LainTrain

I have actually, I was thinking EU more than "Europe" though

I know the BBC does news but idk about any shows or films

Honestly I'm not sure I've even heard of a "European show" or a "European movie" in my entire life

Exactly opposite for me. Dark mode is just eww

It's alright, shaped my music taste from early on, but not something I revisit now. Kinda like Aphex Twin was for gen x

the only thing you owe your existence to?

That out of the gate is an incorrect assumption. I owe my existence to nature to some degree for sure, but also to a significant degree - technology. An even larger part of why that existence is tolerable is exclusively technology. Were it not for science, medicine and again - technology, I wouldn't be glad I even exist at all.

view it as a kind of ideological laziness, an unwillingness to accept that which come before you and will be after you

I don't see how I don't accept it? Besides I would argue it's the opposite that is "ideological laziness", we as human beings are defined by our defiance of nature, we evolved brains so we could outsmart it and build our own environments so we could be better off.

Of course that doesn't mean humans are that awesome either, we escaped the wolves only to create new wolves just to throw people to them. There's probably an actually good argument there about evolution creating a cruel sort of balance, but nonetheless - a balance, and perhaps civilization is just a trick for the worst of us to gain the most power, and a monopoly on power is a monopoly on violence - a truly unnatural concept, and then they could impose the kinds of suffering on others that'd make one long for nature's cold dispassionate cruelty.

But to worship nature as something to preserve simply unto itself and not out of factors for how it would impact human beings, or at least not consider it a canvas for us is a bit lazy when our very existence is defined by molding it to our preferred shape and image for ourselves.

An insufferance of compromise with the forces of nature.

Which is what led to y'know - civilization?

stresses you out and you feel like you caj'tcdo anything about it,

Huh? I've never said anything of the sort. This is just an idea that's been bouncing around my head. I don't actually feel strongly about this at all. Plus I can and do do things about it lol as do we all every day.

and that usually turns into extractive, oppressive thought.

I'm sorry to hear that but I can't say I've ever experienced anything of the sort.

think your problems lie elsewhere, and nature is your scapegoat.

I don't have any problems at all really, this is just a discussion, and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

You refer to your body as a meat flesh prison but that's an incredibly shallow way of perceiving the greatest vessel for existence that we know of.

Eh, it's become okay after some modifications to fix nature's fuck ups, but ofc I'm not downplaying the various interesting complexities and their evolutionary journey throughout time of the human body, it's complex stuff, and we don't even know it all yet. But that also doesn't mean there aren't issues with them either that could be fixed, they are in fact already being fixed everyday.

It is the way for the Cosmos to know itself. It's typical human hubris to dismiss it as "flesh prison" while actually it's the vehicle of our freedom.

Eh, I think that is hubris. I'm not sure the cosmos desires to know itself, and I think our meat bodies are prisons we will one day escape in better, more well suited shells just like we did with our environment.

In many ways, we already do cheat death and agony daily thanks to man-made wonders and that's just directly, ignoring the decreased risk we have from the start thanks to our civilizations and whatnot.

I love my body - but I would not do so without the man-made components that make it whole, before that, existence was pain, so I'm not so sure about this "marvel of engineering", seems more like something interesting that was bound to happen given geological time scales, like a donut shaped cloud, or something.

I'm just a random on the internet so i don't pretendente i am right abt you, another random on the internet, but i just don't think it's an healthy outlook and you should challenge it

I don't think there's anything unhealthy about it but yes, clearly I am willing to challenge it because I wouldn't make a post if I didn't want to hear any counterarguments.

Maybe this is weird but given solid enough reasons it would be intellectually dishonest for me to maintain the same views even if someone roasted me while at it, in fact in many ways my current beliefs were forged through the fire of debate in that vein.

I constantly challenge myself in this way, to if not change my own mind, at least sharpen my own viewpoints and make them specific and get to the core of things and understand my ideas and myself better. I steelman even the worst of takes just to see where I stand.

