𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Need first gen dino meme-osaurs of the Rev book. They were all based on the scientific illustrations in early papers that postulated dinosaurs were lizards that dragged their tail and had weird posture. All of those theories were debunked something like a century ago but persist in characters entrenched in pop culture such as Godzilla and in backwards ultraconservative conspiracy media of dogmatists.

    I spent way too much of my childhood forced to stare at those dumb drawings to recall this insane chain of linked secret meanings behind scriptures that served as the providence for the religion. Now I realize someone was filtering out those with any remaining intelligence by saying ‘this spurious prescience is nonsense and already disproven at this point in the timeline.’ It took me way too long to acknowledge I was surrounded by idiots on all sides. Most are nice well intentioned genuine people, and there is much to be said about the emotional intelligence of kindness and empathy, but there is no balance with logic or factual intelligence in that world. Positive change is impossible from a negative feedback loop.



  • There are different kinds of lonely though. I would agree that I am fine being totally alone most of the time. My real underlying loneliness is from never having had a close friend that challenges me or shares a significant number of similar interests or any real interests with depth. Everyone I have known in real life is pathetically dull and easily amused. I have met a few people that are on my level but those people always seem to be in other orbits without the space to spare for a new friend. I would like to be that person for someone but never had the chance. I would rather be on my own than with boring people that are easily amused. That you too or different?






  • Don’t get too down. You’re like literally my hero here. Piefed needs some work still but I’ll put up a vote to move 3d printing to piefed.world when it gets sorted enough. I REALLY wish someone would implement the option in the Lemmy API to disregard down votes completely (alexandrite - lookin at you). The negativity when I am already having a bad day or week or month is often a very big deal to me that causes me to go elsewhere. I’m especially ostracized by people that are insane about AI negativity. I can now prove quite a bit about my ramblings and explorations, but that is a pit of stupidity here so I go elsewhere to talk to others about it. I’m okay with the mixed group and people of various ages and backgrounds. It is the lack of respect for people of all levels and backgrounds by others in how they interact that I do not like. Just be positive. IMO if downvotes must exist they should only exist for those that post regularly. I upvote all kinds of stuff, many times just to counter some negative fool. I’ll upvote almost anything just to say “I’m happy you’re here and a part of this place because it is a little more wonderful with you here,” - even when I have no clue or interest in some niche scope. The world can be a terrible negative place, but your one choice and vote in this life is to be a part of the solution or a part of the problem. Fuck the problems; be a solution. What could I do to help you? – seriously digital neighbor friend.


  • Not even a relevant anything here, but I have ridden a bicycle nearly daily for over 15 years in Southern California. I’m on the coast an in the deep water upwelling micro climate. That is too small and insignificant to matter at scale. Still the overall wind patterns have shifted drastically in the last few years. We are getting much more humidity. Before that, it was always a dominant dry pattern for a few weeks, then a humid day or two at most, before the pattern repeats. Where I am located, when commuting the humid pattern means headwinds riding to work and home. That is something one remembers well. Headwinds are miserable on a bike like far worse than rain. During a dry pattern there is an on-shore morning breeze (tailwind for me) and offshore wind in the evening (ditto).

    Anyways that moisture must be going somewhere. With the rate of change here, it would not surprise me if Los Angeles and San Diego suddenly started becoming tropical in coming decades. They will if deep water upwelling is overcome by the surface temperature to the point of disruption of the current flow. I have no idea if that is really possible, but I bet it is as expansion of the tropics seems inevitable.