Never had much luck with anything social my entire life, and I have too many types of problems. I just exist now.

The art and celebration part is too subjective and flys over my head completely. It’s just food

It seems very human to me for a communal meal to lift morale, even though that’s largely a thing of the past (especially now with money and captive markets). Maybe it’s celebrating an accomplishment, maybe it’s about meeting new people or having some fun, maybe it’s just spending time with loved ones.

It doesn’t even need to be an expensive or large gathering. Nice things are nice, I don’t think this one needs a 1-hour video essay. Though yes I do see this as a maybe-weekly maybe-monthly maybe-yearly sort of thing depending on scale and circumstance, not every day.

It does make more sense when there is reason to celebrate, so maybe not much would change considering the bar (in USA) is extremely low right now.

Sidenote: I don’t really drink or dance, so that might be an influence for my opinion here compared to modern parties

I’m non-spiritual, though I do believe something similar to dualism* in an abstract sense (I see it more as 4*, along with different levels of granularity depending on the type of interaction). Though in reality also am about as disconnected as one can be (so I’m not even on the chart).

Transhumanism: leave my brain intact (remember: no copies) and I’d roll the dice if I could do so without techbros. Ideally I’d have more microbiomes/(types of)living cells to keep me alive and stable+clean (and synthesis maybe) rather than the tech-only life-support model often seen in sci-fi.

Somewhat disagree on food, I think cooking is a useful skill and can see utility in art and celebration. Though yeah that’s less-and-less common for me, I’ve eaten a lot of not-great frozen burritos. Even if I didn’t need to eat food, I think it’d be nice to have an excuse to eat decent food at least sometimes.

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* I’m not actually sure if dualism/non-dualism is the best term here (I’m talking about organisms only, not mind/body or rocks etc). The 4 I mention is roughly: self, other, friend, unknown. Something like a jellyfish would be the unknown. Though things can move in that chart, and will obviously be different for survival vs society.

“That’s fine, no one ever knew me in the first place.”

If I were arrested for jaywalking, I would definitely request the death penalty.

It’s a shame they’d probably reject it.

Not coffee, so a bit of a side note: with a frother I’ve noticed oat milk seems to give a more consistent froth (compared to dairy which has foam float to the top).

Though that might be an interaction with the cappuccino mix that I use (2 different types of thickeners helps, maybe?). When dairy foam rises, it also somewhat pulls the mix too (when cold mixed, at least).

The difference is restrictions didn’t exist as much. I can’t just go to my local port and get a job on a ship without a resumé and experience, without a passport etc. The main lodging in modern life is buying or renting, so it’s also pretty much homelessness unless you have a job lined up already. Even travel within the US, the best bet to sleeping without money is sleeping in a car/van (if you have one!) in something like a Walmart parking-lot (or a rest area)… even then it’s going to depend on the area and you still might get hassled by cops (or now, maybe ICE).

And hell, if people lived the old way, I probably could do that. I can peel+chop+fry a potato (or most other vegetables) no problem. I’ll sweep the floor, I can carry things, I’ll help with important/risky things, and if I have food+shelter I don’t particularly care about money. Admittedly, I would be higher risk of death at sea though (either heat-stroke or that I can’t swim).

Though this is completely different in the EU… because of: Freedom To Roam, the Schengen Area, hostels.

EDIT: Also going back further, many humans could survive travelling that way likely because they were part of a group. Solo-travel this way is possible now, but I’d say it’s a bit more than courage. It also takes knowledge and preparation, likely health, and again navigating risks. Not to say any of that is new for travel, though I’d say getting arrested or maybe ran over are. And this also falls back more into survival rather than travel for leisure as people think about it now.

Probably because these days, it’s often found via scripts/bots. Either it’s found via content-ID (it scans a video, finds a match for audio) or you included some trademarked term in your title or description (and I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets non-related stuff too, especially when they do it in bulk for places like Github, itch, gamejolt etc). In some cases it might be from popularity or news coverage.

The obvious connection is that how would they even know you’re using it as your ringtone etc.? Unless maybe you are in the room with a Nintendo lawyer for some reason. And also this might seem frivolous if word ever got out if something like this were tried (not that I think it’d stop them).

Though I should say that non-commercial “infringement” is pursued. They don’t actually care if you’re making money or not, just as they don’t care if it’s parody/transformative or not (they can DMCA anybody, the only punishment they get is if you fight it in court… but they have more lawyers than you). Distance yourself from their IP at all costs, even if you think they’re “cool”, and again if you’ve made all your own assets at least keep it out of titles and descriptions.

