Haha, projecting your projection. Classic. Here I was thinking your response was weird. I just can’t understand the emotional deficiency that would cause you to get so upset and involved in what was an innocuous post. I say it’s time to grow up and move on. I am getting more than a little bored by the inane responses, so may just go the blocking route.

Again, I’m sorry for your lack of imagination and child-like need to lash out. Therapy might help you.

I’m very sorry for your loss of imagination.

Interesting that the rest of the developed world is fine with it. At least based on that title.

It’s a good book. I would argue that although he had a hard go of it, and long days, his life was much more fulfilling than 99% of the lives that people live these days; probably more fulfilling than the lives of the people that lived during his time as well. There’s a reason people love escapism.

Thomas Paine posited that if a man, unencumbered by society, could meet his basic needs (food, shelter, etc) in x hours of work per day, then society owed that same person the same basic standards of life for working that same x hours per day. Where I’m from, the Native Americans had to work about 2 hours a day to meet their needs, and so became really great artisans with their “free” time.

Closer to present, my parents were able to buy a comfortable suburban home while working relatively low paying government jobs. That includes my mom taking off approx 6 years to take care of my sister and I until we started elementary school.

When Europeans first came to America, there were schools of cod off the coast that you could literally dangle an empty hook into the water and catch fish. Passenger Pigeons darkend the sky for days on end with their migrations, and the thundering of huge buffalo herds could be heard and seen throughout a good portion of the continent.

[Life expectancy] fell to 77 in 2020 and dropped further, to just over 76, in 2021. That’s the largest decrease over a two-year span since the 1920s. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-life-expectancy-in-the-us-is-falling-202210202835

Sure it’s not all bad. But it’s far, far from all good as well. Sometimes bitching is just the sign of an unhappy person, but often there are some real truths behind the complaints.

What pants?

I would always laugh when he was being a dick. Just from every interview I’ve seen with the guy he comes across as a good one, and then here he was acting like he was. I kept imagining the director yelling “CUT!” and Wil immediately apologizing for the bullying.

He was such a turd in Eureka. It was great.

I completely approve of this setup.

I don’t know if I’m alone on this, but I just bought the biggest 5400rpm HDD that was in my price range when I set up. Might notice the slower speed when doing a big data dump, but for streaming purposes you can run many 4k streams concurrently and the bottleneck would probably be your network speed before you hit a drive read bottleneck.

In Future Shock,

Alvin Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a “super-industrial society”. This change, he states, overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from “shattering stress and disorientation”—future shocked. -from WP

This was published in 1970

I’ve heard “over yonder as the crow flies”, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard “over yonder as the crow the flies”.

I love that saying. And I’ve known that for a long time.

I’m going to go with you being crazy. Although based on your mention of “deja vu” and the number “4”, I did see djview4. I don’t think that’s what you wanted though.

Humanity. I know it’s kind of self-defeating or something, but humanity just scares the shit out of me.

This comment section gives me hope for this platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWQ4K5vwSk

As someone on the inside of the US…I don’t know. We’ve always had a pretty strong strain of anti-intellectual idiocy, but the past decade or two has just been bizarre. The ugly hate and willful ignorance is embarrassing, scary, and really demoralizing.

I like command line stuff, so I use newsboat for the reader, and then yt-boat to download. yt-boat uses yt-dlp as it’s backend, but I’ve never had a problem with yt-dlp not downloading or asking for credentials though.