Pigeons only unclean because they have to stand on our garbage

Never accept the first offer though

Me but I’m going back to almond or soy (the hard stuff) merk instead of the more virtuous plain oat melk.

This is fuckin meaty I love it

Schnnnaaw what du we have heres

Did he said this?

I’m sensing a pattern.

No but seriously, the psychopathic allure of leadership (Forbes, sry just the first link I found) is leading to civilization scale decisions which are 1) out of sync with what a reasonable person wants, 2) counter to general human flourishing.

Tech leadership wants us to worry about potential ethical “alignment issues” with a theoretical AGI, but we’re already in crisis if those leading us don’t share our basic human values.

PS. I’m not trying to say psychopaths nonghuman. They’re the same species and probably as conscious as I am. I just don’t think they’re an apt choice to decide matters for humans who do have empathy. Imagine a chef with no sense of taste running a restaurant kind of deal.

Neighbours at least talking to each other

You’re speculating that an internet wouldn’t have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can’t know if that’s true or not.

I worked at a place that had self-hosted git and IRC for internal messaging. Was great!

From my perspective that seems to be happening. I feel like there’s a rift between the websites I use for work and the ones I use on my own time. I realize that for most people on the internet, the big central platforms are the internet–I’m not trying to universalize my perspective.

It’s just that I remember when computers and the internet itself were niche and business was still barely aware of its potential, so this kind of feels familiar: You’ve got biz churning away in the mainstream, unaware of another culture that’s growing up, outside of their malls and parking lots.

Maybe just a liittle cancer until we get smartphones and then we can nip it in the bud and ooops why is everyone mad oh no why are all the animals dying I just wanted to scroll for gods sake

You are speculating on hypotheticals though, since no one can know for certain how things would have unfolded in a different world.

I’m not even going to argue that capitalism doesn’t get you some positive outcomes for certain people.

Thanks, that is genuinely nice to hear. Was there any particular type of meditation that worked for you?

Damn I’ve got to rewatch that special. Bo was woke.

If money can buy you power in the apocalypse, then they would rather live as rich fucks in a fallen might-makes-right cinderpile, rather than pump the breaks slightly on their insane lifestyle so that we could all have a future worth living in.

Sorry about the way I type

Forgetting is second only to acceptance, yeah. Left to my own devices I’ll just fixate on the past, replaying the scenes and emotions over and over like that one Black Mirror episode.

I wish I didn’t spend so much of my time in the past.

Me in the shower realizing I misgendered someone again

Ah yes, I could see that situation arising, although frankly I’m as surprised to hear of landlords competing for tenants as I would be to hear of them selling their properties for under market value. Not that I’m doubting your honesty–it’s just not been my personal experience.

I’ve heard too many personal anecdotes of landlords trying to hike up rates by seeking spurious evictions, or refusing to install climate control, for tenants who are getting a “good deal” at lower rates. Maybe there are rational markets out there, but I don’t personally hold out much hope for landlords to be reasonable in the face of the dual pressures of fear and greed.

Yeah that’s the vagaries of the housing market and valuation, which is why I said equivalent property.

There’s also no reason you couldn’t sell that house for 400k less. The value is just the value. It’s going to be the same whether you’re renting or paying the bank for the same property.

I also won big by buying prepan, but who’s up or down in the Canadian housing lotto doesn’t change the physics of paying a lord’s mortgage costing more than if you were paying the bank’s mortgage directly.

Nevermind that whoever gets to be lord keeps the equity.