It’s great when a media outlet uses overly emotional or moral language in their headlines. It let’s you know not to read or even click on their crap.

I never thought about it much but how hard would it be to add PID to your power info?

Might as well ask how we live when there are no unicorns. You just do. You tolerate the bad times. You enjoy the good times. It is only when you seek meaning and find it missing there is a hole in your desire. Accept the meaninglessness, take a dump, a nap, meditate, or do something else to break the cycle, and just move on.

To save money? Start by lowering your standards. It’s nigh impossible to grow as good as you can buy for less money. However, you can grow something for very little money. Go for one of the classics. Tomatoes, peppers, and simple leafy greens can be grown in very basic setups. I’ve done all three. Potatoes can can be grown in free cardboard boxes filled with an appropriate soil. If you want fast growing and somewhat economic, you could get into the world of mushrooms. Just be aware, it takes some research and work to be able to do without buying a lot of equipment. It’s technically possible to grow grocery store mushrooms from cutoffs, in a medium made from free sawdust, woodchips, used coffee grounds, and the like if you learn a bit about it.

Coukd go take a wee in the middle of the night and ruin everything.

Then you would have incredible looking genitals, but still no one to show them to, and no guarantee they’d be as useful as they would be pretty.

Live a more or less normal life? Actually, some skills from more modern times could get you some good jobs over the decades, depending on what you know. You could achieve an independently wealthy status without getting wildly famous if you play your cards right.

People are currently fighting over who gets to definitively answer that question.

Is anything still the same as it once was? Corporately produced food is designed by food chemists to be maximally profitable and shifts recipes regularly. Most smaller food makers/preparers are downstream from those corporate entities, relying on them for ingredients. Even the base ingredients, like produce, are being bred to be more profitable, so they change too, just slower. The only thing that won’t have changed is things like ‘that fruit tree that mom has growing by her window.’

In my experience, Debian has been way simpler, more intuitive, more stable, and cleaner. Start there. If you need the absolute latest bleeding edge drivers or software, consider arch, then probably just run it on Debian because the software is still available, just not preinstalled.

Many of the ones I have listened to were mentioned on other podcasts.

I don’t really have much I would recommend, but mostly because the quality is inconsistent and I don’t know you. Econtalks has always been mostly good, just with some annoying guests. I haven’t listened as much since October 7th as it has taken up a lot of the host’s attention.
Gzero World can be interesting sometimes. A bit produced but okay.
Here Comes the Guillotine is fun. Scottish comedians joking darkly.
There are some good TTRPG actual play podcasts. I’d highlight Final Show Films, the Apocalypse Players, and Push the Roll. Quality varies but sometimes really fun. Zizek & so on can be interesting if you like Lacanian psychoanalysis and the like.

I have a hypothesis people seek out in fiction what is missing in their life. If everything is going well, people seek out cathartic drama. If everything is going poorly, they seek out cathartic resolution. Part of why people are so into things like comic book stories is how they usually have a clearly defined villain, problem, and solution, while much of our world right now doesn’t feel like there are any solutions to the problems, or the solutions are so complex people can’t understand them, or even the solutions seem like problems in themselves.

More like big Debian. I see no new, bleeding edge toppings there. Just nice, stable, old-fashioned ingredient layers.

Unreasoned denial and emojis. I’m not going to continue talking to a child. Goodbye.

Had one of these at one point. I enjoy the look.

Relevant as usual

Killing and murder are the same thing. Killing in defence is called justifiable homicide. Don’t play language games.

children communicating to others, that are not their parents ** ESPECIALLY ANONYMOUS\PSEUDONYMOUS STRANGERS, WITHOUT THEIR PARENT’S GUIDANCE** is bad and we should generally have rules against it.

FTFY

There are three groups who seek out kids online: companies who want to do bad things to them, adults who want to do bad things to them, (or are just weird, so probably not good role models at least, even if they might not be technically predatory) and other kids. Given the first two are big and malign, and the third can be accessed by going to school, an extracurricular activity, or through means that connect through but are distinct from access to the open internet, it’s a bad idea to let kids have open access to the awfulness of the modern web.

A small number of kids, in a small number of cases, might benefit from access to the internet in the same way a small number of kids, in a small set of circumstances, may benefit from antibiotics, but we don’t put bottles of penicillin into kids’ pockets and blithely trust them to use them wisely.

Quite simply, if you believe kids are capable of making wise decisions regarding their online actions and interactions without parental guidance, you are granting them the autonomy and authority to offer informed consent. Is that really something you are comfortable with?

Thanks for reminding me to get a new battery.

Unironically, be bored more. If you are so tweaked out by the constant stimulation of modern life that even the deluge of content can’t suffice, your brain has been broken. Meditate. Read. Listen to the sound of your breath. You will want to do something else. Do not do something else. Teach your brain to live at the speed of life.