Zero22xx

Schools stalking their students' social media profiles is actually just fucked up in the first place. Before social media, they had no way to invade a kid's life outside of school this way. And the fact that it happens now without much of a fuss is alarming. Humankind really is just sleepwalking into fascism.

If they all used it at the same time, there's a possibility that it would result in 5 different alternate realities, one where each of those countries has achieved their goals. Maybe 6 different alternate realities, including the original.

Let your freak flag fly!

• Digging up a struggling lawn to make way for stone blocks and planter boxes and maybe a few plants in between here and there. Going to be attempting to make some stone blocks too with cement and stuff.

• Might be meeting up with my weed guy for a smoke and whatever he's philosophising or excited about this time. Sometimes it's soccer, in which case I mostly just smile and wave; sometimes it's interesting socio-political matters.

• And in between that, probably wanting to play a game or address my growing watch list of movies / series / pro wrestling but actually just mostly bed rotting and scrolling.

Edit: think I'm actually gonna start a new run of Burnout Paradise. Doesn't need research and wikis, maybe just a map or two. But still scratches that exploration and collecting things itch.

Edit 2: actually, now I'm thinking either Castlevania Circle of the Moon or Metroid Zero Mission.

Edit 3: so I went with Metroid Fusion first this time.

Related post I just saw a couple of hours earlier. (I hope I got the url right, still not entirely sure of the best way to share a link to another post that works nicely for everyone in any instance or app)

Holy crap I'm not sure I've seen that before! Just watched a clip on YouTube and I don't remember it honestly, even though I've seen this show multiple times by now at friends' houses over the years. That's hilarious and looks like there's a missing episode I haven't seen that I need to watch properly.

precious day off

This phrase and the fact you nodded off makes it sound like you've been working hard and you're in need of a holiday.

lovely horse

Completely unrelated but your title made me think of this scene from Father Ted (YouTube). Although watching this now again years later, it might be more odd than funny if you're not familiar with the show.

Thinking about the USA right now too much doesn't lead to any good sleep for me at all right now. Because there's bad things happening to good people there. I feel awful for the actual decent people that share a country with cruel and dogmatic clowns. People who probably live next door to someone who voted to ensure their rights get taken away and their lives become even more miserable.

I honestly struggle to come to terms with the fact so many people are still so cruel and backwards. It's not the stupidity that's the main problem, it's the malicious intent and desire to turn everyone into a goose stepping clone. And how easily people are turned into goose stepping clones. Conned by reality stars and drug addicted tech bros, what a joke. I think it's part stupidity and part the fact that these people really are just malicious assholes, so they could've been convinced into this by a talking toilet brush mascot.

I feel sorry for the intelligent and empathic, and the people who dare to live lives that are true to themselves without dogma who have to live in a country with the stupid and selfish, and the people who want to impose their narrow minded puritanical views onto everyone else with force and cruelty.

I'll be sleeping like a baby when the goose stepping clowns are all dying of some easily preventable disease that they could've vaccinated for but right now there's nothing comforting about what's going on there.

Yeah, it's not all bad. Although I think just like Reddit, your experience is largely influenced by the communities in your feed. Seeing the general outlook in here makes me realise I could stand to spend more time in communities like this than I have been.

There's actually a lot of good about this place, even if it's not sunshine and rainbows all the time or perfect.

I do think it could be a little busier though. A lot of communities could do with more posters and conversation in the comments in general. Like, there's still a lot of room for more activity around here without it getting overcrowded and not seeing regulars anymore.

That said, there's actually more than enough good content and people, to make it worth coming back here tomorrow, particularly in the non politics and news cycle side of things here. And I agree that it does feel more international here than Reddit, even if 90% of the news still revolves around the USA anyway lol.