The only way leftist will win any political ground is by winning allies

Screaming down every person who you have a disagreement with politically will only solidify their dislike for the people you claim to represent

It's funny to me seeing you claim that the other people lack awareness and empathy when you seemingly fail to grasp that people don't enjoy the way you are portraying your political views

So the most sane anarcho-capitalist, gotcha

Likewise, coop is so much more fun IMO

Especially if it's something like Overcooked

Silly coop games with a low barrier of entry are amazing

Unfortunately walking free mostly

There's still investigations on going (last I heard) but we basically have to just wait

Unfortunately in our current election system, voting for the lesser evil is what we have to do.

Vote with your heart in the primaries, vote strategically in the end. So is the curse of our first past the post voting system.

And do what you can to help get the people who want to do positive change in your local elections into office. The only path to ranked choice voting is getting enough support in the states, there's very little chance we'll get it on the national stage without it becoming a reality on the state level.

Bit of a silly question:

I got quite the overkill server‡ for free‡‡ a little while ago and I've been struggling to find stuff to do with it

What kind of stuff do you self host?

Basically all I've got currently is TrueNAS Scale running on mine and it feels like a bit of a waste just running that.

‡ My server is from 2012 but it's got dual hexacore Xeons (can't recall exact model), 192GB of RAM, and about 40 TB of storage in Raid-Z2. The storage came from my old crusty NAS, I didn't get that for free.

‡‡ Well mostly free, I was told I could have it if I got it out of they're garage which took about 2 days.

Pedos have no place in the LGBTQ+ community.

Picture an 4 way intersection.

For me every single car just went about their way all willy nilly like it was nothing.

Occasionally a semi hauling triple trailers flys through grinding every else to a halt when everyone is trying to get through.

There's no order, the lights don't work, and almost no one wants to yield.

The cars were ideas, things I saw, and things I needed to do. The semi is my latest hyper obsession. The non functional traffic lights were my ability to regulate my thoughts.

When I took my meds it was like the lights started working suddenly. At first they were really strict, one car at a time like a highway on ramp. But then things amped down a bit as I got more used to the meds. I even went up to 60mg atomoxetine from 40mg where I started as things ramped too close to chaos again.

I hope that made sense.

For me I have the urge to stand up but I can't bring myself to on many occasions and beat myself up about for too long.

It's gotten easier to stand up about things since I started taking meds.

In fact thinking back on it since I started my meds I've stood up almost every time.

Honestly life has gotten so much easier and better since then it's kinda crazy.

I wish I had gotten around to scheduling the appointment sooner.

Honestly I think you might be right

Since I've started my meds and some behavior changes along with them I have only been late 3 times, all traffic related. And I still managed to get stuff done those days.

Those first few weeks though were pretty damn stressful as I was suddenly finding I could manage my time.

Before getting diagnosed, the running joke was that I'd be late for my own funeral. I even joked with my family that in the event I did pass to have whoever brought my ashes to the BBQ to show up fashionably late in my honor as one last joke.

In the darkness that is existence there can still be beacons of light.

Ending one's existence is the end of all of that. No more light, no more dark, just nothing.

I stick around due to those beacons of light in the dark and honestly the more time goes on the more I realize that there's actually quite a lot of light to be had.

Yeah work sucks for 10 hours a day, but that time allows me to enjoy my hobbies.

The pleasure of a newly painted miniature, the bliss of hiking a new trail, the exhilaration of biking further and faster than I did before, finding new places and things to photograph.

Enjoying a nap in the shade of tree on a lightly windy day, watching the river flow by while I forget to cast my line, watching the clouds flit through the sky while laying in the grass.

If you end it all the only thing left behind is the pain for those who knew you. The gap left in their lives caused by your absence.

Sometimes their big gaps: lovers, friends, coworkers. Sometimes their small: the regular who always stops by, the person with the cool hair you see sometimes, the person who you talked to on the bus that day who you still sometimes see. But the gaps are still there.

I've known a lot of people who have taken their own life, the lives of others, and had their lives taken by other people. Those gaps will always be there.

Stick around, look to the outside world, and reach out. There is light in the world if you look for it, don't let the darkness that dominates the social media landscape be all that you see.

The fun thing is, it does have physical withdrawal symptoms when you stop.

They're just not nearly as bad some other substances.

I'd rank them worse than coffee's withdrawal symptoms.