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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Not at all. Trying to exist in the modern world is exhausting.

The world now is an attention economy. What you have of value that everyone wants is for you to see just one more thing. Click just one more link. Smash just one more like and subscribe button. Respond to a text immediately, otherwise you might be dead. All of these things exist in a space where they assume the world is only you and them in that moment.

It's really important that people start to learn how to unplug. Even just for an hour or two a day, exist in the world where you control the stimulus. You can go for a walk and leave your phone at home. Or turn it off.

Also consider seeing your phone to greyscale during certain times of the day. It helps as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

Yep, I did mean that. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

It's supposed to be an emergency solution.

However, megawatts of power generation isn't exactly something that can be thrown together in a couple weeks. It can take months to stabilize a grid to the pint the ship can disengage.

Edit: mega, not kilo. I was thinking too small.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Just a civilian guess, but 2 or 3 Delta V or Falcon Heavy to put 1 payload into LEO with a command module and lander, then 1 booster with fuel. Short of using prototype lander, fabrication would take months at best. Then a Starship or SLS to get a crew, food, and water into orbit.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Please update your credit card and subscription to access premium colors such as red!"

[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not even that.

The technology never, ever works as well as it's hyped. It's a sales ploy, not a feature.

The purpose is always data collection, and the data is always leaked.

Vulnerabilities and the progression of tech make these kinds of bells and whistles age out of practical use faster, costing the consumer more over the long run.

F this kind of noise in particular, this is not progress.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't it that rapping cartoon dog from the PS1?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Well, there's always me after 3 whiskeys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Greece. Food is usually good, but spice is a totally foreign concept.

And Mexican food in Greece is hilariously bad. Like they can't even Google a picture of nachos?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Once years ago when I used to smoke, on was visiting Ghana and people were literally yelling at me for smoking in public. It's illegal to smoke in public in a few African countries at this point IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Ugh...Just laying on that couch... Can't defeat natural causes with a wooden stake.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The gut punch was Gina Torres, and Zoe not being allowed to grieve and be with Wash.

I watched Serenity again a couple years ago, and it was just as harsh and abrupt as I remember it. It's a hard emotional jab at anyone who has ever loved a partner that's a part of their everyday life.

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