They already said that Legend of Zelda was “too old-school and clunky” for them, so it’s a good bet they’ll hate these, too.

I think it’s fascinating that Richard Stallman wrote a free software manifesto and Bill Gates wrote a proprietary software manifesto. I knew about the former for a long time before I heard about the latter.

You don’t even need to hire a “troll farm” now. You can just do it all with AI.

Linux porn sceenshots. I wanted to have a cool cyberpunk desktop and be Hackerman.

So, you’re just gonna live with the symptoms? Okay then.

Adderall works for me, but Vyvanse doesn’t work at all (even though they’re chemically similar). Weird how that works.

I’m mainly talking about celebrities and other “taste-makers”.

That’s why decentralized platforms have to be the answer. They might not be impossible to co-opt, but they’re certainly more difficult.

I’ve been warning people about this stuff for years, and they wouldn’t listen. I’m not happy about being right. It sucks!

What does it take to get people to switch, though? The owner of X did a Nazi salute in front of a national audience. Twice. And most people are still on there.

No, they didn’t. The point was to rile people up over culture war nonsense.

They do hire women, and people of color, which is a great start for a restaurant so steeped in “Southern values,”

I’d say that having women and people of color cook for you has been a Southern value for a long time.

Getting good mental health is difficult, at least in the country I live in. It took me about 15 years to get an ADHD diagnosis, because for most of my life I’ve had lousy health insurance and I couldn’t afford to see a good therapist or psychiatrist.

The best response I heard to this is “Everybody pees, too, but if you’re doing it 60 times a day, then you have a problem”.

Neurotypicals have difficulty with mindfulness; for folks with ADHD, it’s extremely difficult. You have to sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, which is a pretty heavy lift for somebody with an attention deficit. But it does help, yes.

One method that I’ve had success with is to work my way up. I do meditation for 1 minute; the next day 2, then 3, until I get to 20, and then I try to stay there. That’s because the most important part is building the habit. Also, doing short sprints frequently is more effective than doing a marathon. 5 minutes a day for 12 days is better than 60 minutes in one day.

It isn’t too difficult, but you should use a VPN, too, or else you might get an angry letter from your ISP.

Or you can avoid all that and just use Soulseek.

You mean you couldn’t care less.

That doesn’t answer my question.

Lots of people are painfully empty, theists or not. It’s part of the human condition. Some of us are just more honest about it than others.

Trying to stuff “god” into that hole isn’t a solution. It’s denial.

If you’re hurting, it isn’t necessarily because you’re mentally ill. You could have empathy, for example.

There isn’t such a thing as a non evil religious organization

What convinced you of this?