schmorp, schmorpel@slrpnk.net

To eat. I was just thinking that I’m very lucky to have friends who cook and bake for often. Typing this with a mouth full of Beerenkuchen.

Urban myth, nobody has ever been tripping on banana peels. They are not psychoactive. 🧐

House and pet sitting. I’m now in a country full of cheese. There’s cheese everywhere. I’m eating a cheese sandwich while typing this. ‘Please eat all the cheese while we’re gone’ they begged me before narrowly escaping the giant wheel of cheese thundering down the steep hillside, under a light but constant dribble of melted cheese falling from the cheese-laden sky.

The plans are only well thought out if they correspond with your adhd personality. My plans start after 10am and 32 cups of coffee and rarely fail.

Finally someone else says it. I’ve come to think the same in recent years. Keeping us isolated (and also diagnose us with or encourage self- diagnosis of mental illness) is all too convenient for those in power to keep us small.

Question is do we need more code, or better code?

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I’ve stopped buying at Amazon a good while ago, I find most of what I need in smaller European web stores, I’ll buy computer, household, garden and farm stuff mostly. Also, small local shops around here will order stuff they don’t have in stock.

IoT and Smart Everything. Enjoy.

Yucca roots like crazy, just place in soil and occasionally water and you should be fine.

Hey, parent here, and Off My Chest back to you: Sacrificing for my child sounds like a bit much. But I’m also intrigued: sacrifice in which way, on a spectrum that could range from “Save from a burning building” to “Spend years of one’s life to raise a child”

But honestly, wholesome parent-child relations are awesome. When I had my kid I was determined to have nothing but wholesome interactions with them. Doesn’t always work out like that. Trauma that is passed on through generations is not easy to shake off. As a parent I feel lucky and honored that my grown up child still wants to talk to me!

I wonder if other countries have similsr laws nobody cares about?

Three pea plants are in front of my house, this reminded me of it.

But then at least don’t get another cat. It’s clearly not working. 50 sqm outdoor space is not large, not for a cat. They walk a few kms a day when they can.

You’d be surprised how social cats are. They don’t necessarily hate each other, at least not all of them. What they consider friendly and social among each other might be hard for us to notice.

Alone is hard for an animal. Then again, if you find living with a destroyed (scratched?) floor very difficult you might not want to have more animals.

I have more animals I can count and my bf next door has more - cats, dogs, poultry, pigs, sheep, donkeys, horses all move around among each other. Nobody here has behavioural problems, and even interspecies communication is quite non-aggressive and smooth. Having enough space to get out of each other’s way is important, and having enough space in general. When I see how urban pets are kept I get depressed - isolation, boredom, narrow spaces. Of course they go mental!

You can’t replace a translator with AI. It has to be AI + a human to fix the crappy AI output. Guess what ends up being cheaper? I didn’t change careers, and they’re hiring translators again. Bubble is bursting.

I think the reality is darker. Whoever sells the guns convinces dickheads like the ones pictured above that they can win their own little favourite war in 40 mins max - if only they buy the new EnemySmasher3000! It’s all marketing. Somebody gets rich. Us NPCs suffer.

One day, you inscribed a clay tablet for the last time without even realizing it.

Lots of love, much nom nom. My cat insists it’s a love language. I’ve drawn the line at drawing blood. A normal, healthy relationship with a pet.

Da geht es mir so wie dir. Ich konsumiere Weltnachrichten sehr eingeschränkt, weil das besser für meine geistige Gesundheit ist.

Zur Zeit hinterfrage ich sehr, wieviel ich denn überhaupt von der Welt wissen will und muss. Ich habe ja nicht um die Globalisierung gebeten, sie wurde mir aufgezwungen. Es kann natürlich sein, dass ich bei einer kompletten Nachrichtenverweigerung dann etwas Wichtiges nicht mitkriege, z.B. dass nun laut einem neuen Gesetz jeder Bürger auf der Straße eine Propellermütze tragen muss. Und dann latsche ich halt zum monatlichen Einkauf ins Städtchen und werde verhaftet wegen fehlender Propellermütze. Abgesehen von solchen Situationen sind Nachrichten ja größtenteils Propaganda. Ist es wichtig, dass ich weiß, welche Entschuldigung sich die Mächtigen diese Woche für die hohen Lebensmittel- und Spritpreise ausgedacht haben? Nicht wirklich, bezahlen muss die Scheiße ja trotzdem.

Ich versuche, so viel Energie und Aufmerksamkeit wie möglich ins Positive zu leiten. Schön in der Sonne sitzen, Haustiere streicheln. Mit den Kids spielen. Lecker Kochen, lecker Essen. Und halt all die Skills aufbauen, die man in einer allmählich zusammenbrechenden Gesellschaft so braucht: Gärtnern, DIY, Gemeinschaftskram - auch hier mit Sinn für den Spaß und das Positive, nicht in Angst. Sterben tun wir eh alle irgendwann.