Would you rather be lost in a strange canal with a random man or a random duck?

Most people will choose the side of inaction as long as they’re comfortable enough. That’s something I don’t get with today’s oligarchs. They are just as stupid as they are greedy. If they hoarded just a bit less – if they were willing to live a lavish post-scarcity lifestyle while having as much money as a SMALL country rather than living a lavish post-scarcity lifestyle while having as much money as a midsize country – they could live the exact same day to day existence without the working class being up in arms and in love with CEO assassins.

In the movie of their life, the only difference would be the “high score” text at the top of the screen.

But I guess if you value a practical good life over unchecked avarice and ego, you probably aren’t cut out for the oligarch lifestyle.

Those of us who remember The Oregon Trail also dwell in dark corners.

My Lemmy client says your comment is 1h old. Is it possible to learn this power?

Especially if it’s one of those joke guns that shoots out a literal red flag with “BANG!” on it.

One of the nice things about Lemmy is that people are willing to actually discuss things with multiple sentences and even paragraphs (gasp) rather than it being a fire hose of quips and one-liners.

Judging by how things have been going, it would probably be something stupid like fossil “fuels” having unique valuable properties as a high tech material, but then the aliens arrive and say “you fucking lit it all on fire?!?!?”

A good start would be defining what those words mean to him and to his company.

For instance, given nothing but the recent news about Meta and the quote from the OP, it sounds to me like Zuckerberg thinks “masculine energy” means “act overtly bigoted, and punch down whenever you can.”

I’m a man, and I like to act masculine in the “help those around you” way rather than the racist, napoleon complex “I am a strong boy because I offend people and I have good taste because I hate everything” way. And I don’t appreciate him putting more negativity on the word than there already was!

Well thank goodness they have that ß character to help keep their street names so efficient.

Yeah, when my Lemmy server goes down I don’t want it to be because of a large scale cyber attack, I want it to be because some dude’s dog got the zoomies in the basement and tripped on a cable.

I mean, they see it as *mostly* the virus’s fault, not really the government’s fault.

Which is funny since the Republican/conservative stance on the virus seemed to be “no big deal.”

This makes a nice companion to the meme that ends with the rich guy saying “fuck off” to something reasonable that involves helping other humans.

Very well said, and the story sounds very familiar. Mindfulness and reprogramming yourself to essentially react with positivity rather than negativity is a good way to describe what worked for me too.

And if that sounds like a good approach to anybody else, I found a lot that stuck with me in the philosophy of stoics and buddhists.

To be in control of your state of mind — by working with your brain and body and not against it btw — is to be in control of your quality of life, within reason.

I almost never use it, but if LibreOffice can come in handy a few times a year, why not at least keep it installed?

A lot of stuff is indeed browser based, so I probably spend more time in Firefox than in my code editor and terminal.

But LibreOffice is welcome to live on 0.1% of my disk space!

This is so great to see, and the timing is perfect.

My son already calls the PC Steam, as in “we played game A on Xbox and game B on Steam,” so maybe by the time he has a PC in his room Steam really will run the whole platform.

Not hearing the difference is absolutely a thing. I took a university class on the nature of language and I still have clear memories of some of the example videos we watched when we studied the phenomenon. It’s a very “how is this possible” kind of feeling.

Iirc it just depends on the language(s) you spoke while developing. You could probably hear the difference when you were very little.

And unfortunately, some weapons only work on the power. Like insurance hoops and red tape to delay or deny necessary health care.

Don’t underestimate the value of the “I’m going to wander outside for a couple minutes” break on your well being!

I’m sitting here realizing that my big hobby project of the past few years — a koi pond in my back yard — is essentially a reason to just go outside and chill.

Plus the “lake lovers” should probably be extended over to at least include the city that shares a name with one of those lakes. (Erie, PA)

Well yeah. If you’re ready to kill some fool then marijuana-ing once might not be enough.

Marijuana: maybe twice or thrice!