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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • Humans are the product of their environment, and the younger you are, the more affected you will be.

    If I put you in the rain forest with animals and plants and shamans, you would absolutely start to calm down and start to listen to people and become much calmer with time. Since the entire energy of the place is calm.

    But if you sit in front of phones and computers on social media, where you have this constant energy of consuming content you forget a day later, your brain will start to be unable to think and focus after a while. It will feel stressful to listen to someone who talks even, because it’s not fast enough.




  • It was an attempt at humor. :)

    Ok let me say it in a better way. People who work in IT do it because they like it. Many of the first world wide web pages or YouTube videos were made without anyone wanting any money for it. There was no profit motive or expectation whatsoever.

    That’s why I thought it was funny to read how instance owners are doing labor without getting paid, as if that was the purpose of the instance. To get paid for running it.

    To me that’s funny. It’s a bit like me painting a painting and putting it out there, and asking people to pay for my labor. The hours I spent making it. Because now the painting exists in the world. Who is gonna pay for it?

    I believe instance admins are more than happy running the instance without profit motive. Because it’s nice to be part of giving something to a community of people.


  • “battle through”. :)

    I feel like you are young… Im more like the old soldier who is tired of fighting, and going into retirement.

    My least favorite day is Monday because it all starts again, the week, from the beginning, just like it has 750 times before in the last 15 work years. It’s really getting old by now.






  • Then rich can afford to protect themselves, we can’t. We lose in that conflict. Whatever freedoms you think you have now will be restricted in a society where the rich are worried about their safety.

    They don’t lose anything. In fact, I bet it’s even convenient for them to have reasons to build cages around everyone. Lots of money in building survellience, tracking people, spying on people.

    The initial state of that has begun with Google but it’s not going to end. Decades from now, it’s possible that people will envy that previous generations could use the internet without identifying themselves, or go into buildings without a retina scan.