While I think it’s a nice thought, I still find the idea that humans are the ONLY “storytellers” to be falling into the same trap as tool use. Just because we haven’t witnessed or recorded it doesn’t mean that other species don’t tell “stories”.

Heck, even crows learn faces and then tell other crows about those faces. If that’s not some form of “storytelling” idk what is.

You sound like a great parent, and this should ideally be how every parent teaches their kids. Trust, open discussion, and a welcoming environment for questions.

Absolutely agree. When I got out of college, I was like “I have some money finally, I’ll support the shows and movies I want to watch by actually buying them online outright and streaming everything else legally!”

And then several of the things I “bought” got removed from my library several years later.

Then instead of 2 or 3 streaming platforms, there were suddenly 6.

Then every streaming service kept shuffling around my favorite shows.

And suddenly, the experience of paying for the content I wanted to watch became way too cumbersome.

This Lemmy thread is wild. The post says “being kind is free” , it doesn’t say shitty people aren’t ever nice. Yet several replies are this weird reaction of “no fuck you being nice is dumb”.

Does the mere suggestion - that being kind is a good starting point when interacting with others - cause some sort of defensive reaction here?

Aren’t phones literally designed to run and be on all the time nowadays? Huh?

Like, yeah, you’re using old hardware to run stuff and you presumably stopped using that phone for some reason, so it makes sense not to run vital services off your old phone, but for simple stuff like this it seems neat.

I can think that Steam at least provides a ton of services and value for that 30% , while also being annoyed that governments don’t tax people more.

I played it earlier this year on emulator and had very few problems. It ran at mostly 60fps and I had pretty minimal glitches.

So are you going to be the general, inspiring and gathering people, and picking targets? Or is this just yet another call for generic violence against any targets so you can feel that others are “doing something.”

I’m not a killer. I’m not interested in killing random conservatives. I’m interested in things that reduce pain and suffering in the world. Murdering people who don’t agree with me is not the way I want to live my life.

I feel really similar. I’m a dude, and I’ve always struggled with male friendships. I’ll ask people about themselves and their interests, get answers, and then the conversation stops with no reciprocation. I have a hard time just talking about myself unprompted, so since it’s rare for men to ask me stuff, I just get to know a lot of people but it never seems like they meet me.

That’s not a threat, that’s a mean suggestion.

No, it’s no good, is no good!

Is saying “not everyone is shitty” toxic positivity? I’m not denying the presence of malicious humans, but the first step to becoming a bad person is believing that everyone else is too.

What’s your end goal here - what are you trying to communicate? Just that the world is bad and people should agree with that fact and do nothing?

I don’t really mean to say that you can’t express your feelings on the Internet or that they aren’t valid, but I do just want to kinda poke people who seem to be in this “people are awful” mindset and point out that our psychology and our information ecosystem are all heavily biased towards the negative, but it’s not the complete picture.

Hey look at this guy! He’s met every human that’s ever existed, ignored all the times that humans have been good and caring, and has decided that we’re completely cooked!

But for real, I get that misanthropes are “in” right now, but if you look for the helpers, you will generally find them. Most people in the world are not out to cause pain - actively malicious people are rare. We just focus a shit ton of our attention on them.

The male loneliness is that feeling of having the burden of all your relationships in your shoulders, knowing that if you don’t go after people people won’t ever go after you. And that can be devastating with time.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it put so succinctly. Maybe this isn’t everything, but it is the root of the feeling for me. I’m constantly reaching out and checking in and it’s more rare for the reverse to happen (though it’s really important to notice when it does, which is something I’m trying to do more now).

Without points in gun skills, it will take a very long time to aim each shot. It’s not really a FPS skill issue, but more that your ability to do things are heavily influenced by how you build your character.

Here’s how you Grape Nut:

Pour a small pile (like a cup or so) in a bowl.

Take a spoonful of peanut butter and use the backside of the spoon to mix up the PB and GN. Smash it together for longer than you think until it’s well mixed.

Top with a drizzle of honey and then pour milk over it.

S-tier breakfast.

Those are the generic name for many ADHD medications, like Adderall.

Muppet Marvel could be so good.

If you have a lot of DRM free games and want to have your own backup copies and be able to easily share them with your household, this does that. It isn’t for hosting games you buy through Steam or other DRM-protected platforms. It’s for giving you an interface to easily search and download your own library of games that you could get from a bunch of different sources, so you don’t have to go look up your credentials that you used to buy the game to re download it.

Why can’t shitposts also be wholesome?