Brave Little Hitachi Wand

It’s a hard one to gauge for me. I’m pretty sure I found it via stumbleupon back when that was really great. I read the whole thing in close to one go, and I never hear anyone else talk about it.

High five, fuck yes. Cool person detected. I think you’re the first one to spot it, too.

I wish I had that series in print. Might be time to look into that

• Working class: retirement vegan
• American: healthcare vegan
• German: humour vegan

My god, it’s unstoppable

Fucking insane

Yak Bak

It’s just… A plot synopsis is on every book’s wiki page. For free. If that’s your idea of “reading a book”, it’s right there.

Literally just use Wikipedia more

At that point people will just start keeping debt ledgers with each other and carry on without me. Other currencies would pop up. I’d have to spend at volume in every direction just to keep the money from becoming irrelevant.

Well, you got me. I’m trying to do better.

Same, it would be great to have a trove of podcasts saved on my media server but the medium is very geared towards passively receiving episodes, listening once at most, and deleting.

I see people who are showing concern borne of experience, and with marked consensus. If you’re confident they’re wrong about your situation, it still may be worth reflecting on what they’ve learned and to limit your ambitions - or at least, consider building things on a more conservative timeline than you were imagining. Have big dreams, but start with biting off an amount you can certainly chew.

Winches, am I right

I see you around a lot, and you’re consistently doing exactly this. I really respect that.

It’s not federated, but something like BookStack could be an option for self-hosted collaboration.

The people who made phpBB didn’t, so far as I know, have teams of behavioural psychologists gaming out how best to sell us ads and waste infinite amounts of our time.

I super agree, would rather have one decent regular than a thousand average redditors who don’t fit the vibe around here

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I’m fine with that while it lasts. Having millions of active users would increase the feed, but it’s not going to increase the likelihood of me talking to anyone smart

Skill issue