eighty

reminds me of the “bicycle in a car-centric city” analogy. Everyone is telling you take the main freeway and just “go faster” under the presumption that your driving a car without consideration that it takes more effort for you to even take freeway.

Ah yes, a gay dean and strictly only a gay dean. Just the right amount of different that I, a simple minded-voter, can tolerate. Anything more different would make me upset. /s

Welp, this broke me. Not to discount the other passings (R.I.P. ✊) but there’s only so much I can take within a week. 2016 all over again :(

flappers all day or nothing at all

To me it seems like it’s up to what you prioritize. If you prioritize convenience, nothing can beat one thing to keep track of – especially if it’s the one thing you spend all your time on (easy to track, and less likely to lose because you spend too much time on it).

I’m from that small slice between proper millennial and gen Z (94-98), where we experienced the social media and smart technology boom during our teenage years. I directly experienced the rapid shifts and pressure to use all the trendiest social medias, smart appliances and the accompanying apps, cheap streaming services, easy shopping, every device using the same usb standard, dynamic smartphone designs, touch payment etc. During that time and uni, I would’ve jumped at the chance to coalesce everything onto one device, but couldn’t because the infrastructure wasn’t there. We were technologically “naive”, thinking technology would only become increasingly more convenient without having any trade-offs.

But now, we are all aware of the negative consequences, politics, and burdens of being reliant on these services and infrastructure from the technological monopolies. Half the conversations with my friends of this age group end up being about what trade-offs we’re willing to put up with for convenience while losing privacy, security, and autonomy. Gen Z grew up with this infrastructure in place and are readily entrapped in it (to no fault of their own). Of course they’re going to notice a wallet when they use a more convenient option, because the alternative isn’t something they personally experienced nor needed.

Unfortunately, this leaves them vulnerable to the whims of the private companies who control the infrastructure and social media – surcharges on touch payments, increasing costs of streaming, not owning media (games, movies), subscriptions everywhere, social media and smartphone addiction. We’re seeing a trend of people choosing away from the convenient option towards privacy and autonomy. . Unless it’s an open standard and I have a readily available alternative, I don’t use it on my smartphone – hence the wallet.

did not know Costco sold exclusively non-luxo glasses - interest piqued

It’s tragic the level of immediate relief I feel every time I shutdown on Linux after years on Windows.

If animals are aware of the apex predator and their habits, it’s not that far of a stretch to have “celebrity” status.

Like distinguishing between “they’re hyper-aggressive” and “they’re chill if you leave them alone” is straight forward.

Forgive me for anthromorphising(?) but pushing it to “holy shit, watch out for that guy I’ve seem him take out a crocodiles regularly” and “he’s been around longer than ANY of us - like how??” is just an elevated version of that. I can’t imagine “forgetting” who’s who is an effective trait in any ecosystem.

The closest thing I can recall is bears and komodo dragons within a species

Save that name for a primary fork/different project - it’s too good

Maybe I’m a dunce but I wouldn’t even know how to keep all my books spread evenly at rest let alone like this

English was due for it tbh. Do I like that it’s emojis – not particularly.

But it does fill that ambiguity gap, especially when it comes to written humour.

Side tangent but I felt like this one scene drastically (albeit not clear at the time) shifted the tone/direction for the rest of the MCU going forth - just for essentially a light chuckle and mild worldbuilding (illustrating the insignificance of the world/timelines ikik).

Looking back and seeing what’s been (barely) done, I wonder if those writers would’ve gone with that same direction?

web developers were furious when they found out Tinder was already taken.

ZorinOS is Zen.

They asked me what my favourite cocktails were. I was midway talking about gin and tonic varietals (shiraz gin is sublime) and blacked out. I have no idea what I revealed afterwards and it still haunts me to this day

most profitable evolutionary u-turn ever

I never really thought of it as “low-demand” but that’s a surpisingly practical way to phrase it, framing your decisions, lifestyle, and personal living spaces to be less mentally taxing and “economic” in that sense.

Broadly, it’s resembles minimalism but a significant balance with practicality rather than aesthetics (it’s a bonus). As other’s have said “less decisions and a readily achieved default state”. Some examples:

• Limited number of clothes that mix and match with one another. If I get new clothes, I’ll alway donate an equal amount to keep it limited.
• Schedule in general to reduced decisions but most helpful was meals and meal prepping.
• Bedroom and office have minimal furnishing/clutter so it’s easy to clean up and incredibly easy to return to that default state and peace of mind.

Laundry, cleaning, and errands become less demanding (less clothes, easy to clean) in that sense which leaves mental room to explore new ideas one at a time.

“hold your blesses, I’m going for a record”

I always miss this 😭

Not the labels per se but being able to identify patterns and processes can be a comfort and even helpful if you have the right guidance and support system.

For example, identifying habitual masking (even when unnecessary) and making the decision not to mask can be helpful when socialising by conserving energy and making them more meaningful without the doubt and shame of “faking it”. Also giving yourself credit for feeling emotions and stimuli intensely and deciding for yourself to move away from to self-regulate.

The “label” should be foremost for you, hence why some don’t feel comfortable getting an official diagnosis (especially in the U.S.)