a few gullible dipshits = "the world", apparently

I honestly wonder how much this would have helped in the case of the states given so many republicans themselves seem to want to spin vaccination as a "personal freedom" issue. Like I doubt there would have been panic but I also doubt the needle would have moved. Moreover, the Danish social contract is significantly different from the US social contract. As the article alluded to, there's more trust in the government and trust in each other.

Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, it's a straw, you see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake. I... drink... your... milkshake. I drink it up!

would've loved to see how they would've enforced the pet policy

pepsi points are probably more stable than crypto tbh

I'm disappointed they didn't get to the point where people were actually moving in so some real hell could have happened.

Reminds me of the people who tried to redeem pepsi points for the jet in the commercial, like 90m points they bought. Might as well be crypto.

Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out

wild

Elwartowski and his girlfriend, Nadia Summergirl,

these people are too much.

I am basically at my desktop all day and I keep it open in Sublime Text all the time. I check it far too often.

do you have a set time to check it/how often do you check it?

I think it has helped me but only in:

1. Helping me overcome decision paralysis
2. Letting me figure out what doesn't need to be a priority right now
3. Letting me look back over and recognise what I have gotten done

It has not helped me get more done. There is a limited amount of time and brain juice for that.

I keep a weird hybrid diary/todo list just in text files on my PC. I put stuff on it I want to get done that day and also just add stuff after the fact as well, including shows I watched, games I played, etc. Sometimes I write actual diary entries at the bottom too. I then keep a few separate lists as well for "stuff I want to get done", "stuff I want to get done when there's time" and "stuff I want to do eventually". I used to dump project ideas into that last one but it was getting too big and stressing me out so I started moving each to their own text file or folder in a separate project ideas directory. It's stuff I still play around with exactly what I'm doing with it but I feel like overall it has helped me plan out things I want to get done and prioritise them without just getting overwhelmed with the amount of tasks.

when i am dead please bury me with Male and Female Accoutrements

at the very least i want a sword

Yeah! This scans totally with my experience also. But then I also realise I'm not exactly the sort of music enjoyer that they're talking about. I suspect it's a case of the ol' typical mind fallacy.

honestly? i feel like claims that people are listening to music more "just" as background noise comes across as really old-man-yells-at-cloud. i wonder if anyone has any evidence of this that's more than anecdotal. sure, spotify markets a lot of their playlists that way but i wonder how accurately targetd any of that marketing really is.

i've always listened to music while doing things like reading or working. and the key word there is "listened" because i'm not just having it as background noise but acticely appreciating the music. to put it as drily as possible i guess lol, i'm enjoying the intellectual stimulation that music provides, and that gives me a feedback loop to increase the enjoyment or productivity of my current task. granted, this might be an adhd or autism thing, but i doubt i'm alone in this pattern.

then again, maybe i'm the minority, who knows. until i see some actual numbers i'm not gonna buy it though.

This is an interesting read. I think I kind of disagree at the part where the author starts discussing how the post-scarcity music world means people listen more broadly and in the background. I find that because there is so much available for practically nothing, I filter through and find a few songs that really connect with me. In the days of the record, the cassette, even to an extent the CD, if you wanted to skip a track on an album you had to put physical work in. Yes you were forced into fewer albums, but you had much less of an ability to curate what you wanted to listen to. Making a playlist of your favourite songs involved buying a blank tape and dubbing them over, getting the perfect amount of silence between each track. Now you can "filter" through albums once and then add the songs you like to a custom playlist.

I've only read The Stranger by Camus and not much Existentialism proper, so take this with a grain of salt. Imho Camus wanted to make his own thing with Existentialism, so I would say it's an attempt to overcome nihilism.

I just finished reading it. I think I'm gonna drop the series. All nostalgia no new ideas :/

i preferred his earlier works

so where does absurdism slot in?

Just a warning this comment is gonna get real heavy.

I've struggled with suicidal ideation since I was eight. When you're that young, it feels like nobody believes or nobody cares. Either that or they just don't know what to do, so they don't do anything. When you don't get homework or chores done instead of my parents identifying a problem they thought I was lazy.

Likely for obvious reasons, heavy depression makes you a quiet kid so your often seen as "mature" or "well-behaved." Harmful encouragement like that has a huge impact for a kid and can lead to more confusion and depression.

You feel like you have to keep it to yourself because bullies will see you as a target and fuck with you.

You don't have the tools to cope with it. You've only been around for less than a decade and even a month of depression and suicidal ideation feels like an eternity.

I could say something trite like "I really feel for these kids" but that really can't express how much empathy and care kids like these need. It fucks you up for life.

hey i'm going to add a "CW suicide," sorry if that's an overreach but i think it's pretty important

your nick is pretty cool

fuck man, tough shit to read. if anyone ever needs to talk or something, i'm all ears.

this is cool