I like the idea that we’re interconnected ‘nodes’ collectively experiencing life from our own viewpoint, but part of a larger consciousness. But fucks knows.

Would the curvature not get in the way at a certain distance?

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I was thinking if the moon was somehow ‘resting’ on the earth’s surface. If you head West, to around the Boston area, it would be eventually be obscured by the curvature of the earth.

Never tried it in my life. Pretty sure you can get it here in the UK, but most of those style drinks (monster etc) look so artificial that my own innate cowardice keeps me away.

That said, I barely drink soda since the sugar tax, as all the soft drinks now have sweeteners that I taste as bitter - even my national drink (Irn-Bru) has been ruined.

So, with that in mind I’d probably be keen to try US Gatorade, as I’m guessing it’s loaded with sugary goodness

I think so. Humour was needed growing up in a Scottish school. I approach most things with a sort of ‘Gallows Humour’. A kind of pleasantly self-soothing mindset that accepts that we’re all pretty much fucked, so we might as well have a laugh while we’re at it.

Wholesome, traditional. Just casually rolling like the guy Dick Jones had killed in RoboCop.

Alcohol and, very occasionally, cocaine.

It’s actually pretty decent on Limmy, I’ve found…

The only topic I’ve struggled with is the trans stuff. It goes without saying that there’s a depressing level of intolerance and hate out there, invariably ramped up by the media (distraction?), but also so much treading on eggshells, obfuscation and, frankly, attention given to a subject that the vast majority of folk may privately find a little confusing, but ultimately don’t have any great interest in.

Bots

Billionaires

Billionaire-bootlickers

Excessively talkative people who tell you everything about their life - but take zero interest in yours.

Companies that make you jump through hoops when you call them and force you listen to recorded messages about how you can get what you need on-line, before they finally put you through to a call-centre in India.

My lack of discipline when it comes to drinking and eating

The fact that my body has taken to waking me up at 4am

To me the hate is quite simple to understand. Socialism means that the extremely rich will be worse off financially. The 1% have an unnatural love for money, and the idea of being less wealthy for the greater good is totally abhorrent to them.

For generations they’ve been able to demonise socialism using their disproportionate influence through the media, to the extent that the majority of the population now fear it.

We’ve really not moved on that far intellectually from the witch trials. People are collectively ignorant and fearful, and with the right nudges are easy to control to the point where they’ll literally vote against their own good. They are the proverbial Turkeys voting for Christmas and I honestly don’t know how we will ever get past it.

Sadly no, just fiber to the cabinet, then copper to the house. When I called the provider to tell them I was switching to Starlink they said there were ‘curently no plans’ for fiber to the premises in my area, so I suspect it’ll be a few years away at the very least.

Annoyed to be paying money to that dick, but it’s literally 10x faster at 420mb, which is what I’m getting now.

Elon’s a straight up Bond villain. I feel guilty for owning a Starlink, but it’s the only high speed internet in my area. Ridiculous that this pricks behaviour means that I now have to justify my choice of IP.

My old friendships are maintained through annual city breaks where me and my rag-tag group of middle-aged food, beer and cocaine enthusiasts congregate for a weekend of laughing and talking shit. Usually followed by a week of abject depression and a few months of financial ruin. I love it.

That’s interesting - I wasn’t aware of how fundamentally we’ve moved on in the last 10 years. Presumably you went to uni, so that’s 4 years, so you’ll have the theory I guess? I did my Degree in ‘computing’ in 2003. Did some Java and Web design using Dreamweaver and a whole module on Lotus Notes. Yeah, not super useful!

Yikes. I’ve moved from IT tech support to MGMT. I don’t really write with a pen, and largely rely on emails/teams. I think if we went back any further than the late 80s I’d be totally screwed.

You’re unhinged.

I do no such thing. I have nothing against trans people whatsoever. Where are you getting that from?

Fair enough, perhaps I overreacted. I’m not particularly concerned that mentioning the gender or number of sprogs I have as part of a broader conversation poses a risk as such, but I take your point.

Or not done at all because they’re silly.

Interesting, yet wildly off the mark take. I’m Scottish and have been a socialist my whole life, but I’ve mostly zero interest in tedious labeling. People like you with their skewed outrage and impossibly narrow definitions of how we should live are as complicit as the MAGA nut jobs in the decline of political conversation.

Hardly. And why not? Why do you seek to repress what I chose to mention online? Like it or otherwise, the vast majority majority of folk don’t have to go far to ‘discover’ their gender.

I have no interest in the relentless naval gazing regarding gender that disproportionately dominates online conversations, likely perpetuated by bad actors trying to push a niche issue into the mainstream to further splinter the left, but to my mind pushing a collective that removes gender from people until they decide at some arbitrary age what they want to be is not the change most people want.