It’s very normal and human to be friends with the people you grew up with. It’s honestly very fortunate to maintain the friendships you developed as a youth, generally speaking. I am tremendously lucky that I still have an active social circle of kind and genuine people I’ve known since high school and uni. More to your point, I’ve befriended some of the people at the local corner store just because I see them often and talk to them about stuff. It’s really so much about just seeing people regularly without planning to.

I just don’t get why they called it Luce. Like that’s such fertile ground for the conspiracy theorists who are all about how the catholic church is putting out secret statements that they follow the devil.

When I hit [Windows]+[P] to change my display to extend to my tablet, I say “Windows pussy, extend,” to myself. It’s not really voluntary at this point.

Really faked me out with that title.

I wonder if it might engender an advanced sort of solipsism and callousness towards other people. After thousands of years of the world coming and going around you while you remain, would you even recognize other people as real or meaningful?

They mean that Puerto Ricans mostly live in cities.

What are you trying to accomplish?

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I don’t agree. Also they don’t ever have to do it, the potential is enough to be valued; but furthermore the rights themselves can be bought and sold, speculated on, and generally financialized.

But they could make them again, perhaps as a collection of games on a bespoke console. It’s like unexploited land that they’re enforcing their borders around. It’s just one more facet of digital enclosure.

Most of you probably think Metric is woke. But one time I think someone on here argued that British Imperial standards and measures were based on common-use references of ordinary people. Like a cup is sort of like cupping your hands or a foot is like a big foot. And maybe we should think about that. Hard to deny the elegance of the kilogram though.

I don’t think either of them really want to go to war just yet. They’re Still jockeying for position.

Broke 200 on my squat today, but I could only do a couple sets before my knee started hurting in concerning fashion.

Been playing Satisfactory for a bit and it’s clicking with me in a way that Factorio and Dyson Sphere Program never did. I think verticality is just a lot more fun for me, and lets me feel a little more architectural.

Foolin’ around with Qausimorph some too - pretty good roguelike, don’t know if it really goes anywhere yet, but it’s enjoyable enough to do a run or two. A little more tonally edgy than my preference.

I have Banquet for Fools installed, but apparently it only has a few hours of content? It has a really interesting style and the qausi-turn-based ARPG system looks interesting, but I’m not sure if I should crack into it or wait.

Anyone know where to go for that Stavvy’s World pirate feed hookup?

I don’t tend to peel even very large aubergine.

So in Poker they call it an “Ante” because it’s before the bet, right? Fucking Latin in my gambo.

To me it is obviously all of these, but also I don’t think the bottom two really exist as opposites. I think there can be a lot of overlap between being as close to another person as possible and a violent, animalistic act. Two people become the relationship between their bodies in that space of extreme contact and participation in a thing that necessarily is composed of both of them merged into the act. There can be an temporary erasing of both selves into the act. This isn’t to say that there isn’t a distinction between “making love” and “rutting,” just that sometimes they share aspects.

Take me down to the spaghetti city
where the inputs are balanced,
but it’s not very pretty.

The atmosphere is ablative armor in the sense that it ablates incoming projectiles.