Thanks.

There are some websites you can use to avoid a paywall for a newspaper sites, sometimes even loading the otherwise hidden content when removing the paywall code or manually removing the paywall overlay using an ad blocker. I forgot the one I used to use, but I found a Reddit post about it.

Oh I know it was good. I often think from different perspectives when on ketamine and always I see things rather well. The only issue is my memory, sometimes I just don’t remember. But the moments I do remember are really good ideas, but sometimes they are too hard to realize (I had a great idea for an app, but I lack the programming knowledge and I don’t even know where to start). A friend of mine wants to develop it, some others are interested to get involved too. So other people like my ideas too.

My ideas make me create new music, helped me to start learning CAD and buy a 3D printer and laser cutter. Also some things I created were products of a ketamine trip. It helped me create a music tower for all my synths which is made to perfection and makes everyone’s jaw drop when I show them. People are even telling me I should build music studio’s professionally. It was all a product of my brain on special K. I created the perfect synth tower while I never even touched a synth 6 months before I started or knew how one works. Heres a picture. It’s foldable and on wheels. Perfect cable management and everything.

My autistic brain is capable of some nice things but in general it’s unable to perform as I want it to. But ketamine helps breaking through barriers and reach otherwise locked potential. Different perspectives, able to see the bigger picture while at the same time taking all the details into account.

I do care about the life of my friends. I’m autistic too. I love to hear their stories. Although there are some which I do not care about. Like their kids. I don’t like them, I don’t want to see pictures, I couldn’t care less about whatever dumb, funny or smart thing they did. And I tell them. “Hey dude, nice you have a kid but it’s not for me.” same goes for football or formula 1. You can talk to me about it, but I’ll just be thinking about fun stuff and won’t hear a thing you said.

I prefer to talk to people and hear their stories when it’s something I’m interested in. It generally helps to ask about those things, stimulating them to talk about something you actually like. But sometimes people just need to vent stuff and it’s good to listen, even though it doesn’t really interest you. But giving them a moment for it makes them feel good. But instead of acting like you like it so they will continue to talk about it, after giving them their moment for a bit, change the subject to something you like. At least that works for me. And now my friends know what I’m interested in, and likewise, so we know what we can talk about and do so neither of us gets bored.

For instance, some like to squash. I don’t. Some also like to play boardgames, like me. They don’t ask me to join them for squash, but they do ask me to play a boardgame. Some of my friends talk about football but they know I hate it so they talk about world domination to me instead (/jk).

If you have no common ground with someone, I don’t understand how you can be friends. Everything in the relationship you have with someone would be fake. But if there is common ground, you should focus on that and be honest about what that is for you. Friends become better friends when they know the real you and accept you for who you are. If not, they are bad friends.

I had a tech idea, which filled a gap in the market, something the world desperately needs but no one has ever thought of doing it. Instead of more money grab addictive tech junk, this would help people and would benefit society.

It was on ketamine. I forgot what it was when it wore off. I’m truly sorry. I hate myself.

Haha yeah, the inventor of timezones is an asshole lol

Thinking outside the box. Beautiful result. 5 stars

I just played 30min and I love it! Thanks for the recommendation

I like rts games like company of heroes and sins of a solar empire, survival games like project zomboid but also games with base building like valheim, rpg’s like baldur’s gate 3. I’m just not a fan of fps games although borderlands 2 was a lot of fun but that was mainly because of the rpg aspect. I also enjoy Stormworks, kerbal space program (sadly single-player), farming sim, it takes two, no man’s sky.

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Same but have no one to play with :/

Just Vivaldi browser works too. On your phone I recommend grayjay.app

And that, kids, is why you should pirate. Paying customers are restricted and being ripped off. Piracy gives freedom, it pays off, it makes sure you dont have to agree to stupid user agreements which take away you rights. Make sure to support your favorite creators though, through other platforms like Patreon. Don’t take the money away from them. Just take away the power and control away from the evil mega corps like Google and Meta.

Get the RiMusic app. YouTube music without ads.

The awesome algorithm for recommendations on YouTube was turned off to prevent fake news bubbles. This means that when you listen to a song and want YouTube to create a Playlist with similar artists for you, this doesn’t work anymore. But this function does still work with YouTube music.

It has its own like and dislike system, so it’s not cluttered by yt bots.

Sure, that works too, however with grayjay you can follow creaters across platforms. So in case someone’s account gets banned by YouTube due to whatever bullshit reason, you can continue following them on other platforms. Next to that you won’t get spammed with Shorts junk. If you want to download a video to watch it offline, you can actually watch it offline (you don’t require a connection like with YouTube to watch something offline)

They also can use sponsors in the video, but that only works when you have enough views.

You can still watch YouTube without ads using grayjay.app including sponsor block.

Thanks to Louis Rossman

but my question remains… how does American companies, whose entire (or practically entire) production is manufactured in China, avoid those pitfalls?

Good question. Who knows. Maybe have more expensive production in other countries then China, or raw resource import and produce the products yourself. But this is cutting very deep in profits, maybe even impossible as the competition will be a cheaper option for the consumer.

the same cheapening out in materials and corner cutting strategies are applied in North America all the time.

May be so, but within the US there are regulations which are (or should be) checked. There are federal bureaus tasked with this. Doesn’t change the fact that many regulations are weird, some non-existant due to loopholes and many regulations are laughable at best compared to EU regulations. But still it’s way better then any unregulated stuff from China, or regulated stuff from China but the guy doing the checks got bribed.