I’m saddened by the fact that I understand what this is about.

I’m not American. I have no reason to know the context of this. I should not know about this idiocy. My attention has been hijacked. Every time I learn about something as stupid as this, I feel like I’m wasting precious resources. There are more important things closer to me that I should be worrying about.

How I wish I could block out all this and enjoy a nice surf on the web without having my awareness polluted.

Here’s a link to the paper, so you don’t have to read an article about an article.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000893

You either get cancer or you get diabetes, but you can’t have them both in this economy.

Can you actually do this or are you speaking out of your ass?

I’m a ham.

Yeah… I’m a bit chubby myself :(

Sounds interesting, I think I’ll give the show a listen.

USA defaultism at work.

When I said I miss the old internet this was not what I was thinking of!

I remember when I was in uni, living on-campus in a student dorm. Living conditions were not great, the rooms were small and they stuffed 3 or 4 guys in each room. We each had a bed, a chair, a tiny wardrobe, a shelf and half a desk. No fridge. Each fall, when we got back to school, there was an effervescent market for old used refrigerators. Everybody was buying and selling fridges for the first 1 or 2 weeks. One year we bought a 50 year old Zil fridge made in the USSR in the 60’s. We paid like €10 for it. It was heavy as hell and we had to carry it up the stairs to the 4th floor. The thing made a loud, continuous buzzing which helped drown out one of our colleague’s thunderous snoring. We loved it. I don’t remember what happened to it or who got to keep it after we disbanded, but I’m sure it still works.

I wish for a viable third party and they don’t meaningfully exist.

You and me both.

I don’t hold my breath for Linux phones ever taking off. They’d need a major player backing them to break the duopoly. Apple and Google won’t let a third player enter the market. Samsung tired at least 2 times and failed. Microsoft was squeezed out. If they couldn’t do it, no one can. We can only hope that one of the big two does something really stupid one day and basically dig their own grave.

I don’t have one. But if I want to degoogle, I’m not giving them my money from the get-go. Are there no more phones with unlockable bootloaders on the market? No more custom ROMs?

I don’t get GrapheneOS apologists. If you hate Google so much, how come you all have Pixel phones?

I just close my eyes and replay MASH reruns.

Ride gravel every day 🤘

As i get older and take care of myself, its easier to love myself, and thus, its easier to love other people and receive their love too.

Really well said.

I too started to face the consequences of my lifestyle in my late 20’s. I was fat, sedentary, ate junk, smoked, drank and my back started to hurt. I can’t really tell what motivated me to turn my life around. Could be I wanted to live a long and healthy life out of spite. Anyway, I’m way healthier now than I was 10 or 15 years ago. The effort is worth it.

Snapped a picture of my bike.

Don’t search for “sqrt girls”, you’ll be gravely disappointed.

This is why I like KDE Plasma. Just shake the mouse and watch the cursor get bigger.

Off the top of my head, I can think of Sibiu, Sadu and Cibin. These are the main local artisanal lagers. They’re good, but nothing to write home about. Consumer-grade beer is pretty shit in Romania, but there are a few good ones like Silva Dark and Csíki Sör (this one is manufactured in Székely Land, hence the Hungarian name).

It’s a 2-3 hour drive from Bran Castle. And just to be the insufferable pedant that I am, I’ll have to inform you that while Bran Castle is the castle that Bram Stoker described in his novel “Dracula”, the real Vlad the Impaler never resided there. Vlad ruled over Wallachia, not Transylvania. He may have been imprisoned there for a short time, though.