Oh brilliant, thank you!

Can you add https://crazypeople.online/ to instances please?

Or can I add it somehow?

Or is it some hive of scum and villainy everyone loathes? I don’t follow instance drama too closely but I’m starting to realize there’s quite a bit of it.

If Fairphone doesn’t faceplant by then, it’ll be my next phone in a few years.

Love those sounds!

Protein Barius

I’m just holding out minor hope that people finally get with the program and realize the value of reputable news organizations and plain old grapevine again. Leave internet for nerds.

Looking to introduce the spoon thing for non-autistics too eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNJv-Ebi67I

Unironically I’m all for this. So long as you’re not harming others, please do work through your stuff with whatever weirdness you want.

I like it too. Been using it just for general life organizing stuff - kinda like goblin.tools but I like that I can just type to it normally instead of having to use an interface. Took some fiddling with the agents and files and things like that to get it to function as I like - but I can get it to function as I like which puts it above Gemini for me. I would kinda like voice activation and audio output though so I don’t have to have my eyes on the screen at all times.

Here’s the money shot: https://youtu.be/LZ259Jx8MQY?t=1240

I wish they had used a better mic but that was like giving my soul a really good scratch.

Alto’s Adventure. One of those simple is powerful games. Though it can get really frustrating as there definitely are situations where the game just decides that actually, you’re done.

Correct.

Joke is that I’m actually the techy woman.

So what about them Epstein files?

It doesn’t really feel any better once you know that it’s an empty pleasantry they don’t really care to have an answer to.

I personally hold a Consciousness-Only View, something like nondual Buddhism, and would say that your questions are on the right track but you’re understandably trying to reconcile them with the consensus opinion of a materialistic world. Which leads to a nihilistic “this is all a simulation” line of thinking that still runs into the wall of duality - you’re still putting an external force out there, acting upon you. As long as you believe that there are goal posts, you can move them indefinitely. It’s a simulation within a simulation within a simulation and depending on your inclination, you can put a really depressing spin on it (“I’m being tormented”).

But if you aren’t actually experiencing life from a nondual angle (as you don’t seem to be), the philosophy doesn’t mean much. And to experience life with the freedom that comes from not experiencing yourself to be only the things you think you are takes a lot of practice - meditation etc. with a secure and healthy community around you. Unless you get lucky.

Up to you what you want to do with this all though. I only saw the little glimpse of your life that you divulged in the comments and as such I’d say, focus on what is most immediate to you. Get food. Take care of your body. Try to find a real-life community. Occasionally poke at your thoughts about what you VALUE and drill down - do you value the thing you said or do you value what you believe you will get with the thing you said? Make choices in life that help you live more according to your values. Stop spending excessive amounts of time online, especially if all the stories cause you anxiety.

Or you can just join a Buddhist monastery or something. You’ll be taken care of and your identity as a second child or an immigrant inherently doesn’t matter, but of course you’ll be giving up a lot.

It’s a balance. Someone brought up the pacific garbage patch. Nitpicking about the existence of the other garbage patches does not detract from the fact that one is being cleaned. Hurrah. However, if the clean up efforts were simultaneously releasing sea-life killing chemicals into the water, then yes that might be something worth bringing up. Understanding what is actually context for any given issue is great. Fluff news in the vein of [email protected] are deservedly picked on. Legitimately good news don’t need the have shadows cast on them from issues that aren’t relevant. And even if something is somewhat relevant (like the existence of other garbage patches) one can frame it in a way that isn’t shitting on the first bit of good news. Like “oh, great, I’m glad to hear this garbage patch is getting cleaned, hope this success inspires efforts to clean up the others too” as opposed to “who cares, there’s more”.

There are these bell curve people who have surface scratch information about a million things because they spend so much time online, yet they lack the wisdom to know how and when to connect bits of information together.

If there is ever any conceivable way to act as if one has the morally higher ground, 99.9% of people will use it with an Ad Hominem attack to avoid dealing with the actual point of an argument. ESPECIALLY on the internet. No matter what political, academic or just plain nerdy configuration of people you have, no matter what topic they are discussing. If anyone ever catches even the faintest whiff of a position that they think is morally inferior, they will unfailingly disregard any logic, context and relating in favor of demonizing the opponent. Because there is no sugar sweeter to the human mind than thinking themselves morally superior.