Don’t know if it’ll help, but I turned off wi-fi for a while and that changed my habits a bit. I was able to finish a programming project (sweeper clone). If I ever used the internet, it was on my phone (browser mostly for questions, not logged into anything, overall less comfortable without a keyboard for me) and even then I turned the wifi back off shortly after.

I still played games etc. that I already had downloaded, but it’s a lot more limited with choice and I also deleted quite a bit of stuff that I didn’t care about (weighed against how much data it took up). So even that was not so bad.

I also hooked up the old PS3 and replayed some games, which made more sense with limited options.

Finishing the project sort of ended that though, was hoping to get answers to questions and did not. That and dislike the GH co-pilot situation so I haven’t even shared my sweeper project, so kinda killed my motivation’s momentum.

Going by my post history here, it was ~2.5 months for me.

Yeah, definitely bots. A different one (an account called ‘nobody’) on that instance posted one to a community called Religious fruitcake.

The area around them was blighted and isolated- no community playground, parks, or shopping areas like a typical neighborhood. The community’s medical needs were addressed by pop-up clinics run out of a van

This also completely applies to areas of USA with less population density. Even for people with jobs.

Remote Area Medical (RAM) is a nonprofit provider of mobile medical clinics delivering free dental, vision, and medical care (as well as veterinary services when available) to under-served and uninsured individuals.

Founded by British philanthropist Stan Brock, it was originally conceived to treat people in the developing world, but turned its attention to those in need of health care in the United States

I’m guessing android or synthetic would be a better term here. Bioandroid if it needs to eat (etc) and if skin isn’t just something to blend in.

I don’t have a social circle, so it would really depend on what the point of this is especially long-term (who’s doing it, do dopplegangers act entirely the same).

Also, if I could get some spooky nerd to physically put my brain into a (formerly broken) Atlas robot: Styx - Mr. Roboto (Official Video)

For me the result makes no difference, but it’s more that there’s no living and there’s very little to do about it other than escapism (so, still nothing).

Them Bones by Alice in Chains comes to mind.

It’s a civil offense though, not a criminal* one. I mean sure Nvidia actually has the lawyers to fight this (assuming this just doesn’t get quietly reversed as a “mistake”) but often false strikes may as well be legal when the person targeted doesn’t have the time/money/willingness/etc to fight it in court.

* at least at face-value. I guess other charges could happen based on actions and intent (fraud etc), but I wouldn’t expect that to happen without the civil suit nor would I expect the law to actually have the teeth to actually punish a big company for bullying a nobody.

I’m guessing if there’s any leg to stand on here, it’d be local with older content. An ‘item library’ at first (even if the physical copy is kept safe for archival, with only 1 rented-out copy).

For digital, it’d be local network. I know the PS3 had renting videos, so it could be interesting if stuff like that could be managed in that way (if it can be rebranded as its own distinct entity). I assume the problem would be no capability to rent a copy to 1 user, specifically when it comes to the storefront. Unless custom homebrew was made (waiting lists etc) to handle it properly.

And this would probably only work in an intentional community that has other reasons to exist. (personally I like the idea but don’t think it’d ever be an option for me… travel, living costs, lack of info online, etc)

Very questionable, unless of course there’s some illegal street racing involved which makes it very cool.

That’s the neat part: I don’t.

I mean… I’m sure it’s possible that there are people out there that’d make it at least better more than 50% of the time. I don’t know about you, but I live in a low-density area (carless) and have no real viable options to meet… anyone really.

The other half of the story is that I too have a brain that isn’t really wired to do that anyway. I never really made friends in school and probably could live underground and would only go half as crazy as people normally do. Put my brain in something mostly mechanical and it’d probably be hard for most people to notice (especially with people not understanding the difference between robots and cyborgs).

Unlike a lot of people, even the internet isn’t really a social space for me either.

On paper sure they are villages, but I think a US village and one from elsewhere would likely feel drastically different. Lacking actual community (see Bowling Alone), or just look at all of the things that the village lost (shops, train station, industry etc) and what it still has(franchise dollar store, gas station etc).

It could just be coincidence, though “retirement village” is a term (also ecovillages) so maybe not. Aside from decay, I’d imagine the common perspective of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it (unless you stop for gas/maybe breakfast) probably doesn’t help with image either.