Sadly the quality of arguments made this far ITT has been absolutely terrible, yours being probably one of the best ones so far in that you at least seem coherent unlike the other people who either cannot read, are responding to a strawman in their head instead of what was written and/or complain about having to engage with an unpopular opinion on /c/UnpopularOpinions or resort to truly psychotic levels of intellectual laziness by responding with ad-hominem sometimes followed by some variation of "that's just like, your opinion man".

The only thing I've really learned is that debate classes, critical thinking including critiques of ideas in art and literature and basic civics should be fucking mandatory in school alongside reading or else democracy can't survive the onslaught of an electorate of retards.

But someone mentioned it also happening on Voyager? So it seems that it happens on both, and doesn't happen on Jerboa

We all moved from Telegram to WhatsApp a little while ago once Durov got arrested and the feds got into it, and I was the one that got them on TG in the first place as it was a trustworthy, good alternative to WhatsApp, so it's gonna be a tall ask to move again from WhatsApp so soon, and Signal is just... Not good. At least it lets you move messages between devices as of recently which is good, if me or my gf lost any messages to each other we'd be pretty upset, but the mandatory updates and other quirks are still barriers.

I use signal with my coworkers and I feel like it's a real 50/50 if they even get a message notification or a message will just vanish. Sometimes the desktop app or the web app just won't sync messages or won't stay signed in and require my phone to reauthenticate.

It only became possible not that long ago to send animated GIFs from your local device storage through WhatsApp without them being turned into a static image, which has been a basic feature that was missing for most of its lifespan.

One of my older friends has a Facebook I think. I've no idea if she uses it, she's kind of odd. I've never heard of anyone using iMessage outside the US tbqh.

I was referring to HRT. In this case I mean I'm trans and I have no gonads after sex reassignment surgery. My sex hormones (which is what people usually refer to in "teenage hormones" because they increase during puberty) come from estrogen patches externally at a dose calibrated to roughly match the mid-late follicular phase in a cis woman, so my levels are around 600pmol/L of Estrogen and 0.4nmol/L of Testosterone (14.42ng/DL in USA units)

At the time I was referencing in the comment a few years back I still had my natal gonads but my testosterone production was completely suppressed at the production sites via a GNRH blocker (commonly known as a "puberty blockers") and my T levels were the same as now as a result and my E levels were around the same level.

Hope that explains it well enough. And no I'm afraid I haven't read the short story in question.

It will also have to be public transport realistically, but what seemed to be most convincing to the people around me is individual health benefits, we have shocking obesity rates in the UK so me being a somewhat skinny fat lady with an overweight BMI without a big stomach has literally got people asking me how I do it, and I tell them I walk everywhere. It's kind of a lie though because exercise doesn't make you lose weight, but it's a white lie since I also have decent health despite no actual exercise and I do actually credit that to walking and believe my car driving peers could stand to benefit.

Obviously this is already with walkable infrastructure in place. The road to get there in North America is much longer and harder and in the US it will require far more fundamental cultural and societal shifts in the direction opposite to the one y'all are on now, like less racism, less white flight and landlordism in suburbs, more welfare to reduce crime and inequality and more cultural cohesion to draw people to cities, and then infrastructure to practically rebuild streets from scratch with dense, mixed-zone housing and walkable yet modern and spacious designs that won't be too europoor style (which sucks too tbqh) so as not to cause a backlash.

Never happened to me on Jerboa!

Another way to do this is sudo su -c 'this is my command'

E.g. change a fan setting on a ThinkPad with:

sudo su -c 'echo "level full-speed" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan'

So to run a shell you could do all sorts of tricks like:

sudo su -c '/bin/bash -i' and such.

Never know when it comes in handy.

EDIT: Damn, downvoted, any reason why? It works on my machine with a locked root user or one without a PW and I made sure to test it before posting, but I'd love an explanation of why it wouldn't work if that's the reason for the downvote. Was just hoping it would be useful to somebody :/