I guess next year I’ll have to post a joke just after midnight. I’ll wake to find confusion and chaos.

Often we are not even included on maps.

Indeed.

I have the photos backed up off site also. Along with any other important data.

+1 for immich and local hosting.

GrapheneOS on a pixel 8 pro I got second hand a few months back.

Agreed, thinking is hard we should let machines do that.

Tariffs…its tariffs right?
Wars?
Hatred?
Billionaires?
Pedo-kings?

Ok, I’m all out of ideas.

Optimistic Nihilism, is quite a good philosophical framework.

But I would recommend a mixture of optimistic nihilism and stoicism.

If nothing has any inherent meaning, the things you chose to be meaningful are as valid as any other choice.

I remember trying to play online quake in the 90’s, I live in new Zealand… We had dial up, my latency was around the 5s mark. I have up pretty quick.

If I wanted to play multiplayer games, it was taking my desktop computer to a friends house, connecting them together with 10Mb BNC networking, and don’t forget the 50ohm terminators.

A friend spent a week trying to download the original pirated version on XP, the couple of hundred meg file would get stopped for various reasons.

I have my full name as a gmail account, I got it as soon as it possible. firstname.lastname@gmail.com

It’s not just a metaphor, when people say things like “picture yourself in X”, or “just imagine the audience naked”.

Others can actually see things in their mind.

Which was very quickly followed by, “getting a song stick in your head” means you can actually hear a song over and over in your mind. How annoying.

This seems like some king of super power. I was 40…

You don’t ration Discworld, you reread it every 5 years.

And maybe revisit a favourite or six every other year.

It would be for just a couple minutes.

Narrator: that couple of minutes turned into many hours in the hospital.

It really doesn’t take many changes; just swap the perspective. Sing it from the point of view of ICE etc…

[Verse]
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses, ugh

[Refrain]
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of

[Pre-Chorus]
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
But now you do what I tell ya
Well now you do what I tell ya

[Chorus]
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights, come on

[Verse]
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses, ugh

[Refrain]
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of

[Pre-Chorus]
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (And now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (And now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya

[Chorus]
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights, come on

[Guitar Solo]
Ugh
Yeah
Come on
Ugh

[Outro]
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Get on the ground, Ugh

Now I need to listen to Rage.

Sometimes men don’t fell comfortable expressing themselves with women around.

If a space is toxic, men don’t express themselves there either.

Space where men can properly express their feelings are extremely rare. Between the toxic masculinity and men feeling judged by women and other men.

Even if you are completely correct and this person conspired against you; holding onto this is not great for your mental health.

The best thing for you is to acknowledge that you were hurt by this and accept that. Then move on, what they did was about them and not you.

From your text, it could be that they were just selfish and you were collateral damage. My advice stands, give yourself the freedom to move on.

As a father of three boys. This is enforced far more by the mother’s of girls than anyone else.

My oldest made friends almost exclusively with girls before he was five. Without fail mother’s would move their girls away and toward other girls. This happened in a few situations, both structured and unstructured environments.

When it was dad’s with daughters, it was only about 1/4 of the time, and mums or dad’s with sons never did.

I have seen it the other way also, where boys were steered to other boys, but it was far less often.

I used to go to a men’s only yoga class, I was far more comfortable there than in a mixed class. The class was discontinued, not because of lack of interest… but because the instructor got pregnant, it never restarted. She was a great instructor very professional and targeted the exercises to men’s problem areas.

Men’s only spaces are important, as much as women’s spaces. Men’s mental health is often overlooked, and men’s spaces are an easy way for men to vent about shit that is bothering them.

Also “our current time” is a little strange, history it’s full of segregated spaces, even of just by social convention. Our current time is far more accepting of mixing than a lot of history.

I’m weirdly conflict conflicted, I mean we are on the map, but it is incorrect.

But most kiwis are shoes off in the house.

No I program with a magnetised needle and a steady hand.

Yes Minister, and Yes Prime Minster.

Great stuff