I think there’s two distinct concepts at play, thin skin and thick skin. I do not consider them interchangeable concepts, even if they sound like it

I think a good church is great for hobby projects ready to be taken out of the basement

You do have to belong to such a church already though

Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade

They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things

Yeah, I think you have to try to make the world better, so that when you come back you have a better time

Yes?

A domain is a url, like oaksprout.com. A provider is a server/computer that the domain points at. Many services sell both together at an upcharge, but a domain itself usually costs like ~$15 a year

If an IP address is a mailing address, imagine a domain as a way to pay the post office so people can just address it to oaksprout. You could have them forward your mail to your house, or you could send it to a PO box or business address, and change it whenever you want

The provider is like the mailbox in this metaphor… It receives the mail and holds it for you

Have you tried looking for a theater that does Chinese subtitles?

It’s a thing that exists, you might find it in a populated area but it’s not super common.

You could also find a Chinese movie with English subtitles, that’s probably a lot more common

Also, on Reddit I never had anyone follow me around trying to cause reputational damage by spreading false accusations about me.

I’ve experienced it on both, but it was much more toxic and persistent on reddit in my experience

It really never did though. People have never stopped buying high end furniture

I said necessity, not luxury… If we enter a global depression, there won’t be cheap IKEA furniture anymore

The market for high quality furniture never went away. And if we enter a global depression, a local furniture maker will again be a necessity

I’m picking up furniture making. Handcrafted furniture will always be needed

That’s not a world war, it’s a handful of regional conflict level wars.

A world war is defined by the scale and involvement level. The world wars reshaped continents and put most of the world on wartime production footing… We’re very, very far from that

Taiwan had the ability to kick off a world war, because the whole world relies on TSMC. But the fabs being built in China, the US, and the EU seem to me to be a compromise between the power blocks - once they’re completed NATO will probably just let China invade Taiwan without lifting a finger

WWIII isn’t a big concern of mine… The conditions just aren’t unfolding that way

Trump is close friends with Bill… The “elites” are an incenstous cabal that goes far beyond the political theatre they put on for the rest of us. They never wanted to take down the Clinton’s, because this whole “democratic experiment” of a country has always been hostile to the idea of real democracy

Haven’t heard that before, that’s wild

Trump has never been the mastermind of his own breakfast. He’s always been a useful idiot, especially now that his brain is soup

Ask what proof would change their mind and show them. Then when their mind is not changed, you will understand

Devs are the creators… What the public gets is down stream from their work

I like this concept. Make federation easy and practical for devs

The benefit is less distractions and pointless organization for a project in the early stages

Open sourcing things is a pain in the ass. It’s common to get the core project working before doing so