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What makes a person... a person?

Is it their memories? Their brain? Their entire body?

Or is it something that can't be described, that we can only go off vibes?

If it's something physical, how much could theoretically be "replaced" before we turn a person into a different person?

Why do I have these kinds of thoughts when I'm meant to be sleeping?

Has anyone made a radio station just for Reticulum/NomadNetwork ?

Just ordered a disc Reader/Writer for backing up DVDs and BluRay from around the house to my NAS.

Originally was planning to do this for my TV show collections discs I would occasionally binge in college using my PS4 slim but never got around to the disc reader til now. Before I was just backing up stuff from my cloud services, phones, and computers before flashing them with bazzite and steamOS.

The other use case I wanted to try was using the rabbit R1 I bought a while back for the specific purpose of...

so I'm celebrating with this LOUD at level 11

I swear I've hit block and report spam on half the phone numbers in existence!

Further down the rabbit hole, how far does it go?
Curiosity will get you closer to the proof
Yeah if you really, really need to know

You gotta dig
Down to the heart of matters
You gotta dig
Shine a light on the truth
You gotta dig
Down to what really matters
Yeah can ya dig
Dig what I’m telling you

Under the trees and flowers
The dust and the decay
You’ve got a superpower
To blow it all away

In the off grid PC saga, there's a lot of sun lately. My battery is full and I need to add some more load to utilize the excess power. I was testing several USB power delivery modules from Aliexpress that I thoughtfully bought before, this one is pretty nice: dual USB A/C ports, alleged 140W power. Tested it with a laptop and a phone, it was delivering 60W and only heated up to almost 50C without any cooling....

Unbeatable is a very amazing game that you should definitely play.

Go play it, now.

Here's the link

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2240620/UNBEATABLE/

Go play it, it's awesome

Why are you reading still

Go play it go go

Stop reading

Just play

I mean it

...

You still here aren't ya?

In that case...

No, no I shouldnt say it

Or..?

Nah fuck it

You look cute today

or hot

Whatever you prefer..

or both even!

Wow both?

Anyway...

Nicotine to me is something that feels like speed on 0.5% dose whilst I've never managed to try actual speed. I had a high drive to try every drug on the planet when I was 20. Luckily, booze was enough to stop me in time. Coming from a family full of alcoholics. Stopped drinking almost 10 years ago now. I never dream about quitting nicotine though. Hope that's alright. Will probably tell my children just how addictive it is, that it's pointless and a waste of money with one of them pouches under my lip....

I guess this one will not make many friends, but I strongly believe that Visual Studio Code is the worst IDE in the world.

“I’ll buy you a drink and MARRY you, missus”

You ever just pick a nemesis at random just so you can come up with increasingly elaborate ways to describe how you hate them?

Anyway, this one goes out to the briny bastard himself, John Shine of Shine's Seafood

A dating app except it connects illustrators and authors who want to make comics

Just had a good cry about my characters. Not even planned, just out here taking random psychic damage.

I am god to these imaginary people, I could stop their suffering any time I want, but instead I make them suffer more even though it upsets me too.

I work at a big medical device company. Since the beginning of the year I’ve been on loan to another group developing a next-gen miniature heart pump.

Sounds cool, right?

The main developers are in Switzerland, and they have me doing junior engineer junk. Ok. I don’t mind getting paid big bucks to do menial tasks.

The only problem is… I’m going to be taken back to my home group sometime in the next 3 months to do maintenance work on my previous project that went to market already. More junk work...

Tempted to check out the Paul WS Anderson Resident Evil movies

My mental categorising of the guy's work is "Event Horizon, Shopping, and a big pile of shit" but maybe there's more to it. I thought the first one (the only one I've seen) was pretty shit at the time, largely due to the OTT direction and convoluted-yet-stupid story, but now I know more about movies and can appreciate maximalist bullshit direction (and am better at appreciating things for what they are - I no longer despair of The Matrix's...