🫂 I worry...and I appreciate this, as it is now, for the same reasons. The incentives couldn't be exploited if they didn't exist, but they do and some of them are simply core to human nature. It's all been a snowball effect, amplified by ease of access and the push for profit. The best anyone can do to fight that is show people another way and hope they see the true value of connection over that of attention.
Can't help but tag nostr:nprofile1qqs07xqktt77qzzj6jdyuyckexqu0tcpvnqczrqtcrlyr5mpm4720uqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9qyvhwumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdakshy532m ... seems necessary 😂
I second that. Being raised by older parents, I always felt like I missed some of the best parts of them. Phases of life and all that.
My own advice would be to think of your plan A as also a plan B. Life is long, lots of things are going to happen. You may change direction often. You are more free to make the most of that opportunity, if your skills & responsibilities provide for flexibility.
I put my stickers up at my little shop about 3 years ago. I've had 1 sale & gotten 3 people started with btc by offering them sats as change for cash. The most common thing I have done by accepting bitcoin though, is start arguments between husbands & wives about "honey, you can spend your bitcoins here" and "that's my retirement!" 😂 I get it. Something resembling stability is a critical aspect of a currency. Bitcoin is still hungry.
I'm going on a drive through the mountains today. The last time I went on this drive, I stopped at this little convenience store that operates out of an old log cabin. Cool little place, so I always stop when i go by. There was a guy at a table outside, who was obviously taking a break from walking the big trail. He was filthy, hairy, and staring off at the rocky slope behind the town. He looked exhausted but happy. He had his pack next to him and a milkshake melting on the table.
This story is really going nowhere. I have this thing where strangers just talk to me for no apparent reason. All. The. Time. I saw him when I went into the store, and I was hoping with all my hopers, that he would stop me & tell me something interesting on my way out. He didn't. He was still happily spacing out next to his runny milkshake.
Since then, that guy crosses my mind regularly. Mostly, because he has alone, or appeared to be anyway. What was running through his mind after what was likely weeks, or maybe months, alone among the trees and rocks? Was he continuing onward or was his countenance one of accomplishment? I'll never know but I wish I did.
I know I won't be running into any hikers today. It's too cold for that now. Even if I did, they'd probably be chatty & happy to be around people again, like most are when they emerge from the depths of nature. But... I'll be stopping at that store & looking at the table, imagining what was probably the most delicious milkshake on the planet in that moment, just melting away.
Yeah... I don't think it's a good thing, per say. Travel had gotten so cheap & fast that it's more efficient to drive 30 miles for a few groceries at a high volume store, than to pay the prices that a small local market has to charge in order to keep their lights on. In exchange, the small community slowly dies off, until it's residents have no choice but to travel. Then some shit happens, dollars go down, travel gets expensive. 😒😅
There is the stance that design is the blurry line between art & science... given its a Wright quote, I'd say it's probably accurate to interpret it that way. He probably saw design as an art.
Movie sounds interesting, thanks for putting it on my radar.
At least with cars, it seems like it used to be the opposite. Or maybe I'm just thinking off-the-cuff on that.
No doubt quality has been traded off over time. Moloch, maybe. 😅
Streaks are the weirdest, most useless thing I've seen arise from current adolescent culture. "Hold on, I've gotta send a picture of the ceiling to this person I don't know because of my reputation" 😂
Aww 🫂 ...my alter ego 😅
I almost always take the same path for my walks because of this view and a few other reasons. Pretty sure I live on the cusp of a vortex.
There's so many iterations, all playing on sympathy. It's so stupid but people fall for it consistently.
There's a new one lately, with chatbot generated replies trying to sell concert tickets. If it detects the words "tickets sold out" in a post, it replies as a mother who has to sell hers at face value because her son just had surgery *sigh*
It's gotten awful. Scammers are clever & there's this false sense that FB protects against it somehow. If it wasn't for my parents, I would have bailed a long time ago... but I gotta stick around & make sure they don't get scammed 😂
On Facebook, I see edit scams all the time. Someone makes a post about a missing dog or something, tons of people share it around, and later it gets edited to something trying to sell $10 sunglasses. As ridiculous a technique it may be, it hinges on people's emotions to work. Whether they sell any sunglasses or not is beside the point. Over time, the people sharing those posts become reluctant of what may be legitimate information & the actual missing dog gets no coverage.
Aside from complexity & centralization risk, there's a lot of moral reasons to avoid it, especially when delete is getting adopted. From a user standpoint, if missing context or a typo is that big of a deal: delete it, repeat it. It's not hard. #forevertypo
Showing the original first probably wouldn't go over very well with people legitimately editing typos (or adding missing words 😂) why would anyone click through edits when the original is hilarious or clear enough to extrapolate the intended meaning?
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