Tolkien, classic writer about big adventure, never really went anywhere. He wrote about it.

Basically if you are bored you aren't paying enough attention. He felt he paid enough attention that his short daily walk on the same path each day was an adventure.

Don't hunt for wild new experiences, really soak up the experience you are having now.

Epicureanism is an adjacent philosophy.

Democrats get uppity when you start roasting

Republicans too.

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Not my day on connections.

Either that or it is because you are Imperialists.

The national holiday that is officially recognized in the most countries is independence from the British.

That would be a relay issue. Interesting.

Gender swap her positions in this conversation and see how it reads.

It is a man telling women that he has decided a problem that more often affects men is the most important problem to society. Triage means everyone should stop working on womens problems and work on this problem a man picked that more often affects men until men have decided that problem is solved. Any woman who is mad about that makes no sense at all because I a man have decided it is the most rational way to make society better.

Again, I have only said this for the sake of the gender swap test.

Any man who took that position in public for real would get roasted alive. Disclaimer before and after and I still bet the 2 women who are on nostr couldn't help but get mad reading it.

Gender swap her positions in this conversation and see how it reads.

It is a man telling women that he has decided a problem that more often affects men is the most important problem to society. Triage means everyone should stop working on womens problems and work on this problem a man picked that more often affects men until men have decided that problem is solved. Any woman who is mad about that makes no sense at all because I a man have decided it is the most rational way to make society better.

Again, I have only said this for the sake of the gender swap test.

Any man who took that position in public for real would get roasted alive. Disclaimer before and after and I still bet the 2 women who are on nostr couldn't help but get mad reading it.

Anyone remember in V for Vendetta Stephen Fry's character had to pretend to be a pedophile to maintain his position in society?

He lost all future sales to me, but that is an N1 observation.

Join me and make his fears a self fulfilling prophecy.

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NVK back on his bullshit. If you believe in FOSS know that any money you give coldcard is likely to be used to harass FOSS devs.

Also CC isn't FOSS, he closed the open source code he stole. That's right stole. If you close code that was open to try to line your own pockets that is stealing from the open source community.

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Who knows. Node looks good. Sent but haven't received any zaps today, that could just be my posts mostly being shit.

If you feel truly sure of that I've wasted my time.

I've been kind and subtle. I've been blunt. 1 last time.

Your position that women and women's problems should come first while refusing to acknowledge the problems men face is very common. It is why so many men hate women. Your attitude, your belief is why.

You don't even need to stop putting women's problems first in your life to stop contributing to that hate. You just need to stop telling men who are also suffering that they are bad people for wanting to fix their own problems before they worry about everyone else.

My experience in that world is that those angry men aren't even demanding help. They just want to stop being told their problems aren't real problems like other peoples problems.

If you truly care about your cause you care about my cause. Disaffected men commit far more crimes of all kinds than men that feel society includes them. A man who feels women dehumanize men will find it far easier to dehumanize women and we both know where that leads.

So, keep insisting on your zero sum game or admit that a rising tide lifts all boats?

"Wow that sucks, I hope you succeed in your quest for a world with less suffering" easy. That is all you need to think about or say to angry, sad, or suffering men to stop making them madder and put a little light into their lives. Most men receive so few sincere compliments it might be the highlight of their week.

I can't see how I can make it any more clear. I'm a man. I hated women for a long time. I told you why this post was exactly the sort of that makes that sort of guy mad at women. I can't make you see if you don't want to.

I had to look deep at my own role in my place in the world to get better. It was miserable to see how I was part of the problem.

Good luck.

I absolutely think people on both sides are being inconsiderate of the other genders suffering.

I never begrudged her a chance to vent about the bad things that happen to women. I even follow her and read her every post. This OP crossed a line into being sexist itself so I spoke up, same as she often does when she spies sexism around her.

It was right there plain as day to me as a man to see that the reason she was looking for was the complete dismissal of their suffering that was right there in her own post. I haven't even asked what happened to you but I'm ready to declare I suffered more so I deserve to be mad and you don't.

She might not feel that is what she wrote. I know that is what a man who has been kicked while he was down 1 too many times read. So, I'm trying to answer the question.

I spent a lot of time in my life mad at women because of the things women have done to me and because of the way they were dismissive of my suffering caused by men. I came out the other side with a lot of scars.

I'm the guy. I know why because I hated women. I suspect she didn't want a real answer from someone with real problems, but was maybe fishing for a pat on the back. This is far more uncomfortable for everyone than a like would have been.

It isn't easy. If I'm honest the way she keeps using basic internet argument dodges to avoid seeing my point has me on the verge of walking away. A block and a distraction would be a lot easier for me.

The list of good things that can happen to you only ends when you die. It is horribly cruel to the female rape victims I've known who are still experiencing joy in addition to their pain to say they'd be better off dead.

It is not just suicide and I don't appreciate that you keep dodging by selecting from a long list only the points you have a ready counter for. All deaths of despair and violent crime victimhood rates are worse except for sexual assault.

This, this conversation is why so many men hate women. You have no idea what I've been through, which happens to include having been physically sexually assaulted by a woman among other things from my list earlier. That wasn't a comprehensive list of bad things that are more likely to happen to men or even bad things that are more likely to happen to men that happened to me. Somehow you are just so sure you know better whose life is harder without even asking and you are ready to say all my suffering doesn't matter because it is less than yours by simply knowing my gender. Sexist as fuck. Self centered as fuck.

I don't want to have to play that game but you don't seem to be getting it with a more subtle approach.

