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That’s all right. I didn’t want my kids to have a habitable planet anyway.

Oat milk is definitely the best. Better than moo milk for cereal, in my opinion.

Now waiting for spam articles about which is the best poop knife.

When I’m not broken, an 8 mile cycle ride that takes around 30 minutes. I’m currently recovering from a broken kneecap and getting the bus in, which is about 20 minutes and 5 minutes walk each end.

Kbin is better than Lemmy.

The old internet is still there. It’s just dwarfed by the colossal amount of shit piled up on the shit sites.

As a general rule, stick to free and open stuff because the motivation of the people doing it is to give to the community, rather than make money. Mastodon and Lemmy/Kbin rather than Xitter and Reddit. Just stay away from Facebook. There are lots of old style bulletin boards still around for various interests, and they are often more used than FB groups.

I stopped putting adverts on my sites ages ago because I hate them so much. I don’t want to be part of the enshittification.

I like FreeCAD. I know some people hate it, but I find the requirement to do things carefully and properly to avoid horrible errors later on really focusses my mind on what I’m designing. I end up with something that is probably better designed than if I could just lash something together and let the software sort out the mess.

Quite. After all this shit I want to have a rest.

This is the correct answer.

Came here to upvote this.

What the world really needs right now is another narcissistic dictator.

99.9% of people have more in common with an illegal immigrant than Elon Musk. Their problems aren’t caused by people arriving in small boats, but those arriving in private jets.

I had a friend who used to say “pip pip”. I also think you missed the joke.

1. Do what you can. Reduce your carbon footprint by eating less meat, using cars less, flying less. OK, by yourself it’s not going to make a huge difference, but at least you will know that personally, you aren’t making it worse. Join a group that is trying to make a positive difference.

2. Concentrate on the little things that make you happy. You can’t stop climate change on your own but you can make something nice for dinner.

3. Value your friends and keep in touch with them. They probably feel pretty much the same as you do. Cheer each other up and support each other.

4. Get a hobby to keep yourself occupied.

That’s all I can think of.

Not sure we are talking about the same thing? https://gdpr-info.eu/

They aren’t wrong that this law isn’t fit for modern times, but not in the way they mean. It needs to be e expanded into a GDPR type thing.

FreeCAD can be a right pain in the arse and things can blow up spectacularly, but it does force you to use discipline in your designing. It’s a great tool if you are careful and don’t cut corners. Other than with the mitre tool, ho ho.

Fear leads to panic, panic leads to pain, pain leads to anger, anger leads to hate.

A couple of things helped me stop. First, I didn’t set a day I was going to stop because that just made me anxious and want to smoke more as THE DAY approached. I decided I was going to stop soon and then one random morning I said to myself “this is it. Stop now”, which took me by surprise and I didn’t have a chance to get anxious.

Secondly, I kept to my routine of taking a break when I’d normally have a cigarette but I’d go outside and chew some ordinary gum instead. That way I could deal with the physical addiction first and the mental addiction later.

The Beatles.