"Why do I need an espresso machine? Just thrown some grounds in a sock, boil it, and you got coffee."

Flashlights have more maneuverability and they're significantly brighter. Trying to use your phone's flashlight outside is an exercise in futility. Plus I don't need to worry about my phone's screen breaking.

Something I'm not seeing here that is absolutely essential is a good flashlight.

Human beings can't do shit in the dark. Useful for power outages, dark areas, and if gets late. I end up using it more than my knife tbh.

I got a touch-pump soap dispenser for my kitchen. Just put the the sponge on the device, push down, and now you got a soapy sponge. Saves time but I'm old so ymmv.

You probably should report them to the MI6, CIA, NSA, IRA, YMCA and all other organizations just to make sure. In fact, just start screaming at people in the street about this one random college/highschool girl or else communism as a whole will just collapse.

Watch out China, fucking Hannah from Wisconsin junior college repeated something every white person already says.

It's just better to get used to a baseline level of misery than relying on happiness to get yourself out of a funk.

That said, turn the fucking devices off, get a big fucking cup of herbal tea, and look at the natures for 30 minutes. You are not allowed to press the buttons on the misery-skinner-box until tea is gone and timer is up.

I explained that the local area uses a gift economy and what that means.

I agree with Warlock here. Gift economy is a fun idea but the last thing I want to do is 5 different quests or "favors" every time I want to get some shopping done.

Obviously they're an ass in your story but they were absolutely correct about that. Why not just have currency be some vague "good will" that's semi-transferable between people but also allows gift/favors as a fallback.

The separating of humans into individual elements, or atoms, such that they're disconnected from each other.

Basically, breaking the social bonds that once held human society together. A community is very strong, a group of individuals with no connection to each other is weak. What union-busting does to the workplace, atomization does to society at large. Individualism is tangential but not quite the same. Individualism is a sort of ideology that things should be this way. They should be self-reliant and depend on themselves etc etc. Atomization is the state being unable to form meaningful social relationships due to isolation.

It's more closely related to atomization than individualism.

Pre-1950's America was still very individualistic but they also had third spaces and more close knit communities. Without meaningful connection, those who are able to hookup achieve a facsimile of intimacy. Those who aren't able to get that turn to escort services, onlyfans, and patriarchy etc etc. This compounds the problem until society breaks down.

Of course people do have casual sex for just fun just as they did throughout history. But the major shift towards that isn't because people changed their minds suddenly.

Introverts are the most likely to be lonely tbh. It's less that they receive energy by being alone but rather that the "social battery" recharges when alone. It has nothing to do with the need of human interaction.

Wanting to make dinner and being physically hungry are two different sensations. I can absolutely be hungry but not have the energy to make dinner. In the same way, I can be in need of social interaction while still not having the drive to go out and do it.

end of the month

cops ticketing you for absolute bullshit

Oh yeah, it's filling a quota time. Do the risky shit the first 3 weeks or so but never on the last few days. Ironically, stopping at that same light would probably have been more risky as you'd have to slam on the brakes.

Game theory relies on both parties understanding the "game" fully and making logical choices based on self-interest.

The world is unable to be understand fully and people often make illogical choices. It can be useful but only to a point.

Why? You have no understanding of why this person uploaded this file, nothing to go on, nor any knowledge about this person beyond their account uploaded the file. Was it intentional, maybe they just copied shit off a flash? If it was, were they reading and agreeing or were they just interested in the book? You have no idea and you will never know.

Not everything needs to be a moral crusade. Every single co-worker, including you, have thoughts that would get you fired. Work is like the brown paper bag over your can. Maybe they're drinking soda, maybe they're drinking beer, but unless they do some shit don't go around trying to read the label.

So is a crucial part of the theory no longer "survival of the fittest?" Because that's straight Malthus.

In what way is "organisms that increase their reproductive success spread their genetic material more than organisms that don't" Malthusian? Even Peter Kroptkin, the anarcho-communist who literally wrote the Bread Book, used "Survival Of The Fittest" in his writings.

Malthus is wrong for many reasons but the biggest is that humans are not base unconscious animals who rely on genetic variation to influence their behavior. Malthus built his ideas based on uneducated people in a pre-industrial society. But with increasing education and family planning, the exponential growth that Malthus predicted is severely curved. You shouldn't reject parts of evolution because Malthus used them to justify his political theory. You should reject them if they aren't scientifically sound.

I don't think you understand that getting some hokey answers when you do an asklemmy thread about the supernatural is par for the course.

My point still stands even if its modified a bit.

It's only your mind active in this scenario. You might as well just ask to know everything in existence.

Knowing everything in existence is just merging with the universe which isn't what I want. I want my ego to still exist, even if only temporarily. I don't want to go from human -> THE ALL, I want to follow the path with the extra time I was given.

I don't see how you get to the ascension part anyway, you can only absorb the answers you look for, you don't get time and space to do anything with it.

If I don't get time and space then it doesn't matter what I ask anyway as I'd be dead before I got to appreciate the answer. "Oh what's the secret of the universe?" But then I'm dead before I even get to think about what it means. May as well just ask what's on TV tomorrow because I wouldn't get anything from it.

Tell me all the digits in Pi or some other irrational number so that I can get pseudo eternal life.

Since we have a wish-granting entity then that means the supernatural is somewhat real and I use my newfound time as well as the frozen world to learn everything I wanted and possible ascend beyond humanity.