keebletbird.neocities.org
left wing bird, online and trying this " alternative social media" thing again. Union barista and steward. Polyam, dating a glitchcat and a timberfox. they/them, pfp by @ryrybeans.bsky.social. Early 30s
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In terms of hotels, hotels offer a more efficient configuration of hotel rooms than airbnbs do. Airbnbs couldn't compete in a fair market where they're subject to the same zoning, safety, labor, health etc rules that hotels operate under. Its profitability comes from regulatory arbitrage.
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I live in FL. This egret walks into my kitchen twice a day for a piece of fish. If I don’t notice her, she pecks on the glass to get my attention. Her name is Edith.
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The major part of this endeavor, honestly, would be teaching software engineer types how to do dishes and survive in a way that doesn’t necessarily overlap with the skill set of gamemaster Anthony
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something i've thought about is this right wing online radicalization for youth is specifically potent for well off white kids in the burbs, who... have jack shit all to do as well! isolated and your parents and their neighbors like it this way, giving you less and less to do but Computer.
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Yeah I know it’s up to us to make things right but I do just want to continue to make the obvious point of wow! This sucks! Bc I try and steel myself to be able to carry on day to day life
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a party newspaper is a perfectly coherent and reasonable thing to exist, and parties should produce them. too much of the load-bearing infrastructure of our civilization is designed around these bizarre oblique relationships which never work out.
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bands like florence & the machine and mumford & sons—both of whom got popular because their connections got them spots on the mtv vma performance lineups in 2010 and 2011 respectively—seem like ancient history, where merely getting on a cable tv awards show could launch a career
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that being said, dutesteride (avodart) has a different method of interaction and is also quite effective and well tolerated,so if no fin that'd be a solid next choice
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finasteride is linked to slightly increased depression and suicidality risk in people with no prior history of either, i havent personally found anything in re: people who already have both. i personally havent noticed an effect w/my current antidepressent included
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its been pretty upsetting watching basically the whole country including a majority of liberals and leftists act like doing anything collectively for public health was overreach. the same people who compared collectively masking for public good to wearing a seatbelt now deride it
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its so dramatic when it works. for me it took like 4 months to get back to something approaching baseline
though fyi you should get on finasteride too if not already, i can tell you from personal experience that if you do not that extra min hair will fall back out again in like 3 years
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this is what i use for travel www.walmart.com/ip/Clorox-Me...
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and on that last point: having an air purifier in your room at a con greatly cuts the risk of a con roommate/hookup giving you anything. i myself did not spread covid once to roommates i got during a music festival where i had a purifier doing five air changes/hr in the room
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fyi: covid doesnt transmit through surfaces very often. its good to wash your hands routinely but this is for stuff like food bourne illness, norovirus, stuff like that. covid is airborne and thus masks/air purifiers are the most effective mitigations archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/...
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things like kids menus and their beigery always told me, though, why grow up? keep having the grilled cheese with fries, the familiar safe thing
with our algorithms im being presented the kids menu version of the things we like on youtube and spotify etc. more of the same, forever. no growth
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when i was a little kid i was a super picky eater. i had VERY few safe foods, things like pasta and rice were actively scary and disgusting to me. it was hard to start to eat more, but im glad i did if only because there's so much more beauty in the world of food than i could have ever known before
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this form of reality-mediated-by-its-depiction-from-curated-images isnt all that new—it goes back over a hundred years to early mass media, yellow journalism, and movies; with radio and tv it reaches a seemingly unstoppable zenith, only itself to be peaked by the internet hitting MGS2 hyperreality
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i call a lot of what i like "beige" content or just "beigery" bc in many ways this holding pattern, no strings attached series of images because it reminds me of the beige foods common in restaurant kids meals. ultimately its the same impulse that keeps both standards around. its easy, mentally
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some of my favorite things ive ever experienced were and are like nothing else id ever tried to find. before playing, eg, katamari damacy, i never would have thought to ask for a game like that. Bob Fosse's All That Jazz is like no movie i would have expected or asked for; same deal
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the culture rewards selfishness, and the automated curation in particular just pushes us towards things it is most confident we'll like. yeah my youtube shows me educational stuff but thats because i like learning. its rarely educational on the level of a PBS Nature or American Experience or NOVA
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its hard to buck this trend of not needing to be exposed to as much new stuff with, ya know, weight to it with the increasing utter lack of monoculture. theres no show im truly missing out on office discussion with. everyone is in their own little individual algorithmic worlds, unconnected to others
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the one major thing i DO do more of now is gaming, and ive definitely had a ton of positive experiences from that, things i wouldnt have done without that. Its cool to be "the coworker who knows about games" as much as i am the music coworker, ya know
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the last time i finished a fiction book was 2021. Every movie outside of the theater feels like too much work; i truly cannot even remember the last time i decided to sit down and watch a movie just by my own volition. pre-pandemic, i think
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i used to listen to so much new music and frankly wanted to. Now, so much of the time i would have been listening to music /podcasts while walking or driving i just, well, enjoy the fifteen rare minutes of silence for once
i used to not be able to even tolerate the silence, to be alone with myself
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personally i love shitting my pants while standing at a urinal. its convienient, pleasant to those around me, makes my day go by easier, etc