Himmler was a militay/police guy (e.g. head of the SS), the propaganda minister was Goebbels. Musk is far more similar to a propaganda minister than to an SS head.

They aren’t wrong IMO - if you don’t do anything that requires a lot of processing power or really need a lot of slots for peripherals, PCI cards and drives, you might as well connect your external display, keyboard and mouse to a laptop. It gives you the option to take the entire thing with you, and a lot of people have spare laptops anyway.

I know plenty of people who don’t even use their laptop much because they’re doing everything on their phones or game consoles.

Mailbox.org already provides 3 different aliases even at the lowest tier, but I’ve already filled those with non-temporary aliases and I don’t really want to pay three times as much just for throwaway-aliases …

While we’re at it, anyone got a good site for temporary addresses that are basically used exactly once? And ideally don’t immediately get flagged as spam addresses.

I’ve been there for several years as well. Works great, and I get pretty much no spam.

At one point they offered “envelope with money sent via postal service” as an anonymous payment option, IDK if they still do that.

Even without weed, they still had Bob Marley and reggea in general.

I suppose it makes more sense when your instance is more specialized. My home instance was made for German speakers, so naturally I go my local to see stuff about the going ons in my country and its neighbors.

If you’re not on .world, defederating .world remains a possibility. Also, have you never browsed your instance’s local tab?

Only if you think that the instance’s userbase doesn’t matter for any given community.

I think they tend to have more shenanigans than LotR (though even LotR isn’t zero shenanigans, especially the movies).

Rastafari isn’t actually that cool, especially not when it comes to gay people. They are also strongly opposed to oral and anal in heterosexual couples and are generally quite patriarchal. Have a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari

Also, afrocentrism is one of its core ideas, which makes it pretty weird when white people convert to it (e.g. Gentleman, a German reggea singer).

Also, weed is still illegal in Jamaica. I assume it gets tolerated somewhat, at least with the Rastafaris, but it’s technically illegal.

Also also, Jamaican rum is really good! It’s a very special style, no one makes it quite like they do.

dbzer0 or shitjustworks would have been way better than world. There’s just way too many assholes on world, and even if you ban everyone who is overtly malicious there’s still going to be a ton of normal users who are bringing a completely different vibe/political direction than the blahaj users (I say, as a feddit.org user).

Staying curious and having a sense of purpose will give you an edge 90% of people don’t have in adulthood.

That’s a little ‘thanks I’m cured’ …

My YouTube frontpage is actually empty. Might be due to the various browser extensions I’m using, not sure which one though.

I’m reading quite a few blogs, a lot of them don’t have RSS anymore.

You need to have a couple of explicitly anticapitalist thoughts to see the issue with it. So yeah, most won’t see the issue with it.

The Great Gatsby is 100 years old. I’d assume that books were still more expensive back then relative to people’s incomes, and they were also the only way to access that content while today you have e-books, PDFs, YouTube-videos or even websites, which are often available for free (not necessarily legally).

On top of that, many literary devices are unrealistic or exaggerated.

Eyeglasses are an interesting case, because there seems to be a causal relationship between being nearsighted and staying inside a lot as a kid, which used to be mostly people who read books or just spend a lot of time on school work. That’s less relevant now that kids stay inside to watch TV, play videogames or scroll on their phone, though. Also, many people who need glasses either didn’t have the means (e.g. no access to eye doctors, no money for glasses; probably not as important nowadays in most wealthy countries) or choose to not wear them due to vanity, and both of those reasons are kind of orthogonal to adjectives like “intelligent” or “intellectual”.

How many people actually collect books for show? That seems uncommon and it should usually be fairly easy to tell for people who are somewhat well-read.

The thing with chess is that it’s not fun if you aren’t any good at it, and the difference between people who are somewhat good and those who aren’t is pretty big. You can get there with pure perseverance (same with most other things that gets listed here, probably), but most people tend to pick hobbies that they don’t have a hard time with.

Many ways to end up there. Falling chronically ill is an easy to understand one, even depression can leave you completely unable to get or keep a half-decent job, but many of the better-paying jobs also require some amount of physical fitness. And if you live in the US, any kind of emergency can single-handedly wipe out all of your savings.

Also spending some time in prison might do it, which often happens for bullshit charges. Or just plain old generational economic deprivation - it’s a feedback loop!