He looks less evil, with those eyes.

Ugh, rumination!! Absolute bane of my existence! If I’m left alone with my thoughts, they go supernova on this shit. Apparently it’s a fight or flight mechanism? Or at least it’s trying to protect you, but it doesn’t, it just sends me into a spiral. I used to swear at it, but then I started swearing (at myself) in public (oops!) So I had to stop doing that.

But I’ve had so much trauma in my life, my brain has picked rumination as a way to “not get into an incident like that again, if we micro analyse every nee and old interaction” so I’m working on letting my nervous system know that doesn’t keep me safe, that’s actually putting me in danger, (it’ll break my self worth and sense of self, so much I won’t be able to socialise at all, or send me into overwhelm and distress). And i do a Physiological sigh. Mostly working so far.

Ndis.

Yeah we need to change that!

Oh, so we’ve taken it lots of places now, that’s pretty cool, probably being printed in the Oxford dictionary last year helped spread it along, too.

Til what gooner means colloquially, in us and UK. Something different again in Australia if it’s still relevant today, even. Slang changes so quickly.

I think they’re all too reliant on the US and they notice, the US kinda has them by the balls, strategically. They all seem to be quiet quitting / ghosting, and that seems to be all the power they have. What they’re doing will be felt for decades, it’s more of a slow burn, they are kinda sanctioning, in the sense of removing reliance of all US products. The US govt has built itself up as an evil superpower, with tendrils of control over other countries, military posts, strategic assassinations. What do they have on Australia, that makes them defund supports for disabled people, just to be able to bomb Iran along with the US. There’s some deep seeded control going on there, and in many other places.

Sadly that’s not how it works, any more. But we could fight to bring it back. Collectively.

Me.

It’s t-shirt weather, in the middle of winter here where I am. I’m 49, I’ve never seen anything even close to this before.

This is what my brain imagines when I think the word puggle.

Different phases (colours of light) move at different speed, and have different longevity, I think. So how they always thought those pretty galaxy nebula photos, were red? Actually turns out that phase of light just travels for a longer time. Lasts longer. OK, now someone correct me, because I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. Just bring up vague floating memories from an article i read once.

OK, this is starting to get hilarious.

That does really sound like grooming. Never ignore your instincts, I learned that one the hard way.

Dude, don’t normalise this bullshit. Wtf.

This sounds like a threat.

I used to pirate on vhs myself, i figured out how to do it as a kid. I was probably 10 when i started. You didn’t point a cam corder at the telly, you just piggybacked two VCRs, and recorded what you hired from the store, or taped from the telly show streaming from the antenna. Either paused at the adds or left it going. They actually appreciate people who used to record the telly shows, now, because back in the day they didn’t save anything, they recorded over all those old shows on their big film reels, so some of those old pirated tapes are the only record left. Victimless crime, either way, though.

I do this, but I’ve never thought to turn it back on itself and use it to my advantage, pure genius!

I was wondering if this was a takedown from the inside, because of the whole, people working together to stop a company being shorted to death, thing. Which, i could imagine, angered those who think they’re gods, to no end. But surely they wouldn’t be so obvious about it.

What you’re saying is so important to say out loud, because I don’t know if it’s easy or even in some cases, possible, for average Joe to find that information.

I do think that the whole rebellion from enshitification, is valuable in whatever format, so the whole crowd going for old tech, because they don’t know how to use new avenues, other than the ones they’re familiar with, still achieves the same task.

I don’t have a lot of time to deep dive, I don’t have a lot of expertise, those muscles have become flabby from no use for so many years, I used to download my music, then had Spotify for so long, then qobuz because Spotify turned evil, but I genuinely tried to download music again and I couldn’t figure it out. I just feel like, I wish there were more tutorials on how to do the things you talk about. (If anyone knows any, I’d be so grateful for the help). I feel like theres not a lot out there? I see this so often, Lemmy has some amazing talents and minds, who know all this stuff, but talk about it like it’s common knowledge. It’s not. You guys are magicians. I just wish I knew how to do all your tricks.