while there might be some crazy people like that man of them have different options to the status quo and provide me with food for further thought. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything there, but that thay the same with any instance.

i find how we are in this world isn’t because of the likes of the opinions on .ml bit the apathy and opinions of the average voter and citizen, so normal (as in under the bell curve) is the new crazy.

an example

Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction.” — Kurt Vonnegut

this is the US now for example…

i wanted an instance that wasn’t defederated from them.

i’ve never had the need or want to use any AI, so that’s a none for me dawg

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Samsung has been doing this with Dex for many years ffs.

no, 1/2 are bad the other 1/2 are deluded and many both, all believing in “teapots”. What sort of critical thinking can someone that easily deluded bring to the world in these troubled times ?

They might be “decent” (benefit of the doubt) despite being religious but that’s only one criteria needed in a representative.

Polymath Bertrand Russel, 1932…

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/

Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment. But although my conscience has controlled my actions, my opinions have undergone a revolution. I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

https://files.libcom.org/files/Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness.pdf

I’ve discovered my body’s secret to cold immunity is going backpacking with a hammock and no under quilt when the lows are in the 20s, with a sleeping bag that lied about its rated temperature.

ahh yes fellow hammock camper, i gave up at 3am, started a fire and stumbled around in the dark with a headlamp trying to gather more wood.

Know how I know? Because if there was a big market for a phone with a 3.5 jack, someone would be making it, and lots of people would be buying it.

that’s not how it works, so I’d argue you don’t know… as Jobs said, he’ll tell you what you want.

not new, been around for a looooong time , I have a few dozen books from them on my Calibre library, some fascinating stuff.

If he had been controlling a border, he would have been a monster.

well… he is a monster, he just doesn’t have a border. Best representative Florida has, or voters would not have elected him /s

they. could have the immigrants make up the workforce to take up the slack of losing citizens to deaths in war… oh … wait.

im 60, i have never fluffed a pillow, my pillows last decades.

Slade!

i’ve asked my partner if she’d like this for a birthday present, if you don’t hear from me again, send beans…

Not having to go to work, quit work at 40, am now 60.

'78 Toyota Land cruiser troop carrier, down dirt tracks with my father when I was 14.

luck mostly, my degree has little ( nothing?) to do with it.

born at the right time, the right color, the right country, the right sex etc.

Was it Oppenheimer who said (I paraphrase) they were less concerned with the folds in Einstein 's brain and more upset that many brains like his were forced to do drudge work all over the world.

not so, we can block it on an individual basis, wouldn’t need an instance wide ban or defederation at all. For example, I have 2 or 3 /c’s blocked.

i think theres a variety of reasons, theyve had a bad day, they’re assholes, etc

however I’ve also made what I consider innocuous comment’s on something or replied with an answer to their questions and they’ve been offended

I’ve also had people come into communities and be offmded as fuck. An example of the latter might be /c/fuckcars and people get offended when their very ordinary eery day activity is seen as obnoxious and they take umbrage at that and might get called out for it.

i also have to acknowledge I sit way outside the bell curve eg I dislike people owning pet cats or dogs, i have to try very hard to not make that obvious or people get super offended…Similarly as an aethiest. My point ? my very act of me having my opinion is super offensive to some people, so then I’m the asshole if that is you.

Somtimes people are assholes, somtimes it’s way more nuanced, sometimes people shoukd be called out on their bullshit (tolerance of intolerace)