For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!
@RickiTarr I need 100% alone time when I am not working (one-on-one with people). I can spend days on end by myself with no problem as long as I have some media and can text some friends.
Socializing in person just two or three hours a week is too much for me at this point. I have to budget my recovery time very carefully, especially when I know that I'm going to see family. Even if I'm hanging out with my neurodivergent friends, who are fairly equalizing, I have to be careful.
Zooms exhaust me. A text conversation or email chain can wear me out (I had an email absolutely ruin three nights of sleep for me last week, and the fallout is ongoing). An actual phone call? It takes days to recover.
I wasn't very social before the pandemic started. I'd be in the corner with a book, under the table with the dog, doing dishes, or outside looking at trees or birds or stars at any given social gathering.
Any pretense of being able to survive an in-person social activity has dissolved since March of 2000 (I loved lockdown -- except for the no work part). Especially since 2021, when people started rabidly gathering to make up for perceived lost time once they were charged with "saving the economy" by getting out there and doing capitalism again. I could not go that fast or throw my precautions to the wind.
@RickiTarr I always used to consider myself an extrovert but now I can’t cope with more than two or three social things in a week. I say extrovert because I don’t like to be on my own very much. If I do crave alone time, it’s really only being on my own in a different room while someone else is in the house. I guess I am hard to please
well this sucks! I can't play shooter! I press enter on the exe file, and it just sits there looking at me like I am stupid. now how fair is that? @FluidEscence you need to fix this! my day is ruened if I can't play my game! just kidding. lol. it is version 0.70 I am having issues with if that matters. I played it earlier today, but now it won't load, and I can't reboot the computer, or I will disterb the boys shows on there tv's.
@FluidEscence@seedy@JamminJerry@jpellis2008@nycki96 Another question I've always wondered, as I can't really understand it. What is the person saying in the Crime Hunter death scene, when you die and have no lives left? The first part of it sounds kind of like, "Cat to broom."
One of my favorite nuggets of writing advice comes from James D Macdonald. Jim, a Navy vet with an encylopedic knowledge of gun lore, explained to a group of non-gun people how to write guns without getting derided by other gun people: "just add the word 'modified.'"
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
@pluralistic You’ve left out my favorite bit. One of the ways to use your towel is to
“wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you).”
I have just had a message from Microsoft on my Windows 10 desktop that all support is ending for Windows 10 on October 25th.
My computer isn't compatible for Windows 11, even if I wanted it.
I am only moderately tech savvy, so I'm very nervous about installing Linux Mint ( recommended by quite a few blogs etc). Where would I find tech support if it goes wrong?
Edit: muting this now as I've had such a good response from all you super people.
@scudery@LoboTom@ciredutempsEsme j'mange des quakers oats moi! (va falloir que je verifie à quel mastodont de l'agro-alimentaire ça appartient du coup à cause de toi) on boycott Nestlé qui s'fait passer pour une prof d'histoire
@Craigp I think the main counterexample I can think of is Spiritfarer.
It's a platformer - but it's a very easy one where you cannot die (it wouldn't do for the ferrymaster of the dead to die, would it?). It's also a resource management sim - but you have all the time you want. There is no way to lose the game, and you cannot truly get stuck. You care for the deceased spirits until they're ready to move on, and the only gameplay challenges are explicitly optional.
La fièvre de Petrov de Kirill Serebrennikov est disponible sur Arte
Encore 9 jours
"Auteur de BD, Petrov vit avec sa femme Petrova et leur fils dans une petite ville de la Russie postsoviétique. Affaibli par la grippe, il va passer la nuit à s’enivrer jusqu’au matin avec son ami Igor, et déambuler dans les rues. Sous l’effet de la fièvre et de l’alcool, des hallucinations lui viennent, ses dessins prennent vie et des souvenirs d’enfance remontent à la surface"
Colourised animation processing data from: https://psa.esa.int
ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit: 14388
2015-05-05 T16:01:18 > T16:01:35.424Z
IDs: 5 Frames
HE388_0003_SR3 >>>> HE388_0007_SR3
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Voting alone won't be sufficient. And if we ever had politicians bold enough heed the will of the people on popular issues at all levels we'd find new obstacles would arise.
But voting can make a huge difference in the conditions we try to make these changes under. And the culture around popular control of government is a good start for the wider idea that people ought to generally have some say in the way things they participate in are run.