Don’t hold it above the flame. Hold it near the embers at the bottom. For some reason this is secret knowledge that nobody knows.

I hardly know 'er!

ONE OF the largest? I don’t think the technological infrastructure for a larger one has existed before.

My body’s looking increasingly worm-like, too

It already is FOSS

https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity

thrown - on the verge

few times, but it luckily never broke the devices it happened it

I’m confused, doesn’t a VPN help protect against mitm in public networks? Are you saying that governments might use this at VPN exit nodes? That actually makes sense

under aesthetics 💅

This expresses quite well how loneliness manifests in modern capitalism. Ecah individual depends more on the society around them than ever before, specialization is at an all-time high, but we don’t actually have relationships with people where we depend on each other. Humans have a desire to be part of a group, and being needed, but we are alienated from the material relationships we have with others that it feels like we aren’t actually part of any REAL social network. Relationships aren’t built on helping each other when in need, but on socializing and having fun. Which means people who aren’t great at that can feel left behind

Not sure if I’m supposed to feel bad for the colonizing nation or the people doing the colonizing on their behalf. I’m gonna go with neither

Why would I want a convenient passkey stored securely inside my password manager if I can just, much more conventiently, lock myself out of my account by losing my phone?

socialism exists in the US

??? are you writing from a parallel universe or is this just “socialism is when the government does stuff”

Capitalism has always sounded great in theory, just the way you described. But in practice it has never worked, it always results in the accumulation of wealth in few hands, who can then use that power to subvert democracy and get their way.

Why do you think inheritance, wealth, etc is taxed too little? Because wealthy elites have abolished and prevented those taxes through lobbying/corruption. Many countries had the exact social democracy model you describe, but abolished and privatized these systems because rich people paid the media and politics to make it happen.

Not to mention this analysis focuses only on material wealth. Capitalism brings with it a complete alienation, communities don’t own their land, people don’t own their work, and everything that was once a common good is slowly commodified and robbed of its soul. Art, music, relationships, capital fijds a way to monetize it eventually. But now we have online shopping and fast food! Hooray, happiness achieved!

we have not theorized a better system yet

That’s an incredibly offensive claim. You just spat in the faces of nearly two centuries worth of academics and thinkers in myriad disciplines that have worked tirelessly, in the face of often violent or even fatal backlash from capital powers, to create and implement alternative concepts. Not to mention humans have experimented with various ways of living together for our entire history before capitalism.

fun fact: People love making shit up. Digestion obviously isn’t painful

Was Lovecraft really more problematic? I heard he was racist, but did he become the equivalent of a billionaire from his works, and use those proceeds to fuel more hate?

A good hand drier can fully dry your hands with some patience. As long as it’s not one of the really old shitty ones

I think they must have accidentally delivered your summer to the wrong address, Europe. We had temperature records and rivers have been at record lows for months

honestly looks delicious

Isn’t this opposed to the idea of Meshtastic? Doesn’t the mesh only work if many devices are on passively?