1. Sadness and depression are chemical events in your brain that you have no conscious control over
2. You can consciously control some of the common triggers that lead to negative thoughts but most people can’t completely turn off given thoughts
3. Your brain is like the earth and thoughts are like rivers, the more you think certain ways the more you will continue to think those ways, neural pathways are strengthened by their activations

Learn to redirect, wear a bracelet or similar physical reminder of a specific thing you like, when you experience the thoughts you want to avoid, redirect and focus on the things you like

Change your environment, identify triggers that push you toward depression and avoid them. Some literally cannot be avoided, and some situations are impossible to escape, in those cases accept the associated negativity and redirect

Find people who have the attitudes and feelings you want to emulate and spend time with them, we are social and learn much from our peers

Ingest media that aligns with your desired world view, avoid tragedies, horror movies, gore, popular doom news media, etc. This will force you into an echo chamber but it is a popular coping technique

Most important you are your own person, write down how you feel and what triggered those emotions every day. You can’t really know if you’re improving if you don’t have a record

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Just talking about the map editor if it’s an executable

I’d be cautious about running any “leaked” software directly, great way to identify the modding community if it dials home, maybe run it in a vm, behind a vpn? Unless it’s just source code in which case carry on

I think that’s the point? This is a direct response to musk is it not?

That’s really the foundational problem. If you could exist without bugging or being bugged by the neighbors dense housing would be so much more appealing

Very demure of you

Llama3 local is pretty good

Looks cool, when was the last time Zelda was a playable character in a mainline Zelda game?

I still remember flipboard being forcefully installed as the action button app for an old phone. My rage continues to smolder a decade later.

An app that couldn’t be uninstalled and took up precious resources. That’s all they’ll ever be to me.

Just collect your tears and pour them over the tree, plenty of salt coming out of you

Harris has me profoundly optimistic. She’s the most qualified candidate I’ll have had the chance to vote for in my lifetime.

Walz is fine, I was keen on Buttigieg but I’ll happily vote for Walz and let Buttigieg keep his important current position.

My biggest hope is that Kamala will draw out some of the less extreme right leaning women, nobody needs to know that they’re voting for the better candidate and God knows women need allies with the ongoing barrage.

This election cycle is not about fear for me, Harris is an easy candidate to vote for!

Ah yeah good call

3.5% chance to get long covid if vaccinated

Estimates for the first year of the pandemic suggests that at least 65 million people globally have had long COVID

I think Harris is trying to capture a group of Americans that hardlines on immigration, unfortunately some of what she’ll concede on during this election cycle will likely alienate progressives in favor of tempting the opposition. It’s strategically valuable because progressives will still vote for her, but maybe a few conservative voters will be swayed.

Imo it’s more important to pay attention to how she’s voted, how she acts, and whether she will change her mind when presented with important information. In that way she’s by far our most trustworthy candidate even on issues like this one.

Imo cults of personality prey on human nature in the worst ways.

When everyone you listen to and interact with sings praises about somebody or something, and villify anyone who disagrees, you are hard wired to fall in line. It’s literally human nature to sync up with those you listen to, it explains: cults, religions (not yours of course), identity politics, clubs, tribalism, nationalism, and most other isms.

Fundamentally people are categorization machines, putting people who disagree with themselves in a “them” category makes the person in question closer to the “us” group and more likely to radicalize.

Less fundamental/human nature related, trump has fostered the kinds of rhetoric his base likes. He himself may not be a christian anti-abortion redneck, but he has fostered an image that he is and it resonates with some people in a way that cool, collected, reasonable, well spoken politicians simply don’t. They trust him because he sounds dumb and crass.

Looks like somebody hasn’t been doing their pondering exercises

Nice to have a fulltime friend

It tends to change what you’re free to do every day

A MONTH?! Jfc I pay like $50/month for one vehicle

None of us are in your shoes so it’s really tough to say what your coworkers’ motivations are, but at the end of the day you are yourself, you are in charge of your mental and physical well-being. When someone else does something minor and it affects you strongly it’s time to stop thinking about them and start thinking about what’s happening in your own body.

Unfortunately your emotions, like being offended, aren’t entirely in your control. There are a lot of brain connections rustling around up in your noggin that don’t pass through the filter of your consciousness.

The best advice I can offer is to redirect yourself when you start to get offended. Pick a favorite topic, something that you like to think about often, and “switch” to it when you feel yourself getting triggered.

As for how you should act when you aren’t greeted directly? I see no reason for you to change your behavior, just act as though nothing happened, because nothing did happen