Cheaper? No.

Efficient? No.

Reliable? God no.

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He was a complicated man.

If he only ever plays himself, that makes his transformation into a fly all the more impressive.

What a goal-driven go-getter. I must admire the ambition.

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Although most cultures around the world default to an extrovert bias, it’s okay to be an introvert. I’m sure you’ll eventually find one or two close people that you genuinely enjoy spending time with.

Ah, and I remember doing it.

I wish I didn’t.

After adding rounded corners.

If I was a bass, how low could I go? 🤔

What if making the fediverse into a real threat requires it to act more like a corporate-owned social media platform?

Start with the Strange Aeons video.

If you’re curious what astrophysicists rather than CEOs have to say about this, the answer seems to be never.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmnQD3QHeY

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Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but it should be recognized that the more we try to escape loneliness, the faster it chases us from behind. To find connection, we first need to recognize what part it is within us that isn’t being acknowledged.

Been a long time coming. Just read through this passage written by Erich Fromm in Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism from 1957.

Control by the intellect over nature, and the production of more and more things, became the paramount aims of life. In this process man has transformed himself into a thing, life has become subordinated to property, “to be” is dominated by “to have.” Where the roots of Western culture, both Greek and Hebrew, considered the aim of life the perfection of man, modern man is concerned with the perfection of things, and the knowledge of how to make them. Western man is in a state of schizoid inability to experience affect, hence he is anxious, depressed, and desperate. He still pays lip service to the aims of happiness, individualism, initiative—but actually he has no aim. Ask him what he is living for, what is the aim of all his strivings—and he will be embarrassed. Some may say they live for the family, others, “to have fun,” still others, to make money, but in reality nobody knows what he is living for; he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.

Likely because Latin is the language of Western esotericism. See also Baphomet.

Peter Thiel knows about the antichrist!

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Don’t remember the details but the Mythbusters tested this. I think this was the episode.