spinflip @spinflip@qoto.org

@liamvhogan now I want to meet someone at that intersection

Needed some spare storage for file juggling, so I've dug two HDDs out of my old desktop that hasn't powered on since 2014. Both still work! So down the rabbit hple I go, spelunking through terabytes of misc files and low-quality movies…

@dlek@x0r.be I can see the appeal, but there's also something valuable in keeping things simple and minimal (personally, I'd like to remove emojis but I'm probably in the minority on that one).

The one obvious major failing is that it doesn't really work with mobile devices that drop in and out of connectivity (seems like something that wouldn't be too hard to fix? Idk). But otherwise, the server/channel structure with no bells or whistles is just so good.

Attempting to solve a computer problem this afternoon has taken me to an irc server for the first time in years, and holy fuck irc is good. It's a tragedy that it's basically dead for most people now

@natecull @wrenpile @enkiv2 yeah, I'm absolutely an atheist for various reasons, but I'm all up for going to churches for hymn-singing and drinking tea while catching up with the locals. I'd be happy to do that without the religious component (that said, not actually sure that "secular churches" could really get and keep regular attendees happy to give enough money to keep things going without invoking the fear of God)

@wrenpile @natecull @enkiv2 I'm not claiming that organised religion has vanished entirely, but that it's no longer at the centre of mainstream society (in places like the university I work at, being religious is uncommon enough for it to be a notable personality trait). The religious culture warriors are well aware of this, but the liberals and lefties I spend time with don't seem to realise what they've lost in that cultural transition.

@natecull @wrenpile @enkiv2 as an example, there's a startling lack of awareness about what the death of mainstream organised religion in Western countries actually means. Something that was at the social core of *every* community for at least the past millennium has basically vanished within two generations, and nothing seems to be replacing it. I don't think people truly appreciate how significant that is.

@natecull @wrenpile @enkiv2 I mean, there was a whole bunch of stuff that probably *did* need to be dismantled (see the rolling discovery of institutional child sexual abuse everywhere children could be found), but I don't think that will do much to temper the anti-PoMo pushback that's starting to build

@wrenpile @natecull @enkiv2 the hippies are now seen as naive sellouts who indulged themselves with feel-good drugs and woo, got bored, and sold out to become investment bankers (I don't really accept this narrative, but it's perceived as real). I feel like today's views on the power of self-defining individuals are going to be seen way more harshly than that, at least for a while
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@wrenpile @natecull @enkiv2 not hugely confident on this, but I've got a feeling that contemporary radical liberal individualism (you be you, you don't owe anyone else anything, rigid social structures are all forms of oppression) is going to end up getting smashed hard and there will be a real lurch back towards group identities. How that manifests itself, I dunno: could be socialism, could be fasvistic nationalism, could be TradCaths…

been doing some thinking about daemons in the his dark materials books, informed by real-life internet knowledge

…there are definitely people with sexy plane daemons that they fuck, aren't there?

@scarydan aaah, jealously. I'd murder for one of their sausage rolls right now