I wonder if a lot of us will identify here?

Since I can remember, ive been an "escapist". Always reading books, or playing story games, or going to a treehouse or cave to "hideout" in.

When i was older, driving hours to nowhere after work, almost daily (not as much now).

Never really had modern tech. Always preferred older tech even when i was young. Was never swayed by "better graphics" of newer systems. Nowadays I like most systems, but still prefer pre Xbox 360. Or PC.

Even now, my basement is setup as a 70s-90s room to hang out in. Its great. Side note I have always preferred basements and I love caves. Not sure why. Maybe something from the ancestors. Maybe I am a mole.

I don't use popular social media or watch most popular TV shows.

Maybe its because the world sucks. I'm not really depressed or anything like that. I just prefer my own worlds. If it was a more recent thing I'd get it since the world is going downhill fast, but ive just always preferred this.

I just think its interesting.

Ideally made in Europe, but European-based companies are fine too, as realistically many will always need to be manufactured in China, Japan, or wherever else (especially tech). Looking for physical products, not software (amazing open-source software is bountiful and easy to find!)

Does not necessarily have to be from the EU (e.g. UK or Switzerland), non-EU countries are cool too!

What are some quality products that you have used that were made in Europe / is by a European company? From any category.

I mean, there is no meaning in nature, it was man who invented it, and often it appeared because of a scarcity, for example, the point is in a beautiful woman, because you are unlikely to find another one as beautiful, right?, or can you find a person who will support you and accept you as you are, like your loved ones? The examples are not the best, but I hope you get the idea.

In addition, I will say that about a year ago I watched the film "The Seventh Seal", and now sometimes I feel in the place of a character named Antonius Block. I dismissed the inevitable by refraining from suicide as a teenager, thinking I could find the meaning of life, but what was to be expected, nothing worked out. But especially now, how shall I put it... in the age of AI, it is impossible to escape the truth, self-deception no longer works, at least for me personally.

Chess Game with Death:

Basically whats your Favoriten high heel Brand that you can walk in for atlwast an hour?

Sometime ago I read about a movie, the director of which found a box of tapes in a garage sale or something, of a man travelling the world alone, and then made a movie out of those tapes.

I think there are some commentary of the man that I'm less sure about, being:

• the man have just passed away and his family found out about these tapes, which he previously told no one about
• the man have no children nor family of his own
• the man had love prospect in his earlier years, and had given up on finding partner after that one didn't work out

I'm not sure how recent that film is. I recall there being colored tape of a man on a mountain.

Have anyone have seen or heard of this movie? I've been searching for it for an afternoon and no luck, so it could be a bit niche I'd imagine

I was exposed to a bad PTSD trigger on Saturday and dissociated for a bit and have been in a state of derealization since. Now that my therapist helped me not panic about this feeling, I've found myself curious about how other people have experienced this.

For me, everything seems muted. People and their expressed emotions, colors, general vibes in different situations etc. Everything is just wrong and unsettling. It's like everything just isn't existing enough to feel tangible. Iam fully aware that my perception is very wrong because I've asked people if things seem off at all and they've said no. I was very scared for like two days until I was able to book an appointment with my therapist and now I'm not as scared and the derealization doesn't feel as disconcerting, but it's still there. Hoping things will be back to normal when I wake up in the morning.

Or a description. I just want to have a chuckle.

I picture this:

like, i'm just trying to post random content. normally i post stuff to /c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone but this topic feels more mature, less silly.

/c/casualconversation@piefed.social only has like 15 votes per post so it's not very active. meanwhile /c/asklemmy@lemmy.world has more like 70 upvotes per post on average. why is the casual conversations community so inactive?

Stipulations:

• You cannot die and are immune to disease
• You cannot alter the future such that you change the world from your point of origin. i.e. You cannot become so famous that future people recognize you as immortal.
• If you vary the timeline too much you will cease to exist.

Imagine this scenario:

• All companies start producing mostly using only AI and firing people, because people have no use anymore
• Joe spend most of his income on digital video games products
• Joe get fired because he got replaced by AI now, since AIs are taking over most jobs
• Joe has no income anymore
• Joe doesn't have any more money to spend on video games
• Companies have no more profit, because people don't have income, so people can't spend on their AI produced products

In this scenario both lose, the company adopting AI and the worker. Am I missing something? Is there any possibility besides Universal Basic Income to keep the system running and not collapsing?

I did once.

It was Black Friday of 2006, a week after the release of the Wii. My friend had to work at a store in the mall in the wee hours of the morning, and he dropped me off to wait at GameStop so I could test my luck. Nintendo has always been infamous for engineered scarcity, and the Wii was no exception, so I was fully prepared to leave with nothing but an interesting story to tell. I had never seen the horrors of Black Friday, and was morbidly curious to experience it for myself at least once.

The experience was pretty tame. At first I waited outside the mall. I had my guide dog with me, and I allowed other people in line to give her pets and scritches as we waited. Not gonna lie, me bringing her was a bit of social engineering. Who's gonna hit a blind guy? We got to chatting about what the line was for, and I discovered it was for an unrelated promotion. I asked if I could be let in to wait in front of the GameStop in the food court out of the cold, and they let me enter.

I can't remember if others in the same line came in with me, or if they had already been there, but I ended up behind a dad and his two kids, and they were both getting a Wii. There were only three in stock, so I ended up getting lucky. I even got a copy of Twilight Princess, as well as FF XII on the PS2 as a Christmas gift for my sister.

tl;dr: veni vidi wiici

I just bought a little beef jerky. Haven’t had any in quite a while. It was supposed to be spicy. What I got was something sweet, rubbery and gummy, with barely a hint of heat. (In the US) W.t.f.

When I was a kid, jerky was dry AF, thin, salty, tooth-rippingly tough sometimes, never sweet unless you specifically got a teryaki flavor or something. If you wanted spicy, it was covered in pepper and your mouth would be on fire after just a couple pieces. It was awesome.

Now it’s sugary and chewy. Why people gotta put sugar on everything? Can’t find that dry, thin, peppery stuff anywhere.

What food of yours has disappeared or been wrecked in order to appeal to more people?

I love most things about my job and hate very little (power plant engineer). Love the schedule, problem solving, learning, future potential, coworkers, job itself and the opportunities. Hate the schedule, burns, coworkers, fiberglass and occasional danger.

Assuming there would be a middle class and we didn't destroy ourselves or ended up in a dystopia.

west west bad big bad very bad stalin good lenin good ignore starvation ignore deaths ignore everything just read state and revolution bro

• It should be growable in a small space.
• Would be nice if it didnt require lot of attention.
• Should fill my stomach
• Would be nice if I can grow lots of it in a small time.

1. He has a room full of sith artifacts

2. He influenced Count Dooku to seperate themselves from the Republic

3. He spends a LOT of time with young Jedi younglings and padawans, not in a good way

4. He's been mentioned in the Sith Documents, and has a bunch of photos with Darth Plageuis

I mean people who don't care at all about their privacy or don't think about it, but they laugh at others for trying to remain anonymous on the Internet and so on.

Non-music

in different social networks I often see a table of fediverse alternatives to centralized social networks like twitter = mastodon and so on, but I noticed that the alternative to reddit is piefed and not lemmy, can someone explain what kind of fediverse project this is, and is it different from lemmy?🤔

If this is removed, I completely understand.

SOLVED: It was an obscure Goa'uld dialect.

Is this gibberish? 20 bucks at a thrift store.

For me personally, I use Blorp on desktop and Voyager on mobile. I've tried a lot of mobile clients but despite lacking a lot of piefed features, I like voyager because of the ui