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MisterNeon

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A broken man, obsessed with 500 year old Mexican culture.

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I'm preparing to go to bed instead of painting Warhammer 40K Orks.

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Hey I've definitely been in your place before. What got me learning coding skills was motivation for a career change, a platform that worked for me (Udemy), and accepting my failed attempts. Small bursts of motivation are more than what most people have. Utilizing them when they come on are opportunities to get a lot done in short periods of time. Don't dedicate yourself to paths that don't appeal to you, half the fun is figuring out what kind things make you tick.

As far as wanting to be dead, existentialism is always a painful bitch. Reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations helped me alot. It doesn't take away pain, but can help cultivate core reasons for one's actions. That helps with existing, at least for me.

Don't beat yourself up.

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Chances are low I'll do that, I paint for myself. I like painting models since it is analog and I work on a computer all day. It's an activity that I do for my own benefit thus I'm reluctant to share with the public for fear of losing that feeling of self fulfillment. I'm also a far better painter than a photographer.

Edit: Your genestealers are coming along nicely.

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Bizarre sub communities with rich veins of content. I want to see pictures of amateur electric sign makers, marbel olympics, and graffiti.

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Dude I just got back from Mexico City and burritos do exist there. They consider it USA food along with cheeseburgers. Mexico isn't static, they adopt food like everyone else.

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Nah dude, they were definitely eating it. You could get a gordita from a street vendor and falafel from a restaurant with both of them selling Coca Cola. People like foods from around the world, including Mexicans.

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Any garbage man that picks up my trash.
Any sanitation engineer that cleans my sewage.

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☀️ My Heart Goes Out to the Aztecs ❤️

BONUS PANEL[S] ⬇️
https://www.historyshapes.com/my-heart-goes-out-to-the-aztecs/

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Panel 1 - Mel, an orange pentagon holding a large knife, runs toward Sam, a red circle, who is holding an Aztec Calendar stone. "Sam, I just saw the temple. Guess what the Aztecs do to appease Huitzilopochtli the god of the sun?"
Panel 2 - Mel waves her knife. "They rip people's hearts out!"
Panel 3 - Sam ponders. "Well, I suppose it could be worse."
Panel 4 - A closeup on Sam. He's upset. "...they could date you for six months first..."

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There were several things other than that one form of human sacrifice. They would hold feasts & festivals, offer flowers & dough men made from amaranth, pray at midnight, create paper ornaments, burn copal, sing & dance, and would clean & maintain temples to show their devotion.

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If you want a really dark follow up research Tlacaxipehualiztli for Xipe Totec.

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Hey I just brought that Teotl up. Fun fact: the skin wearing was a metaphor for maize in its husk.

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So butterflies and hummingbird wings were considered in the realm of war due to "Aztecs" observation that the beating of their wings look like the flickering of fire.

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The featherwork art produced was amazing.

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No.

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Technically I would say the harnessing and utilization of fire. It arguably changed our evolution requiring less energy to digest food.

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I was born in Texas and spent my first 35 years there. It's not like the movies, because life isn't like the movies. I was completely miserable and honestly regret being born due to my life in Texas. Very little help from the government, my schooling was inadequate, and I was exploited by employers multiple times without repercussions. Bad places do make for good people so my dearest friends looked out for me and I them. I'm very glad I moved up North to the Eastern seaboard where there is infrastructure and the average person is a bit less on edge.

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Hey good see ya again. Unfortunately I wasn't lucky. I'll let my friends know.

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I'm CIS white dude who is rapidly approaching 40, the show is not made for me. When the pilot came out I watched it and I was rooting for the production crew; even watching some of the animatics the production crew made while podcasting.

The contents of what I've seen from watching the pilot and a little bit of the full series isn't intended for me. The struggles the characters are going through are hard for me to relate to. I'm also never a fan of Abrahamic religious framing, I find it banal. I wish the production crew the best, but I have no intention of watching more than what I've seen.

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I'm jealous then. I wish I could enjoy more things.

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I'm going to lean towards I'm too old and crotchety. I became an old man when I was young.

The new class war: A wealth gap between millennials ( www.cnbc.com )

There may be another factor creating so much wealth among millennials: inheritances. In what’s known as “the great wealth transfer,” baby boomers are expected to pass down between $70 trillion and $90 trillion in wealth over the next 20 years. Much of that is expected to go to their millennial children. High-net-worth...

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Like hell I'm going to spend money to look rich.

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I audibly groaned after figuring out the joke.

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Conquer most of the known world, become MisterNeon the Great.

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I’m fully aware of that.

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No. The problem with science is that in part it relies on trial and error. That could get messy on a societal level. We should utilize observation with scientific methods to inform our decisions. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t do that currently and scientific data results can also be manipulated to fulfill an agenda.

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Well in your scenario who will implement this? Furthermore, what is the goal that you’re trying to engineer with a science based government? Is it personal happiness, population numbers, the production of capital, or to indoctrinate the masses to serve the state? Are you going to justify the use of eugenics? What happens when goals conflict or individuals don’t want to participate in experiments? What if the science you’re implementing has different philosophies or different schools of thought? How do you determine what is the optimal method?

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A very good point.

Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp ( abcnews.go.com )

“Last year, Red Lobster reported $11 million in operating losses following its flubbed ‘Ultimate Endless Shrimp’ deal, which backfired when it reeled in too many customers after the limited-time promo became a permanent menu fixture last June. The restaurant chain later reported $12.5 million in losses in the fourth...

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What does 11 million dollars in shrimp look like? Let alone 11 million in losses, how much god damn shrimp is that? Was cocktail sauce calculated into this?

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Appreciate you. You’re causing me and my friends to consider indoor shrimp farming for profit.

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I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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“Take no shit from no suckers”

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The problem with most major historical events is that they’re not fun. I would choose Field of the Cloth of Gold because it was just a big festival for weeks.

‘An epidemic of loneliness’: How the pandemic changed life for aging adults ( www.colorado.edu )

Years after the U.S. began to slowly emerge from mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns, more than half of older adults still spend more time at home and less time socializing in public spaces than they did pre-pandemic, according to new CU Boulder research....

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7000 doesn’t sound like a large enough sample size to get accurate results.

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Tens of thousands.

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The age of the American population 55+ is over 80,000,000 so 0.0000875% of that population seems small to be drawing conclusions from.

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Well I don’t generate statistics normally and we’re not dealing with something as reliable as dice roles. I stated the sample size “sounds” small and got downvoted into a pit. I’m going to remain skeptical about this research.

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But I got so much Warhammer that needs painting! I have to like it or Shame Mountain won’t erode.

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I forgot the year 2013 existed.

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You don’t get paid per bug or bot, but by objective. Get too thirsty for blood you will drown.

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I thought a large truck was driving around in my Philadelphia rowhouse basement for about a minute.

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Granted. If you choose to participate your likeness, fingerprints, dna, medical history, and potential children naming rights now belong to some tech startup without proper data security.

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Life is a neverending march of pain and rot. Of course it is real, it hurts too much to be a dream.

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I did. It didn’t help. It was expensive.

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Get a white noise generator, I can’t sleep without it in the city.

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Boost got blocked on Reddit during the API shutdown, the creator then made the app for Lemmy. I came here with the rest of the Reddit Refugees.

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I hate animals, that’s why I’m a vegetarian.

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That’s not a joke. I don’t like animals, they drive me crazy, and I think they’re disgusting. Since they’re disgusting I don’t want their flesh in me.

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I view vegans like party clowns view mimes.

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Well now I want cake, damn.

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