“I reject your reality and substitute my own!”

something something rugged individualism

#566

“Hey, listen!”

Separate it from Disney. (financially, legally, ethically, forcefully…)

You mean the placebo button?

Placebo buttons at stoplights are by no means limited to the United States. In places like Hong Kong and London, some buttons work only at certain times of day (if at all).

Actual Budget is an open-source envelope-style budgeting tool similar to YNAB. It has a self-hostable syncing service so that you can manage your budget across multiple devices.

The reason you might want to do this is that it’s probably easier to do full account review sitting at your computer, but you might want to track expenses/receipts on your smartphone while you’re away from home.

It’s not the east or the west side…

See? Invincible. I can’t be vinced.

redneck engineering energy

Rewatched SNW anticipating season 3.

OK, what do monkeys or other non-human things have to do with a human asking themselves the question, “what is my purpose?”

My response is given in the context of the original, not in a vacuum.

So is the question, “what is my purpose”?

The response is human-focused because the question is human-focused.

If you wanted to ask the question about some other creature, then the answer would not be anthropocentric.

Out of the corner of your eye, you spot him…

something something small government… federal overreach… oppression

You are (presumably) a human.

Without you, the world is merely a collection of things, with no collector.

A hammer has a purpose, when it is used (by a human) to drive nails.

A keyboard has a purpose, when it is used (by a human) to type.

A shovel has a purpose, when it is used (by a human) to plant a tree.

Without the human these things cannot be used, and do not have purpose.

You are not a thing. You do not have a purpose.

You are that which gives purpose.

You are purpose.

When people you have maligned and persecuted show you compassion and give you aid, that should be humiliating and humbling.

Unfortunately it probably won’t have that effect on the people who need it.

On May 22, 2010, now known as “Bitcoin Pizza Day,” Laszlo Hanyecz, the Florida man, agreed to pay 10,000 bitcoins for the delivery of two Papa John’s pizzas.

[…]

Nine months after the purchase, Bitcoin reached parity with the U.S. dollar, making the two pizzas worth $10,000. In 2015, the fifth anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day, the two pizzas were valued at $2.4 million. On May 22, 2024, Bitcoin was at just over $69,181 making the pizzas worth…you get the point.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-20-million-pizza-order/

And… what… devolve into a dictatorship?

Julius was responsible for Nero.

John can’t catch a break