Oh I wish those were still around here. As a kid, we had an actual mom and pop owned cornershop. I went there as a kid one time to buy my dad cigarettes, and back then people knew each other and they'd call my home line asking if I was allowed.
Shop closed because the gas station opened their own competing store, and a big brand supermarket moved in. These days I'd kill to be able to walk into a small store nearby and be able to grab locally grown produce and walk out of there.
During lower points of my life, I used to drink and smoke and watch his podcast. It felt like hanging out with a friend. But it sure isn't a friend whose opinions I'd trust on anything. More like someone I'd shoot the shit with, and then completely ignore when he switches to serious topics. I believe he knows his stuff when it comes to martial arts, but beyond that I don't care much for his takes. Sure, tell me about aliens and how a chimp could fuck me up. That's what I'm here for. Keep the politics out of it.
This wasn't a thing a couple of decades ago. To this day I can still watch movies from the eighties just fine, but need subtitles for anything made within the last 10 years.
I wish people would do thinking themselves, instead of aligning their beliefs with these influencers. Rogan is and has always been fucking weird. I like his interview style, he is good at interviewing rock stars and putting the spotlight on people who are critical of the system.
But damn dude.... One thing is that he is so into Trump. The whole Alex Jones saga is even more crazy to me. He has spent so much time defending Alex Jones, who is just the epitome of this kind of nonsensical rambling. I mean, I literally have a diagnosis that leads me to experience psychosis, and even I can tell that many of the people he interviews are completely spinning.
How can he take people seriously on his show, when they are literally rambling off every insane impulse on politics out loud without a filter?
Edit: I should mention though that I respect Rogan for actually speaking out. People in the Trump cult are so afraid of criticizing him, and they go along with anything he says. It's nice to see someone from that camp actually have a nuanced opinion.
What's your hardware? I have an NVIDIA GeForce 5090, and I got the impression that debian wouldn't be the best choice from my searches. I went with pop os instead, and while Wayland and driver support works great (Safe for some vendor specific issues like LCD and sensors not working), cosmic is honestly too much of a hassle to use right now.
I've always loved debian. There's a reason it's a favorite on servers, and so many distros are built on it. Stable, reliable, gets the job done really well. As long as the job doesn't require the newest packages.
I have started getting my groceries delivered. It is more expensive but worth the tradeoff to me. I'd rather cut down on my expensive habits, than spend half an hour dodging the public at rush hour, just to get it a bit cheaper.
Here in Denmark we have "kammerjunker" which is basically a kind of dry sugary biscuit thing, you put on top of .... Well, forget it. Point is that when it's not in season, every Danish person has a bag of these things in the cupboard:
No, they are not meant to be eaten like this straight out of the bag. But when you're high, straight out of the bag is heaven.
I installed Linux back then too. First thing I did was delete my user, home folder, and just rawdog the whole thing as root.
I may have slightly misunderstood the operating system. Later that week I saw that a new Linux kernel had come out, and did a uname -r and decided that the best thing I could do was manually compile the damn thing for my computer so I could "get the update".
I am pretty sure I managed to even boot all the way to the terminal, but being unable to run startx. Good times.
Still remember downloading nirvana_smells_like_teen_spirit.mp3 for the first time. It may have taken 25 minutes on Napster, but nothing has ever sounded so good played out of my aux speakers in Winamp.
Most of them required me to install an app on my phone to input my credit card details (really stupid).
This shit is the worst. I've stood on fucking empty dark parking lots, in the middle of freezing winter storms, with screaming kids in the car, for what feels like hours setting up absurdly complicated apps, that require so much bullshit information, only to find at the end of it that the charger didn't work anyway.
This experience alone is enough for me to actually discourage a lot of people from buying an EV. These providers need to get their shit together, it's absolutely horrible user experience.
In the 5 years I've owned an EV, things have gotten better, but the fact that this is still a common experience means that infrastructure just is not ready.
I've owned an EV for 5 years, and only now am I beginning to actually get over that range anxiety. I honestly like driving my EV, there is so little maintenance, and it has a range of about 300 km which is enough for me. But yeah, the charging stations are a huge hassle. There are so many of them that are marked as available on the map, and then when you get there they are either broken, occupied, or blocked by an ICE. Also, the apps and charging tags are driving me fucking nuts. I have so many different apps now, and a lot of them work like absolute shit. I also still run into weird issues where a cable will lock to my car, and then I have to call support or similar.
The things that make owning an EV nice, are things like free public parking in a lot of larger cities, and holy hell does it warm up quickly in the winter. I'm still probably going to buy an EV for my next car, I just hope it will be possible to buy a modern car without constant electronic nuisances like beeps, eye-tracking, subscription services, shitty touch screens, and all the other bullshit that they put in cars nowadays (Not just EV's). Another reason I like my EV is the acceleration, I never have to worry when I overtake a slow vehicle.
Yeah, I know it didn't really bring a whole lot to the discussion. I guess I'm just frustrated with politics in general. I do still stand by my point about Putin and Trump liking such a guy though.
As a European, I think the EU needs to wake up and become more willing to act geopolitically. It needs to take charge, and have a structure which allows it to make strong authoritative decisions, that will enable EU's future as the third superpower nestled between Russia and the US. We need a single strong leader to do it, someone who can really challenge Putin and Trump, isn't afraid to yell, to be threatening, and dominate. Our leader should be similar: A kind of people's man, a man who can bring our culture back to its former glory, maybe from a small nation like Austria who actually can sway public opinion through strong speeches.
I can see the exact person vividly in my mind. As I concentrate on his image, I think I can even make out what kind of beard he has. Certainly, Trump and Putin would respect such a man.
Oh I wish those were still around here. As a kid, we had an actual mom and pop owned cornershop. I went there as a kid one time to buy my dad cigarettes, and back then people knew each other and they'd call my home line asking if I was allowed.
Shop closed because the gas station opened their own competing store, and a big brand supermarket moved in. These days I'd kill to be able to walk into a small store nearby and be able to grab locally grown produce and walk out of there.