I'm in another place now where I'm safer. I have the self awareness to try to help you see you are being cruel and lacking awareness. I can see that you are 1 woman who is wrong and not blame all women for your mistake. A man in a less secure and aware mental state would be posting a woman hating YouTube selfie rant while driving around in a pickup truck wearing oakleys and a baseball cap.

I wouldn't be better off dead either by the way.

That is true. It doesn't change the experience of a man who has repeatedly been a victim and never a perpetrator in that system. He won't feel any desire to put other peoples issues ahead of his own. He will feel mad when a group of people make their entire position how easy men have it and how men cause all the problems so something needs to be done to reign men in.

I'm not opposed to any of her statements about how women have problems, they do. I'm opposed to putting down men as a gender because it is sexist and it hurts her cause as well as the cause of men who were victims of societies violence.

Ok, so let's all focus on mens reasons for dying younger then. Dead IS the worst thing that can happen to you. Are you prepared to give up all womens causes until this nearly 6 year gap is resolved?

Note that I never asked for this because it was my position. I'm only asking that you apply your own rules fairly in order to make a point.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm

At the risk of bifurcating our other conversation...

Compassion. Any time I'm putting my suffering ahead of yours and demanding my problems come first I'm playing oppression Olympics.

This is why I went out of my way to not say how many of the list of outcomes that are worse for men that I made have happened to me or my close male friends. I'm not competing.

Your problem sucks and good luck with it, but I'm busy over here in my own shit storm. That should be fine for anyone to say.

I do appreciate that it is clear you are thinking and not just assuming I'm wrong because I see the same situation differently.

Ok, but as I pointed out murder victim rates are higher for men.

That is the problem with trying to play victim one upsmanship, we could go around arguing forever. So now you have to join my side or strawman away half the points I made. You chose option B.

It is perfectly fine for a female rape victim to care more about rape and a man who has been homeless and isn't a rapist to worry more about male homelessness.

Tell that guy "my problems are more important than yours you should worry about me first" doesn't get you an ally it gets you an enemy.

People who are at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy are always going to put their own issues first. That doesn't make them evil, it makes them real human beings just trying to find a way to get by. Drive by punching down only makes the world a worse place.

They wouldn't be my first choice orgy either.

A wise man can separate that from the knowledge that their online opsec is great and we can learn from them about that.

Totally an impartial judge who should be allowed to be deciding who gets funded by opensats. /s

I sometimes wonder about the metoo guys watching the Epstein news.

I imagine Harvey Weinstein watching the Epstein news 247 obsessed screaming at his TV about how all his victims were of age but none of these pedos are in any trouble at all.

I bet Louie CK has hundreds of jokes about how he didn't even touch adult women but the Epstein clients haven't paid any price at all. He'll never tell them because he'd get publicly crucified for being insensitive to his own victims. You know he can't help but think of jokes though.

And so on. Are they the most outraged or the most sympathetic?

Anyway I can't be the only one who has thought about this but I may be the only one crazy enough to publicly ponder. Sometimes the intrusive thoughts win.

Sounds like BS.

Some "participants" identified but 0 arrests or charges?

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No need to encourage anything really. Just pay attention to what they are interested in and find ways to give them more of that in a way that is fun for them.

Those is as bad as the people who are going to let daylight savings time maybe changing distract them from the fact that TRUMP IS ON THE EPSTEIN LIST!

Ooh, squirrel!

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A half a dozen extra steps to set up accounts for the grandmas compared to signal with less reliable message notifications which will cause them to fall back to other messengers.

Another perfect is the enemy of good guy.

I'm not planning a revolution on it. I need something that just works with a WAF and grandma proof scores of 1.0 so that pics and video calls with my kids in them stop happening on Facebook messenger.

Good enough for Snowden and planning surprise bombing runs on foreign countries, but I'm sure it isn't secure enough for your needs so carry on.

If you use AI for rubber ducking, simple trick to reduce your costs.

Use a cheap model and let rip, I have been using qwen 235b for this. Then periodically switch to a higher quality model like Gemini 2.5 pro and ask 1 "please review this conversation and add any notes or insights you have" query. Then back to the cheap model for a while.

Easy way to get a lot more work done without burning through all your credits and without sacrificing accuracy in the end.

This guy is a great example of the number of people cheering at your funeral tells you more than the number of people crying.

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Porcupines?

Puzzles, they release 1 each day. Kind of like doing the daily crossword but with an emoji record of how I did.

If you do them you can compare those sets of colored blocks to see who solved it better. If I see someone else's results before I get to the puzzle the emoji results don't have any spoilers.

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https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

If you see this now, the problem went away. I didn't change anything.

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Maybe I'm crazy but Chinese security cameras are needlessly hard to work with.

Are you really telling me that no one thought to put the correct onvif URL string for this camera anywhere in the manual, help page, or UI of the camera?

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Because aluminum is so great.

I don't know of any non alcoholic beer producers who use any other packaging and that is the only thing I drink out of cans.

Ah, a top down proof of reserves system instead of a bottom up system where once a week we all pick a mint and clean them out to force a show of reserves.

This week fuck minibits, next week coinos, and so on.

"I've been poor my entire life and never expected anything else"

"Yes but what is it about Bitcoin that you are so determined to avoid?

Blank stare

Some people will burn their entire lives to the ground to not adopt bitcoin.

Someone I know in real life told me they just won't ever no matter how bad it gets or how poor it makes them.

Only if you assume they somehow avoid hyperinflation.

2035 headline: bitcoin wallet dormant since 2025 awakens and moves .01 BTC worth billions of dollars.

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