I did the same, because the arguments on both sides have become stale and downright cheesy.

Don’t know if this is general knowledge, but I think it’s cool how the Chupa Chups logo on the lollipop wrapper was designed by Salvador Dalí.

when it rains you’ll start wishing you were dead.

This.

criminal elements … made him disappear

That’s true in any case.

In the same region:

The Labin Republic (Croatian: Labinska republika, Italian: Repubblica di Albona)[2] was a short-lived self-governing republic that was proclaimed by miners in the Istrian city of Labin (Albona) on March 7, 1921,[3][4] during a mining strike. It was created in what has been described as the world’s first anti-fascist uprising.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labin_Republic

That’s a lot of hammers and sickles… what is this, some kind of communist reddit?!

I have WhatsApp to talk to family and a few friends. I never liked discord so I’m not there either. I tried making a twitter account some 5-6 years ago but it asked for a phone number so that was an immediate nope from me.

I was thinking of paying for Claude. It’s $20/mo. but I see it as having a personal assistant/teacher that knows everything and is available 24/7. Maybe I could even run a local LLM and feed it my emails and written documents so it can sound like me too.

I liked the trope, because it was a reflection of the racism inherent in American society. It was there for everyone to see. Getting rid of the trope didn’t get rid of the racism. But now Hollywood libs can pat themselves on the back, just how Congress democrats took a knee in African garb while doing nothing about the laws that disproportionately target Black people or about the racist police force.

My ADHD medication helps, but I don’t like taking it every day/all the time. Maybe I should look into something for just anxiety.

I doubt I have the digital pressure that you do.

It’s not so much pressure as feeling that that’s the only way to interact nowadays. I’ve been asked a bunch of times if I have instagram (cause facebook is pasé now, yet they are both owned by the same company lol). I regret getting a fb account, so I don’t think I’ll be getting an instagram account, not falling for that again.

Before social media we used to just meet outside and hang out, now people do things so they can craft a social media image of themselves. It’s all planned outings with start and end times, Facebook events. I just feel like I’m not participating in society if I’m not commenting on someone’s post. People don’t call one another to talk about things, it’s all fb/instagram posts for the world.

Since AI exists, I am creating my responds with the help of it and then correct few things.

I never considered that as an option… That’s a great idea actually.

Saliva urini!

My cat’s (official) name is “Bear”. Checkmate.

“You want to go to school? Lame! Talk to us about becoming middle management.”

Neat! People should also know about https://noblogs.org/

I thought the grey represented British weather.

For liberals/capitalists in the West, “sweatshops” are what exists in “the third world”, if such a factory exists in the West, then it is a “factory with poor working conditions”, e.g. Amazon warehouses, Tyson chicken processing plants, and so on. The difference is in the perceived essence, a sweatshop will forever be a sweatshop, while a factory with poor working conditions can always improve those conditions to become a factory with good working conditions.

Yes, racism (negative perception of other countries) is the underlying cause of it.

It’s crazy how they found a way to sell toys little useless plastic things to adults. Capitalism is all about expanding the markets and finding new consumers, like how they found a way to market cigarettes to children.

Edited toys out because actual toys one can play with can be cool.

Cool! I just hate copyright, licensing and all that.