🏝️ 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 reading a book on youth catechism, and a passage from the section on the 7th commandment (Thou shalt not steal) stuck out to me. And then the realization hit me like a freight train - I've built my entire workflow of pirated media! [...]
🈲 muh japanese studies (piracy draft)
- I am currently in possession of about 1000 mp3s, a dozen or so ebooks, and hundreds of hours of Japanese anime ripped from YouTube and peer to peer torrenting networks, and haven't paid a cent for any of it. I have built my lifestyle around the critical consumption of media that I plan to store to some capacity indefinitely on my personal hard drives (in full in the case of music and the books, speech only in the case of the anime). [...]
being a nerd 15 and 30 years ago
- What would my current life look like in previous generations? Doing so puts the sheer exponential speed of technological growth into perspective. [...]
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, as those genres are renmants of the highly scaffolded society of which he or his ancestors consciously rejected, and constantly touch on themes of consumption and excess. [...]
peak innawoods tech
- I was in a prepper mood, and began to think about what I would and wouldn't 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, in no particular order. [...]
children and the internet
- How do I 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? [...]