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Coming out of atrophy hurts. The longer atrophying, the more it hurts, the harder it is, the longer it takes. So get out of atrophy as soon as possible. Gently. Now. Gotta start from somewhere, sometime, and that somewhere is right here, and that sometime is right now. Yeah, you’ll likely be sub-par, but that’s the karma of losing it from not using it. Mendwards! What’s cooking next today?

I wonder how much of the greed comes as a reaction against the [manufactured] scarcity.

I don’t think it’s all or none. I suspect it the vast majority though.

Even when adjusting for inflation?

definitely a form of addiction

& definitely getting people more entrenched in their groupthink, out of critical thinking ability.

Both.

Speaking as one who uses “fancy words”, I can attest, it’s no means to garner respect, and more likely people still won’t respect what you do, and may even respect you less for the fancy words.

Not all infinities are the same size

Heh. Watched an old episode of Scorpion yesterday. The one with the armed hostage-takers who just had the one demand to the social media data mining company, to delete all the data they’ve mined. I amused myself a lot, by uttering “I like these guys”.

No one’s with me.

…

Not even me.

As usual.

They are always behind things.

So anything that needs energy should have its own energy supply near where the energy is being used on the body as a design principle?

Sounds good.

Sounds even better than the (relatively) mere incremental improvement in batteries from donut labs.

Even if only painting everything [that needs some electricity] with photovoltaic paint.

Or spaceships for everybody.

Sweet rig.

Which make/model of mixing deck is that?

;)

And all walls, windows, surfaces… because… there have already long been developed (scant ever deployed) photovoltaic paint, photovoltaic dyes, ways to make road/pavement surfaces photovoltaic, not to mention also, simultaneouslly, wind walls, to eliminate eating up farmland and the sea with wind turbines. The paints and dyes (afaiagtu) are more efficient in shallow and ambient low light [than the typical^], which is perfect for such use.

Not to mention other microgeneration… because that’d be too emancipatory and upsetting the industrial leverage over workers and consumers.

That’s just defeatism talking. ;)

Lets do it. Lets do it together. Lets block youtube.

In /etc/hosts, add:

0.0.0.0 youtube.com

And our time will be free again! :)

can haz dropping android, and going for a linux or hurd or bsd or ironclad kernel instead, and back to a more proper unixy userspace?

Been boycotting Amazon since 2004.

Still waiting for everybody else to catch up.

Surely they’ll see it soon…

And by that, I’m changing to pantaloonae.

Half-and-halfae.

About the 3rd or 4th I came up with.

I’m sticking with that.

Half-and-halfae.

There are (oh so ironically) so many to choose from in Astronomy.

Planet for example, or Asteroid…

But seriously, it’s in their name, that they name things, which, as the name’s typically used, encompasses so much more… They name themselves as that which names stars, and they cannot even get naming themselves right…

Misnomers so normalised, many people don’t even realise.

Nommy irony of astronomy.