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I can see windows internet related services being tested with edge.

Sorry about you not seeing the lightning bug.

Insects are dying out a bit.

Eye worms.

Worms that eat out the eyes.

Seriously.

Nothing is worse than a feral fish.

Those things are so riddled with diseases that you’ll be trying to eradicate the bubonic plague in your tank for about five years after the feral fish died. AFTER you empty the tank and hit it with a vinegar scrub and then literally a flame thrower.

The eye worms. THE EYE WORMs 🪱

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How much have you read about the history of religion?

If they’re not doing it to others, they’re doing it to themselves. The last time there wasn’t a Christian church leader ranting about an evil person was around year 0.

Me, playing the Sims when poor.

WeChat preinstalled?

But nah, the OnePlus 7 with a custom ROM was my jam. Shame the screen broke.

Wow! Rattling off stats like that is a great way to show you’re not shilling.

Tell me, how is the display color quality and camera resolution?

Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.

You’re going to laugh, but I’m absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.

Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don’t go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.

Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.

After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke’s social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.

A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.

I studied both political science and programming.

I can’t think of a good joke, but I wanted to share.

It gives Kerbal Space Program energy.

I mean it’s an incredibly difficult job to refine the chemicals enough to produce a usable product. There’s a finite number of instalations which can actually pull off the delicate chemistry. The materials to make it are fairly common enough; essentially just SiO2,Al2O3, Na2O, and K2O, but it’s much easier to obtain it from the hardware store. I’m definitely not suggesting you attempt to make your own clear glass.

Good catch, but that’s a common misconception. You can actually use woodworking tools on glass, such as drills and saws, but you need to go a lot slower and make sure to keep vibrations under controll.

Store brand foods are good a lot of times. They used to be garbage, but nowadays they’re pretty good.

Frozen veggies instead of fresh is usually okay if you’re steaming or roasting.

Automotive parts off Amazon have worked alright; Rebuilt my suspension for, like, $120. That’s tie rod, sway bar, shocks, and struts. No issues for the two years since that repair.

A ton of hobbies have perfectly respectable aliexpress alternatives. Keycaps, Fountain pens, 3d printer parts. They rob intellectual property, but I like linux ISOs, so I don’t exactly have a history of respecting that type of property.

Software in general can be cheaped out on; I don’t think I need to champion FOSS on here.

Refrigerators and washing machines can be cheaped out on, as long as you do a bit of research about their reliability.

Lots of stuff is easy to DIY if you have some work space. Furniture, fish tanks, thermonuclear warheads. Learning to sew is valuable, not because you should make your own clothes -fuck that- but because you can mend the stitching on your current clothes.

Services can usually be cheaped out on. Youtube videos and a can-do attitude can get you through manicures and toilet repairs. Court clerks will sometimes be willing to walk you through basic legal stuff like name changes. Things you should educate yourself about beyond a short youtube video: Electricity, flammability (from heat sources), and anything involving significant pressure (pistons, compressed air, and power washers, mostly.).Also be a little careful with chemical reactions: cement hardening, for example, will produce a bit of heat. Usually this isn’t a big deal and you can ignore it, but there have been idiots.The world’s information is at your disposal. Provided you’ve got some common sense, and you never fuck around with the capacitor in a microwave, you should be fine.

Also struggling. I solved others with psudocode but that’s not working here. Trying new strategies with little success.

Ahh, I see.

When using a bidet, you must always be face-down ass-up with the sprayer above you.

And one seems to want to light the world on fire in the process.

So the problem seems like an easy one to solve. Accelerationism is a good way towards extinction.