Plan C Pills
Link: https://www.plancpills.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31254417
"If you’ve made yourself a moral pariah because you’ve spent the past three decades fighting a rear-guard battle in defense of systemic, violent, oppressive injustice, then you need to find some other subject on which you can cast yourself as the Good Guy..." https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/03/11/this-is-what-abortion-politics-is-for/
Pretty interesting video sketching out a physiology of trauma response.
The friend who posted it elsewhere said with it: "If you want to understand more about evolutionary psychology, behavioral medicine, and trauma than many psychologists seem to, just watch this.'
Making an account because you want to "reach" an "audience" is fundamentally different from making an account because you want to post, and maybe *connect* with *people.*
The first is fundamentally tainted with an advertising and marketing mindset. It affects how you use the space and and how you view everyone else who uses it.
To summarize: Collecting followers isn't a personality.
I have been mulling over "We Need To Sing About Mental Health" for more than a year now.
Excerpt:
"It’s likely that a few people endorse stigma, many don’t, and most people are in-between, not actively anti-stigma but not consciously discriminatory.
Isn’t that true about…everything? If there is such an outgroup, where is the in-group? Where is DepressionCon? Where are the Social Anxiety Pride parades?
Answer: that’s why we invented the internet."
https://hotelconcierge.tumblr.com/post/116790700524/we-need-to-sing-about-mental-health
To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#NoMansSky
#Repair
#Compost
#Activism
#Electronica
#Detroit
#Minecraft
Don't forget to boost good posts with hashtags so that searchable posts make it out to more instances!
This sounds like a great idea.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/28/shut-yer-pi-hole/#largest-boycott-in-world-history
Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories–and why
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myths-about-how-humans-burn-calories-and-why
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30381000
Reality by Consensus
Link: https://lockwood.dev/philosophy/2022/01/31/reality-by-consensus.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157176
Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom.
-- Max Stirner
#VerseThursday TO LOVE SOMEONE LONG-TERM IS TO ATTEND A THOUSAND FUNERALS OF THE PEOPLE THEY USED TO BE., by Heidi Priebe
"In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone #phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer #hackers of the era. Then she disappeared." Helluva an interesting read. https://www.theverge.com/c/22889425/susy-thunder-headley-hackers-phone-phreakers-claire-evans
Buy Things, Not Experiences
Link: https://write.as/harold-lee/theres-a-phrase-going-around-that-you-should-buy-experiences-not-things
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30057032
I totally want to attempt this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5voELYrAU&ab_channel=NYTCooking
“…Or, what if we help, and that just makes the situation worse? Better not to do anything until we know for sure. In the meantime, can you try explaining it again? And you needn’t have such a nasty tone when you ask! Do you want help or not?”
https://captainawkward.com/2022/01/18/1364-gender-is-elusive-and-i-cannot-teach-it-to-you-mother/
Interests include: food and cooking, arts and crafts, books and philosophy, mythology and magic and all things occult (including secret knowledge of science, computers, etc.).
Actual knowledge base can be described as wider than it is deep.
My personal best case scenario might be to obtain understanding of a unified field theory that's practical for living well and dying well too.