The only thing you need to be careful of is falling out of touch with modern life because you’re still watching 90s films in the 2050s. Part of my enjoyment of the niche entertainment I consumed in the 90s came from seeking out new people to enjoy it with, searching for it on the proto-internet, and forming communities around the experience of watching it. I find that nowadays I can watch the film again but it just doesn’t bring the same kind of enjoyment that it did when I watched it 30 years ago. I hope I live long so I can see more new entertainment options come out and try those too, and my dvd collection gets lost and broken and water damaged from being left in the closet where it belongs.

My ender 3 wasn’t my first printer, it’s not my only printer, and some days it’s my best printer. It’s actually underrated as a platform.

Loser is as loser does. Your values determine that. Just remember that nobody is better than anyone else, and everyone is a loser to somebody.

Use drugs and kill people?

You need a break.

Did you come here to insult people and be insulted?

Get off here. It’s documented mental illness at this point. I come from the beforetimes. When I was a teenager, a/s/l was redundant because the BBS was a local call, and if you wanted to see what someone looked like they had to own a scanner, which was rare and expensive. It was liberating to be able to talk to people and make friends without the superficiality of irl interactions.

Modern internet is profit-motivated and monetization is driven by engagement. It takes time and effort to curate your experience to squelch what the platform wants to show you, which is content you’re most likely to engage with at the time you’re most likely to engage with it. You’re not talking to your friends anymore. It’s an isolating experience.

The next time you’re talking to someone or replying to a post, looking for your gotcha mic-drop moment, consider why you came here in the first place. Are you here deliberately, or are you just using the internet service that came with your smartphone? Go out into the world instead. Constant rage is unhealthy. Voting, community moderation, logins, persistent identity, and profiles have made the internet experience way more image-obsessed than the irl experience ever was. Your discourse is being streamlined, not encouraged and diversified.

tl;dr: go find your tribe, your real tribe.

I’m saying that shooting Kirk had nothing to do with hateful people finding their way to hate propaganda. If their reasons for joining a known hate group are that thin, they would have joined it anyway, or a different one, or started their own.

People who are susceptible to hate propaganda will find their way to it.

I saw that post too. I noticed it was a woman-only space and muted it. Godspeed to them, people deserve to have communities like that.

I tell people if you want a printer with the most upgrade paths, pick the ender 3 stock. You can make it bigger or taller, add direct drive, magnetic beds, put a laser on it or a cutter, switch out the board for different firmware, all available on alibaba.

My ender 3 stock wasn’t my first printe and isn’t my only printer, but some days it’s my best printer.

A creality anything shouldn’t be your first printer. I own two creality printers.

No state has received full funding for their snap/ebt as of this morning. Some funds are being released by the federal government to states but not fully, not uniformly, and with serious delay. I can’t find any credible evidence that anyone has definitely received their full November benefits as scheduled. In fact, the USDA has told states they can’t fund the cards and then be reimbursed by the federal government under current rules and the USDA has stated, as of this morning, that they will not fully fund benefits due to the shutdown.

I don’t believe you are telling the truth.

What do you suggest they do?

Eta: Always be super careful when people sitting on the shitter tell you that you should go out into the world and commit real life violence. Nobody who does these behaviors is out here on the internet flagging it for the world to see. They could be lazy internet-dwellers, they could be edgy teens, they could be feds, but don’t let them influence you. And if you’re going to do what they suggest, for God’s sake don’t talk about it.

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I’ve made films and one of my closest friends is a model. Nobody is all that attractive in any objective sense. Moreover, nobody cares how smart anyone else is, and if someone seems loved by everyone around them, congratulate them for finding their tribe. Go find yours and worry less about other people.

When I encounter teenagers who use reddit I tell them to look up “subreddit of the year 2008” just to gross them out.

Folks who are not members of a privileged ruling class have no real say about what their leadership does with the military regardless of the illusion of choice they’re given on election day. The idea that average, working class Americans are responsible for national guard troop deployments in US cities for stated political purposes can only come from a privileged person who has the kind of power and control to do anything to affect the situation. I know that’s not me.

If anyone wants a suggestion for something they can personally do to help America’s national situation, go to the food bank and move boxes around, and if you’ve got enough money to do it, go to the local megamart and buy all the clearance and donate it. Food stamps are gone starting Monday.

Everyone does dumb shit when they’re younger.

Sure, and you can’t come back from some of it.

“Since you didn’t bother to write it, I didn’t bother to read it.”