I feel like some people I know are on some kind of car subscription service where they get a new car every month.

Sounds like they’re threatening to steal your dog or something.

My local FreeGeek was selling $5 e-readers in an e-reader bin this weekend.

I think the main thing that is unnecessarily gendered is they are trying to push the “blue is the only manly color” thing in this image.

Maybe if you guys were better at gender bending you wouldn’t have lost the sexuality wars.

Drone printers a la Subnautica.

I’ve already started migrating somewhat to PieFed.

My bad. I’ll add a warning to the post title.

Far right authoritarianism is spreading across the world. I’m not sure any country is safe from it. Sure right now it sucks because we are in the middle of it but this likely won’t last forever. There will be a pendulum swing.

I’m a computer engineer and have a good income and it’s still not easy for me to simply up and switch countries even if I want to.

Something I’ve been trying to do lately is trying to appreciate what I do have in life and what is good. I can go outside and be surrounded by trees in my neighborhood. I can work on my art in my free time. I like the state I’m in since it’s relatively liberal. I try to appreciate my coffee in the morning. The birds in my backyard. The fluffiness of my cat. Focusing on the positives here and now and being present in my present.

And I’m doing that not to shame myself for having it better than others. I’m doing it literally as a survival technique. It’s very easy right now to focus on everything wrong, and where I want to be in the future but can’t get to right now. But if I keep obsessing over things I cannot change, I will go crazy.

Try to find things you can appreciate about your life as it is now and slow down and really take the time to experience and appreciate those things.

I have ADHD too. The trick is to trick your brain into thinking it’s urgent by training yourself to have anxiety anytime there is a looming deadline.

Worked great for me and I got a 4.0 in engineering. But now I have anxiety issues.

Verge? I think he’s been well past that point for a while now.

I took kung fu as a teen and I remember my teachers telling me a story about how the grandmaster essentially beat up a homeless person for asking for money.

I think they were trying to communicate how badass the grandmaster was but it just made him seem like a dick.

Sure. None of the models are perfect (even the 2d chart might be too simplistic: maybe a it’s a 3-dimensional saddle), but if reduced to a particular dimension (like authoritarianism as you mention, or even other aspects like their disdain for the rights of minorities) the horseshoe is blindingly obvious.

And even if it’s a “not-all-leftists” thing, I think the general response of the non-problematic leftists is to deny this branch of their movement even exists and instead flippantly dismiss the voices of concerned minorities by saying “class reductionists aren’t real and it’s all in your head” and often followed up with (after being shown evidence) “even if they are real, there will be no issues after we solve the class problem, so shut your mouth class traitor”, which is wishful thinking at best and has no basis in any historical evidence.

Unfortunately in my experience this is not an isolated case. It’s fairly common amongst people who consider themselves “leftist”. Most are just better at masking it and aren’t so outright blatant about it. Horseshoe theory keeps being proven again and again.

And she likes dressing up as a maid apparently.

where does one get ghost gun STLs anyway? Thingiverse? Etsy?

Asking for a friend

It’s more about how I feel inside.

i mean, they’re not wrong.

I’m naked right now so all of these options leave me naked.