My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they’re Canadian). They’re still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

It’s such a huge change.

Haha as always, you do what you can

How do you like it? I tried it a few years ago, but my vim muscular memory made it feel as uncomfortable as learning vim for the first time.

Just get used to

• using movement (hjkl),
• going between insert and normal modes (i and esc),
• undoing (u from normal mode),
• and saving (:w and :wq).

Don’t try to do it all at first, just get comfortable with the essentials. You can even just stay in insert mode (the only mode in most editors) at first.

Keep a vim basics cheat sheet handy for a couple weeks as you’re building in muscle memory, then slowly work in more advanced techniques and combinations.

It doesn’t take long before you start having a lot of fun just manipulating text.

PS here’s a decently basic cheat sheet I found:

I don’t know how the driving screenshots can look so fun, but they do. I don’t even love racing games

Or after the “but” and before the “and”

Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.

But I’m more interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.

The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.

^^^

Pirates now the only ones preserving this culture, yeah

Ok let’s hear your take

I go back and forth. I like getting cozy and warm, but when it’s cold my skin feels uncomfortable, like it’s crawling or shrinking on me, like I put it on wrong. And my hands feel gross and cold and I rue having to touch myself with them in the bathroom.

But when I get warm enough it’s nice.

So hard to pick… But I love those bushy dark maples with the leaves that are so blue they’re almost black in certain light. I call them goth maples.

Found a picture:

EDIT oops wrong post

I love random screenshots! I wish I could enjoy Sonic for the gameplay as much as the vibes - I just suck at it too much

Agreed

(Me too, and also the fresh horrors enabled by digital consciousness. I really just have a fear of the future, and I’m glad I’ll be able to die a good honest and final death before all the existentially horrifying stuff becomes possible.)

Robot laws innit

Idgi

E: oh, no threat of violence?

Longer than you think! Longer than you think!

Bandcamp follows and whatever is playing on CBC music.

Black hat v grey hat innit