Dust. Dust the shelf, dust the loaf with flour.

Well, this is the opposite thing (same word meaning opposite) but if you ask me it’s the same.

EDIT: For some that fit better:

• thaw / unthaw
• terminate / exterminate
• valuable / invaluable
• caregiver / caretaker

I live a stagnant life (shut-in, somewhat rural area) so there may actually be “greener grass” somewhere but I am unlikely to ever even see it, which is part of my point. And funnily enough, in a literal sense importance of green well-kept lawns is a relatively modern problem as well (going back to aristocrats) adding to sprawl (and bad for pollinators/other wildlife).

To hammer my point home… on top of USA’s car-centric sprawl, there is also no freedom-to-roam enshrined in law (like Europe has along with the Schengen Area) and I don’t want to end up homeless without even a car to live in.

There are also a lot of other modern USA problems that are reduced or eliminated in other countries (healthcare, tax filing, worker protections, diet). Which is not to say they don’t have their own problems, but being the richest country in the world certainly is not reflected in our placement when it comes to global statistics of well-being (because yeah, our wealth is concentrated at the top).

I’m not trying to go camping, but just in terms of finding a “simple life” still requires weaving around a lot of modern problems/realities. For instance I do plenty of unpaid chores for family (today I helped carry fence panels), but I am not going to travel many hours (esp. lacking a car) to meet strangers to see if I possibly mesh well in such a community where I would also likely have to pay rent even after putting in what effort I could.

because the staggering output of AI models will not only make it increasingly unlikely that they will receive compensation for their work, but also that they will receive recognition for it

Don’t forget scraping. GH is already there with public repos, and even if you take a chance and go elsewhere (or don’t release source code) some tools are locked-in (too small to move or too large to move) so it has a chilling effect on growth/contribution.

I am there already. Albeit just starting out and the thing I didn’t share yet is just a simple sweeper clone (in a somewhat niche language+Godot bindings).

Morpheus toon makes room for the death boom.

Also ‘boom’ sounds a lot more fun, like a party with games or refreshments.

Never had much luck with anything social my entire life, and I have too many types of problems. I just exist now.

Now playing: The Ballad of Hamantha by Jack Stauber.

The art and celebration part is too subjective and flys over my head completely. It’s just food

It seems very human to me for a communal meal to lift morale, even though that’s largely a thing of the past (especially now with money and captive markets). Maybe it’s celebrating an accomplishment, maybe it’s about meeting new people or having some fun, maybe it’s just spending time with loved ones.

It doesn’t even need to be an expensive or large gathering. Nice things are nice, I don’t think this one needs a 1-hour video essay. Though yes I do see this as a maybe-weekly maybe-monthly maybe-yearly sort of thing depending on scale and circumstance, not every day.

It does make more sense when there is reason to celebrate, so maybe not much would change considering the bar (in USA) is extremely low right now.

Sidenote: I don’t really drink or dance, so that might be an influence for my opinion here compared to modern parties

I’m non-spiritual, though I do believe something similar to dualism* in an abstract sense (I see it more as 4*, along with different levels of granularity depending on the type of interaction). Though in reality also am about as disconnected as one can be (so I’m not even on the chart).

Transhumanism: leave my brain intact (remember: no copies) and I’d roll the dice if I could do so without techbros. Ideally I’d have more microbiomes/(types of)living cells to keep me alive and stable+clean (and synthesis maybe) rather than the tech-only life-support model often seen in sci-fi.

Somewhat disagree on food, I think cooking is a useful skill and can see utility in art and celebration. Though yeah that’s less-and-less common for me, I’ve eaten a lot of not-great frozen burritos. Even if I didn’t need to eat food, I think it’d be nice to have an excuse to eat decent food at least sometimes.

EDIT:

* I’m not actually sure if dualism/non-dualism is the best term here (I’m talking about organisms only, not mind/body or rocks etc). The 4 I mention is roughly: self, other, friend, unknown. Something like a jellyfish would be the unknown. Though things can move in that chart, and will obviously be different for survival vs society.

Honestly, just with numbers I feel like help here is hit-or-miss unless there is an obvious/straightforward answer. Personal issues, I’m even less sure about… might be easier for those who actually can make real connections with people here, but that sounds rarer still.

No idea on the bike stuff though. Except maybe the Arrested Development gag “And that’s why you always leave a note!” .

“That’s fine, no one ever knew me in the first place.”

Imagine how bad a game D&D would be if skill checks were realistic for the first 5 levels

and 1 every 20 swings you’d fail so miserably at it that you’d injure yourself.

Morrowind’s accuracy system when starting the game, especially if you built your character wrong (or just are using something you’re not built for). Misses don’t add to skill either, so you will continue missing for a long while.

