This one, I’m used to it

…when someone seems normal you aren’t looking to explain their differences. The chance to socialize in the real world as opposed to a classroom environment is one of the things I value most about that period. We clearly have very different perspectives, in my community yours might be socially awkward. And that’s ok, it is in no way “crucial” for you to think feel or act the way I do :)

I was homeschooled for pretty much the exact opposite ideological reasons, and am so grateful to have had the chance to explore and develop without institutional constraints. Some great years traveling in a bus and seeing how a wide variety of people lived. To me homeschooling is an ideal of time commitment to a child that most people are unable to achieve, and offloading that opportunity to a centralized authority while you pursue a paycheck is a tragic compromise

Way cooler than the mural on your ice cream van, op

You were 100% playing one of the many remakes

I might reevaluate my risk assessment and consider including other media. It’s right in there with weed in terms of both risk and reward, in that you’ll probably have fun/make a lot of people happy but definitely still need other means of support. There’s a guy doing exactly what you’re talking about at pretty much every educational institution for starters, and the risk is essentially being told to stop

Try every other day. Even a 24hr break makes a big difference when you’ve been hitting the bedtime/breakfast bowls

All of this is 100% correct, but to shed some light on the perspective you’re replying to: this deep into dystopia, slimy business bullshit as opposed to literal dictates from the surveillance state counts as “organic growth” for a lot of people

Let me get this straight… you’re actually asking for less human input and more slop? Isn’t posting about shit/reading people’s takes kinda the whole game here?

What exactly is your point here? You’re telling a firefighter how sure you are that at some point in history a cop has helped someone in a fire because… ?

Conversely, I’ve had cops actively prevent me from helping stop a very small house fire, literally on scene just to prevent friends and neighbors from doing anything about it. Got to argue with four gun-toting meatheads while a home burned out from an everyday kitchen accident, place was uninhabitable before the fire dept showed up. Of all the dumbass places to wave your “thin blue line” flag, why here?

I think this is a mistake, half the discussion here is just calling it out. “They slopped first” is no justification, it’s still a wildly resource intensive attempt to replace human output

e: also the one where he’s healing Epstein is way funnier :p

“A lawsuit is also seeking to undo the project’s approval.”

because ousting half the local government over it isn’t a clear enough expression of the people’s will

Data?

Less control next time please, dunno how old you are but that’s exactly the human immune response that rid us of Google Glass. Early beta testers consistently got rocked whenever they wore them outside and the project went nowhere. I’m too old now and don’t get out enough but pray the kids are up to rejecting round 2

Befriend good customers and start (keep?) selling grey market on the side, only way to get paid as a weed barista

I can understand, disagree, and not be a dick about it. Please work on that last one. I genuinely love to talk about this stuff, but it’s no fun confrontationally. Enjoy your dead, sterile, static zine shrine if that’s what you want. Those butterflies are too beautiful to ever exist again, you’re super special for having witnessed them, good thing they’re pinned in your shadowbox. My “point” here is that this world and that culture is a beautiful, living, evolving, ever-changing Thing still very much available for you to participate in. Come out and play, or not! There was a “post your lab” thread in the selfhosting comm here just a couple days ago that should’ve been able to melt your jaded old phreaky heart, wires going everywhere, scavenged gear, tunnels and proxies and containers, people learning and sharing and experimenting and helping each other out, punk’s only as dead as you let it be

Here’s a ww2, Vietnam, and modern interpretation to get you started. I wanted to include the original, but turns out he’s just a regular dog lol

Knice

As best as I can tell your point is to enshrine a medium best known for how accessible it is into something precious. I spread my first lil xeroxed pamphlet in 1992 and last one (so far) a couple years ago and genuinely from a place of love hope to see you do the same rather than sneering at “posers”. It’s way more fun to participate than judge and I earnestly want that for you. One person didn’t make monty python, but they absolutely made your favorite zine and so can you :)

Fuck it, I don’t care if he’s old. Bernie’s Ghost 2028