Quality, organization, community, experience, reliability, and excellence, basically. Private is a luxury experience, public is for the masses.
Honestly, I’m struggling right now. Spent my 20’s waiting for something to happen that never did. Decided to change my life in my 30’s, and while I am a lot happier and more honest with myself in a lot of ways, I have also alienated people who were close to me by adopting new interests that they don’t share.
I try to meet new people, but it’s hard. The ones out socializing tend to be much younger or older than me, and the ones my age are having kids and stuff.
It has been really hard to find a balance between building the life I want to live, and not having changes isolate me to the point of loneliness.
If my wife goes, I may just have to cut everyone off and start fresh, but that terrifies me.
So, with all that, I guess I’m proud that I’m still trying and haven’t just given up completely and moved back in with mom like some of my contemporaries have.
I work in healthcare. My best patient is the guy who punched the rudest doctor in the face. If that rude doctor were in this thread, I bet he’d pick that guy.
I’m feeling this way about a lot of people in my life right now. In my opinion, it is a combination of a splintering pop culture (we aren’t all following the same things), splintering foundations of identity (even facts seem to be subjective these days), and simply being overwhelmed.
Most media is selling doom these days, and the source of that doom is completely contradictory based on who is selling it. If you want to talk about something serious, you inevitably wind up parroting your sources, or eliciting others to parrot theirs. The more you dig, the worse things get, until the argument feels personal.
Under those conditions, subjects like sports seem like a safe option that is unlikely to expose a raw nerve.
I only listen to FLAC. Anything else is a loss.
Gentlemen, this is a Wendy’s.
I volunteer. Just don’t check my server. /s
To be honest, this post seems very ignorant of the entire scene.
How do you know where to go? You run in techie circles and online groups. You look for ways to apply to different trackers. This isn’t hidden info.
You act like piracy is one big library that needs shoring up in specific places. It doesn’t really work like that. Find a few communities you like, download content from them that you like, seed forever.
After you have built a big library of things you are seeding, maybe volunteer for a low level staff position.
But the basic take away is that piracy is fine as it is. It doesn’t need you to save it. The best thing you can do is seed and keep learning.
It doesn’t matter—you can use it with your drug dealer, which is what you probably wanted anyway.
The government should consider printing some sort of paper voucher as a representation of money to be used in instances such as this. /s
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16769691
Cat peeking out of a Nazi Sd.Kfz.222 armored car, date unknown, Interwar or WW2-era
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Louis Coulon, trade unionist, with a cat in his 10-foot long beard, France, 1890
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Taking Time to Smell The Zinnias - Jonelle Summerfield (2016)
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British soldier with the trench cat, France, WW1, 1918
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/28974188
Sick Boy with a Cat - John Bowen (mid 20th century)
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/29225350
White Cat - Nishida Tadashige (1999)
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/5308712
"Trogdor the Burninator" by Strong Bad (2003)
Happy April 1st, dragon fans
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13775747
Night on the El Train- Edward Hopper; etching (1918)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1269304
Remi | Ilford HP5 Plus (@800), Canon 50mm f1.4 LTM, Leica M4
I find it interesting that you end with the benefits of free to play games since those tend to be heavy on micro transactions, or over powered purchasable gear. Do you not worry that the transition to free to play games will also usher in an era of incomplete until packages are purchased games?