Mostly feeling the vibes given the recent Australian report linking nicotine vapes to cancer and the anecdotal evidence I have for these strong vapes causing all sorts of negative mental outcomes or dependency for people I know who use them heavily. We still have a lot of space to learn about unintended consequences here and I’m pessimistic.

High THC cannabis vapes.

I’ve been here for a while without having ever posted yet. But I do comment and upvote.

Surely there are a lot of bitter people on the Internet. My opinion is that it doesn’t matter if you’re right and they’re wrong, hating them only hurts you while they dgaf, if anything it just makes them stronger. Don’t engage the hater, love on.

Take heart that cities are capable of change, if they want to. So long as state government doesn’t get in the way.

If you’re not paying for domain and hosting someone else is. If you are so sure that’s free, why don’t you self-host your own instance?

I don’t know anything at all about communick, just saying. Supporting a fediverse provider run by individuals who otherwise volunteer their time monetarily is a virtue not a sin, and plenty of open projects do this.

I’d say not having to commute is a huge benefit of WFH, but it has some pitfalls that can negatively impact your work performance depending on what you do.

Memorizing phone numbers

Not give up on tech, but definitely refocus to resilient local solutions. And trying to minimize the harms of being always connected to the extent possible for living in society.