I’m confused again.

A brick.

No, I won’t explain.

I just think the one-word demand to justify oneself is obnoxious.

As a fellow side sleeper who just bought a Purple mattress, just remember to buy a plush/soft mattress. The reason you are hurting is because you are sleeping on your side on a, probably, cheap and firm mattress.

Firm mattresses are for back sleepers. Soft mattresses are for side gang, like us.

I will say Purple is just incredible if you can afford it but try it at a store first before committing. The important thing, though, is to get a soft, well-made mattress.

Seems pretty cheap for some ancient shit.

I see what you mean.

But I don’t think elevating Frodo does a disservice to anyone. Frodo was the first to voluntarily go out on this journey to, essentially, sacrifice himself for the Shire and the rest of the world. And he lost more than any living member of the Fellowship, everyone gains after the journey but Frodo loses his sense of self and his form of life. He does not return the same person, nor a stronger person, he returns a broken person. He deserves the recognition he receives and more.

While I love Sam and what he did was extremely important because he made it possible for the Ring to be destroyed, but what he did was basically support Frodo. Everyone in the Fellowship supported Frodo and no one contests it as being a lowly task, it is an all-important task. We know that what Frodo did no one else could have done because we are literally told that. Frodo carried an all-powerful, seducing demonic entity around his neck day in and day out while going through all sorts of OTHER trials and obstacles. When Sam temporarily held the Ring in Mordor, he was already being seduced by it. There is no way he could have carried it the way and duration that Frodo did. To my knowledge, despite it not being possible for Frodo to have gotten that far without Sam, it is never stated that no one else could have done what Sam did. In other words, that Sam could not be substituted for someone else to support Frodo on that journey. It’s possible to imagine that there is someone else in that world that could support Frodo all the way, the way Sam did, maybe even one of the other hobbits. But it’s not possible to imagine anyone else, including Sam or the other hobbits, doing what Frodo did.

This is not to put Sam down. Sam is a hero in his own right and I don’t actually think anyone could replace Sam because Sam is irreplaceable and incommensurable, the same way everyone in the story is unique and incommensurable. But Frodo is honestly at a different level of tragic, self-sacrificial humility and goodness that should be seen as the only thing that can bring the destruction of powerful evil. Everyone can be unique and valueable in their own way, while still acknowledging how particularly special and important one individual is. I think Tolkien makes Frodo so important and says that Frodo is the only person who could have done that, not because of the character of Frodo himself or the desire to make the main character necessarily the most important, but because he wants us to see that Frodo’s uniqueness lies in his extreme sense of goodness, humility, and self-sacrifice and only those things can bring evil to the brink of destruction.

Well, despite the fact that I hate Trump, I think the Democrats are fucked by picking Joe Biden as the candidate for 2024.

Biden is terrible for the working class. He started his Presidency by going back on the campaign promise of $2k stimulus checks, couldn’t forgive student loans as promised, broke a strike which then led to multiple train disasters, billions in aid to Ukraine but lets the US crumble under cost-of-living crises, and generally ignoring the fact that he should be retired at his age instead of running this country is not helping anyone except the Right.

Biden will be the last Democrat President the way this is going. Pathetic way to go out.

Frodo is the most beautiful and tragic of the hobbits.

I can’t stand anyone who denigrates him to idolize Sam. I broke up with my ex girlfriend of many years who thought Frodo was lesser to Sam, not necessarily for that reason but it didn’t help her case. I love Sam too, but I don’t think Frodo needs to be taken down just to build up Sam. Sam was instrumental in what he did but Frodo was the only individual in the world that could do what he did.

I have premium and I have no idea. I just pay it to support them.

It’s an excellent password manager. I love it!

Dude, shut the fuck up.

I hope you get to be in this dude’s situation one day and you have to take your homelessness with a please and thank you, sir, may I have another.

…I’ll go way out on a limb and suggest that this could’ve been handled better.

Yeah, I mean, they could stop evicting people and sentencing them to homelessness.

That would be a start and would have avoided this entire thing.

Maybe there’s a better place for this question, but how do you make sure a used laptop is safe? Or would removing Windows and installing Linux be enough?

I want to buy a laptop for Linux, and would buy a used one so that it’s cheaper but I have to admit I worry about it. I know one could be worried even about new laptops and what manufacturers could be up to, but I feel like the unknown arbitrariness of a used laptop gets to me.

Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

— Epicurus

I’m not a huge fan of Heidegger but I do think he was a genius and a juggernaut in philosophy, unavoidable. He argued human being, or Dasein more accurately, swings between more authentic, self-owned living and inauthentic, crowd-oriented living which he referred to as “fallenness” but despite the connotation it is not necessarily a negative. It is part of our condition and is natural, for lack of a better word. Meaning, don’t be too hard on yourself for not living a perfectly philosophical life.

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

— David Hume

Marxist-Leninist.

Kinda funny they reject Lemmy for that but didn’t reject reddit for being a capitalist but okay. There are instances ran by anarchists too.

I just got your joke. wooosh

I hate AirBnBs because they make housing less available for everyone, but are they really that or as expensive as hotels now? I feel like hotels are probably still more expensive.