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This is the place I put my soul at rest by working through life’s ambiguities for all to see and take away from. There are most definitely inconsistencies between posts, but if they were all the same, what would that say about my growth as a person?

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Liquid Television

- Mass media is a reinforcing psy-op meant to keep whoever is sad or stupid enough complacent enough to consoom content and want more afterwards. [...]

digital detox vs language learning

- Taking off the stench of propaganda is just like language learning - full of progress at first without even trying, but then coming to a screeching halt. [...]

> implying your media isn't propaganda

- Make the assumption that you live under the regime of the enemy. Assuming that your country isn't using the same propaganda tactics on you is wishful thinking. [...]

conspiracies

- One can have a field day following conspiratorial thought to its logical conclusion and trying to avoid deception. That would include but not be limited to: [...]

zoomer tourist owned epic style by landchads

- It is currently eight in the morning and another bright sunny day in central Mexico. Here are a few takeaways from my trip so far. [...]

the pirate's life

- I was re-reading the 7th commandment, and then the realization hit me like a freight train - I've built my entire workflow off of pirated media! [...]

muh japanese studies (piracy draft)

- I have hundreds of gigs of pirated media and haven't paid a cent. I have built my lifestyle around the consumption of media that I plan to hoard indefinitely. [...]

music for simple living

- What is the role of music in the countryside? Hyper-developed and highly contextual genres like jazz seem to have no place. [...]

peak innawoods tech

- What would and wouldn't you be able to use after the collapse of civilization? Here is a non-exaustive table with some of the more drastic changes I can imagine. [...]

children and the internet

- How do you straddle the fine line between shielding kids from the degeneracy of civilization while at the same time allowing them to learn from trial and error? [...]

ode to radio

- I've been going out of my way to find new music in lieu of social media and the mysterious Algorithm. One avenue I chose to take was local radio. [...]

memes

- Cutting off the internet leads to a paradigm shift in how you spend your time. If a luxury like Reddit meme pages or ASMR is all of a sudden harder to get... [...]

music discovery

- I've been toying with the optimal way to quickly evaluate and add spicy new bangers to my music library. The system I have come up with so far has four stages. [...]

dumbsmart phone

- I got to work setting up my workflow for as little dependence of the internet as possible. However, there is a surprising amount of things you can do offline. [...]

. by koronba

- The internet has lowered the barrier of entry for new composers and given them a playground to carve niches and rapidly deconstruct existing ideas. [...]

the American educational system

- I was sitting in class that nobody cared about and that the teacher monopolized with political takes when I felt a tinge of indignation and disillusionment. [...]

off grid return to monke - progress

- What does a lifestyle of not having home internet and using a dumb phone as a daily driver look like? [...]

ham radio 2 - real life edition

- What do I take away from having gotten my radio license? Why did I get the license in the first place? [...]

10 reasons to stay away from social media

- Tilled and bestowed to us by rich businessmen and their acres of server farmland - the driving force for civilization, yet I’ve chosen to go off the deep end. [...]

ham radio

- I struggle to find a place in my life for HAM radio. Every job that I can conjure for a radio can be done much cheaper and more conveniently with the internet.