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That’s fair, taste is subjective and formed for lots of reasons, I’m not telling you you’re wrong or anything.

Fair enough, to each their own. Although brutalism is more than just exposed concrete, that is definitely the signature thing.

It’s architecture/interior design, taste is subjective. Like what you like, I’m not here to yuck anyone else’s yum, just expressing my own opinion.

I was thinking the tacky, overly-ostentatious decoration style you see in Russian government buildings, but yeah that fits too.

Iono, the first two are a bit much, but I do love the 3rd.

Yeah, art deco is definitely high on that list. Also brutalism. I especially love brutalist interiors.

Yeah, I mean it depends a lot on what you think the purpose of the experiment is, right? I take a somewhat simplistic view at the big-picture scale: I want to live, therefore it’s better to be alive than dead, therefore continuing to be alive is exceeding my expectations and counts as a win in my book. But it’s more complicated once you get into the weeds of ‘purpose’ and such. For me I think there is no point or purpose to life beyond it as itself, we’re just a particularly complex chemical soup cast adrift in the universe left to work shit out for ourselves. But what that means is that I get to decide what everything means including life itself, and since I want to continue living and creating meaning I have decided that that means I am accomplishing my purpose in life. Yeah the world sucks and all that, but it is still populated by people and people are what matter; we can make the world a better place by improving the lives of those who live here by reducing the amount of suffering in it. As Camus says, the struggle itself is enough to fill a man’s heart.

The only thing I’ve ever sold online was an item from the MMO Everquest. I ran a top raiding guild on my server and had just gotten a really rare end-game item but I was coming up short on rent so I jokingly offered to sell it to some guildies. None of them took me up on it, but one guy had heard about someone who was looking for the item and willing to pay, so I chatted him up and wound up selling him the item for $250. I was super nervous about it but everything went great.

I just switched back to Brave after using Firefox for a couple years. I switched away from Brave over the Manifest V3 thing but it turns out they’re preserving compatibility with V2 extensions and their built-in shields have gotten pretty good at blocking most things without even needing uBO. I had lots of little issues with Firefox that are like known-issues that have been around for years or things I haven’t been able to find solutions to, so I was glad to switch back. Brave isn’t perfect either, but.

We’re optimizing our fitness function as living beings (ie, we’re still alive), so I’d say that’s a solid thumbs-up.

As a member of genx please allow me to say: we’re not all bad, some of us quite enjoy the taste of the rich. :P

Do your think he knows? I think folks like him just get podcast invites and do minimal research on the host.

This seems rather alarmist, especially the youtube part. I’ve watched a few full length episodes and don’t have any of that shit in my recommended videos.

Because ‘fuck those guys who are inconveniencing me, let me rant on youtube for free and maybe make some money’ is a lot more accessible than ‘yay that guy, let me spend a bunch of money to show up at his thing’.

Motherfucking pockets… in the goddamned shower curtain.

Oh damn, I hadn’t thought about this but that’s not a bad idea. My mom used to have one when I was a teenager and would make this potato bread that I friggin’ loved. She always said it was dead simple, maybe it’s time to look into that myself.

Wait, I’ve been on this earth for 52 years and somehow didn’t know they make shower curtains with fucking pockets?! I’m going to go buy one right now.

Honestly I use discord for this because of the more immediate responses when I’m feeling lonely. I’m in a couple of medium-sized communities that have members around the world so there’s pretty much always someone on.

Maybe, but you notice how you used the word ‘frames’ there instead of ‘sunglasses’? I bet if they were wearing empty frames they’d have said that, what with those two words meaning different things and all. :P

I dunno if you know this but everyone has see- through sunglasses… otherwise they’d be called sunwalls. ;)