My daughter, who is kind of broke and physically disabled and a student, just told me she feels wealthy because of the social connections she has: good friends from childhood, new friends from school, and a cohousing community that she’s staying at that has kind of adopted her as an honourary member, plus all kinds of our old family friends who she’s social with and trusts.

She gets it. In the end it’s how well you loved as much as how fine you lived.

Yup, dude even gets disappeared just for being in the wrong street at the wrong time.

Right about what? I don’t think he makes any definitive arguments or assertions, other than maybe that some people are like that.

I know a few people who can be seen in that light, as marginally re-wilded. Rather extraordinary people, so I would not say they are representative of anyone else, but do illustrate the existence of the urge.

We define human ideals to guide us in most cultures, and in english, at least, it does reference this narrative quality to the word ‘humane’, as more human-like behaviour than behaviour that is bad for the species, such as cruelty.

KS Robinson addresses this in the Mars trilogy. With adequate aging suppression and some post-scarcity on a thinly populated planet, a movement of hardcore primitivism emerges, tempered by brushing up against the modern. For some, it’s still an instinct.

Even Alexander commented that if he wasn’t in his social position he might live like Diogenes, naked and wild. It’s an old conundrum, a million years of wild vs. 80,000 or so of settled.

Region is Canada. TV is connected to an AppleTV and a media server. Forced to use mostly apple stuff for various reasons.

Free and generally ad-free Apps:

• CBC Gem (free tier but login)
• DW (news/docs)
• France 24
• Al Jazeera
• Kanopy (via library card, all good movies)
• NFB for the best shorts
• Knowledge Network (free in BC)
• Local news channel apps

For self hosted media files I access a SMB share with the Infuse app for a full video player experience. It’s the only subscription I pay for an app, worth it.

Left Netflix last year. Left Prime this year. It’s all shit sandwiches over there.

So “I’d hit that” means in 300 years we’ll say hit instead of fuck?

This is the best answer in the thread. Add in eye contact and eyebrow gesture.

Might as well hold up a sign saying “I’m his dad” with that comment.

Approximately 15.5KHz. Not out of range for healthy human hearing. Most of us are damaged by noise pollution and blood pressure issues by the time we’re adults and high frequency sensitivities drop off first.

If a CRT is on in a large space with volume off, I can still hear it a bit, but mild tinnitus masks most of it.

Hypermobility can be a health risk indicator for more than just EDS. Consult your GP.

I graduated from this to accessing the muscles that open up sinuses, and can clear up most congestion with a little concentration. I wouldn’t have noticed except that I cured my headache problem that way, and it has baffled every health practitioner I mention it to.

c/Aphantasia FTW!

I got some training in this. I once had a task of waking everyone up at a forest temple by ringing a giant bell with a hammer over about 3 minutes, at 4:30 AM. Around 400 people relied on that bell to keep things going. But my alarm clock died at three days into a three week session. It was a no-speech retreat so I just dealt with it.

I didn’t miss a bell but the first couple of nights were iffy. Now I will sleep in unless something urgent is going to happen.

A nice wood/bamboo dish scrubber brush, or similar item(s) that is usually plastic but used every day.

I find the tagging system in lemmy more useful every day!

This is what false flag operations are for.

I’m sorry, did you just… oh lol never mind. I’m going to harvest this whoosh for wind power.

I repair Macs. Just use basic lithium battery practices:

• mostly keep charge between 30-80%
• charge fully if you are about to use
• long term storage with a 70% charge
• don’t run down to empty if you can help it
• don’t leave plugged in all the time
• avoid prolonged temperature extremes
• avoid shitty chargers, Apple chargers are expensive but generally worth it

Beware of add-ons that access hardware, for various reasons.

Apple batteries are rated for around 1000 cycles, or around 5 years of average use. Follow the above advice and you might eke out 1500 or so.

Ah I guess that was confusingly written, no you just need to have an email address to register an account, and when you register you get a verification email at that address and click on the link in the email to verify. Like almost any other social media.