It’s a quote attributed to Aristotle.

In that light, such anger would be virtuous (being neither too extreme nor timid, too late nor early, based on the proper reason, and with an appropriate response).

It’s too bad none of the “decline of Western Civilization” people care to heed this quote. They seem to have abandoned virtue altogether, preferring vice and viciousness instead.

The more affordable Republican alternative to Obamacare.

This sounds like something that will work! Thank you!

There are styles of gardening? Are any of them suitable for a lazy beginner?

I still read the news and argue about it with people on the internet, which is what I’m recommending against doing. Don’t be me. Live your life. I’m seriously not sure I’m more off “informed” than if I were to just draw furry erotica all day.

For me, the key question is, What does being up to date help you? And my answer, as someone that is constantly up to date, is that it doesn’t.

Any number of hobbies. Try to make a tree grow.

Maybe a controversial take, but there’s no reason to pay attention to the news.

It’s basically propaganda through and through and made to make you feel small and unsafe in your own home.

Honestly, I think half the US would be more informed if they never watched the news again.

Just use regular chatgpt. It’s the same thing without the Microsoft integration…

…that’s freakin’ cool!

I have a temporary dream (as in we’ll see how long this lasts…) of building a database of legislation by state that can easily be queried.

I think a lot of people rely on the news to tell them how to interpret legislation when it’s actually really easy to figure it out for yourself if you know where to look. And with the proliferation of AI, it should be even easier to know what legislation is without some political analyst with an agenda.

Anyway, the idea is to have all this available on one website that uses open source code for the underlying database.

I think, like Obsidian, it stores them as markdown files.

Then Logseq. It’s an outliner (each line can be it’s own…thing…), but it’s open source and a direct competitor of Obsidian. In fact, I was ambivalent between the two when I first started with online note-taking.

…why did OP ask a real question, and then…just…devolve???

And in this debacle, I don’t WISH to be anti-social, I’m anti-social but not in a voluntary manner. I’m in my prime years and I need friends and relationships at this age but my privacy standpoint is mangling with those.

But so this isn’t a conundrum you chose. That’s why people here are so into privacy. Instagram is social, sure, but is that the kind of socializing you want? Really? We know it’s bad for the mental health of teenage girls. What’s to desire about that? What’s to desire about the algorithm that actively tries to make you hooked on the app?

These are the kinds of questions behind the privacy communities, among others.

Also, don’t lie to women. Extreme things usually only look extreme until a person understands them. Explain yourself and give them an opportunity to come around and/or be willing to make compromises. Having an Instagram account you use every now and then to verify your humanity in a virtual world seems reasonable to me.

Ducky One 3 TKL Daybreak

This is my second Ducky keyboard and I love it.

Clearly they just need to learn how and all ocean travel becomes impossible when nature begins to fight back

It also opens up the spread of malaria as climate change makes the world more hospitable for mosquitoes

I watch 4 minutes of the video and I’m pretty sure I’m in a coma now.

Among respondents who own luxury brands that they themselves bought (e.g., Gucci, Versace, Rolex), 44% prefer to live in a world without any of those brands altogether. Among respondents not owning such brands, the fraction preferring to live in a world without them is 69%.

That’s interesting.

Actually, this is kinda like using fossil fuels. If we didn’t have fossil fuels our lives would be miserable. And while using them adds some utility, burning fossil fuels still leaves us miserable, particularly as climate change grows worse.And so, even though I use fossil fuels to fuel my car, heat my home, and cook my food, I’d still prefer to live in a world where its significantly reduced to phased out altogether.

Yes! Me, too!