I don’t think society across the whole planet will collapse, short of a nuclear war in which case gold won’t help one bit

Much more likely that certain areas will experience famine, war, disease, and reduced access to medicine.

Really the best bet is to be able to be mobile if an area has a significant decline you can move to where it’s better

This is exactly why I’ve been on such a kick to plant perennials in my yard! There’s a resilience to be had, even if psychological.

The other day I noticed my favorite dark chocolate bars are nearly $8 each, this time last year they were $3! I am obviously distressed to find I can only afford half as many bars as before, but it’s comforting to know I’ll be getting a lot more treats of grapes, kiwi, asparagus, strawberries, elderberries, goji berries, and mulberries. Sure they aren’t chocolate, but they are a fun sweet treat anyway, and if I miss the sharpness of chocolate I’ll make some into tart jam or kombucha.

Rather than see the chocolate prices and despair, I’d rather take comfort in adding more to my little food forest, and then I’ll have more to share with my friends!

Absolutely agree. I know much more about operating systems and software that the average person, and I’ve only been able to handle a number of Bazzite issues with Kagi Assistant. Trying to find how to fix something on forums and regular search is extremely time intensive.

Of course keep in mind that if you’re messing around with your OS you might just screw something up and have to reinstall, but so far I’ve not had anything even close to that. Bazzite seems to be pretty hard to break.

Really for me, Linux only became fun once I started using chat tools to help me learn how to make it do everything I wanted. And I’ve been using Linux off and on for work and at home for twenty years. It’s just sometimes really arcane, and the differences between opensuse, Ubuntu, fedora, and mint made it feel like I never could learn how to fix things.

Sometimes things are harder than I want or just aren’t working right out of the box. But then sometimes I’m able to do things that are actually impossible on other operating systems. So it’s really a trade-off. Also it’s getting better every single day. There was an issue I had last month with a controller, I messed around for 30 minutes but couldn’t get it to work. I tried it last week and it just worked. So don’t lose hope entirely.

I always heard they were larger and ate a specific diet of plants that are now extinct, and so have adapted to only eating low nutrition bamboo and it’s caused them to barely be able to reproduce.

I think this one happened rapidly because of conquistadors and plague. A rapid empire collapse making the elite location untenable and unaffordable.

I recently read 1491 and it was excellent. It describes how these immense civilizations were in the New World, and how rapidly they collapsed as hogs infected with diseases accidentally escaped the explorer’s camps and killed of 90% of the populations.

It talks about De Soto seeing the banks of rivers filled with dozens of cities of thousands of people, and then two or three years later explorers coming by and finding nothing but ruins.

That seems much more of the type of collapse that would just leave entire buildings empty and abandoned.

friendzone potion, you give it to someone crushing on you or hates you to turn them around. Some might argue showing up with beer / weed is a friendzone potion.

same! We stayed up all night taking turns playing

Same, I’ve blocked every single news and politics and it’s bustling

I knew without clicking this would be Max Payne or Obra Dinn

Yeah watch out for this one then. Especially if you get into the mods that turn a 30-50 hour campaign into 500+ hours with 20x more complexity.

Same thing I said the other post, be sure it’s a device with removable battery or a battery bypass so it doesn’t turn into a spicy pillow and catch fire

It all started with that smile… that damned smile

Performative anything is so cringe, and performative toxic masculinity is the king of cringe.

Toxic masculinity is so rooted in fear, it’s like dressing up as a scared mouse. Wow, you’re scared… of different skin colors? People with different outdoor hobbies than you? What a weird sad thing

yeah but a good cardigan is softer than a hoodie and warmer because it’s like cashmere or wool and not cotton/poly blend.

Also makes me look like an old fart

Oh my favorite flavor: depleted uranium cherry

I am really stuck in the final boss and this game the real boss is the camera controls and mushy platforming

I can second these and add

• yoga
• guided meditation videos
• breathing exercises
• long walks with a heavy pack

Walking, and add a weighted vest or backpack. Start light, like 5lb/2.5kg for a week or two, then increase by that much a week until you get to 40% of your body weight in a few months.

I find that 30lb/15kg is a great place to stop though, much more feels pretty rough.

Then just walk around. You can listen to music, podcasts, nature, bird sounds.

Do that 45 a day and you’ll be significantly healthier in a few months.

I seriously hope it’s like the rendering at the bottom of the article with two physical button areas (4 each), two physical joysticks, and two touch pads. That feels like the best of all worlds.

I want to love the Steam Controller 1 so much but the missing right joystick and the touch pad for the left dpad just feels so bad for so many games that were designed for two joysticks. It’s so hard to get the muscle memory right. I’m always trying to use the left pad as a dpad and tapping it wrong.

I wish someone could show me what I’m missing but it feels so frustrating

But also maintain an older car for as long as possible, shop at thrift stores, do your own cooking, garden, save meat for special occasions, collect rainwater, get some older used solar panels, and have a small monthly hobby budget. You’ll find you can live so well on so little. For some reason we’ve all been conditioned to act like we’re wealthy for no reason at all. True wealth is freedom from the grind, not a stupid new toy or status symbol.

Become Hobbit pilled and realize the good life isn’t about isolation and stupid stuff but deep connections with friends and the earth.