Thank you. It’s important to tell the people you like that you like them.

Not necessarily words, but a simple phrase: “I like you.”

I think people should say that to each other more.

Yup. Seems that way.

Agreed.

I don’t want to live long. I want to live well for as long as I can. Being animated doesn’t matter if I’m not enjoying myself.

I finally rearranged my bedroom after wanting to do so for six months yesterday. This week I’m going to do some Marie Kondo’ing of my place and put things away that are currently just sitting out for no good reason.

Totally, and the deal’s going to happen in two weeks. Definitely two weeks.

it becomes a form of censorship when snall websites and forums shut down because they don’t have the capacity to comply.

In this scenario that’s not a consideration.

We’re talking about algorithmically-driven content, which wouldn’t apply to Lemmy, Mastodon, or many mom-and-pop sized pages and forums. Those have human moderation anyway, which the big sites don’t. If you’re making editorial decisions by weighting algorithmically-driven content, it’s not censorship to hold you accountable for the consequences of your editorial decisions. (Just as we would any major media outlet.)

Also kind of annoying how God keeps doing awful things but is never cast as the bad guy.

That book is partly why I oppose all war. The film Netflix produced of it a few years ago is pretty amazing too. The cinematography is almost too beautiful given the subject matter.

Going to add Dark Money to my reading list. Thanks!

Agreed. An abundance of natural talent right there. Can’t wait to see how he grows.

Getting weird is why we love Bioshock so much.

I’m going to have nightmares about this.

It’s just because you think they’re evil. Otherwise, they’d just look ordinary.

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What a bummer. Might get it second hand then instead.

These two changed my whole perspective on American history and the public school system, as I learned a lot of information that had been deliberately withheld from me.

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• A People’s History of the United States

As for fiction:

• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (Beautiful and a little sad)
• The Tapestry Series by Henry Neff (Just a wonderful series to read)
• Night Shift by Stephen King (Read it way too young, in elementary school)
• The Bible (in a bad way, God is an asshole)
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (A trip through my childhood, basically)
• Incidents Around the House (A scary book that touches on all our worst fears as kid)
• The Witches by Roald Dahl (Just a great kids horror book)

You’re not wrong. There are lots of holier-than-thou types around here.

Same, took some legwork to get files for my 700-song library, but we did it. Fuck 'em.

It is possible to get off Spotify.

What you can’t buy legitimately via other means you can use a Youtube-To-MP3 converter to rip and add the file to your music library.