in the dark with a headlamp trying to gather more wood.

Know how I know? Because if there was a big market for a phone with a 3.5 jack, someone would be making it, and lots of people would be buying it.

that’s not how it works, so I’d argue you don’t know… as Jobs said, he’ll tell you what you want.

not new, been around for a looooong time , I have a few dozen books from them on my Calibre library, some fascinating stuff.

im 60, i have never fluffed a pillow, my pillows last decades.

Slade!

Not having to go to work, quit work at 40, am now 60.

FYI Newpipe as an app can connect to YT and Peertube

Add the Newpipe repo to FDroid and get it from their repo , not the FDroid repo

No logging in to YT

'78 Toyota Land cruiser troop carrier, down dirt tracks with my father when I was 14.

A messenger app Musk touted as better than Signal some time ago

It’s a turd of an App, it’s not even close to ready for prime time.

luck mostly, my degree has little ( nothing?) to do with it.

born at the right time, the right color, the right country, the right sex etc.

Was it Oppenheimer who said (I paraphrase) they were less concerned with the folds in Einstein 's brain and more upset that many brains like his were forced to do drudge work all over the world.

not so, we can block it on an individual basis, wouldn’t need an instance wide ban or defederation at all. For example, I have 2 or 3 /c’s blocked.

i think theres a variety of reasons, theyve had a bad day, they’re assholes, etc

however I’ve also made what I consider innocuous comment’s on something or replied with an answer to their questions and they’ve been offended

I’ve also had people come into communities and be offmded as fuck. An example of the latter might be /c/fuckcars and people get offended when their very ordinary eery day activity is seen as obnoxious and they take umbrage at that and might get called out for it.

i also have to acknowledge I sit way outside the bell curve eg I dislike people owning pet cats or dogs, i have to try very hard to not make that obvious or people get super offended…Similarly as an aethiest. My point ? my very act of me having my opinion is super offensive to some people, so then I’m the asshole if that is you.

Somtimes people are assholes, somtimes it’s way more nuanced, sometimes people shoukd be called out on their bullshit (tolerance of intolerace)

Which is how evolution worked, those with diseases like diabetes etc (mutations thay arent beneficial) died and didn’t pass that gene on.

that it was brutal and terrible

https://aeon.co/essays/why-inequality-bothers-people-more-than-poverty

But research conducted among the Ju/’hoansi in the 1950s and ’60s when they could still hunt and gather freely turned established views of social evolution on their head. Up until then, it was widely believed that hunter-gatherers endured a near-constant battle against starvation, and that it was only with the advent of agriculture that we began to free ourselves from the capricious tyranny of nature. When in 1964 a young Canadian anthropologist, Richard Borshay Lee, conducted a series of simple economic input/output analyses of the Ju/’hoansi as they went about their daily lives, he revealed that not only did they make a good living from hunting and gathering, but that they were also well-nourished and content. Most remarkably, his research revealed that the Ju/’hoansi managed this on the basis of little more than 15 hours’ work per week. On the strength of this finding, the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins in Stone Age Economics (1972) renamed hunter-gatherers ‘the original affluent society

I think it has to do with a recent decision by OO to default save all files in MS format vs an open format ? I saw some post about it on Mastodon. I use LO

Don’t be a cunt.

Works IRL as well