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https://wilf.live/cobble

Very cool. Love the tree one in particular!

I’ve just set up a self hosted server, with lots of useful Docker containers. Any suggestions for a good image host? I saw immich, and it sounds tempting, any thoughts?

Isn’t that the basic Buddhist / stoic idea? Avoiding suffering entirely isn’t possible, and obsessing about evading it is itself a heavy burden, instead choose to accept and be at peace with the suffering that is beyond your control.

La Vie En Rose is a classic for a reason. I’d probably go for Grace Jones’ version.

Same!

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I believe that the the claim that medieval people needed to drink beer because water wasn’t safe to drink is a bit of a myth. They built aquaducts, dug wells, etc.

As far as I understand it, it was more to do with preference (beer is great!) and calories. Beer was a good way to turn grains into easily quaffed liquid meals.

I love them! Generally find that once you get one it’s a lot easier. I find that if I’ve not looked at one for a while, and 8k kit getting it, and I go back to the first one I got (some boxing kangaroos) and normally it just clicks again.

My partner can’t see them, and is convinced it’s just a dumb hoax that people on the Internet play pretending they can see them.

I do have a wood fired oven, but it’s inside. So homemade pizza is a winter only thing. But takeout pizza is year round.

Oh. My. The shame. You’re exactly right. That’s what it was. Don’t remember turning it on, but since I’m apparently a dumbass, I would take my word for it. Thank you!

It is! Loved it as a kid, and gave me a lifelong fondness for command line terminals.

I used to work as a chef, but I still find it hard to cook for myself because of all the little tasks of deciding and shopping and so on. For a good while I used hello fresh just because it made things easy and uncomplicated week nights, and then at the weekend I’d cook fun or more elaborate stuff.

They’re not as cheap as cooking for yourself, but adhd’s poor planning and impulse control led to a lot of wasted food and expensive takeout. So in the end it didn’t feel like to changed my overall expenses, and at least I was eating a cooked meal with meat and veg, not just eating instant ramen or ordering unhealthy deliveries.

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That there were some areas ruled by monarchs and now they’re one bigger area ruled by a single monarch.

No, I’ve probably hid less than ten posts in the last year.

That’s the one! Weird. Still not working for me, and I tried hiding some other posts, but none seem to work. It shows the post, but the menu now says unhide. Unless there’s a setting I’ve toggles off to make all my hidden posts visible?

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I see a bunch of people posting civil and reasonable issues with the thinking behind your shower thought, and then you replying in an immature and disingenuous manner. I think the contrasting upvotes / downvotes in your comments vs everyone elses suggests that my interpretation is shared by the wider community.

I almost didn’t comment because I thought from your behaviour it was obvious trolling, and there’s no point reasoning with trolls. But looking through your post history, you seem like you’re generally posting on good faith, so I thought I’d try and explain that you do not need to react so defensively to legitamate discussion and disagreement.

A shower thought doesn’t need to be factually correct to be interesting, but when you post a pretty extreme take on a serious and sensitive subject, it isn’t surprising that people are going to clarify where you’ve gone wrong.

Not a night, but my group of friends will pick a theme like 80s fantasy movies of 40s noirs, and put together 8ish films, with a mix of classics and more obscure choices. You’ve got the week to watch the movie, then at the weekend we send our thoughts / review. Generally come up with a set of review criteria, our TieDyeFuturism: 70s sci-fi season had stuff like “The Real Monster is… MAN”, “Virtually Indistinguishable from Magic” and “A woman on the Bridge?!”

This isn’t debate club.

If people aren’t suppose to discuss and possibly disagree, why post? What do you think is the purpose of the showerthoughts community?