It’s game theory, so a little math and a little of this and that.

Are you young and healthy? Easy bet.

Are you middle aged and struggling? Difficult bet.

Are you old and in poor health? Easy bet.

Etc.

I’m approaching 40 And it was hard enough with cable internet being all the rage.

Now that kind of connectivity is 24/7 and on personal pocket sized devices.

I don’t envy today’s youth.

When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks about you

When you’re 40, you don’t give a shit what anyone thinks about you.

When you’re 60, you’ll realize no one was thinking about you the whole time. It will be more empowering than depressing.

Skip the worry. Do you. It’s public space and hurts no one.

📽️ Why A Scanner Darkly is a good film

🕴️ Keanu is an agent.

💊 Robert Downy is on drugs

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1. Waking Life is an excellent movie that every coming of age adolescent should watch. Preferably during their first few times experimenting with a hallucinogen, but that’s certainly not required.

2. Alex Jones got drunk on investigative journalism success. It is not a stretch to say that he and Michael Moore were very similar and on similar paths at one point in history (circa Waking Life, 1999-2001.). . Turns out one of them is both batshit crazy and great at mass manipulation, while the other is still righteous but struggles to get noticed.

If you didn’t know this, it’s important to hear. It’s important to know that someone seemingly righteous right now can be revealed to be a lunatic piece of shit loser down the line.

Their message can be righteous. Power corrupts, and manipulators often barely know they’re manipulating. They know they’re succeeding. They’re drunk on it and they stumble onward into grotesque success.

I won’t give spoilers, but another classic psychonaut movie of this era is, IMO, Keanu Reeves best performance. It is also rotoscoped and trippy and about hallucinogens. Alex Jones has a similarly small role, scene here.

3. A Scanner Darkly is an S tier movie. has drugged up Robert Downy, has Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, and again Keanu’s best performance. His character is addicted to a fictional addictive hallucinogen. His space cadet demeanor between bill and Ted and actual actor is blurred expertly… It’s such a sleeper banger film.

Sincerely if you’re like 16 to 25 and just getting into drugs… Watch both of these movies. I promise Alex Jones has nothing to do with them other than that he was actual kinda a liberal beacon at the turn of the millennium. Weird to recount.

What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.

This disjointed drunken ramble was brought to you by beer.

Go watch Waking Life, yes. But go watch A Scanner Darkly. Both have rotoscoped Alex Jones being Liberal. The latter is a better film.

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Tinkle down economics

Mugsy Bogues is why.

Name one.

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Ive said it once and I’ll say it every time I get the chance:

Vegetables don’t exist.

It’s a culinary word which does not exist in botany. It describes an enormous umbrella of fruits, roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds.

With video on.

As a cat.

Thank you for reminding me to get paid to masturbate while working from home today.

It is ok to admit you are wrong.

Jesus Christ, your obnoxious.

Blocked.

I’m done arguing. Not gonna respond to whatever fedora fanboy nonsense to follow.

Ubuntu holds around 30 percent of the Linux desktop market. Fedora sits around 1 to 2 percent. Ubuntu focuses on Long Term Support stability, massive community documentation, seamless hardware driver support, and minimizing breakage for new users. Fedora deliberately pushes bleeding-edge kernels, experimental libraries, and rapid changes that regularly introduce breakage. Beginners do not need the newest kernel version or experimental features. They need stability, predictability, easy troubleshooting, and access to a massive community when things go wrong. Fedora is excellent for intermediate users who know how to fix their own problems. It is irresponsible to recommend a testing ground distro to someone who is still learning how to use the terminal.

If Fedora were actually a good beginner distro, it would dominate beginner spaces like r/linux4noobs, It does not. Fedora is respected, but it is not designed for beginners. Even Fedora’s own documentation assumes technical competence that a first-time Linux user will not have.

It is objectively not a good distro for beginners. Not even Fedora thinks it’s a good distro for beginners. Your arguments make no sense. I certainly don’t care to hear anymore of them.

Good day.

It is a testing ground for new features. It is literally one of the worst beginner distros. Shit breaks constantly. That is not good for beginners. Just because you like it doesn’t make it good for beginners.

We’re not talking about what distros are good. We are talking about what is good for beginners.

Would absolutely not recommend fedora as a first distro.

Yeah, I don’t recommend settling on it, but I stand by learning on it. It will be the most frictionless. It’ll ease you into resolving hairy problems in a way that is less discouraging, because they’re not quite as hairy.

Ubuntu. Many will disagree but, Debian flavors are a way smoother experience from the start and Ubuntu has a ton of community support. You’ll rarely find an issue no one found and solved before you.

My God you’re insufferable.