Appreciate this post. I’d welcome any suggestion to help deglorify guns to a kid, too

Mr Hands as entered the chat

I was thinking how there’s healthy and then unhealthy escapism. A break versus avoidance.

That aside, in support of you, I can’t see how building with Legos for part of the evening is any ‘worse’ - less mature, sophisticated, or what have you - than watching some sitcom or YouTube slop. Certainly not sad in either sense of the word. You are actively feeding your creativity and maybe processing out life stuff (play therapy is a thing, even for adults). How cool is that?

No argument that the drive is amplified. And, sex is amplified at the expense of intimacy, including nonsexual intimacy

Pretty much my thought.

Consumerism is, therefore content churning is.

Some other intersecting ingredients might be human sexual drive, wiring for novelty, legacy of puritanical mores,

Dang

When my brain has a song on repeat, I eventually realize that it’s related to something going on in my life. It’s uncanny to have one part of the brain talking to another like that

Glad to hear others still make mixes (I still call them mixtapes, because otherwise I feel like I’m claiming to be doing something fancier than I am). My last project was a story told in 16 mixtapes. So definitely someone who picks a theme when I make them

Bandcamp links: this is the way

in a similar vein, look up shrubs

tru dat

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

Also Nightmares on Wax - Smoker’s Delight, for absolutely capturing a certain mood

I’m github illiterate. What is it?

Thanks! My barrier to using crypto has been this first purchase element. Because afaik crypto is not inherently pvt and anon?

Do you then need to buy the crypto anonymously? I’m always confused about that point

Best take

Yeah. I don’t feel like I’m suffering for being on here rather than somewhere else

The repetition in the article itself makes me wonder if AI had a hand in the writing as well

Yeah. And I was never a collector so much as an accumulator (preservationist, if we’re being generous). It’s all just stuff that I read.

I had one or two of critical mass at some point. I had to look it up, but I remember some of those covers