I have a brain computer interface. It’s called fingers. I can use my brain powers to communicate and even move moderately sized things with them.

And the message “DON’T PANIC” in big friendly letters.

Linux still sometimes brings me back to the C64 and Amiga days and and nights of fiddling and figuring things out. Learning experiences and fun times.

Idk, but I’d expect all sensors to degrade over time for different reasons and especially if they are not cleaned and maintained regularly.

I’ve got an optical that is recommended to replace after ten years. I find it a reasonable investment.

A tiny microplastic lining.

He will reduce mindless consumerism of cheap garbage, so there is that.

That I have a nice phone number.

To be fair, I too was one obnoxious little fucker when I went all in on politics in my teens before I came to acceptance that it doesn’t have to marinate exactly everything and everybody at every single moment in time.

I’m still very political though I no longer need to make a display of it.

Haha I’m streets ahead.

Ok Britta.

“I think the weather is rather nice today.”

This opinion is now about global warming and the impact of logistics in post imperialist globalist consumerism.

Because I’m first year in uni and have just discovered politics and you bet I can shoehorn it into anything.

Nah, this opinion of yours for example is just a simplistic soundbite that you think might sound informed and intelligent but it is not.

I agree but i don’t agree that anything is a shower thought and even more rarely do political options fit in as one.

I don’t shop much but the stuff I’ve bought lately have been European brands and manufacturing. They are pricier than the imports alternatives but better quality so I’m sort of grateful for the opportunity to go for a little better, a little pricier without anxiety about numbers.

I don’t buy much clothes but I’m in need to order some new ones. Zalando was great because of the vast selection of brands - despite them making it harder to filter on environmentally better options already several years ago. Now I don’t want to use them any more. Any suggestions for good, ethical and preferably environmentally friendly online stores for Sweden/EU?

It doesn’t have to be a person or an entity or deity.

I haven’t been nerdying on religion for much long many moons but AFAICR Buddhism has this core idea that “yeah we have symbols and chants and icons and totems and rituals and we pray but the more we dedicate ourselves we understand that they are just there for us to see beyond them into the nothing and the everything”. In Buddhism this has evolved into place, so it would be interesting to see if it was possible to kickstart straight into some sort of non deity centric anti religion without the animistic precursory heritage.

I’d prefer not to. I’d like to make it Buddhist philosophy inspired non-religion if possible. But people seem to have this need of something to gather around and have rituals and festivities and believe in so religion is still useful. I’m thinking it would be easier to get everybody pulling together early on in a theocracy though the deep teaching aims to dissolve itself.

The teachings would promote (or demand) something of an egalitarian society with food and shelter and healthcare for everybody and encourage learning and education and culture and arts and own responsibility and critique and discussion and questioning the whole shebang in orderly fashion with ongoing goals of improving it for everybody.

First steps would be to create a religion with all the usual “be kind and caring and patient and forgiving and nice in general to others and yourself” and then “do not be an asshole unless the others were an asshole first and then you may respond in moderation with an appropriate pinch of extra salt” and the ritual of an Aztec pyramid with slice and dice and flush them down the sewage sacrifice of any billionaires and power hungry totalitarians and corrupt public servants. Every year that do not require any sacrifice pleases the gods. But any year it is needed, the gods are content that required action was taken.

Idk, I think people are showing their needs of belonging more than in a long time, be it nationalistic or political or ideological or religious or social media cliques or influencer following or family or heritage or skin colour or sports teams. Because these are dynamic times, so the tribal Us vs Them is way ahead in the front before other primal urges and basic needs.

Here in secular Sweden with the probably most inclusive state church in the world, they have found that young people are showing interest in religion more than in generations, except they don’t want the all-inclusive “woke” church but prefer more traditional and fundamentalist flavours.

Biological programming goes a long way.

It goes hand in paw with being instinctively scared of things that can potentially kill you and other species evolution with patterns and markings that make them less likely to become a succulent meal, Chinese or not.