Pick something you want to self host first. Do you want a media library? Then look into Jellyfin guides, or komga, or whatever. Do you want a centralized blocking dns server for all your devices? Look into adguard/pihole/etc. do you want to fuck around with llms? That’s a whole thing but you totally can and look into guides on doing it

Just as advice you’ll find people that become borderline evangelical on what you use. It doesn’t really matter. Debian vs unraid vs truenas, ecc ram or not, etc. I mean it does, somewhat, and you should read about it, but don’t get hung up on small details. For home use basically anything is fine. Get an old ewaste pc from 2012 and run whatever os you want (just not windows though)

No that’s bullshit. I mean if you want to do some retribution quid pro quo stuff for punishments sake that’s one thing and a totally separate argument but there is no chance I’d settle for that.

If you wrongfully lock me up for a decade or more? Hell even a couple of years? In a hellish prison where I’m going to get some kind of trauma probably? You better fucking pay me handsomely. Time is the one resource I absolutely cannot recover by any means and if you rob that from me over some bullshit the least you can do is give me a boatload of cash so I can spend several years or even the rest of my life (depending on how long you fucked me over, some of these people get fucked for decades) not working and like traveling the world or whatever to make up for it.

even that is nothing in comparison. I will spend the whole time thinking “man I wonder what it was like to be a free person at “20/30/40/etc” and thinking about all the life experiences that you stole from me, that I will never get back. But at least it’s some kind of reparation

The weird thing is for some reason people will lie to perpetuate these falsehoods

Like I do therapy and I talk to teenagers regularly because teenagers need mental health support, obviously. And sometimes they’ll bring up shit like this: “my school installed a litter box because of these woke kids”

But even the most basic of prodding: “did they really” with a tone of like “come on” and they’ll backpedal, “well no, but like there are kids that have fursonas and shit”

It’s crazy to see it start so young. They’re realizing at like 16 they can get adults to gang up on the kid they think is weird by being dishonest, and adults buy into it because it’s a chance to bully someone weaker and politicians jump on it because it’s a new wedge issue to distract people from class consciousness

And what’s crazy is that by some perspectives if I call them out on this dishonesty and point out this cycle I’m indoctrinating them

De La Chappell syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, androgen exposure in utero, ovotesticular disorder of of sex development all result in a person with cis male characteristics and in some cases cis male typical genitalia despite having xx chromosomes

Indicators like nonverbal language exist and then there are certain things we attach to personality traits like wearing a trump hat but also when you prejudge a person you change your own behavior and increase the chances for the outcome you expect based upon your judgement

Relational frame theory, pygmalion effect, expectancy effect, etc

chatgpt is stagnant, the newest model was lackluster despite using way more resources and costing a shitload of cash, Altman is floundering and on his way out he’s going to try do some lobbying bullshit

Copyright is bullshit and honestly if it disappeared it would help small creators more than anything but openai is not a small creator and guaranteed they will lobby for only huge corps like them to get such an exception. You and I will still get sued to shit by disney or whoever for daring to make $500 off of a shitty project that used some sample or something while meta and openai get free reign to steal the entirety of humanity’s creative output with no recompense

LCD is failing because of a fault in the motherboard design, replace lcd is the fix. It will happen again but hopefully not for a long time

Worth trying to reseat the ribbon cable in case I am wrong and maybe contact cleaner but be careful it’s a pretty delicate connector. Also im fairly confident I’m right fwiw especially if its a ta085

No ad wall on my end

Specifically says always free and available for all

“We depend on your support to keep bringing you the latest information and insight on the fight for democracy – always free and available for all. After all, we can’t fight for the future of our democracy unless we know what’s happening.”

It’s funny that rolling stone has the gall to publish this

In 2005 they published his article “deadly immunity” along with salon.com. It was filled with factual errors but it helped popularize the anti vaccine movement.

