#Sonic

@Zergling_man @Zettour because Jim Carrey as Dr. Robotnik

> You could also keep a running record of your results and make it visible. For example, you could report progress in a journal or in social media or a blog. You could even tell your family, friends and colleagues what your goals are and have them send you reminders and encouragement via Twitter, Facebook or text messaging.

oh boy, people are supposed to be that nice to you? is that even realistic? it never worked for me to tell people to keep me accountable. nobody gives a shit.

i don't know anyone who seems very interested in helping me with my self development. i think a lot of upper class people do. this is the kind of stuff they do to each other.

portable monitors are kind of expensive. at least the ones i'm finding on the market here in Norway.

@dushman oh, for a VM with GPU pass through - need a separate screen to monitor the host

@dushman space is at a premium in my apartment and i want something i can tuck away

i can get behind this

YouTube comments aren't so bad most of the time.

or maybe you just follow channels with a dumb audience.

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on a psychosocial level, trans hate can be explained roughly as "You're Cheating" (male perspective) and "Hey That's Our Turf" (female perspective)

when a good-hearted intelligent successful attractive character is in a story, they are usually the hero protagonist, and we all like them, because we can imagine ourselves in his/her place.

when they exist in real life, they're often envied, and many would love to see them fail. "aha! they're inadequate, just like me!"

nobody's perfect, but some people have fewer flaws than others, and we absolutely don't want to believe that's true, even though it has to be true. there is no evidence that the sum of all strengths and weaknesses is equal in all people. on the whole, we're sore losers, so we don't want anybody to be better than us, because this would make us feel inferior.

good-hearted intelligent successful attractive people exist and we all hate it a little

@clacke yes but with the reversal in which the user isn't the customer but thinks they are, and not only are the users not the customers (similar to mass media), no one's making content for them either. it's just the users. the users are creating the content that FB sells ad space for... back to the users, who have to view it. multiple levels of deception.

@clacke for in the case of social media, people are the product being sold...

@clacke ingenious business model tbh

@clacke granted, the media did something *similar* but the whole element where the work of creating content in return for that...

"can't we just make the users work for us?"

@clacke @aral "The Hanseatic League" might have been understood by more people, lol

@aral did anyone get the reference to the Ferengi though?

"this product lets you have fun, avoid work and receive love and attention."

most humans: