I had issues with keeping a stable sleep schedule for years, but now I found a method that works for me: every day, set your alarm clock to the same time no matter what (in your case 5 AM) even on weekends. Then, try going to sleep so you always get full 8 hours, if you fuck up and go to sleep too late then tough shit - you’ll feel tired tomorrow which will serve as a punishment that your brain will hopefully recognize.

They key is to be consistent and not sleep in.

Exactly - if it’s not a forever game, then why play it?

The head of state sharing power and responsibility with powerful unelected individual(s)? Where have I heard this before?

https://youtu.be/7pmVu5pl_js

Speaking of stolen elections, I get that this isn’t exactly evidence but this kind of a slip-up, intentional or otherwise is just weird if the election was truly 100% fair.

TLDW with relevant quote: “and he (Musk) knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide it was pretty good”

It’s just a sad state of affairs. Digital video games are 1’s and 0’s that you can copy for basically free (with the only cost being hard drive space which is dirt cheap), so preservation shouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, we live in a world where logic sometimes has to take the backseat in order to maintain the current ideology, and video game preservation is one of those sacrifices.

Wdym narcissistic? He’s one of the top Diablo and Path of Exile players, he has every right to look highly at himself

I don’t quite get what caused your radicalization - was it the media corporations that own the vast majority of the journals/newspapers (like Murdoch press or Gannett that you have mentioned)? Is it being worked like a mule for 8 hours? Is it both?

Nevertheless, it was a nice read, and I fully agree with your remark at the end that you can’t really change this kind of system from within, as the power is concentrated with people who benefit from it being worse and worse for everyone except the few.

Much like yourself, I was raised under the impression that we live in a marketplace of ideas, that there is no objective truth and the greatest ideas will naturally come to the top and be adopted, it’s why things are the way they are now. I was drinking it in, I had hope that various institutions had our best interests in mind and whoever opposed them was just some misunderstanding conspiracy nut. But, as I got older I grew more disillusioned with this notion, seeing and experiencing inequalities built into the system, how it’s not good ideas that dictate how we live but capital/money and how this kind of system is constantly reinforcing itself through media/who money goes to/who gets to be elected and so on.

That being said, is there a way out of this I wonder? What we need is nothing short of a leftist revolution, but the left is and has been in perpetual defeat since 1991, and the center and far-right cannot be relied upon as they dance to the whims of our feudal overlords. And even if there is some light at the tunnel, it might just turn out to be another incoming train.