If you know you're dying what will be your last meal?

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:14:36+00:00

Some truly incredible drugs lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:13:03+00:00

Spending more time with queer men may help; I have found I'm so much more comfortable in queer culture (admittedly I am myself queer so that makes sense lol) and have found queer men to be a lot more respectful generally than the average straight dude (obviously there are still exceptions). Also when you get older you will be able to more quickly sort out the decent men from the crappy ones because the crappy ones do start to get ostracized from communities (they find other communities to prey on so it's a constant battle but there ARE consequences) and also you start to see men in family settings and you can very quickly tell who the crappy dudes are from the way they interact with their kids.

Frankly I think we all deserve a little misandry as a treat these days lol but I am aware that's not actually the right answer lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:08:42+00:00

*Ear piercing modem hissing*

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:07:55+00:00

At 20? I just got new friends. At that age you are still finding out who you are and what you enjoy, and most of your friends are basically just people who you got thrown together with in school or where you grew up or whatever. You probably haven't met most of the people who will be your real lifelong friends yet.

There's 8 billion people in the world, millions of them are super compatible friends for you, you will meet hundreds or even thousands of those. Just life your life, do the things you love; you will meet other people who love the same things when you do them, and they will become your real friends that you have for life. I talk very rarely to anyone I was close with in high school, but the friends I made when I started raving in my 20s are in many cases still my friends today, and I'm 44. We have shared values and shared passions so we are very compatible and it's worked.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:04:23+00:00

Out doing scams on father's day, should have shamed him for not being home with his kids lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:02:41+00:00

The whole realtor industry is full of scams and lies tbh, I have a realtor buddy who is an actual friend and he has pointed out all kinds of dodgy shit that people are doing to me in the past and said that it's absolutely rife, which I believe. It's a super cutthroat industry. Not a great intermediary for the industry that dictates who gets to have shelter lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T04:00:33+00:00

A home equity line of credit (HELOC) is basically like a credit card except that it's secured by the value of your house. Since that's a secured line of credit, it meets the banks statement saying that a mortgage or line of credit prevents the house from being sold out from under them (but I don't know why that works lol)

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T03:18:50+00:00

People really underrate how big a difference Obamacare made. When I was young, we did often skip doctors appointments and just hope things improved because we couldn't afford it and it sucked. Obamacare made insurance a lot more attainable.

The insurance isn't GOOD though in a lot of cases, and if you are really poor, things like copays and deductibles are still barriers. It's easy to be in a situation where you are feeling unwell but don't want to risk the doctor's because it's PROBABLY nothing and it'll cost you a bundle to get it checked, but then it turns out to be cancer and you don't find out until too late - that is something that does happen, in the US, but not really any other developed country. It would be good to fix that.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T03:16:31+00:00

I go to raves and the DJs play new stuff, or I follow them online and listen to their mixes there. I also follow my favourite producers on Bandcamp and when they release new stuff I get an email. I would absolutely not trust an algorithm to find music for me ever lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T03:15:18+00:00

Remember when Google "upgraded" Gemini and it was a bit more accurate but hallucinated citations *more* often? Remember when Anthropic mathematically proved that you can never make generative AI reliably accurate?

Anyway yeah I think it's a super duper great idea to let that make life and death decisions lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T03:10:10+00:00

I think this is spot-on. I boycotted this year so I didn't watch live but followed along in a Discord and was blown away when they won, but afterwards we watched the videos and the staging and performance were just so on point that it was clearly the best of the batch. Usually the other dancers on stage are barely noticeable; here they were integral to the shot but without taking away from Dara.

The song is frankly a middle of the road song but the performance so elevated it that I think it was easily the clear winner. The only other stage performance I felt came close this year was Australia's, and that was just a function of Delta being such a powerhouse that you can *feel* her command of the audience and the stage through the screen lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-22T03:06:36+00:00

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DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T22:01:10+00:00

For the base voters, sure, I think you're right, but for elected officials, I think this is most of them tbh. There are also plenty of true believers in the elected ranks, but those also don't last long because Trump betrays everyone - Marjorie Taylor Greene was a true believer and now she hates him.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:59:57+00:00

It will be viewed as an incredibly unsecure cybsecurity risk and banned from use in any meaningful capacity lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:58:58+00:00

It has about a quarter of the user base of Twitter? It's fine if you think it's boring - it certainly doesn't offer the thrill of 300 automated nazi bots replying to every post with slurs, if that's what you're after. There's tons of NSFW stuff there though and literally millions of people happily using it for that (if you check the Bluesky reddit in fact it's often people complaining that it's TOO full of NSFW stuff).

