MTG thinks it’s a sign from God: https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1776282144416972941

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Wtf? The state doesn’t own our bodies.

News and the media in general preys on fear. They want you to be terrified because it makes you watch the news and read the papers and their websites. They hype up anything that will scare you.

The whole COVID period proved that.

The internet being a “place” you would go to and then leave.

That’s almost impossible to do now because everything is so linked to being online.

People commenting on things that are not aimed at them, or complaining about it.

Like seeing an advert for guitar lessons with a phone number attached, calling the number and telling them how much you really don’t want guitar lessons, when all you had to do was ignore it.

The Ricky Gervais joke about guitar lessons applies.

My time on Reddit has dropped substantially since I can’t use third-party apps for it anymore, but I still login occasionally for the niche communities that don’t exist here, just like you do.

Use whatever website or app you want and don’t worry about what some nerds on the internet might think about it.

You seem to think I support either of them.

Yes.

Biden has been a damp squib of a President, so even if people dislike Trump they’re not going to come out in force to vote for Biden again, whereas Trump supporters certainly will.

In fast food restaurants in the UK, you get your own napkins or they give you them on the tray when you collect your food. Or in some other non-fast food restaurants, they will bring napkins with your cutlery after you’ve ordered your food.

This is how it has always been and it’s a slightly strange thing to get upset about.

I’m not religious or spiritual at all, but the Buddhist way of thinking, viewing the world and how to improve yourself is always interesting.

If that’s what was happening, it would be a problem, yes.

What’s wrong with that?

Where did I say it had?

It’s almost like communism could never work.

Either Robocop 3 or Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

Bluesky doesn’t have hashtags, but the algorithmic feeds are supposed to pick up on keywords that it deems relevant to the feed you’re subscribed to.

The problem with that is you will often get posts which are nothing to do with the topic of the feed, but they use a word which the algorithm thinks is relevant. I was subscribed to a general Gaming feed, and I would often see posts about Donald Trump, just because someone used the word “game” or “playing” in the post.

Another silly one was in a PlayStation feed, where I kept seeing posts from sex workers selling their content on a site called Clips4Sale. Because the URL has “ps4” written in the middle of it, it was added to the feed. 🤷

Mastodon has more of a community feel to me, whereas Bluesky feels like the traditional “shout into a void” like Twitter is.

Thunder. It gives me that Relay for Reddit experience and I’ve not needed to switch ever since downloading it.

There is no purpose in life. Like others have said, the fact that we’re all here and life exists at all is entirely an incredible accident. As that’s the case, how could we have any inherent purpose?

The endless pursuit of a purpose can actually make you more unhappy.