That actually sounds quite sane, except the not willing to use weapons part. I would have assumed that would get one straight to alternative service

So, if you are the hyper-manly chest hair and leather jackets gay, you get drafted?

Signal runs just fine without play services for me. It does drain quite a bit of battery without cloud messaging, but that is to be excepted since it needs to keep its own connection up in that case

What is the ping supposed to be like in mycelial networks? I seem to have congestion issues in mine

I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.

Mine told me to take a shower and put on a clean t-shirt. I cannot say he wasn’t right :)

But I get what you mean.

I would however argue that the average crow is smarter than the average hacker news commenter.

I would say that that is a legitimate concern of a parent who wants their child to have a “normal” life. Badly worded, of course.

😏

And just like with dehydration, drinking too much water at once will be bad

Yes, but only the social media that paid to be included in the plan in the first place. That just continues monopolies.

It is literally a fork of uBO

Let me say it plainly, you have been cheated out of growing up. Parents, teachers, they all have a duty to care for people in their, well, care. That is pretty fucked up.

I was the weird kid once, I’m still a weird adult, but I was super lucky to have family and teachers that cared. I’ve seen lots of people with lots of mental issues that “turned out fine”, whatever that might be. Your experience is not the norm. I have a hard time imagining what went on in your parents’ heads. Some people are just genuinely bad people, I am sorry that you had to grow up with those.

You know what sounds good? You seem to move from the self-hate towards hating those who caused you harm. Still not the best state of mind, but a lot better, trust me.

Just from the random rant you post here, you don’t seem to be too dumb. Coherent sentences and all that. It’s a low bar, I know, but I’m not making fun of you, there are millions of people around you who would not clear it. Trust me, there are people that would consider stacking the shelves at the supermarket an intellectual challenge.

So, yeah. The past is only going to get you so far. You’re still here, for whatever reason you haven’t jumped off a bridge yet. This is going to sound like “don’t be sad, lol”. But you’re (probably) young, seem to be physically mostly ok, and you’re not dumb. Maybe, every now and then, spend some time thinking about what to do with that. They say the best revenge is a life well lived.

This is funny, just yesterday I randomly found phones with built-in VHF/UHF radios on Aliexpress. To be fair, they look super clunky and are very expensive for off-brand Chinese phones ($800+), but they do exist. I wonder who buys them.

Story time!

Some years ago, I had to get up very early for a job. So, to make it easier on me, I bought/built some programmable LED lights and set them to gradually shift from dark red to bright blue-white.

Fast forward some years, and I can comfortably ignore bright sunlight and 50W of white LEDs in my face. I don’t even bother to put down the shutters any more. I wake up, semi-consciously acknowledge that it is morning, turn around and continue sleeping.

I have gotten used to coffee and desert. I am officially an old man now.

However, the Italians/French are onto something, an espresso after lunch is great. It gives you half an hour or so of slacking off and then the caffeine kicks in.

You’re the first lemmynsfw I spotted in the wild. Wear the horny with pride.

Alright, let me finish my beer and then we throw hands. Belgian beer is meh.

They are already getting more. They want more more.

Again, that is the thing I don’t understand. They are already filthy rich. Why crash and burn everything? Wouldn’t it be better to just continue making boatloads of money?