They are extremely litigious. I work in software security and they are notorious for basically having an ocean of lawyers.

Yes after you learn all better clients first, sure.

It’s just a http client CLI not a programming language. It’s not that difficult to switch. In fact I use at least 5 different ones myself.

Yes I’ve heard the nature can be quite beautiful but at the same time you can go to any other SEA country for similar experience with better everything else so it would be at the bottom of my list of choices just because competition is very compelling here.

Malaysia. It’s so oppressive and incredibly dull. Every time I go there I’m looking to cut my trip short as it’s just so incredibly boring. I hadn’t visited the islands though which I’ve heard are actually a bit more free so I’d make an exception.

Same goes for Singapore - so incredibly dull and boring. The only redeeming feature is the universal theme park and the waterworld show in particular. Get an express ticket on low season and it’s one of the best theme parks in Asia.

Russia would be another one. It’s just fundamentally failed country and while nature can be incredible (shoutout to Kamchatka) it’s culturally dead and I’m never associating with it in any way.

DMT is not acid and the experience is vastly different. On acid it’s still mostly you in a modified environment but you’re still mostly in control if you frame correctly while DMT is basically a dream rollercoaster that you just need to sit through. Both are powerful experiences and should be approached differently.

I’d say do acid instead of you want a gentle reset just make sure you set your environment. Get a sitter and just enjoy nature or the safety of your own home. I wouldn’t just drop into DMT for a reset for a messy headstate. Best of luck!

Generally not a big fan of this type of writing especially when it’s so wrong.

I’m an old software dev who grew up with curl but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone new. It’s extremely dated UX that takes a long time to figure all of the quirks out. You will fail thousand times over and is a http client CLI really worth days of your time learning?

Libcurl itself is brilliant but there are much better front ends for it like hurl or alternatives like httpie - use those instead.

The best way to get into coding is to surround yourself in it by switching to linux and starting to program your own desktop interfaces (can be through browser too). Once you live in your own software the surface area for motivation is significantly higher so you actually learn stuff. Come up with ways to automate what you do and don’t be afraid to fail.

Genital mutilation is inexcusable disgusting tradition - don’t do it.

True crime gets really really weird especially when you dive into more rare extreme niches.

Ants are everywhere in south east asia so I’d never or build a little tower with a water bowl underneath it.

I’ve been a digital nomad for almost 20 years now as a software engineer. It’s by far the best way to live imo especially if you can have remote income. The world is incredible, there are so many places, so many cultures, so many people to connect with - living in a single location seems like missing out.

I like the system in Asimov’s Escape (from the I, Robot series). Spoilers ahead:

Two field engineers experience bizarre, dreamlike disorientation during the jump; afterward Susan Calvin explains the Brain discovered that hyperspace causes a momentary cessation of existence (i.e., you’re effectively disassembled and reassembled), which would panic a robot under the First Law—so the Brain (ship’s AI) masked it with funny/benign hallucinations and only reveals it after they return.

I’d imagine that a lot of future experiences led by true AI would be philosophically challenging like this.

I disagree - all of those are solvable if the core platform is free

The only way to sucdeed here is to legally force all phones to have unlocked bootloader.

Once I took this giant thc gummy and learned how to whistle quite loud. Went to sleep, woke up and can’t do it anymore 😭

I agree with you here and this common take in virtue ethics!

Though I think there are some bad actors at play here that heavily benefit from society that is defeatist. I’m reading the new Steven Pinker’s book on Common Knowledge and there’s one brilliant point there: common knowledge becomes a huge motivator and empowers people to take action. His context is protests and resistance but I think it can extend to your point as well - if we all agreed that taking personal responsibility is important and it was common knowledge society would be empowered to solve these problems directly instead of looking for scapegoats.

Nihilism is actually much more interesting than DeathByBigSad implies here (jokingly or not) and I recommend this very cool video by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14

fair point

I very much agree with your view and to defend utilitarianism a bit here - contemporary utilitarianiasm is more nuanced than people think. The way I see it, utilitarianism encapsulates the virtue of justice in the sense of “what is the most just way to steer this big ship we’re all on”?

While traditional utilitarians would measure only clearly apparent outcomes like “we’re all mostly white so it would be inefficient to protect minorities” contemporary utilitarians include invisible outcomes like emotions and need for statistical diversity i.e. “living in single race world would be unjust and lack of statistical diversity hedging” and “psychological pain of few oppressed minorities would outweigh net value of more simple single race society”.

The reason why I like it because it’s highly plastic, the utilitarian calculation entirely depends on the medium it’s performed in and can quickly self correct given change like new technology or scientific discovery.