#SundayThoughts I always found the common artist question amusing: "Where do you get your ideas?"

I literally have no control over them. They just come as I'm doing other things but it has taught me that one often leads to the other, and you don't always have to have both constantly.

If you feel like you're out of the ideas, just start making something. The ideas will find you.

Today I shall be mostly focussed on animal husbandry.

Man, the smartphone market is such a racket. Offer people a spying brick of silicon that they don't truly own, give them all sorts of addictive properties that they justify as "convenience", then stop supporting the OS within a couple years so that they either have to spend $300+ on a new phone every few years or risk both security and incompatibility.

Oh, and that's not mentioning the fact that the majority of phones don't even let you use a custom ROM (further contributing toward the lack of ownership) and unless you use something like Tracfone, you're tied to a KYCed phone subscription that makes it hard to cancel, switch or even afford.

There's a reason why I put off using a smartphone until two years ago, when I was basically forced to get one. I really wish I could go back. PCs and laptops are so much better.

#SundayThoughts #humanism
Wow! a firehose of interesting historical facts from Prof. Anthony Pinn, author of The Black Practice of Disbelief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhDYfW_Ae6I

From The Atlantic, #sundaythoughts

Part of the transition to adulthood lies in accepting that actions have consequences, that money spent on one thing is not available for another, that not all stories have happy endings, that not all good things are compatible. Maturity is, above all, the recognition that reality is reality, and that when it conflicts with your wishes and desires, it always wins.