the thing is, normal was always heading in this direction. Capitalism consolidates power into the hands of a few and it keeps consolidating. It will always yield toward more poverty, though for some at home they can wealthier off the exploitation of others.

I get what you mean, but going back to normal will get you right back here in a few years or decades.

I think that the answer is socialism. But for sure, pretty much nobody believes that anyone should have the wealth and power that our capitalists do.

I had typing class in school, but got better with it by video games. I now use Colemak, but can blind type in qwerty and colemak

I’m trying to come up with the words for my feelings on this, but I guess I’m glad this exists simply for the reason that it does exist 🤣

I’d like to plug the fediverse servers that I’m hosting for the traveller / digital nomad niche over at keyboard vagabond

https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/

https://mastodon.keyboardvagabond.com/

https://pixelfed.keyboardvagabond.com/

https://blog.keyboardvagabond.com/

SA is a huge digital nomad hotspot. i haven’t been there, but it’s a favorite of a lot of nomads. They’ve all said that it’s fast, reliable, a bit pricey on housing but you can work around it, and hella fun. I’ve never heard anyone complain about it.

our sun has already kaboomed once, that’s why we have heavy elements that are only made in nova

man the 70s were wild

I have so e personal and professional cards that also have a qr code on them. It’s been a good way to not get lost in an address book with a thousand names

I’ve seen people on news and other places saying that they can’t send texts with the word “Epstein,” there was also censorship around Israel and ICE videos as well

thanks a bunch! it’s been a fun adventure! 😄

write freely has their own hosted servers (https://read.write.as/), and ghost is a federated platform for monetized blogging (ghost.org).

for write freely, I found the fediverse observer page for write freely (https://writefreely.fediverse.observer/list). I once came across a huge write freely blog, but can’t find it anymore.

on Keyboard Vagabond, I have a Topic set up with different blog communities that I found https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/topic/blogs.

it may also help to search mastodon for #blog and#blogging to find some people and then you can follow them there or on RSS from their main sites.

I don’t know if that actually answers you question, but it’s things I’ve done to find people.

oh my god he sounds hilarious 🤣

he must have been a wonderful person, and ti have been with you and your son through his life. I’m sure he’ll always be remembered, and I imagine he was happy to be a part of your lives.

cheers to him 😊

edit: what is one of your favorite memories of him?

I’m thinking slower, but with a lot of pressure, like hydrolic small piston into big piston. slow, but it doesn’t stop

I try to have 3 places in mind for a change of scenery, and if there’s something going on at at least one spot, that can take the pressure off of talking. i try to sit next to the person, like at a bar top, instead of across because that just feels like a job interview or something.

aside from that, engaging conversation. Probe for interest and if they reciprocate, then you can go a bit further until they don’t or you’re making out.

funny thing though, I started planning some of my outings with friends like I was doing a date. Instead of just going to the bar and “yyyyup”-ing for a couple hours, I try to find a shoe or something going on and then change locations to something else interesting. By the end my buds are commenting about how much fun they had.

so plan the date around interesting things or environments, or just something going on or something to look at. Then just have fun and relax.

Also, I read something from one of the old dating sites where they said that a sushi date is 27% more likely to get a second date. All of my sushi dates have gotten second dates.