Though you don’t injure yourself, instead you die because you can’t even fight a worm (because you miss more than you hit).

If I were arrested for jaywalking, I would definitely request the death penalty.

It’s a shame they’d probably reject it.

In fantasy it’s easy and guaranteed. You pay a pittance to learn from an expert who you met randomly for an instant boost. You get better just by doing something 1000 times and your skills likely will never degrade.

In reality, you tried something and failed without learning much new. You watched tutorials that did not help, or you tried making something work and all you got was a headache and an ugly mess. You are stuck with projects/progress due to external factors that you don’t know how to (or can’t) fix currently. 1000 iterations probably doesn’t mean as much skill improvement as you wish it did and you also lose proficiency because you did not have the time/reason to engage those skills.

Not coffee, so a bit of a side note: with a frother I’ve noticed oat milk seems to give a more consistent froth (compared to dairy which has foam float to the top).

Though that might be an interaction with the cappuccino mix that I use (2 different types of thickeners helps, maybe?). When dairy foam rises, it also somewhat pulls the mix too (when cold mixed, at least).

I nearly died. They say I must journey into the AUR realm for legacy GPU drivers, and I would have fallen into the text-only abyss had I updated days later (assuming I had not heard the news). My internet is too slow for regular updates. Continue onwards without me, I’ll just rest here at this long-outdated version.

Generally I don’t think rolling release is the issue itself (I have been using it for years), but it seems like every packaging/updating scheme out there sucks for one reason or another. Every time something looks like it has the answer, there is something else that works contrary to what is expected/desired.

The difference is restrictions didn’t exist as much. I can’t just go to my local port and get a job on a ship without a resumé and experience, without a passport etc. The main lodging in modern life is buying or renting, so it’s also pretty much homelessness unless you have a job lined up already. Even travel within the US, the best bet to sleeping without money is sleeping in a car/van (if you have one!) in something like a Walmart parking-lot (or a rest area)… even then it’s going to depend on the area and you still might get hassled by cops (or now, maybe ICE).

And hell, if people lived the old way, I probably could do that. I can peel+chop+fry a potato (or most other vegetables) no problem. I’ll sweep the floor, I can carry things, I’ll help with important/risky things, and if I have food+shelter I don’t particularly care about money. Admittedly, I would be higher risk of death at sea though (either heat-stroke or that I can’t swim).

Though this is completely different in the EU… because of: Freedom To Roam, the Schengen Area, hostels.

EDIT: Also going back further, many humans could survive travelling that way likely because they were part of a group. Solo-travel this way is possible now, but I’d say it’s a bit more than courage. It also takes knowledge and preparation, likely health, and again navigating risks. Not to say any of that is new for travel, though I’d say getting arrested or maybe ran over are. And this also falls back more into survival rather than travel for leisure as people think about it now.

Probably because these days, it’s often found via scripts/bots. Either it’s found via content-ID (it scans a video, finds a match for audio) or you included some trademarked term in your title or description (and I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets non-related stuff too, especially when they do it in bulk for places like Github, itch, gamejolt etc). In some cases it might be from popularity or news coverage.

The obvious connection is that how would they even know you’re using it as your ringtone etc.? Unless maybe you are in the room with a Nintendo lawyer for some reason. And also this might seem frivolous if word ever got out if something like this were tried (not that I think it’d stop them).

Though I should say that non-commercial “infringement” is pursued. They don’t actually care if you’re making money or not, just as they don’t care if it’s parody/transformative or not (they can DMCA anybody, the only punishment they get is if you fight it in court… but they have more lawyers than you). Distance yourself from their IP at all costs, even if you think they’re “cool”, and again if you’ve made all your own assets at least keep it out of titles and descriptions.

The key point for me is that their socialist and green parties stepped out to endorse the new (non-progressive) party so it could have supermajority instead of Orban’s party. In other words, they took the strategic/pragmatic path, unlike the result in the US.

Don’t know if it’ll help, but I turned off wi-fi for a while and that changed my habits a bit. I was able to finish a programming project (sweeper clone). If I ever used the internet, it was on my phone (browser mostly for questions, not logged into anything, overall less comfortable without a keyboard for me) and even then I turned the wifi back off shortly after.

I still played games etc. that I already had downloaded, but it’s a lot more limited with choice and I also deleted quite a bit of stuff that I didn’t care about (weighed against how much data it took up). So even that was not so bad.

I also hooked up the old PS3 and replayed some games, which made more sense with limited options.

Finishing the project sort of ended that though, was hoping to get answers to questions and did not. That and dislike the GH co-pilot situation so I haven’t even shared my sweeper project, so kinda killed my motivation’s momentum.

Going by my post history here, it was ~2.5 months for me.