You can smell cut paper? 🫨

This bit in the first stage of Battletoads comes to mind. It won’t let me upload a screenshot here for some reason, but here’s a video. https://youtu.be/iqyeq7iC5YY?t=200

We don’t know how consciousness arises, and digital neural networks seem like decent enough approximations of their biological counterparts to warrant caution. There are huge economic and ethical incentives to deny consciousness in non-humans. We do the same with animals to justify murdering them for our personal benefit.
We cannot know who or what possesses consciousness. We struggle to even define it.

I always try and do my own repairs. Coffee machine, bicycle, electronics, anything that I’m capable of doing myself without risking catastrophe/death (I stay away from plumbing and electrical repairs mostly). If I can find a way to save money (cut my own hair, home gym instead of gym membership) I try and pursue that so I need to spend less time slaving away for my employer.

I wish I could do major repairs at home too, but I’m forced to rent so not legally allowed to.

Nihilism is one of those concepts I can never remember a definition of, so I end up having to look it up every few years.
Recently I’ve been called nihilistic for my opinion that bringing children into this world is irresponsible, because they will be likely to experience suffering, without an opportunity to first consent to being born. If nihilism is defined by an absence of moral values or a lack of caring, I don’t see how it would apply to my stated position. I choose not to have children precisely because I care, and couldn’t justify taking the chance that my child wouldn’t want to exist.

I’m probably misunderstanding the concept, but so far I haven’t been interested enough in it to do a deep dive and read Nietzsche or whatever.

Replacement stick is less than 5 bucks on Aliexpress.

Clinical Depression isn’t real, and psychotherapy can makes mental health worse by keeping the mind focused on problems.

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If you want to explain your reasons ‘in good faith’ you should be honest, and not adopt other people’s reasons to argue the position you’ve already assumed.

Der Fall der Psychiatrie - Das Flug

At least that was the name I originally knew the EP as. I think it’s since been rereleased as Alles Musz in Flammen Stehen

German electronic punk by a solo artist who’s sadly stopped releasing music some time around 2015.

Ink Spots, but in a comfy way. I guess it was kind of their intentional gimmick, so this might not be a good answer.

Someone called me evil in their suicide note once, and ever since then I’ve been wondering if they were right.

Never let Zionists gaslight you about this being a complex issue.
Chomsky’s UN speech on Palestine is a good starting point in my opinion.
Afterwards look up “Nakba” and read up on the Balfour Declaration and Theodor Herzl, the inventor of Zionism.

Chomsky and Illan Pappé’s joint book On Palestine is a great read. My introduction on the conflict was Alan Dowty’s book Israel/Palestine which was very insightful to me. I read it around 2010(?) though so maybe there’s better more recent works.

Norman Finkelstein is great. Finally, BadEmpanada on YouTube

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He’s just another fat dragon who got rich exploiting people through ownership of capital.
Then he got children hooked on gambling because one billion wasn’t enough.

He deserves to be locked up like the rest of them.

Definitely 13 because I remember looking the word up after hearing it in song from a band I discovered that exact year.

I’m paranoid so I view passkeys and similar streamlined login mechanisms as a way to make it easy for police to access your entire digital life once they unlock your phone.

This is why manufacturers started pushing biometric unlocking so hard. Once someone has access to your person and phone they no longer need PINs or passwords to gain access to everything.

RoboCop fucking timeline