after the goose comes a swan, which though bigger, tougher, and stronger, has chilled the hell out a bit

after a swan then comes the Canadian goose, which even though it appears to be a return to goose, it’s actually the might of a swan, and the rage of a 100 regular geese

it might be the pessimist in me, or it might be the reality we’re living in

but if sheer access to Wikipedia cured you out of being a cultist- i don’t think there’d be that many trump supporters

get strawberries

get cream (or cottage cheese)

get sugar

get pasta

toss them in a bowl & mix

done! :)

pasta with strawberries is yummy :3

i want to be a cat so i can experience the content feeling of sitting on a warm, perfectly cat shaped roof

😓

364!

this is not about wanting this is about companies taking advantage of vulnerable people who should be grieving. This can cause lasting psychological harm

you might as well be saying, if someone came to a drug maker, and wanted some heroine, and provided ingredients for heroine, and agreed to whatever costs were involved, isn’t that entirely their business?

and yet, the “genius inventors” keep creating Torment Nexuses

wow, so many reasons

• to create a mimic of a person you must first destroy their privacy
• after an AI has devoured all they’ve ever written or spoken on video it will then mimic such person very well, but most likely still be a legal property of a company that made it
• in a situation like that you’d then have to pay a subscription to interact with the mimic (because god forbid you ever get actually sold something nowadays)

now imagine having to pay to talk with a ghost of your loved one, a chatbot that sometimes allows you to forget that the actual person is gone, and makes all the moments where that illusion is broken all the more painful. A chatbot that denies you grief, and traps you in hell where you can talk with the person you lost, but never touch them, never feel them, never see them grow (or you could pay extra for the chatbot to attend new skill classes you could talk about :)).

It would make grieving impossible and take constant advantage of those who “just want to say goodbye”. Grief is already hard as is, a wide spread mimicry of our dead ones would make it a psychological torture

for more information watch a prediction of our future a fun sci-fi show called Black Mirror, specifically the episode titled Be Right Back (entire series is fully episodic you don’t need to watch from the start)

but do we have 10 barely working calligraphy pens? 🥺

collecting trinkets is so fun

i wish temu wasn’t run on slave labour, there’re so many little trinkets there

yeah exactly, imagine abandoning your entire worldview because someone was mean to you one too many times. You’d need to have no moral compass nor a spine to do that

if a fellow leftie is mean to me i just call them a tankie and move on with my life /j

do not right click inspect element on the paywall window and then delete the code & re-enable scrolling (i always forget how to, but don’t google it)

the downside is that sometimes half the article is neutered anyway

was thinking more “hey you just got your paycheque :)” and “someone in Cambodia is trying to access your banking account”

the only apps that are allowed to speak to me are messengers, weather, and my bank. Nothing else has speaking privileges.

there’s a good Vsauce video about this!

yeah you should, your body builds up tolerance to it crazy fast! give it a month’s rest and then it’s perfect!

jokes aside, as probably Watts said - once you get the message, hang up the phone. Psychedelics can be both good fun and very insightful, but if you focus solely on the fun part that’s just escapism - and the drugs will likely and bluntly point it out to you

common-ish experience for LSD but when i went through ego death, and i have fallen through the darkness and dissolved into the infinite plane of colours below it - i profoundly understood and felt how there’s unity to all of creation, how everything and everyone is an expression of the universe itself. With no barrier between Me and Not Me, it was as if i temporarily melted back into the fabric of reality

so yeah, ego death, pretty epic, fair warning though - it does feel like you’ve died, and however much you want to freak out about that fact, you have to let go. Also it won’t happen if you want it, wanting is an ego thing after all

iirc an “apple” in both French and English used to just be any fruit. And over time it shifted to mean just the most common one

and you know the french, always very poetic, of course they’ll call a potato a fruit of dirt