One of my friends is an older gay guy. He really wants an exclusive, comitted relationship but apparently it's hard to have anything but hook ups. 😣

It does mean that if the Buddhists are right and desire is the source of unhappiness, then we can achieve spiritual enlightenment with the right cocktail of drugs. 😅

OMG was that really only in 2025?! 😲

Legal for the President. Everyone else has to hope for a pardon. Unless the Supreme Court conjures up some immunity for them too, which is plausible enough....

Sounds like liquid democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

Dopamine isn't really the reward drug that people seem to think.

But in the 90s and early 2000s, mounting evidence challenged that idea. Turns out that when you shut down an animal’s dopamine system, they enjoy their rewards just as much but lose all motivation to seek more.

In other words, dopamine doesn’t make you like something, it makes you want it.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/science-behind-dopamine-function

It's not though? You can clearly see the impact of policy and cultural differences.

It's really bad. Everything is run by US tech giants and nobody cares. Our postal service yesterday:

That's a limitation of Steam though, isn't it?

I activate every game in a bundle when I buy it (which I do like once every 3 years), even though I usually am only interested in 1 or 2 of them. I give the ones that I already have in my Steam account to my son. 😅

I'm not looking forward to when Steam gets enshittified or otherwise goes pear shaped. 😟

In each bundle there is a button for downloading everything which fails once or twice, then provides a zip file, although it seems to have a 2 GB limit or something like that, so basically any PDF bundle you have to download one at a time.

I don't see any option for downloading everything.

I'm sure that since this is vibe coded fixing it will be fast, and everything will be perfect in a day or so. 😑

You have to go to your library, and there is a bingle tab.

Yeah it's shit. I can barely get it to work downloading eBook bundles.