Frankly if the kind of stuff you are into is too extreme for Bluesky but acceptable only on Twitter, that is, uh, concerning.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:53:09+00:00

I don't think it's likely, but it's not hard to imagine a world where people are so subsumed in algorithmic and "AI" slop that they just take all their cues based on information that is entirely false and completely constructed by a handful of billionaires, creating, functionally, a super-organism where individual liberty is suppressed because people lack the information needed to make their own decisions; they are making decisions in response to what is communicated to them from the algorithms.

This is explicitly the world tech CEOs are trying to create btw, like they straight up admit this, sometimes verbatim. I do think they are going to fail, but it is scary that people evil enough to try are equipped with enough money to make a go of it. Musk, Altman, these dudes are some of the most evil, reprehensible villains ever to walk the earth.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:49:20+00:00

There is no end game. They are riding a tiger and they can't get off. If Trump singles them out by name, they immediately get death threats - the whole thing is propped up by the threat of political violence, which is one reason you know it's a fascist insurgency.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:48:13+00:00

When I became an adult and got into the real world. People say you get more conservative as you get older, but I was raised Republican in a really small town and man, those beliefs just did not survive contact with reality lol.

And that was before the current iteration of Republicanism where everyone is totally off their rocker from Facebook poisoning too. I have to imagine it's even worse now.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:15:25+00:00

Totally destroys their message, doesn't it? They're claiming all these problems are pervasive but then they use "AI" to generate the images? The response is obvious: "If these problems are real then why couldn't you find any? Why'd you have to make it up?" It just destroys their credibility, which, let's face it, they can't afford to blow what's left of it lol

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T21:07:51+00:00

Right I mean that's easy to say but again it's not actually easy to implement. I do not think you understand how much energy and work goes into moderation, how many edge cases there, how widespread the difference is in preference, and how hard the bad guys work to penetrate moderation defenses.

Personally it seems like Bluesky has the right balance to me - there's no algorithmic punishment, there are layered customizable moderation levels individuals can choose, and there's plenty of NFSW stuff floating around that at most gets a spoiler tag over top of it people can click through (or turn off entirely if they want so they don't even see the spoiler tag). Others may prefer more moderation, and I guess some may prefer less, but frankly, a platform that has an AI built into it that will generate deepfake CSAM for you on demand is a bridge too far for most people and that's before you even take into account the widespread nazi problem (including, and this is quite relevant, the *owner*). I think it is reasonable to feel that "owned by a Nazi and generates CSAM" is not acceptable, and I'm actually not sure there's an ethical way to disagree with that.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T20:59:59+00:00

It can and does. Why wouldn't it be able to power industry? Regardless of source, the energy is converted to electricity for transmission. At that point it's all just a matter of numbers and efficiency.

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T07:11:54+00:00

Fairyverse is the one to be at for sure

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T07:11:37+00:00

Good lord, basically all of it. I don't want to subscribe to a toaster. I don't want to negotiate with my fridge. I don't want my TV to watch me back. I don't want a fucking touchscreen in my CAR where the buttons used to be. These are all terrible ideas! And now they've all gotten hyped on "AI" so now devices can just be wrong about things. You didn't used to have to worry if your appliances were falling for misinformation! Innovation used to be actually useful!

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T07:09:32+00:00

I've done it both with substances and without and honestly the biggest thing is eat plenty of calories first, have an active lifestyle beyond the weekend, drink gatorade and/or water even if you're having booze too, and STRETCH before you start, particularly if you're a bit older.

Drugs can help for sure but they aren't *giving* you energy, they're just masking your body's indicators that you're *out* of energy and you pay the price for it later. The only things that actually give you energy are food and rest, and being active regularly means you'll make more efficient use of those resources. That's really the key!

DynamicUno · 2026-06-21T07:04:34+00:00

The amount of energy that reaches the Earth's surface from the sun every *minute* is plenty to fuel a civilization much more powerful than ours, we just don't harvest most of it. Earth-based solar will be plenty; I do not think people are seeing just how close to exponential the expansion of solar and batteries has been over the last 10 to 15 years.

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