You guys do much else here besides post articles and take down votes?

Ya wanna debate about something?

My avatar is also partially AI generated. I GIMPed the Zizek face from one of his movie posters though.

I'm used to people calling me out for the Zizek part and that hasn't happened on Lemmy ever lol.

I did the cold soak thing and I didn't hate it, but something about not having a cup of hot tea or a cocoa on the trail after a long hike in the rain was apparently my limit.

I considered getting one of those solar water heating bags just to do fire less, but bringing a stove is what I have.

Is it pretty easy to set up on a CLI?

I'd want to do that if possible.

I completely forgot about the Kelvin Klingons.

I had to Google it. They're not bad. I think there's some fun to be had with the idea of their weird virus that messed with their ridges.

Like disco Klingons are the original pre-virus Klingon, ToS and Kelvin are some of the variants we get during the virus, and TNG is the Post virus

Well there's all the problems then

Asking a AAA studio to make their game sub 128 GB AND optimize it in anyway is a tall ask

Were they not supposed to be funny normally?

Are we not all on the brink?

But is he a class traitor? He seemed awfully at home.

I took 5 years to consecutively not get a degree and I'm about to go back to finish 5 years later.

Yeah it sticks not graduating with the people you started with, but that really isn't any more of a signifier of success or failure than graduating at all.

Sometimes things happen and at that point everyone is mature enough to but be a dick.

Enough that there's a serious spike in VPN sales during the porn age restriction wave.

I doubt NordVPN and friends would see that if EVERY single lemmy instance got banned.

I prefer

"Do no harm. Take no shit."

This is something I also struggle with. So much of the lefty philosophy is around acknowledging and respecting everyone as intrinsically human with a life worth preserving. Often I have a hard time hating the average Trump supporter or fascist shill because I know there's a million factors out of their control that got them there.

I have to remind myself constantly that my life is worth more than someone's who's chosen to harm another.

Guns aren't for everyone and I understand that. I don't think I could ever become a partisan in a revolution but I don't intend to be a statistic. If you do choose to have a weapon for self defense please at least train with it. Even pepper spray you can get refillable water squirting versions.

If you do want to try guns one day, I'd suggest a Pistol Caliber Carbine like the Ruger PCC. It shoots pistol rounds out of a carbine/rifle so it's much easier to control. The rifle in this picture is a KP-9.