Salon eventually listened to fact checkers who were vocal about the fact that the article was absolute nonsense and misinformation. They admitted fault and that they should have done more due diligence. Even that was a fucking joke - a year after the article they listed numerous corrections showing the article was horrendously researched by an absolute fool with no peer review whatsoever. And while salon did eventually retract the article and distance themselves from the article it took six fucking years for them to do so despite glaring errors

Rolling stone on the other hand left the article printed for a decade and a half, at least. While the article above suggests they both retracted it that was clearly not the case:

heres a snapshot from 2020, when it still existed on their site

Note the byline: they moved to preserve the article, it actually had been broken in a site facelift. They made effort to ensure the article was not retracted

Rolling stone is a key factor in the anti vaccination movement and why Kennedy has a platform

Rfk was one of a dozen people responsible for 65% of antivax content on instagram

Fuck rfk and fuck rolling stone. Have journalistic integrity and do the bare minimum of fact checking. Fuck this “we always have to present both sides to be fair” bullshit. You don’t have to do that when one is objectively wrong

Op just said profession, not whether it was viable economically

Not if you want to schedule, edit the map, customize routines, etc

Articles that you have to read? Ugh they’re the worst

They’re moving to join a lawsuit banning telemedicine visits for mifepristone

They’re moving to participate in arguments alongside the Supreme Court about whether states can exclude planned parenthood from Medicaid, even if it doesn’t provide abortion

They dismissed a lawsuit that the Biden DOJ filed against Idaho because idahos anti abortion law conflicts with laws that say emergency rooms that receive federal funding (which is most of them) need to provide stabilizing care, which can include abortions for pregnant women. As a result during the time idahos law was in effect several women had to be air lifted out of state because of the possibility they would need an abortion to stabilize them/save their lives

There is more context for the final point and important context for the first two as well. Just read articles. The country is already stupid enough because we only read biased headlines (and maybe the first paragraph that gets posted to a link aggregator like this site or reddit) and fill in the blanks

I don’t know what that is but I will search it out

2 doses spaced 28 days apart gives 97% efficacy against ever catching the measles. 1 dose gives 93%. If 95% of the population gets a vaccination the disease is functionally eradicated

But take the words of a Kennedy who spent his youth as an elite committing petty crime, vandalism, theft, and dealing drugs despite having access to extreme wealth. His reward for continually fucking up was a Harvard education and an illustrious law career. Who then started a 15 year heroin and cocaine addiction and by his words kicked it after getting busted for possession the first time in his life (aka the first time he managed to experience a consequence, which took shockingly long). And of course we believe that like all heroin addicts he was able to just kick a decade and a half addiction after one round of rehab through straight willpower, despite have access to connections and some of the deepest pocketbooks in the country

The man has been full of shit since his teens. It is a shame because his family appears to have given him the circumstances to utterly ruin him via consistently giving no consequence for terrible behavior. At the same time I have little sympathy for him because unlike many of us peons who struggle with families that give poor boundaries and no consequences, his artificially removed them because they had access to obscene wealth and privilege. He didn’t have to worry about doing heroin, or assaulting women, or stealing shit. Dad would take care of it. All while living in luxury. Fuck him. I will continue to post defaming his character because people posting “worm in his brain” truly don’t get the extent of how much of a monster he is or the Kennedy dynasty is (look up rosemary kennedy for more Kennedy atrocities)

Truthfully I think he was someone that was cutting into trumps base of conspiracy nuts. at the same time I wonder if he was someone funded or otherwise heavily encouraged by a state actor hostile to america that needed a useful idiot (or a willing accomplice, depending on his culpability) to help destabilize america further.

Neptotism was always a factor though. His foundation only ever got off the ground because of Kennedy money and connections. He was picked in part because he was in a place to run but he was in a place to run because of a lifetime of nepotism

https://hopeway.org/blog/radical-acceptance

I don’t endorse this website necessarily but skimming the content this page seems like a solid overview

The classic therapy book is “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha” by Tara brach

But that hints at what it really is: radical acceptance is really co-opting the Buddhist concept of equanimity (upekkha), one of the four sublime states. We have co-opted mindfulness from this as well and made it something a bit removed from its original form

https://www.buddhanet.net/ss06/

“But the kind of equanimity required has to be based on vigilant presence of mind, not on indifferent dullness. It has to be the result of hard, deliberate training, not the casual outcome of a passing mood”

Yet many mindfulness “apps” are the opposite of this, promoting indifference. They miss the point. A takeaway from my post, if nothing else, is that this takes effort and diligence

A similar concept is 不動心 or fudoshin, the “immovable mind” from Japanese martial arts

https://www.amardeep.co/blog/how-to-use-fudoshin-the-right-way-to-be-unstoppable

Although a lot of the writings on this are like this, about endless achievement and goal orientation. This is not without merit of course but because of the association with martial arts you get a lot of “dojo people” writing on how to get to the next level, instead of a focus on inner peace. That may align with your goals though and it certainly has its applications

