I’d say 50-75% of NA beer is peepee water. Peroni NA is good as are a few others. Nobody needs to drink it though. I always tell my friends to not drink and save their money because even NA beer is kind of expensive.

True, that’s also why we stopped valuing education the same way we used to. The wild part is that we can’t even think 20 years out. Hopefully most of us will still be alive 20 years from now. We should plan like that is the case.

BMW 1992, to prevent the invention of Xenon HID Headlights. 😈

I assume view means I can’t interfere and no one knows I’m there.

The Practical: Pro Sports locker room strategy talks. Might improve my odds.

The Philosophical: Follow around Siddhartha just before he became enlightened.

The Whimsical: The Mayor of Rotenburg, Germany out-drinking the leader of the army that had them under siege, thus sending them home as losers, sparing bloodshed on both sides, while himself dying of alcohol poisoning shortly after.

I think we found the real 'murican right here!

Please allow me to add another bullet point:

7. The most devout and also the loudest, Evangelical Christians will congregate and start talking about the end times and the rapture and stuff like that. The pastor will continue to fly his private jet to the aforementioned child-eating islands every week.

I also imagine a world without copyright may not be any worse than the one we’re in. In a lot of ways it would probably be much better.

You need a $$$/hr lawyer to pull <$100 LLC paperwork out of their briefcase. “My client was just training his company’s innovative new LLM.” We live in an odd world.

I’ve been driving different routes as much as possible. One day this way, one day that way, once by bike, once by car, once on foot, sometimes making stops, sometimes going nonstop. Yeah, there’s still patterns, but I’m not beholden to them and at this point I know alternative routes as well as a London cab driver and I’ve found cool new parks, restaurants, etc.

Yup, violent crime has been dropping for decades and not an insignificant drop. We did not need mass surveillance, we did not want mass surveillance, nor do we want it now.

We’re gonna bring wire rims back in style!

Rebecca Black - Friday

I imagine there are also some low level cops relieved to see them gone but don’t want to say so publicly. After all, AI is coming for their jobs too. Pretty soon buying a state patrolman a Honda Goldwing to patrol the highway will be an impossible sell when we could just strap a few more cameras to a pole or fly a drone. Everyone but the bootlickiest of the bootlickers will eventually hit their breaking point with this increasing public surveillance, just not until it goes poorly for them personally.

I degoogled (mostly) a while ago, but home assistant has a pretty configurable local voice assistant. If you have remote access to your server, I imagine you could cobble together a good keyword based personal assistant that sets alarms, turns lights on and off, and reads you an RSS newsfeed while you drink your morning coffee.

We’re truly on the technological downslope now. First it was all about the user and making software accomplish a purpose, then it was all about the user as long as it was profitable, now it’s fuck the user - be profitable.

I will go without. I will drag a PC and a mobile router everywhere I go before I rent a phone. Can these asshole corporate bullshitters just go to mars already so we can be free of them?

Here’s the answer I was looking for! I’m surprised I had to scroll so far to reach it. We are the source of most of what’s wrong with the world so I’m pretty sure the rest of the animals would vote us off the island too.

It’s a good answer. Hawaii came to mind for me too but then I saw Costco guy’s comment. Hawaii is warm enough day and night, Winter and Summer. There’s an abundance of biodiversity and you could probably hunt and gather yourself some food pretty easily. The part that’s difficult is starting from nothing and being so remote because to reach any opportunity outside Hawaii you would have to scrounge up several hundred dollars for a flight, or if “solo” means you’re the last person on earth, you’d have to get a boat or plane.

It looks like Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island all have Costco, so it seems it was all a false dichotomy. There’s one for each of us and an extra just in case!

Bicycling and partner dancing. I spend time in front of the computer for work and for fun, so I need some active hobbies to balance that out. Biking combines the thrill of exploration with the ritual of gear preparation and the endorphins and physical effects of exercise. Dancing is deeply perceptive on both auditory and physical levels. It encourages me to be social and approach people I don’t know. Together, it’s about the balance for me. If I loaded cases of beer onto trucks all day I’d probably be a professional hammock-er when I got home.

If they are allowed to advertise, it should be 100% fact based in it’s approach. No more camels wearing sunglasses while smoking or sexy actors at a rooftop party drinking alcohol in front of a magnificent night panorama of skyscrapers while smiling and laughing together. No happy people skipping through the sunflowers after shooting up black tar heroin. No partner advertising between the movie TRON and hallucinagen sellers. Sellers could basically only list their cost per quantity, info about the manufacturing process, and any purity measurements with no emotional appeals, bandwagoning, colorful cartoon characters, etc. With something potentially addictive and harmful, we have a moral duty not to allow anyone who sells using logical falacies and dark patterns to have a platform.

Warning lables should be super clear and the package should be otherwise 100% plain. Some substances may still warrant a ban, I’m undecided, but if they are allowed, they should probably not be advertised. People who want them, will be able to find them.

Only because hyperscale AI Data Centers and the kind of data centers we already had got conflated. That was almost certainly intentional.

My yard looks just as messy as my house, though I would like both to be neat and orderly. Those perfectly mowed crisscross lines in the grass give me goosebumps!