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by jjulius 1y ago
You've essentially just backed up the quote from your first post with this comment.
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Oh, the humanity! How dare they! /s
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We're all just an amalgamation of our experiences. As long as you're creating whatever feels true to you, and you're happy with it, then awesome! Boring? I guess I don't really care - internal joy and contentment will a
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by jjulius 1y ago
>But now that I see it really is ugly I find myself with a more negative disposition towards his message. Why? The whole message is about finding joy in creating whatever you want, something that is ostensibly you , in a way in which yo
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by jjulius 1y ago
Respectfully, to the author's point, none of that matters and neither does anything in your previous post. The author likes it, and has fun creating it and enjoys molding and re-shaping it to their own changing desires over the years.
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by jjulius 1y ago
I feel like you've missed the point of the author's piece.
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by jjulius 1y ago
I recognize that this is certainly going to be a YMMV response, but I've got circles of friends and acquaintances in most of the areas I'm interested in. I can reach out to all of them if I'm feeling up for whatever, or I can
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by jjulius 1y ago
I would hardly call, given the age and history of use of them, a calendar a "tech solution".
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by jjulius 1y ago
Thank you for clarifying. I don't have a Twitter account, and the linked tweet genuinely looks like a standalone object. Mea culpa.
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by jjulius 1y ago
> If you are checking across groups, you are managing N group chats and texting all of them. Exactly! I have different groups of friends and acquaintances with different tastes, interests, senses of humor, etc. I appreciate moving betw
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by jjulius 1y ago
Right? "Even I can see this" isn't exactly enlightening.
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by jjulius 1y ago
I appreciate how they don't tell us what lesson they learned.
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by jjulius 1y ago
Group texts! "Hey y'all, what's everyone up to this week/end? Any good shows/happenings!?"
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by jjulius 1y ago
The large trucks being loaded with crops for delivery elsewhere should suggest that it contributes to the greater food supply, yes. Further... >I once... My phrasing did not suggest "one time" (the phrase was "I pass"
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Until they demand the rest of us subsidize them. I think the discussion is less around "subsidizing" them and more why requiring a cellphone with 2FA to exist and do basic things is kinda stupid.
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Food doesn't come from remote mountainous areas. I must be imagining the farms that I pass in the mountains in the middle of nowhere when I go backpacking. Surely your argument isn't, "My farm was here, so it's impos
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by jjulius 1y ago
This is why the whole discussion around reintroducing them into the North Cascades in Washington has fascinated me (I take no sides, though as a backpacker in that area, I'd kinda prefer not to have to deal with them - black bears tren
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by jjulius 1y ago
>Do you actually want there to be a big "Cancel" button in the top right corner of every subscribed service? Yes.
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by jjulius 1y ago
Kevin Nash and I peed next to one another in an airport bathroom one time.
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by jjulius 1y ago
Totally! But then you've got to make sure all notifications are turned off from every app that might hit you up - not just silenced, but so that they don't even appear over top of the book. And then, of course, there's the te
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by jjulius 1y ago
Wonderful! At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn, that 2.5-hour meal I referenced was bookended by a 2-hour drive each way. Just a bit of music in the car, but plenty of great conversation with our family and my parents
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by jjulius 1y ago
>You are now the weirdo with something to hide when you are not on Instagram or Tiktok. You might call me a "weirdo", but this has absolutely not been my experience whatsoever. Friends, family and coworkers don't really gi
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by jjulius 1y ago
>... I do believe not giving one's brain a break is partly causative in depleting one's desire/ability to act. The response I am flippantly tempted to argue is that it's good for people to not be acting/doing all
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by jjulius 1y ago
Parent of 5 and 3 year-olds here - absolutely. We don't own a tablet and the most my kids really know how to do is turn the TV to a show or two they like (relax, everyone, I'll be teaching them how to use tech when their lives act
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by jjulius 1y ago
>It's my brain's shortcut. It's as if my mind say, "Why spend the effort to do something when we can just imagine how it feels and enjoy the reward now?" But I'd wager that, deep down, you know that the feel
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by jjulius 1y ago
A smartphone and a book are, by and large, different modes of escape with different impacts on the escapee. Scrolling through social media is a far cry from focusing on a single subject for an extended period of time, which is what reading
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by jjulius 1y ago
To each their own, IMO. As the other commenter says, some folk might find that distracting. When I go hiking/backpacking, I don't listen to music at all, as I enjoy the peacefulness of the forest and the break that my mind gets fr
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by jjulius 1y ago
I see that the right edge of the photos are cutoff on mobile, but the bulk of the image still appears. The paragraphs might be indented a bit more than usual, but otherwise they're clean and fit entirely on the screen. Not sure how a b
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by jjulius 1y ago
>... and also won the popular vote. Kind of hard to argue he wasn’t America’s choice. I guess the smartass ( "teeeeechnically" ) way to argue against that is that for the popular vote Harris/Walz won 48.34%, Trump/Van
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by jjulius 1y ago
I've already said I've just been trying to be polite in my conversations. There's no "smirking tone of provocation" intended, and the smilies are intended to be taken at face value - genuine smiles, not sarcastic or

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