Some are.

Thanks for reminding me to take my vitamins.

For all the stuff that can make us sad, depressed, anhedonic, etc, no point making it worse by not taking vitamins. D3 especially for the sads. RDA sunlight equivalent dosing.

Why are plants purple?

So you’re the one.

if only implementation were the problem.

I keep forgetting to say “Bangladeshi strength”, and getting bland pish.

Glad to upvote that. lol

Which of the at least 4 places you posted this do you want replied to? n_n

… Actually, I got nuthin. No distro-specific problems at all are standing out to me as worth mentioning.

Well, the expression does come from an age where it was more commonplace that the artisan, the workman, the technician, would be making their own tools. Takes on new poetic meaning, in this age and economy.

Spin it! Bebe. ;)

[To make a cheap adequate equivalent centripital force (centrifugal force?.. whatever) simulating gravity]

There be ways.

Bezos defo is lying to us though. … bwahahahaha, “rockets” XD Yuh, cos that’s how one travels through space. XD

I know I’m an asshole, but I was legitimately hoping that covid was going to wipe out a more significant amount. At least all the anti vaxxers, but that didn’t happen.

I’m the jackass that watched Endgame and was like “goddamn that abandoned neighborhood looks peaceful”.

Well, at least you know to some extent that that’s in the wrong. Better than still being in the terrorised totalitarianised fervor and seeing such atrocities (not as making you the asshole, but instead) as a necessary virtues.

It gets better when one realises where that [headspace] came from…

I’m glad most (all?) of the replies here get it, and get it so solid, like this.

Yeah, we don’t see e.g. the heads of the BIS etc swanning around doing the fauxlanthropist whitewashing bit on the podcast circuit.

A bygone age, where polymathy was still more the norm, before the corporation separated us into maximal-bar-one ignorance, of “specialisation”,

and (I recently read, in the new book I’m reading) they lopped off the latter half of the expression “jack of all trades, master of none” [something like, “… is more often better than a master of one.”],

and they convinced us the specialists were the “experts”, the sages of the enlightenment, the wise ones with superior knowledge. … All the while they’re one step away from maximal ignorance.

I wonder how much better acting (and all “professions”/skills) could be, with a broader range of skills beside.

You got me wanting to go listen to more soffmi muhod, boc, or autechre.

I know, not really the point you were making… but yeah… lets go find more of these mozarts, who, whether still obscure, or found their niche audience, retain their creative integrity, despite the economic pressures. … Oh that we could each be so. Or that we’d not even need be.

By that… We all live in Ethiopia. Compared to what could be, without the crooks and their rigged game holding us down

[and telling us they’re our saviours, when they let us up for a bit of air, or take credit for making us strong when we manage to struggle for a gasp by ourselves].

Yep. Especially if we’re all separated in spaceships. Dating’s hard enough in the same meat space.

Jesting aside, yup. And space expands faster than we even could fill it. So, at least we’re getting billionaires off the idea they need to cull the human population because there’s not enough resources here for their squanderous rigged game of manufactured scarcities and coerced dependence on pollution emitting finite resources.

But… Isn’t Bezos in the rocket club? “Space is hard”, is the idea sold with rockets. We never needed rockets. Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla, and all the less famous innovators of that era, and we can see the start of zero-inertia propulsion had its beginnings on air balloons in the 1800s. Then that’s just one step of creating a vessel that can surviva the vacuum of space, and you have a rudimentary space ship. … From human innovation. But do we get nice things? No. Such tech’s secreted, and only used on the wing tips of black stealth fighters to accelerate turns. We could have spaceships for everybody. Even almost a hundred years ago. … But then other plans were already laid down for us, by the existing power structures, and being followed through. So now we get the likes of Bezos, peddling preposterously implausible placation platitudes, pandering as if he’s a good guy, as if he’s smart, as if he’s a visionary…

… When really it seems like he’s the type that does not understand you cannot get 9 women to make a baby in 1 month. But [given Amazon worker treatment] would still keep whipping them harder to try get them to.

Yeah. If anyone can propose an exception, I will show them an example of effective image whitewashing.

Well said.

I tried say that too but probably got lost in my verbose rant.

Yep. So much wasted human potential.

Fuck billionaires, and their rigged game.