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Started reading Entangled Life. Just a few pages in and I was dumbfounded by how almost ubiquitous and even supernatural fungi is, and how we barely even scratch the surface even with what we learn about them in school, and with our fascination with horror content about fungi like the cordyceps or something. Like for example, fungi served as roots before plants had them, they make microclimates, they have high metabolic ability, in which the book also described as something akin to alchemy… The ability to turn the raw environmental ingredients into a variety of substances, and structures with unique properties. And that’s just in the few pages of the first chapter!

Also, when I started getting into reading this year I got interested in the classics, and had a good time with reading Don Quixote. Interestingly enough, the part with Marcella almost seemed like it criticized incel culture. Also to those who say that brainrot culture is a recent thing and that the past was better, read Don Quixote as it portrays a phenomenon of brainrot except with chivalric romances, which was the pop culture of the day. I also recently read Teleny: The Reverse of the Medal and Manon Lescaut. Damn Des Grieux, you were born for tragedy… Also, I’ve read the Picture of Dorian Gray, Carmilla, and Venus in Furs. You may see where I’ve been going if you’re familiar with these titles, and it’s all about love and passion and, well, a dash of homoerotism. Just in time for Pride Month. I honestly wanted to see how love and desire, such messy feelings, was felt by people who we were less likely to relate to, even idolized in our flawed perception of their orderliness, and whose lives were struck, smitten by it. The twitter post about Rennaissance teenagers comes to mind. What was their lives like, outside of cultural survivorship bias. I might even read On Love after reading Entangled Life if I have the time (unfortunately I have to deal with summer class, so I’m reading as much as I can before my time and energy gets sucked into it).

I recommend tofu sisig and sweet & sour tofu!

What search engine do you use?

Can’t you just replace the battery somehow? My phone’s old battery had an adhesive which the repairman just cut, then he put in a new adhesive and battery in.

Well, one of the reasons why I used 3rd party apps to begin with was because the mobile Reddit app was an unoptimized buggy mess for me, which often overheated my phone.

I use Stealth with the express intent of not contributing to Reddit (there are no ads on Stealth) while consuming their server’s resources. It’s a sort of protest in its own way. Especially since those niche interest subs are the only way I could quickly get information about the community without having to scroll through discord servers— hell, in Lemmy-Kbin most of them are run by bots reposting from Reddit, and there is no way I can manage or advertise my own magazine, what with my busy schedule in my university.

It’s been a while since I’ve been on Lemmy, so correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Voyager, which I’m using right now, pretty good? You also don’t have to install an app, just set it as a Browser app on Firefox and you’re good to go, even though the apps on the Google Play store are pretty good.

I hate how everything has to be monetized nowadays, or how money is to be expected for everything. Eventually people who provide free service or altruism will be seen as competition.

That’s true… Because biologically as men, we want to believe in them. We inherently cut them more slack.

Women in every professional position: Are you sure about that?

I mean when a woman has hobbies or interests men would think it is impossible for her to have those 😂

You can. Taho for example.

You can try sweet and sour tofu. Just substitute the pineapples for lemonade if it’s not available. There’s also tofu sisig.

Maybe tofu does taste good and you just hate it because it tastes like tofu…? We have taho in the Philippines that has silken tofu in it, and it’s also a significant part of the taste profile. Also when people say tofu tastes like cardboard, the only time that was the case for me was because my tofu was sitting for a week in my fridge.

My asian ass would beg to differ.

Wow so even when you pay, you still end up a product. Sigh.

I’m reading Walkable City by Jeff Speck, it’s about urban planning. I started reading it when my school gave us a speech to present and I chose Future of Transportation, and I wanted to show how much we could improve mobility while being feasible and ecologically friendly. The future of transportation could be so much more than self-driving electric cars…

Other than that, I’m also reading Chimpanzee Politics by the primatologist Frans de Waal, after reading his other book “Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?”.

Well, unfortunately in my country the Philippines, I only have one public library in my city, and it’s woefully incomplete. My university library is better, but I’m not sure if everyone outside the school can use it. In terms of buying books… I’m only aware of one bookstore that doesn’t just fill their bookshelves with Wattpad fiction, lol.

Newpipe!