I’m of two minds. On one hand I agree, it’s gotta be dead simple. On the other hand I think the public is more capable than it seems. People figured out email and the mess that is Windows. The fediverse just feels like a lot because it’s new. Some better branding is in order though, like your example of not using the word “instance”.

I often think it would be better to obfuscate the federation aspect altogether. Most users don’t need to know or care that a post or user came from another instance. But I think that path will ultimately be more confusing than just having the small learning curve.

toothbrush

I don’t think his beard would look like that. His hair seems thin. Usually when someone looks better with a shopped beard or haircut, it’s because their hairline or hair quality was improved in the process

Movies like Rocky have instilled this idea that workouts need to be high intensity or else it’s lazy or doesn’t count.

The reality is that elite athletes tend to follow an 80/20 rule: about 80% of the workouts are light, and the remaining 20% are high intensity, ie, what most people would think of as a workout.

My point is you could just replace your off day with a low intensity workout, like a long walk or some casual swimming. It’s therapeutic and keeps your body active while still allowing for recovery.

It is in the interest of the credit agencies for everyone to make all payments with credit card. Regardless of whether they pay it off each month without interest. They make their money through the transaction fees that are factored into the price at every store.

Imagine how much money you could make if you could middleman 1% of every consumer purchase made in a country

It probably looks awesome, don’t stop wearing it. Tan looks really good when done well. Just hard to wear solid tan, like a suit. It’s better when broken up (e.g. wear a tan top or bottom but not both) or accented with darker browns

Should I bother reading Nietsche?

I feel like it’s time better spent on Hegel or maybe some Frankfurt School thinkers. But a part of me feels irresponsible to not study Nietsche since he inspires so many fascists

Realistically, what’s going to defeat European fascism this time?

If it really came to a WW3 style conflict, seems clear that it would be the BRICS countries, roughly speaking. Who actually participates would depend how it unfolds I guess, but I don’t see China letting Russia fall to NATO or vice versa.

With secret service, it’s possible that it was a scheduled closing of the shop for him to swing by. Just seems like the worker didn’t get the memo from their manager.

Doing a land acknowledgment while doing nothing about it, indeed actively supporting anti-indigenous policies

This is an enjoyable read, thanks for sharing. Like cozying up for story time from grandpa.

I like this part

“Ach, what a glorious time we had on that journey to Brussels! Sometimes Karl and Engels would talk seriously about the great cause, and I just listened and kept my mouth shut while my ears were wide open. At other times they would throw off their seriousness as a man throws off a coat, and then they would tell stories and sing songs, and of course I joined in. People say—people that never knew the real Karl—that he was gloomy and sad, that he couldn’t smile. I suppose that is because they never saw the simple Karl that I knew and loved, but only Marx, the great leader and teacher, with a thousand heavy problems burdening his mind. But the Marx that I knew—my friend Karl—was human, boy, very human. He could sing a song, tell a good story, and enjoy a joke, even at his own expense.”

Thesis: Nuking your reddit account is good for your mental health

Antithesis: If everyone nuked their reddit accounts, a lot of invaluable information (especially in niche communities) would be lost, and this would primarily hurt average people and not reddit as a corporation

Synthesis: Nuking all reddit accounts is good for society’s health. Reddit is a trash website. In the short-term it will hurt, but long-term we are better off moving these communities to decentralized platforms. There are ways to archive the important information from reddit. Reddit thrives off the free contributions of countless users who are paid nothing, and reddit claims ownership and monetizes all content freely published to it. If you don’t like reddit, simply stop posting to it, no matter how juicy the bait

Going to London is about as far as many Americans get

And of course, the stereotypical European arrogance about being “well traveled” because they passed through a few countries on a day trip

I have some thoughts about travel as a way to acquire culture, perspective, and wisdom — or rather, the illusion of such. I might post about it sometime soon once I get my thoughts together, but basically at this point I’ve dialectically negated my old views of travel and decided that using travel as a means for enlightenment is a relic of colonial ideology. I don’t think one can learn much about other cultures without living among them for extended periods, years.

I wonder what they suppose the .ml stands for lol

Yea even states like Alabama still have elections landing around 60-40. It’s a solid bloc but not uniform at all.

Frothingfash but he has beans falling out of his mouth

I love this website lmao

What has the world come to that we can’t spam pictures of real things at each other, like a pig with poop on its balls?

Hexbear won’t beat the doping allegations

Zoomers are good, actually