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Apytele

@ Apytele @sh.itjust.works

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I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I'm going to troll you back. FAFO.

  • are there any street tips you all can share?

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  • Don't look tough, look crazy. People don't bother me in the street. It's because I dress like a hobo and mutter / silently move my lips talking to myself while walking down the sidewalk. If they do manage to get me to make eye contact, it's intense enough they wish they hadn't. A wallet and groping my ass aren't worth losing an eyeball or testicle to what looks like a tweaker.

  • The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge

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  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Car is the easy answer. I don't drive much anymore as a commuter so I'm buying as much hauling strength as 20k will get me.

  • I knew it

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  • People be shaming others for connecting with a community that supports a regular routine of both daily, weekly, monthly, and annual routines with at least a small amount of support for illness and poverty and which focuses on a concept larger than any one of their single personal existences then wondering why they're depressed. Like I struggle with joining a major organized religion or even a secular social community like a sports team or knitting group but at least I know that's why I'm depressed. Like ffs at least join the satanic temple if you're a devout atheist. And the Muslims also specifically have a faith that supports strict hygiene practices, which I admire greatly.

  • Lemmings over 30 who try to stay active, what are you doing to accommodate for your incredibly decrepit bodies to avoid boo-boos?

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  • Also people tend to enjoy things more when they get injured less doing them.

  • What's an artificial limitation you put on yourself that has improved your personal life?

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  • "Is it true, is it kind, is it necessary?" Shoot for two but make sure it's at least one. And if you ever by chance come across a trifecta, don't let it escape unsaid!

    I also notice working in mental healthcare that a lot of my coworkers have realized some of the patients really do need "tough love" but they don't realize that the Love part is critical. And it's obviously not romantic love but also not even love in any personal sense. It's love in the better version of the Bible sense where you should love your fellow human beings. When you say something that someone isn't going to like hearing for their own good, you need to start with a practical statement of why you're saying it out of love.

    So I'll say "I don't just want to give you ice cream today; I want you to know how to ask other people when you leave here. I'm going to give you about fifteen minutes to go to your room and breathe, then you can come back and get in line and ask again." While some of my coworkers will just say "no I'm not gonna let you talk to me like that" which isn't wrong, but also isn't actually tough love because they forgot the love.

  • If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.

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  • Some gnostic Christian sects took their Zoroastrian roots a little more seriously than mainstream Christianity and argued that the God of the old testament is actually the demiurge.

    The demiurge is an evil / misguided shadow of the true God caused by Sophia (the concept of pure wisdom) attempting to reproduce without the male half of her syzygy. As a result, the demiurge was created and dragged her out of heaven when he fell and tried to recreate heaven with the bits of her soul he still had. Humans on earth are just the little bits of Sophia's soul tapped in the shadow of heaven that he made. Eventually they will reach gnosis (similar to the Buddhist Nirvana) and ascend back out of the kenoma (shadow heaven) and back into the pleroma (true heaven). Jesus (who was also the serpent in the garden of eden) is the male half of Sophia's syzygy who came to earth for the second time to awaken the sparks of her soul so they can ascend.

    I'm simplifying some things and smoothing the narrative to make sense since the reason Gnosticism never did as well as mainstream Christianity is the lack of a consistent narrative with which to create in-groups and out-groups to wage holy wars over, so the ones that did wiped them out. And for example I do consider myself gnostic but I mostly stay away from the metaphysical stuff other than in ways that they represent concepts important to a healthy life like mediation. I hope you enjoyed reading though!

  • Thailand makes moves to improve work/life balance for employees by reducing the maximum workweek to 40 hours and expanding family and menstruation leave.

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  • Yeah menstruating is nbd for me but it would've been cool to stay out for this UTI.

  • What are some of your favorite digital tools?

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  • localsend

    I am super interested in this, do you know if it can track versions and support regular backups? I was actually just trying to find out if there's a way for my phone to sync / backup my documents, pictures, and possibly even calendars and contacts with our home computer while I'm home, especially right when I get home, and maybe on a scheduled basis right before I usually leave for work. I've been looking into de-googling and honestly I'm wondering why a lot of my info needs to be stored in the cloud at all? Maybe one monthly or quarterly backup to an encrypted service like tresorit but for the most part I think it'll be fine to just let my devices back themselves up with each other on my home network?

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Depends on the reason it's being taped but yeah, 99.99% with you, that's how I do it most of the time.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • ty this always struck me as odd but yeah that makes prefect sense now that I see it written that way. Obviously it's a marketing thing. Obviously!

  • THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come

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  • Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO

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  • Isruleation

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  • Isruleation

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  • old shows with important lesbian/bisexual women?

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  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • Who is the enemy?

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  • Darling

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  • Ravings of a lunatic

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