Years ago when I first bought one of those multitool hairclips it mentioned it could be used as a trolley coin and I had to look that up. I discovered that in a lot of European countries it’s customary for carts to be locked together with a lock that takes a coin to unlock then returns the coin if you correctly return and nest the cart. Now, it does take a decently curated social milieu to design systems that promote prosocial behavior. That said, that particular prosocial behavior not only had to be mechanically encouraged, but has also led to the development of something called a “trolley coin” to circumvent the mechanism for people who are diametrically opposed to that prosocial behavior.

Who do you trust more, the neighbor who keeps his blinds closed, or the neighbor who goes around trying to look in everyone’s windows? What do you they have to hide?

You’re unlikely (but not impossibly unable) to reap the full benefits of that level of connection to a community completely without spirituality. There are many Hindus and shinto that are functionally atheist and I come from healthcare where atheist chaplains are actually a thing as well.

You are not separate from humanity’s history and attempting to separate yourself from it in this manner won’t by definition harm you, but will require a level of constant attention that I have not found to be worth it. It’s like trying to run the windows version of Firefox or Discord with Wine or a virtual machine just to prove you can. Just run the Linux version, or another program with the same function that is even better designed for the architecture.

I tracked my moods, bodily upkeep, and social tasks with DBT based spreadsheets for years but it eventually became exhausting. What it did do was give me a solid framework to redesign spiritual practices that work for me. Just use the software the human brain was developed alongside and use your processing power on things more useful than trying to feel smarter and more right about the universe, which is mostly just lying to yourself anyway.

This is something of the intention of a unitarian church. They use largely judeo Christian imagery but they don’t actually GAF what your beliefs are and are generally open to not necessarily debate but definitely exploration of non-judeo Christian theologies and / or philosophies.

My parents unironically told me they know he’s untrustworthy and hope his election and subsequent mismanagement results in dissolution of the government, general anarchy, and eventually the second coming of Christ. We no longer talk.

Well tumblr and Twitter are the same way. There are no magazines / subforums / subreddits / individual communities (or weren’t last I used them). Your profile has your posts and people follow other users individually. You can tag your posts but you can use just about as many tags as you want the post isn’t bound to any one tag. The only specific thing they’re bound to is literally just your personal profile (or that of anyone who reblogs / retweets / retoots / reposts it to their own profile). A microblog is literally a completely different format to a forum / message board style post while kbin treats it like a forum post lite. You don’t microblog to an individual community you microblog as yourself to your entire sever (and beyond, if properly federated).

When you do use traditional social media, try to actively downvote and if you can justify it report engagement bait. People will intentionally do stuff like pronouncing things wrong or even just straight up lying about shit just to get engagement from people correcting them. Also do the same for people that add nothing but their facial expression to call something their own content or even another stolen video played side by side or who post still memes as video.

Federation has the opportunity to solve a lot of these issues but unless special attention is taken to create voting systems that promote healthy community engagement the corporate pressures will eventually push into these spaces as well. I’ve wondered for a while if there’s a good way to create an algorithm that would offer the comfort of a targeted media algorithm except readable, modifiable and executable only by the end user’s client. Piefed is probably the best foray towards that kind of functionality currently, but very prototypically.

Yeah when I said ‘explicit interracial gangbang with facials’ I was not in any way exaggerating. It’s just sitting there in every Gideon’s in every hotel bedside table.

You’re probably not struggling as much as you think you are. Not in a “your problems aren’t that bad” kinda way but more in a "your responses to those problems aren’t as pitiful as you think they are. Just because the problem wasn’t 100% fixed doesn’t mean you didn’t deal with it like a boss. It’s not like everybody else is out there dancing through their problems with the grace of a ballerina. 90% of them have the fridge door open at 2am eating shredded cheese right out of the bag too. You’re doing great, don’t be so down on yourself.

Especially when they have the softcore in song of Solomon and the interracial gangbang in Ezekiel 23 (like it goes into detail about how much they ejaculate all over the women). And they’re not 100% explicit but Abraham tries to get Sarah (who is both his wife and half-sister) to cuck him several times in Genesis (god keeps cockblocking it by alerting the other party, who is always like dude, ew!), and there’s more than a couple incest scenes in Genesis as well.

Honestly most of the positive aspect I’ve gotten out of the Bible is actually a fair amount of comfort in knowing that humans really have not changed. One of the oldest and most widely distributed set of texts humanity has ever written has way more depraved shit in it than HBO. The puritans in particular really did the religion a disservice by trying to make these people sound virtuous because half the time the only thing that keeps the “good guys” from doing absolutely heinous shit is literal divine intervention.

I told hubs to just come hug me in bed for five minutes the other day (I’ve been working his glutes a bit too hard lately). 10/10 will request hugging in bed again.

Libre office was too clunky for my usage. OnlyOffice is FOSS, lightweight, and cross-platform to mobile.

This person is either at least mildly psychotic or fucking with you. It’s wild that people are down here in the comments offering evidence when the entire concept is entirely absurd. This isn’t an age or intelligence or experience thing this is a “this person is unhinged, don’t interact” situation.

Yeah but like. Why not just straight to a profile? That’s what masto does.

As soon as I can microblog straight to my own profile I’m sold. On mbin I had to make an admin only magazine for my microblogs to all be in one place.

The app connects you to the human translator by video call and automatically connects the service to the patient’s medical record so the patient can be correctly identified. It creates a note on the patient’s chart that records me as having requested the consult, the time of the call, the amount of time spent on the call, the language used, and the translator’s ID#, for both legal and billing purposes. Me and the bean counters aren’t the best of friends, but from a legal perspective I like that it provides supporting evidence that I at least tried to talk / problem solve a safe resolution with the person before having to resort to restrictive / invasive interventions (and hey, that day it did work!)

It’s doing the mirror to the men, and allowing for the destruction of physical spaces that would normally provide them with healthy socialization and outlets for testosterone.

My thought is that it also implies that there’s a good chance dinosaurs sang.

That level of conviction that you’re right about something can be pretty destructive regardless of specific belief system. Theory of evolution was a great step forward but also somehow resulted in phrenology and branches of capitalism that liken it to “survival of the fittest” so. People like to concentrate power amongst themselves and people like them then justify it as them being smarter and more right about some kind of fundamental truth about the universe. Assholes gonna asshole regardless.

Just generally rude and running all over everybody’s boundaries at a whim