“So, Greg, what do you do for work?”

“Uhhhh…. I’m the control group for AI toilets.”

So just a mix and match of partial truths about multiple Ancient Greek philosophers?

Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.

1. Toast the bread.
2. pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
3. spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
4. add the crispy salami, some lettuce, and seasoned tomato to your sandwich and enjoy.

People look at me sideways for using hummus as a sandwich spread, but it’s delicious.

Academia, USA.

You’re getting the exact same quality of education for introductory classes at a community college, state school, and private school.

I know because I teach the same suite of classes at all 3 as an adjunct. Same book, same syllabus, same schedule, same assignments. The only difference is the price tag, and I’m hardly alone in that.

Actually, scratch that. You’re getting a better education at the community college because the people in charge there bother to remember that I exist and treat me as an equal.

I’m absolutely convinced that there’s a certain threshold of money/power/privilege that just destroys a person’s humanity.

I don’t recall saying that “everyone on the planet” should or could adopt any kind of belief.

Pacifism isn’t aimed at victory.

I think it’s fair to say that, for a person to be consistent in their pacifism, they probably also need to adopt:

1. Anarchism (because government lives by its capacity for violence.)
2. Religious convictions of some kind.

Or some combination of the two, as was the case for the Diggers.

Pacifism.

The overwhelming majority of people, no matter where they sit in terms of culture, religion, and politics, see total nonviolence as a naive position.

But it’s among my most deeply held beliefs.

We have to remember that the people making these decisions have no idea what life is like for a poor person. The kinds of payments that would ruin my life and yours are nothing to them.

So, they think we have the ability to afford these payments because they’re damned fools. They don’t expect mass defaults.

I think they’re wrong about that.

Ain’t a bad idea.

Round about 10 years ago I lived alone in a little cabin in the woods. I didn’t have much in the way of money, didn’t need much of it either. Wood stove, books from the library for entertainment.

Shit, I was way calmer and happier when I lived in the woods.

Hey. Thank you for sharing this.

Websites like this are the good part of the internet.

I work in academia. I’m a lowly paid adjunct who teaches 8 classes across 4 schools to make ends meet.

In the lead up to this semester, each school has had a mandatory Zoom meeting to get everyone involved on the same page.

In all 4 instances, I sat there and fucking seethed watching people who make upward of 10 times what I do just endlessly fumble with the technology while saying nothing of value for 2 hours.

It’s honestly amazing just how inept the manager class is.

Same here.

I can’t say I like the music, but them clowns is good people.

I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.

Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.

It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.

He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.

And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.

So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.

This is just Socrates.

It depends.

I’m one of the few people still teaching on Zoom. Turns out it’s a good delivery method for some students at community colleges (like if you have young children at home, etc.)

If I’m teaching, I show up 15 minutes early.

If I’m just a participant, I show up pretty much right on time, then I quietly judge whoever is running the meeting because most calls are run poorly.

I saw it in theaters and, yeah, I couldn’t tell you a single thing about this movie if my life depended on it.

Housemates left a door open; we lived in the woods.

A squirrel got into the house. Housemates, because young men are idiots, chased the squirrel further into the house… right into my bedroom.

They then tossed literally all of my possessions around the room in an attempt to remove or kill the squirrel.

Friends, they were not successful. The squirrel escaped the room and ran further into the house.

Absolutely.

Buy things used, repair and jailbreak what you can, and learn to make things for yourself.

We can’t, at least as individuals, divest from every exploitative system. But, we can remove ourselves from more than we think.

Often enough, you get a better experience out of the homemade and secondary market than whatever the new thing you’re being pushed can give.

I’ve been using Mint and Pop!_OS on two different machines for a few years.

Neither has really required much from me as the user, although I have needed to use the terminal once on each of them.

Personally, I really like the way Pop does window tiling and workspaces.