There’s still an antivirus program out there for 32 bit xp and firefox supports a lot of the usual plugins. I wouldn’t do online banking but I browsed the web on bare metal xp (the unofficial “integral edition”) ealier this year and it was fine. It’s not ideal but for some low level office stuff with little security concerns xp is kinda serviceable even today.

What’s the point of replicating life? If I want a mindless servant I don’t want them to seem alive at all and just doing it to prove you can doesn’t seem all that advanced to me. Also who knows what advanced species might have discovered that we haven’t? Maybe there is more to life than matter after all and replicating the other aspects will forever remain impossible.

I’ve been using thumbkey for a while now. The first few days were torture but once you’re used to it there’s no going back.

Great visual representation of what detaching from old beliefs feels like

Can you hear music if you focus on it? If so what do singers sound like?

Can you narrow it down a little?

I need that report on my desk by 3pm, xX_pu$$y_de$tr0yer_Xx. Otherwise that promotion you’ve been working for might go to JoeMomma69.

Don’t yell at the decrepit person doing their best in a digital world.

I think this is the part some people might struggle with

Do NOT follow the country roads.

At the same time it’s usually a safe bet to give FIFA no benefit of the doubt whatsoever

Enough to take down a large building? Hard in most places.

It’s a case to case thing of course but incendiaries are also an option sometimes and these are laughably easy to make. Strategically placed near fire exits the results could be devastating.

A lot of people are ignorant in the sense that they do care but they don’t want to educate themselves. They rather make up their own assumptions based on what fits the narrative they’ve chosen for their lives after receiving the bare minimum of input.

I understand “Ignorance is bliss” as a reminder to focus on what’s right in front of you and not to concern yourself too much with things you can’t change. That’s pretty much the opposite of what a lot of ignorant people do.

Times are looking tough right now but the pendulum can swing back at any moment. And when it does we won’t be starting back at square one. Might be a few years and a few wars until then. Maybe just an arms race and the odd proxy war. No way to know. All we can do is resist and wait.

This one is kinda well known but I’ve only recently started educating myself about the subject and came to the same conclusion:

Plants and mushrooms are much, much more effective at healing physical as well as mental diseases than most people think but the powers that be don’t want us to grow our own medicine so they claim everything is either ineffective or dangerous compared to what you can buy at a pharmacy.

I’ve taught myself to ride a longboard by watching a ton of videos and memorizing what you need to bear in mind. I was able to get on it myself and ride around town first try. Maybe the videos just gave me enough confidence to try it and I would have had it in me anyway. But I do think they helped quite a lot with technique too. Not sure how that tranfers to swimming. I learned that like most Europeans, by being chucked into deep water.

Yeah I just relax my eyes and then focus the book without moving my line of sight

I recently disabled any and all notifications on my phone except calls, SMS, and emergency alerts. No more social media bullshit telling me I got a new like, no more useless groupchats blowing up my phone, no more ad emails with deceptively important sounding subjects. Unless I’m checking manually of course - which I do once or twice a day. Other than that it’s pure bliss all day every day. If you can I urge you to try it too.

I urge everyone who feels like this post resonates with them to check out Eckhart Tolle. There’s no way to be sure our beliefs are true so it’s important not to get attached to them too closely.

The so-called klein bottle is a 3D object without volume since it doesn’t technically have an inside.