it also kinda sucks to make pottery actually, tons of work
meanwhile growing gourds is like… put seeds in the ground 4head

the framework is basically the reincarnation of old thinkpads, including the business-level hideous pricing

blessed be the framework laptop, you can just put in whatever ports you want

on the other hand, it’s also valid to just have an innate need for romance

i’m autistic and find small talk almost physically exhausting, but holy shit it’s another level of insanity to not push through it if you’re actively looking for a partner

i think you’re just bad at using a touchscreen lol, or you have big sausage fingers. I have 0 issues typing on my phone.

there’s things that are designed for visitors, and then there’s things that are designed for “vacationers” who spend way too much fucking money to just sit around not actually enjoying things for some god forsaken reason.

the former is great, make things enjoyable regardless of where you’re from or how long you’re staying.

and dig a hole for it if you can, don’t just leave it in the open, at least cover it in something

it’s so bad that people are literally stealing sand from beaches to sell under the table

see this would make sense if it wasn’t incredibly easy and cheap to make things look good, brutalism just ends up being needlessly ugly.

We built tons of cheap housing here in sweden in the 60’s, but it’s not all raw fucking concrete, we just put on some colours and veneers and made it look decent.

there’s a reason we have the stereotypical red house with white detailing here in sweden, that shit just fucking works

so you’re saying it sounds like a very sensible number?

never been easier, in fact!

stockholm is building a whole-ass wooden district

i genuinely get a more human vibe from duckduckgo’s AI summaries of wikipedia articles, just because it doesn’t go out of its way to act human and keeps the answers short

and this has been a thing ever since we had any sort of personal assistants, it’s so fucking eerie to have the computer try to act human, but when you make it try to obviously be artificial it instead feels actively comfortable!
Like the computer in star trek voyager, the fact that it replies with bleeps or just doesn’t respond at all if it doesn’t need to means i just don’t think about it, but if it were to always respond vocally it’d feel creepy as fuck beause it’s like having a butler following you and giving running commentary…

Actually now that i think about it, the butler comparison is apt in general. A good butler stays in the background and doesn’t try to act like they’re a normal friend, because that would be weird.

unfortunately you do in fact need a society to survive, you can’t run a homestead on your own

but that’s not to say you can’t make a good society, getting a bunch of people you like and starting a village is a great idea, if extremely fucking difficult to pull off…

people will do anything but whack it to porn

wirewanker would be a great insult for a friend with a hilariously long and thin dick

but it’s still literally just looking at the text and calculating what’s the most likely thing to follow, that’s fundamentally how LLMs work

shit like this is what actually makes me feel terrified, the idea that people will actually go out of their way to do obviously insane things while acting normally otherwise feels so fucking sinister