I paid 3.20 for a small loaf of bread. Fight me.
tetris11
joined 2 years ago
I think you're being very generous, but we can agree to disagree
But they make really cool umbrellas...
The imperfectness of two people communicating create new thought and new possibilities though, because compromise is necessitated and new things are learned or looked at in novel ways due to this process.
Imagine talking with a clone of yourself, who gets every joke, every reference, and can finish your sentences. At first you'll think "cool!", but after realising that you have nothing new to say to each other, you will learn not to even try, since why bother finishing a sentence if the other person knows exactly what you are going to say?
I used to be in such a relationship. On the surface, it seemed ideal: she got my jokes, same culture, same group of friends, fantastic synergy. It was also the most stressful relationship I ever had. Imagine being locked in a mirrored room with yourself. I now date someone with a completely different culture and language. Communication is a constant problem, but we work towards it and learn new things along the way constantly. It's not perfect. But perfect is a special level of hell, reserved for narcissists.
No, I just believe that large changes are cursed, and small changes in the right direction might be enough to enact a bigger change. Think of it like a genie that allows you to wish for anything (likely with cursed results), vs 1000 genies that allow you to wish for small things (also cursed, but with smaller side effects).
I run a fediverse server. It gobbles 60Watts, paid for by my energy company who promise they're switching to solar, but aren't there yet.
I get the impression that the fediverse is an adhoc mixture of different email servers talking to each other. Energy-free is a nice ideal, but not a reality.
I'ma gonna go with "adhoc-net"
I've slowly learned that wishing for radical change usually is fruitless when the working class have no weapons at their disposal or are too meek to use them..., and even when wielded the changes are so destabilising that the number of wishes double.
Capitalism will die kicking and screaming, and it will take everyone with it if it has to. No, I would rather undermine it by providing a free/cheap alternative to an inflated commodity through the use of rapid new tech, forcing long-time investors to look elsewhere for a profit. Once a market is no longer cornered, things usually settle down.
Slowly, slowly, if repeated enough, and with enough technological development, investors will have no idea where to invest to exploit consumers.
These are emojis, not unicode right?
Edit: well, TIL.
This was in the UK. I lived on one side of the city right next to a motoroway where it was too loud to sleep and I had no internet. My workplace was on the other of the city. On a rainy night, I didn't always fancy cycling that distance just to get home for 3 hours of subpar sleep. Sleeping a half-decent 6-7 hours under my desk and then showering the next morning was much easier.
Ligmas have increased in popularity though