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SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Technology@lemmy.world•Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford studyEnglish0·8 months agoCool, an Oxford study that isn’t insulting.
Ghosting is a normal part of life. It happens, and 95% of the time it’s inadvertent and not a slight. People come in and leave your life. That’s just how it works.
If someone isn’t worth the hassle, move on. It doesn’t even deserve an explanation or second thought.
Only you get to determine how your time is spent. Nobody deserves a monopoly over your emotions or effort, and anybody who demands an explanation is just manipulating you because they don’t respect your agency as a person as much as they value their own pride. Don’t fall for the toxicity.
There are eight billion people out there. It would take 250 years to high-five them all. Lots of noise, very little signal.
+1 Singapore. Good food, I don’t stand out in a crowd, future city.
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•For Harris supporters who oppose 3rd parties: 2 questions. (1) How will you get the US to stop funding Israeli genocide?; & (2), what are the chances of your proposal(s) succeeding before, say, 2075?5·8 months agoIn my state, getting at least 2% of the vote for either Governor or President in a general election keeps the Party on the ballot for the next election.
Without hitting that 2% threshold, the party loses its official status and has to go back to petitioning status, which means resources are tied up both canvassing for tens of thousands of signatures and fighting in courts to get reinstated. So it’s a perpetual ground game and prevents the party from taking off.
The Libertarian Party has remained above that threshold for about a decade now, the only third party to do so consistently, and that’s pretty scary.
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your favorite inconsequential fan theory?14·9 months agoSisko was killed in TNG’s universe. Sisko survived in DS9’s universe due to the prophets saving him. The Trek universe diverged at Wolf 359.
The Dominion War has drastically different outcomes. Existential crisis in one universe where Sisko does a lot of meddling; barely mentioned in the other.
The biggest change to the cast is that Worf marries Jadzia Dax and becomes Ambassador to the Klingon Empire in one universe; in the other universe, he does a brief inconsequential stint at DS9 (without Sisko), never marries, then returns to the Enterprise E as pretty much the same character from TNG, and at some later point, he gets the Enterprise E destroyed.
The Picard timeline is set in the universe where Sisko died at Wolf 359.
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Movies@lemmy.world•Star Trek: Section 31 Streaming January 24English6·9 months agoI’m surprised that she decided to do this.
She is by far the most decorated person to ever come back to Star Trek.
I just don’t understand it. I see some people with $1000 car payments and nothing toward retirement. What ever happened to looking for good deals? We had a kind of “rugged ingenuity” thing growing up where you respected people who took care of their older stuff, and I guess that still holds true today. $1000 car payments, I would have paid off my car in under a year.
Honestly, I’m scared to spend. Which I guess is okay because I’m comfortable with how we live and sometimes you have to spend on life events out of your control.
Yeah, thanks. Between ThinkPads and system76 and Fairphone, it’s pretty easy to maintain. Monitor is a Dell U3014. It was over a thousand dollars new but these days it’s under $200 used and I’ve replaced the mainboard in it twice for about $145 each time. Everything was purchased slightly used so that saves a lot.
I kind of don’t really drive much. Between biking and living close to a lot of things, I’ve put about 40,000 miles on the car in 7 years. Car is in its third decade and has about 70k miles on it.
Live below my means, invest the rest.
I don’t dress or act like people in my pay range. My house is small and in a quiet neighborhood and cost less than my salary. Car is older but paid off and I know all the quirks and have the toolbox in the back to fix it. It is probably one of the top 5 most reliable cars in history. My work dress shoes are 10 years old and my around the house shoes were new in 2019.
I spend my money where I spend my time. So I have a nice phone, a very nice monitor and mechanical keyboard, and a good computer. And all with the right to repair philosophy. Same for my wife and kids. And also good running shoes, good exercise equipment.
The plan is to get to a point where I can just not work at all and maintain my lifestyle. Three percent rule and all that. And also help launch my kids.
Something about a 25 year roof and a Japanese shit box car in my fortress of solitude.
FWIW I grew up really really really poor like you wouldn’t believe so I’m okay with this.
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the Top 3 TV Shows that define your (personal) youth?2·10 months agoMighty Morphin Power Rangers
Deep Space Nine
Nova
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movies can you rewatch often and not get tired of?9·10 months agoCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
LOTR: The Two Towers
Primer
Antitrust
Hackers
Star Trek: TMP
Scarface
Hot Tub Time Machine
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If Lemmy was a physical place, what would it look like?3·10 months agoA city university in Bogota during a paro.
https://thebogotapost.com/student-strikes-continue-the-march-of-the-pencils/33240/
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your first principles (rules you've developed) in your life?6·10 months agoBe excellent to each other
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most quintessential 90s movie?16·10 months agoHACKERS
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a good lesson you learned from Aesop's Fables?6·11 months ago“Fuck around and find out.” -The Boy Who Cried Wolf
SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.netto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What book that hasn't been adapted into a TV show or movie do you think deserves an adaptation?3·11 months agoFor a movie: Sailing to Byzantium
For a tv series: Bones of the Earth or Replay
It’s a big deal because it’s a bunch of white people who died.
More Lao kids will die this year from unexploded ordinance left over from an undeclared war where the US dropped a planeload of bombs on the country every eight minutes around the clock, every single day, for nine years.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186949348/us-cluster-munitions-civilian-casualties-laos
Oh look the loser Biden administration is in Laos right now and refusing to even mention it because “muh China.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/us-secret-war-remembered-as-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-austin-visits-laos