angrytoadnoises

yes, for sure. I think we all do.

I think it requires a reframing of the mind. The 'smart-dumb' scale is an oversimplification of human intellect. It was never entirely accurate. Ignoring intellectual disabilities, every human is equally as capable as being as smart as any other human. We're the same kind of animal.

The true factor in intellect is your curiosity. Some people are naturally curious of different subjects and will learn more about those subjects. Some people are incurious about most subjects and won't learn much at all. Most of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were just sufficiently curious in whatever field they're qualified in. None of the traditionally 'smart' people you think of were born smart.

Foster your curiosity. If you know what excites you, you're already half way to intelligence.

damn, they did it. they destroyed marxism. nothing else worked but they got us here

We have this whole culture around consuming simulated CSA material and we aren't supposed to talk about it because 'its just a drawing bro'

I am genuinely repulsed by the prevalence of Loli in anime. Every anime show someone tries to get me into has a little girl character. Even if she's not overly sexualised it skeeves me out.

Vaush is creepy. I don't think he's a specific pedophile, just so porn-addled and coomerbrained that his filter for acceptable discourse has been ground down to nothing. Anyone who keeps a porn folder probably falls into the same category.

Basically, someone I wouldn't trust my kids around either way.

This is so cool. Like, just such a good vibe to be in. I love ~~plastics~~ novel entities plaguing my environment.

At the time, I think I had uncommon hardware. I was trying to get Linux going on the cheapest little notebook you can imagine. I also got the same retort from support forums at the time, so my problem obviously wasn't widespread. It was just the most definitive effort into Linux I had made, and I was just getting rebuffed by what I saw as silly little problems.

That was close to a decade ago now, though. After so much faffing around on the Steam Deck I think I'm ready to give Linux another stab.

There was absolutely sexual violence during the holocaust and the german army absolutely raped their way through both the western and eastern fronts. What did you mean by this? All armies rape and pillage, the US, the brits, the italians, the french, the japanese, even the aussies did it.

Do you actually think armies full of men just...don't rape?

yeah I'd probably wanna stop the nazis too

The fastest way to get a gawky white american teenager spitting revisionism at you is to plainly state that the Soviet's were instrumental to winning the second world war.

b-b-but the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact!!

a year and a bit spent on the steam deck makes me wonder if daily driving linux would be all that hard. i've tried before but was always bounced off by the stupidest little things, like not being able to find wi-fi drivers or whatever. but nowadays i'm starting to think all that is worth it to be off windows

I'm building up to doing the same. Already using Protonmail and Kagi. Looking for a less Google-dependent phone to switch over to and then I might pull the plug myself.

I'm feeling positive, too. You can't undo the progres made in the decentralized network space. Every loss for big tech is a win for us. I don't hold much hope that decentralized networks are going to sweep the globe and return the internet to it's former glory. But I do think we'll always have a space, and that space can only get bigger.