some days you’re the robot, some days you’re the dog,

and other times you just happen to be a raccoon with a surplus ghetto blaster

I liked it as well, go watch it

If the Ukraine war has taught me anything, it’s that you can drone people for a few hundred bucks now.

Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter

Like, get really into FPV racing or something, of course

someone needs to inspire Musk to build a hospital bed with a couple of industrial robot Cyber arms for accommodation and cyber care

if we also get him to test it on himself, I’m sure we can get this midgley to midgley himself in half

that’s very interesting so far, thanks so much!

also, I didn’t get a notification for this, are notifications busted or what?

Very useful, that’s an interesting possible link there - Intuitively, I’d have guessed it the other way around, ie. RSD being a symptom of an excess of inhibition. Gonna let this ferment a bit, maybe come back to it. A heartfelt thanks to you for sharing your experience and hypotheses, it’s super helpful - and I’m sure not just - to me

I can talk about how I have managed my own experience of RSD, why I am convinced that it exists, and how I have responded to treating it if anyone is interested.

please do, I’m very interested. When I first heard about RSD, all the lights went on in my head, it explained so much of my social inhibitions, my reluctance to talk to people and just general anxiety when meeting strangers - especially when I found them interesting in some way. Until then, I thought everyone was deathly afraid of these things and everyone else was just way braver than me.

Understanding some of these connections has already helped me a lot, but I’m sure you’ve got some interesting, more in-depth things to say about it all - if you feel like it, please do elaborate

hey, genuinely thanks for your answers, lot’s to think about

I start every day with a medium amount of coffee, tobacco and weed and a few hours later I even end up eating something. I feel like I’m often both under- and overstimulated with different things at the same time when sober, and a steady consumption of tobacco and cannabis throughout the day sort of modulates it out to where the world isn’t just bearable but wonderfully interesting, enchantingly complex, vibrant in color and sound without being overbearing - the opposite of the hopelessly boring, grey-as-concrete noisescape that it often appears to me when sober. It’s not like I don’t have sober days, but I try to avoid them when I can… I hear you on the ‘prone to addiction’, it’s why I’m trying to understand it all a bit better. What it’s doing for me, where the pitfalls lie, etc. Pretty sure the tobacco is the most dangerous substance in the mix - interestingly, I usually don’t fall back on pure tobacco when I can’t smoke weed with it, which is a common thing I see with other enjoyers of the good herb; they might stop smoking weed, but they’ll continue smoking, being hooked on the nicotine.

Anyways, bit rambly there, thanks again and cheers

very illuminating post, thanks for all of it.

I’m trying to understand my weed consumption better, and how it might be related to my a(u?)dhd. I’ve heard many with adhd self-medicate with weed for the stimulation, is that right? Have you written about weed and audhd before or do you have any resources you think are worthwhile? It just doesn’t seem to have the same effect with me than with more allistic people, or at least it seems that way to me - and I’m curious about the connection there, if there is any; especially the differences in adhd+weed and audhd+weed.

If you have any experiences or third-hand knowledge to share there, I’d be greatly appreciative. If not, that’s fine too, I’ve learned a lot already from your posts; so thank you again.

you can fit way more stairs this way

o_O

Last of Us was good
Halo is generally pretty well received, though I felt it was sorta mid (but enjoyable enough, I guess)

this just reminded me, amazon is still doing that Disco Elysium show I believe

How dare you, dithering is the People’s Blur

I’m pretty happy with Podcini, it’s FOSS and does all I need
Also supports importing lists of podcasts, though I’m not sure it does patreon feeds at all, you’d have to check

I’m gonna miss them and I hope this wasn’t the last we’ve heard from them… Kyle already mentioned he may be on the other emancipation network shows on occasion and I’m looking forward to that. Hope for June the job’s worth it, sounds like a stressful gig but all the best with that too.

I really am gonna miss em tho

oh no, what’s this now…

are they really ending it, I gotta listen

lemons are great for this. You don’t need all of it, just the skin. press the lemon and enjoy the juice, put the skins on the glass rack and you’ll have a fresh lemon flavor when opening the door. needs replacing every other wash or so (they get hard and stop smelling)

in addition to just getting off earlier, you can also try to filter some of the blue light / glare from your screens towards the evening. The most popular sunset simulation redshift thingy is probably flux and I recommend giving it a shot. Might help you get tired more easily

It’s not a magic bullet or anything, but I find it relaxing for my eyes at least and it might help your sleep too

hoplophobia

talk about medicalizing/pathologizing your political enemies

In 1997, Cooper wrote that he coined the term hoplophobia in 1962 “in response to a perceived need for a word to describe a mental aberration consisting of an unreasoning terror of gadgetry, specifically, weapons.”

In 1991, Cooper wrote in Guns & Ammo magazine that “no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.” In 1994, Cooper said “Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City have declared themselves sister cities. It makes sense: they are both Third World metropolises formerly occupied by Americans.”