Way more than twice. Samoa is just a case study that is very publicized because the impact is easy to directly measure given it was an island

He is prominent and visible and uses that visibility to purposely misled. He is not just “some guy”. He has chaired foundations with serious money behind them based on these beliefs. He writes pseudoscientific articles (and promotes the work of others that do the same). Articles that have a “sciencey tone” but are fairly easily discredited by anyone with a pulse and a background in biology, statistics, medicine, etc. Lazy and corrupt journalism has platformed him and his foundation for almost a decade now because they can’t be bothered to do even basic fact checking. Salon had to retract an article he wrote because it was so misleading. Rolling stone published the same article but didn’t bother to retract it.

When called out on his paper being full of errors and bullshit he claimed government conspiracy on Joe Rogan. He exhibited similar behavior in his confirmation hearing, pulling a bullshit paper from a fake journal and when people tore it to shreds online, why couldn’t he find research in a reputable journal like nature, etc he went back to that bullshit conspiracy argument. The government wants your children to have autism you see, even though thimerosal isn’t in vaccines anymore (and never caused autism to begin with)

He was one of the loudest voices against Covid vaccines. And his voice was one of the ugliest. He consistently stokes racial tensions with his anti vaccination arguments. He suggested it was racially motivated loudly and publicly. He was one of 12 people responsible for 65% of anti vaccination content on instagram. This isn’t directly measurable like Samoa but given the us Covid death toll he very much caused preventable death, again. And shocker, he’s also anti 5G

On the racism bit he actively targets black americans with anti vaccination propaganda. His “foundation” specifically releases literature and media linking vaccines to the concept of medical racism and Tuskegee. He takes advantage of pain felt by marginalized communities to advance his agenda even though it puts said communities in danger

And for some icing on the cake he denies the link between HIV and AIDS and advocates against retrovirals.

People talk about the worm in his brain and all that nonsense but they don’t talk about the 14 years of drug addiction (and probably much longer). By all accounts Kennedy started doing drugs and acting out in his teens with basically no consequences. His reward for acting like a shithead, doing heroin and cocaine, stealing shit, vandalizing property, etc? Getting to go to harvard because of nepotism and then become a rich lawyer. He claims he got clean after he got caught for possession of heroin in the 80s. He did a single rehab program. I have worked in rehab, it is extremely uncommon that someone with a 15 year addiction quits after one go. Especially someone with a shitload of money.

I would not be surprised if he switched to pharmaceuticals and considered that “quitting” as it “legitimized” his addiction (even though taking 20 adderall a day isn’t how it’s supposed to work) and then eventually cleaned up his act later on. It would explain why he is so vehemently opposed to stimulants for psychiatric treatment: “I couldn’t handle taking one or two a day so obviously no one can, this shit is poison!” type projection. Obviously this is conjecture though.

I have a great deal of sympathy for people who struggle with addiction and I don’t care if you do drugs but at some point my sympathy stops. The Kennedy family created a monster by giving him unfettered access to resources and 0 consequences for shitty behavior. Now he’s still very rich (est net worth of 20-30 million) and he uses that to fuck over countless people. Fuck him

This again is literally what he said in the aftermath of Samoa, victim blaming. “Those ~6000 people that got the measles and 83 people who died were at fault because they were malnourished, not because I mislead them with fearmongering and faulty statistics”. Never mind that once the island widely adopted vaccination in the aftermath of my nonsense measles once again disappeared

The man is a murderer with a confirmed body count and instead of accountability he continues to gain notoriety

Practice radical acceptance

There is no benefit in attaching ourselves to the suffering and rumination of that which cannot be changed. We practice radical acceptance in this instance because it, more than any other instance, is unchangeable. Allow yourself to feel the frustration, sadness, grief, anger, etc that you feel when you think about death but allow yourself to let the thoughts pass by rather than attaching to them. If you struggle with it (which of course you will, you’re only human) reflect any analyze your resistance to being able to accept.

It takes practice. There’s a lot more to it, I’m paraphrasing a lot. It’s worth reading about if you’re really struggling

For all we know it’s an eternity of being frozen in whatever instant you were in at the moment of death. The people who die in their sleep literally get eternal slumber but the people who get chainsaw accidents get a moment of limb tearing pain stretched to eternity

Probably not though, probably your thing