Well you’re talking to me aren’t you? That’s what it sounds like.

Edit: ah I apologise being that short. Bit of crappy day.

Thick European accent: “You scan? No, you scan’t!”

Man, I can’t get shit done. It keeps disconnecting, updates mess everything up,…

Oh wait, my bad, pen and paper don’t work like that.

Name checks out.

They cosy up to the Donny, …which tracks.

Don’t undervalue that. Working on your head impacts everything else down the line.

It comes and goes in waves kinda like New Year’s resolutions but in general the amount of kindness and care you invest in yourself and those around you increases.

Your body will punish you harder and harder for staying up late and drinking=> ok let’s do less of that. (I’m at a place now where that happens once every 3-4 months…and even then it’s just 2-3 beers and I’m done)

You notice your social circles becoming less dynamic. So you value those around you more and more.

You learn more empathy, so you take more care of people.

You learn the value of time and choose to spend it with your loved ones instead of insert meaningless time sink.

It’s not perfect, but it does increase.

At least that has been my experience so far.

Aha! The question that has many pastors digging deep to get a good answer too. And usually they end up with the age old “mysterious ways”.

The “best” one is usually along the lines of: god wanted a relationship which involves choice and free will, so he had to create a division that would allow humankind to have a choice in the matter.

So god feels lonely, causes all misery on earth that ever was and ever will be. Because free will… On top of that he also indirectly (oh screw it, it’s god) directly causes eternal torture in the afterlife for a vast majority of humankind. Because also, free will (I keep stressing that because that in itself is a huge problem for theologians).

And then all that leads to god killing itself in the form of its own son. Because some of you touch your own genitalia in glee.

Genius.

And it didn’t delete any system files in the process?

“On the menu we have a fine vintage Chatteau du spoiled milk from a very good year.”

Whereas I got rid of my instagram that I barely used.

You’re not bad, google is bad.

I’d suggest already exploring alternatives now. There’s front ends, alternate links, … all with pro’s and cons.

I will say though, once you stop using an account and cut out the feed/algo out of your diet it becomes apparent very quick how much of a grip they hold on our attention just by the layout and such. Now I just check 2 channels every few days and even that’s losing my interest.

Sure, burn the planet for a gamegenie.

I feel that as a society we don’t talk enough about this particular subject yet. What when you change your mind.

So thank you.

That I was a straight Christian.

Freeing myself from those chackles are probably the biggest pivots in my life.

Yesterdaythe moment the sink carrying cancer walked in.

“Nah it’s fine, big companies would never do such a thing. Besides they’re beholden to the governments.”

Right.

I check the stock markets daily just waiting for that fkn line to drop even further.

Apple has done a fantastic job surrounding their privacy reputation. Problem is, they absolutely bent the knee and kissed the ring.

The only way out is either going with custom roms on an android or a Linux phone, … anything along those lines (you know, IT stuff that let’s you actually do stuff). Or don’t participate.

Gud on ya! 🫡