People believe based on feelings, not facts. That’s all it is.

Been pretty happy with Linux for the past year or two.

A few minor problems here and there. I was struggling to figure out how to adjust the screen brightness (pop!_os defaults). Found a command line tool to adjust gamma - my girlfriend was a little baffled. Then I realized I should just adjust the brightness on the display itself, on the hardware.

I (cis man) always fully close the toilet when it’s not in use. Never would occur to me to do otherwise.

Some of my women friends leave the seat down lid open, but then their cats drink out of the toilet.

Excellent. I love walking places. I’d ride a bike more but it’s just not safe.

Walking around park slope is so much more fun than driving. And then I stop in to shops because it’s easy, and I don’t have to worry about parking.

I make a list between shopping of stuff I realize I should get (eg: peanut butter). When I go, I sometimes just grab stuff that’s cheap or appealing.

I also live like 5 minutes away on foot from several grocery stores, so it’s not a big deal to go.

Maybe I should check out their grocery options. I’ve mostly been using Too Good to Go for like a pizza @ $4.

People look at me like I’m crazy when I say I just buy music (usually from Bandcamp). It’s not always more expensive, I get to keep the files drm free, and the people making music get paid

Full time Linux here. No complaints.

Been playing expedition 33 and vampire survivors.

s it possible for Chic-fil-a to ever redeem itself in your eyes?

I honestly haven’t been following them.

Did they ever admit fault? That’s big for me. An explicit “we were wrong”

I call my cat by his name. Not his full name, just the first name unless he’s being formally introduced or in a lot of trouble.

I wonder if some screen time is worse than others. YouTube slop is probably really bad, but an ebook maybe less bad?

Yeah I feel like 400 years ago in a life where you’ve never seen sparkling colors, they were impressive. We have many other colors and lights now with fewer downsides.

Oof.

I (a man who doesn’t date me) personally feel like past five or so years in either direction it tends to rapidly fall off. Look weird and hard to relate to.

NYC is one of the few places in the USA where you can mostly just get on a train or bus and go. It’s pretty great. There’s room for improvement - some lines are better than others, and off peak you can wait half an hour if you just miss it. But mostly it just works

Spend billions of dollars on public education, with a focus on critical analysis, starting 50 years ago.

Failing that, I don’t know, get rid of the ultra wealthy?

I don’t know how I feel about ai slop that promotes good ideas. That sounds like a deal with the devil. But if there is going to be slop, I’d rather it be promoting stuff like “workers together are stronger”

People need to stop watching slop. But I feel like the kind of idiots easily swayed by slop are also the kinds that won’t stop watching it.

It kind of bothers me that people use “introvert” to mean like “crippling social anxiety and agoraphobia”.

Maybe it’s just online spaces accumulate more people who identify with those disorders, and “introvert” sounds nicer .

I feel like every retro I’ve attended has been a farce.

“What went bad? We said doing it this way would be harder and more risk prone. Management insisted we do it that way, and it took longer than and caused a site outage.”

"What should we do differently?’

“Listen to the team next time”

“That won’t happen”

Tabletop RPGs are a good and cost effective hobby. You can play DND with the free “SRD” rules posted online, but you won’t get the fancy pictures and all the extras.

There are other games like it that are even cheaper. My personal favorite is Fate. Free rules, only needs four six sided dice.

The main problem is finding a good group to play with. DND is mega popular so if you’re just looking for social, it’s a good starting point. If you’re not into fantasy, you can branch off into other games later.

My friend is not vegan and married to a vegan. Somehow they make it work. Their daughter is being raised vegetarian.

Personally I would not be happy with someone who’s like aggressively carnivorous. I’m not yet all the way vegan, but someone who was like “I NEED MEAT!!” would be a bad fit for long term relationships.