Chronicon [they/them]

foiled by the slur filter! good job slur filter

Originally I thought philosophy as a discipline was basically so far up its own ass as to be useless, then I took one or two philosophy classes and had some genuine interest, then I got politically engaged and read more philosophy outside of a classroom environment, and ultimately decided my original feeling was mostly correct.

I agree nobody’s really flipping from D to R or vice versa, but do you really think trump doesn’t also have to gin up some excitement to bring out his base? his recent rizzlessness seems like it could get some of the hogs who like him to go back to not voting

But yeah. the majority of movement is on the dem side this year. Trump isn’t doing himself any favors but he could still win if they fumble the PR cycle hard enough

WOW

even in the US, that one’s blatantly illegal

yeah even without drivers pushing around shit on snow and ice with probably no PPE provided besides maybe a jacket isnt great, add hundreds of dipshits in cars to the mix… its not good

Pushing shopping carts back in the winter was the worst.

statistically one of the most dangerous jobs too iirc

the only unfortunate thing is that essentially all gas stations have cameras

but honestly they aren’t monitored well at night so maybe you can get away with it if you’re casual enough. or black out your plates. Hardly seems worth the risk but those things make me homicidal so

only because they haven’t found a way to offload all the externalities of drunk speeding forklift drivers onto the public and the government yet.

its an insane libertarian thought experiment and not in any way realistic, but if capital owners that built cars, or roads, or whatever, any capitalist really, was liable for all the damage caused by drivers and maintenance incurred by rampant car dependency, and couldn’t offload it, suddenly they’d care a lot more about this shit

that used to work for me but the chains in my area caught on

it would probably fuck up the resonance and bring the level down at least

yeah, I genuinely thought about trying to figure out where the essential components of those were so I could pop a little hole in them with a drill but I decided to stop driving for like a year instead

Its still a thing in shitty midwestern bars too but all you get is stale popcorn

I dont wanna get into exactly which device(s) I do use since its a pretty small niche but it really hasnt been too bad. I used a linux phone for a while and that is kinda more practical in some circumstances (can get maps, etc) but also has flaws currently that dumber devices don’t.

Eventually I’ll probably get into a situation where I need maps and cant access them, but so far I haven’t, just by planning ahead mainly, navigating just by the grid layout of my city sometimes, and bringing a device with a browser with when I think I’ll really need it. I have a pretty good sense of direction and know most of my city like the back of my hand, which helps, but I could also always just call someone or bother a passerby or friend.

getting to plans and finding people has been 100% fine tbh.

I haven’t gotten stranded yet either. I bike a lot and carry minimal tools to do things like patch a tire. In a car I might have to call someone but I’m not exactly out driving past 2am that often so if I’m in town I could also take transit, or I can fix or troubleshoot some minor car issues on the spot as well if I’m lucky and its something simple.

I’m privileged to be able to do all this stuff in some ways I guess but its also fun and may not be as hard as you think!

I know an older (maybe young gen x) guy who didnt get even a dumbphone until like last year. just a landline kind of guy. I think he had a computer at home, he wasnt a luddite, but mostly was just a cash money, talk in person kind of dude

I’m a paranoid freak I guess

(I’m not actually, but I do run linux, try to avoid likely backdoored hardware, don’t use a smartphone, etc. I could certainly be more paranoid but everyone has their limits, either in skill or free time, or not going insane)

Its not priority number one, but its not a bad thing to keep in mind and work towards

I mean sure, but they should apply the logic more widely, not less.

Yeah literally. Everyone I know who got really into it has at some point, either quit the game for a while or permanently because of the effect it had on them, or I have seen/heard them scream at their computer to an embarrassing degree while playing. It never sounded fun, and the one time I played it as a bit (got some thrift store power glove style controller working and everyone wanted me to play because I was the last hold out) I was like why is this appealing?

exactly

its truly horrible.

You need their app to do port forwarding now, and instead of not paying modem rental fees, there’s actually a fee for bringing your own modem now.