I like Pop!_OS. It was my first distro and has been the one I go back to the most.

The window management options were a godsend when working on my dissertation.

Ursula Le Guin.

That depends entirely on the story the game is telling.

Ezekiel 16:49

This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.

I’m an ex evangelical.

To put it in a sentence, they love Trump because the false image they have of him fits the heretical version of Christianity they follow.

Something like this would probably work.

Give them some cash, if I have a little extra. I recommend carrying a little change if you live in an area with regular homeless folks.

I used to bring a particular homeless guy who hung around my block a sandwich on my way to work, and a beer when walking my dog on Friday nights (if I saw him, for either occurrence). That was all when I lived in a different city though.

To be a little blunt here, someone who thinks using an LLM is equivalent to being in a relationship with a real person probably shouldn’t be in a relationship with a real person.

Probably, but my PhD is in philosophy.

My take is that patriotism is a corruption of the feeling of belonging we get from community.

In 2018 I was offered a job managing a retreat center on the shores of Lake Superior. The job would have been to keep the place looking nice and, very occasionally, cultivate a restful space for people who needed it.

I went and got a PhD instead. Not a huge mistake, but I’d probably have been happier with the retreat center.

I’ll never forget my first trip out to North Lawndale for work. So many people acted like I was headed into Fallujah or something.

In reality though, it was just another neighborhood with regular people trying to get by.

That college professors are turning young people into communists.

Dawg, I can’t even get them to read.

People in general are easily manipulated, and those who manipulate use the beliefs of the people they’re manipulating to do so.

Religion certainly is a something used for that, but it’s hardly the only one.

Personally, I like Simone Weil’s idea that total freedom of thought and expression are only truly possible in the absence of propaganda, political parties, and deception.

That is to say, it’s not really free thought if we’re just parroting what the party, news, etc. say.

The Reddit algorithm kept pushing me propaganda with messages of “be angry” and “be scared.” I could feel my mental health deteriorating in real time whenever I had the app open.

And, well, the world we live in is just angering and frightening enough without some corporation making it worse for me so they can make a buck off the clicks.

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Kenya. I have friends there, which would help.

I’d definitely be the obvious foreigner, given that I’m pale and ginger, but that’s worked in my favor when traveling before.

I’m also supposing here that there wouldn’t be quite so many other American expats to compete with.

Rereading Le Guin’s Earthsea saga.

Personally, I think she might be on par with Tolkien and actually surpasses him in a few ways. The 4th book (about a tired mom just trying to get by and care for people in a fantasy world) is the best one, but you need to work your way there.

I’ve been using the same net and tarp for like 15 years and on more trips than I can count.

No problems yet, just a few repairs that cost next to nothing.