findingthepathtomyself

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Please don't say you "just don't care anymore about adds"

You still see them. They pollute your mind. They shape the way you think, they change the way you see life.

You may not realize it but you are ACTIVELY being manipulated.

When you'll want to buy a new chair you WILL pick the one you saw on TV "because they said it's comfy". But it's still the one you saw, not the one you didn't saw. And if it's not that, when you'll feel tired you'll wonder "maybe I should try these new vitamins, they say it helps".

Sometimes, being open to possibilities is a good thing to enlarge your vision. But sometimes, it shapes you and it closes your eyes on other possibilities.

You are not different, you are not immune to this thing. You just don't see how it influences you.

Please bear it in mind when you consume any type of content.

genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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Yea okay but :

DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR LEGS???

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i wanna talk about this shot

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This is fueling my will for tattoos.

Please don't. My parents are going to disinherit me.

Your body is for living in, it isn’t a floor model.

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(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

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Today's monday again. Let's get on it counts.

the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it's monday and we are getting on it cunts

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Please, please, please

Listen to me

I beg you, I BEG YOU

Don't put romantic love alway before platonic love.

Please consider your people for who they are and the journey you had with them. Not only for the status they fill

Daniel Sloss- “Jigsaw”

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nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

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Honestly...

Me everyday

Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

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And now this superbe haiku 😭

I love this site

little miss awful body temperature regulation is taking his hoodie off again

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Inconvenience yourself.

At your own pace, or you'll never stick to it. But start.

Do thing. ACTUALLY do them, make them, work for them.

It is supposed to be hard. It's supposed to ask an effort. Or there is no real reward, no lesson learnt.

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

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For real

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And I'll keep speaking French (and being queer) even if you don't like it.

Rien ne peut m'arrêter :)

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" [we are] a museum of all the people we've ever loved"

i love how we pick up habits and phrases from people we love and it sticks with us for so long it becomes a piece of us making us a museum of all the people we've ever loved.

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