Yes I’ve heard the nature can be quite beautiful but at the same time you can go to any other SEA country for similar experience with better everything else so it would be at the bottom of my list of choices just because competition is very compelling here.
Malaysia. It’s so oppressive and incredibly dull. Every time I go there I’m looking to cut my trip short as it’s just so incredibly boring. I hadn’t visited the islands though which I’ve heard are actually a bit more free so I’d make an exception.
Same goes for Singapore - so incredibly dull and boring. The only redeeming feature is the universal theme park and the waterworld show in particular. Get an express ticket on low season and it’s one of the best theme parks in Asia.
Russia would be another one. It’s just fundamentally failed country and while nature can be incredible (shoutout to Kamchatka) it’s culturally dead and I’m never associating with it in any way.
DMT is not acid and the experience is vastly different. On acid it’s still mostly you in a modified environment but you’re still mostly in control if you frame correctly while DMT is basically a dream rollercoaster that you just need to sit through. Both are powerful experiences and should be approached differently.
I’d say do acid instead of you want a gentle reset just make sure you set your environment. Get a sitter and just enjoy nature or the safety of your own home. I wouldn’t just drop into DMT for a reset for a messy headstate. Best of luck!
The best way to get into coding is to surround yourself in it by switching to linux and starting to program your own desktop interfaces (can be through browser too). Once you live in your own software the surface area for motivation is significantly higher so you actually learn stuff. Come up with ways to automate what you do and don’t be afraid to fail.
True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.
Ants are everywhere in south east asia so I’d never or build a little tower with a water bowl underneath it.
I’ve been a digital nomad for almost 20 years now as a software engineer. It’s by far the best way to live imo especially if you can have remote income. The world is incredible, there are so many places, so many cultures, so many people to connect with - living in a single location seems like missing out.
I like the system in Asimov’s Escape (from the I, Robot series). Spoilers ahead:
Two field engineers experience bizarre, dreamlike disorientation during the jump; afterward Susan Calvin explains the Brain discovered that hyperspace causes a momentary cessation of existence (i.e., you’re effectively disassembled and reassembled), which would panic a robot under the First Law—so the Brain (ship’s AI) masked it with funny/benign hallucinations and only reveals it after they return.
I’d imagine that a lot of future experiences led by true AI would be philosophically challenging like this.
I really don’t understand the point of packs when Mastodon has hashtag follows. Mastodon is already winning in terms of discovery here and in fact I still don’t use Bluesky because its impossible to discover content there.
On Bluesky you get a pack of people but in linear timelines the power spammers just take over and then you have to do all that personal curation anyway but it’s often even a worse starting point than just blank slate. With hashtag following I just subscribe to #fediverse and discover new content and creators organically.
Instead I’d like to see Mastodon commit more to organic discovery rather than consolidation of power users by expanding post classification system like using AI classification that attaches topic hashtags to posts etc to help users discover content they actually want to see not follow personalities.
Sorry to hear that. Have you considered relocation? The world is quite big!
For me virtue ethics plays the biggest role at small personal level but care ethics is becoming more and more important to me as I age and value existing intimate connections more.
For large scale I’ve always been a strong contemporary utilitarian (one that includes invisible benefits in the calculations) and I really don’t see that ever changing - I really do think there’s the most optimal path forward for the society at all times and it can change on existing conditions.
Recently I really enjoyed Acecraft which is a gatcha bullet hell with cuphead art style. Its really charming and very much skill based to a point. The only negative is this constant clicking on shit to collect all of the coin garbage which eventually made me quit it but it was fun for a while.
Still crazy. Airconditioning is dirt cheap these days - a small bedroom aircon is like 300-400 usd these days.
Or you know this time it’s actually christo fascism. Crazy I know.
I’m with the majority’s utiliatarian ethics here: political assassinations are bad but dead nazi is the best kind of nazi. So overall event is net negative for humanity but not all parts of the sum are negatives if that makes sense.
So I did celebrate the obituary but I’m aware this is likely bad for society as a whole.
I’ve been a mod of several niche subreddits and entire reddit is absolute 100% gamed and astroturfed. Being a mod is incredibly lucrative to the point that’s full career for many mods.
In all fairness it was bound to happen and it’s similar on all social media groups. The power and lack of transparency makes it incredibly easy to start profiting of your positions even when the goal is noble at first. There’s this great podcast on cat drug black markets which perfectly illustrates this.
I find it funny seeing people complain about LLM hallucination and inaccuracy turn around and prefix site:reddit.com to their search queries in pure, blissful ignorance.
Outlook just called OP fat lmao
I’ve tried to get away from Spotify for years and the reality is the competition still sucks. I still have Tidal and YT music subscriptions but 90% of my music is on Spotify. I don’t know why is it so hard to match this.
Self hosting music is absolutely not worth it though it seems like that’s the only way to match Spotify quality of the experience.
Everyone can finally choose “dr.” option when filling out flight ticket forms guilt free and probably fly free on Canadia Airlines at least once.
They are extremely litigious. I work in software security and they are notorious for basically having an ocean of lawyers.