As an American, I’m just as sick of it as you are. I voted by mail weeks ago, but because I’m in a swing state I’m bombarded by mail and text messages.

Anyway, I recently switched to the CachyOS kernel. I won’t try Factorio though because I know I’ll get horribly addicted.

I think learning linux and the terminal is a good place to start. Once you get comfortable doing basic stuff in the terminal, it will be easy to start making bash scripts. From there, something like Python would be a good next step.

I love typing ‘yay kitty’ on a new install

I’ve been going to the gym 4 days a week (often just 2, but ideally 4). 2 upper body days, 2 lower body days.

For me, going to the gym means that I’m much more likely to do a full workout than if I stayed home. It’s also easier to properly target all of the important muscle groups. Machines are a good place to start. Use lower weight than you think, and really focus on feeling the muscle and doing slow, controlled motions.

I just do protein shakes, which is maybe not enough. I definitely don’t get enough calories, as I live alone and have a very hard time preparing food and eating a proper amount. Calorie surplus is important for building muscle. I’ve made very little progress because I keep losing any weight that I gain :(

I’ve never felt like I’m part of a community, and I have no idea where to even look for that. I feel like I’m doomed to be lonely and unhappy my whole life.

You’re going to die on the hill that music is objective, and the Beatles are objectively bad? Interesting…

I’m curious what bands you consider “objectively good”

This is a meaningless strawman. I don’t see anyone saying things like this.

Well I didn’t make this post so I can’t really speak to the intent behind it.

But I don’t think that’s what this post is doing at all.

It’s “fuck cars” not “fuck people who drive cars”

Obviously the average driver is not responsible for the societal reliance on cars.

Well I guess music is inherently subjective, but they have definitely written many good songs.

Because they’re good! Excellent songwriting that stands the test of time.

That song is literally nonsense meant to confuse people who overanalyze their songs. It’s not meant to be ‘deep’ haha.

You don’t have to like them, but there’s a reason why I and so many others think they’re fantastic.

That’s a good idea, and it could make a one way trip worth it if it meant becoming super powerful. I’d also focus on medical technology, and maybe computing.

Although I’m a bit unsure of whether I could really create enough broad social change just from that. My goal would be liberation for people of all races, genders, and sexual orientations, the dismantling of capitalism and power structures, etc.

The other option would be to do far back enough so that I could be some sort of god king, which would be a lot more work technologically, but might be easier to create a religion that would canonize my instructions.

True, I wouldn’t want to get Galileo’d, and I would definitely want to stay away from Salem, haha. I think ~1750 would probably be a good time. Someone like Euler would take it seriously.

I’m quite happy with my instance and I haven’t experienced this myself (that I know of). I just personally would rather encounter something I don’t like than to only be able to see half a conversation.

I guess you’re right that having instance options makes this a non issue though, as we can both have what we want.

I just think a lot of people join instances like world or ml without really understanding this, which is unfortunate.

Please re read the original post and my comments. That’s not what I am saying.

I’m saying that ideally moderation SHOULD be handled by the remote instance that hosts the community, and that the local instance should faithfully reflect it without censoring it.

Yes? I don’t understand what you’re saying.

That’s not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying it would be best if content on remote instances wasn’t censored when viewed on a local instance, even if that user was banned locally.

I think this problem is hard to get around though with how all content has to be hosted locally.

I understand the liability issue, I guess this is just an inherent tradeoff with how the fediverse works.

I at least think there could be a two stage ban, ‘no posting here’ and ‘block everything’.

Also, defederation could still be used for instances that fail to moderate, although I do agree that fully blocking a user is much preferable to the nuclear option.

I think it would be better if bans only applied to posting on an instance, and each instance/community would self moderate. If I go to a post, I want to see the whole discussion, and not have certain people hidden from me by my home instance. Let the instance hosting the community filter out spam.