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  • IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtftoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•[Serious] How do you gain confidence/self love?
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    3 days ago

    Awareness not cynicism, yes. Very important for self growth.

    The head in the clouds of over optimism and the head in the mud of cynicism are two extremes that’ll both extra super duper fuck you over.

    Reality has both good and bad things.

    Most people hear that you have to learn to pull your head out of the clouds, but honestly the cynics need to be beat up more about their cynicism because that attitude ALSO lays the foundation for shitty times.

    If you go into things having decided they’ll suck beforehand, you contributed to that outcome by not creating, seeing, or seeking better things.

    And it takes time and work to kill off the parasite of cynicism if it’s already wrapped around your soul. But it’s hard work that must be done.

  • IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtftoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What do you think about power stations?
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    5 days ago

    Solar panel and battery tech are finally mature enough to keep small electronics powered off grid near indefinitely now if you take the time to understand its capacity and build properly.

    If your system is too small you might run into problems cooking, charging a car, gaming, or running an ac, basically things that draw huge amounts of power, but it can run a freezer, phone and laptop, and led lights pretty well. And those things can get you 75 percent of the way to feeling civilized if weather or disaster affects your neighborhood power.

    So I’m a fan of this stuff, we are nearly in sci-fi territory with it, and think smart people with a backyard and some space should consider it for storm preparedness and the like. The tech will only improve with time, there’s some recent developments with new battery tech on the horizon that are hopeful.

    When I’m elderly in 40 years, I hope to live in a home with plenty of solar and a huge house battery setup in the basement. If I can cover all my electric off grid including cooking, I would feel very rich and secure.

  • IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtftoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you woke up a billionaire tomorrow, what's the first thing you'd do?
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    5 days ago

    Buy up all the media outlets, especially Fox, and ACTUALLY turn them into progressive propaganda outlets.

    Once actual progressives are in power, Lobby for government with the teeth to break up my big media empire monopoly and prevent a new one from forming.

    Make a trust in each state to have local news outlets with good journalists.

    Fund something to help find and stomp out propaganda bot/slave centers in other countries.

    Lobby to regulate the fuck out of AI to stop its use as a programmable propaganda slop machine.

  • IlmariGanander@lemmy.wtftoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your favorite animal?
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    21 days ago

    I’ve been fascinated by pterosaurs lately. The book Pterosaurs by Mark P Witton is great.

    Pterosaurs interest me because of their wing morphology. Instead of having the wing membrane between all the “fingers” like a bat, it’s attached to their equivalent of a pinky finger in such a way it can fold up enough that they could use all four limbs to navigate on land. They just have such an interesting body shape that no animal today really has.

    They also got much bigger than birds. Like, to the point that I want to write a fantasy book where the premise is that dragons are like …the only pterosaur that survived extinction. Because it would be cool to have a dragon that’s directly not related to modern reptiles, birds, or mammals…but still is speculatively based on a flying animal that did once exist.