41 | (fem leaning)It/Thing/Creature | Poly-Panro-Ace | friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™) | Nuclear energy enthusiast. Engineering appreciator. Transhumanism enjoyer. Sci-Fi reader. Androgynous winged caniform bipedal warforged magitech cyber-lich in its dreams.
‘hey losers. looks like you need shit to get done. hire me or stay sucking. peace out’
(actually i’m contemplating falsely applying to jobs i have no intention of actually seeking and literally using this as my cover letter just to see if anything funny happens…)
(i like the job i already have)
i miss notepad plus plus, that’s pretty much the only thing i wish i still had from before linux though.
I hope the slate truck does phenomenally well for several reasons, but one of them is most certainly to spank the fuck out of these shit-ass manufacturers who want to gaslight us into thinking screens were ever a good fucking idea for an automotive interface.
making a list of undesirables to disenfranchise is a rather alarmingly faschy thing to do >.>; just sayin’…
i’ve been mulling it over and it creeps me out more and more. all too easily, a misplaced sense of self-importance in a principal administrative figure can spoil like milk forgotten in a hot car. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen PERSONALLY.
Someone I had known became the big fish in their small pond. They began systematically ejecting and excommunicating anyone who didn’t agree with them. Eventually the only people left in their circle were exclusively yes-men who did not DARE to challenge or question anything–lest they were to dispose of said yes-men too. Yes-men incentivized to say ‘yes’ to, and thereby condone, and then encourage, increasingly outrageous and deranged impulses.
The first domino has fallen over and struck the second, which is now tilting past any point of equilibrium. For a while longer, everything will be fine; the people who ingratiate themselves will be selectively immune from the same criticisms that get others blanket-‘disappeared’… so hey, one might enjoy using that frontend for now…
…but I implore mindfulness and wariness. Very seldom do I see someone cross the first line without crossing the rest of them eventually. It’s not impossible, but it’s far from common. Anyone still using that frontend, if they start seeing “a certain kind of person” being bolstered exceptionally at the expense of everyone else, it’s time to bail.
While it’s not my place to dictate what the tesseract dev does, I do recall reading that they specifically were feeling dissatisfied with the work, and disappointed by the way their users were acting, and had been considering abandoning the project. While I can’t speak for this developer, obviously, I can’t help but imagine myself in their position… and on that basis I for one believe I would have sooner relinquished the project and walked away entirely rather than see myself turn it into a tool of targeted harassment and marginalization With A Cheerful Coat Of Paint.
…
it’s just setting off my alarm bells real bad. This looks too much like other abusive shit i’ve been through over the decades.
but eh. maybe i’m just paranoid… grain of salt, mileage may vary, et cetera.
nailed it <3
but that’s aspirational at this point; right now I’m due-diligence jumping through hoops that my doctor keeps putting in my way to gatekeep me from transitioning. honestly though, i really did need to lose all this weight. i’ve recently surpassed a hundred pounds down, but i’m still at least 125 more away from a healthy enough condition to put my foot down.
it’s gonna be rather compelling and demonstrative of this not being a fleeting ephemeral whim that only arose ‘just recently’ when I can look a doctor in the eye and state with total honesty,
“I have dedicated several years of persistent effort to drag my weight down into a healthy range specifically because I promised myself that I would pursue a gender transition if i made it. I have lost more than my entire current body weight specifically in pursuit of this goal. If you try to tell me after all of that, that all my effort toward this exact goal was for naught, The Result Of Your Decision Shall Be Very ‘Unhealthy’ For Me, DOCTOR.”
Yeah fam u.u i feel ya…
Hard times–and it’s not even just reddit.
The things we once took for granted are now associated with new hardship because profit for Party A requires suffering for Party B.
Every new loss I encounter, I no longer have the energy to get upset. I just resign myself. “Oh well. That figures. Just gotta accept it and adjust.”
It’s weird how I’m less emotionally volatile and vulnerable than I had ever been in prior stages of my life despite the world having become distinctly worse since then. But … getting upset takes energy; i have no energy to spare.
it’s been wrong for as long as i can remember. perhaps longer. it’s always been wrong, as far as i know.
it’s still wrong…
…but for the first time, it seems to be getting less wrong.
… Depends on your definition of “okay”.
A maximally “good person” would not consider it OK to criticize someone’s religion, but they may criticize harmful activities that individuals perform, even if such individuals use their religion as an excuse to do harmful things–because it is not about religion, but rather about choices and actions.
However, I am admittedly not a maximally good person, no matter how much of a cinnamon roll I do wish I could be… And I draw the line a little further into the gray area, in that the thing that gives me pause is not “it’s a religion” but rather “participation in these activities–” this religion in particular “–strongly correlates with specific marginalized demographics.”
There is a very strong likelihood that dissing islam will also, with proverbial ‘splash damage’, hit people who are also going through a lot of awful shit with government leadership and legislation that somehow manages to STILL be more cruel and more corrupt than a given “global north” or “western” nation state.
So … It’s just awareness of context.
Also there is a chilling effect from all the highly publicized incidents where journalists are murdered for saying something that some individuals whom are Muslim do not agree with.
(although that does not make them look any worse than when israel murders journalists lately…)
Generally speaking, the normative population of christians (using the broadest possible definition in Literally Anyone Who Prays To Jesus) does not, statistically, suffer nearly as much oppression as muslims.
So … due to EXTERNALITIES, mocking islam itself, specifically, feels too much like ‘punching down’ for my liking. It is my hypothesis that there are other people hesitating to talk shit for the same or at least similar reasons. Meanwhile, mocking christianity is quite a bit less like ‘punching down’ because the most corrupt, powerful, dastardly sacks of shit on the planet dress themselves up as christians.
…That said, I do not think anyone has a leg to stand on as far as trying to dictate at other people that they are “allowed” to mock some religions but not others. I for one believe this is a personal choice that one must make for oneself. If you wish it did not happen, the extent of one’s individual influence is to choose not to oneself.
Hmm. Yeah, I think you’re right. If I share this with friends online anywhere else I’ll leave it out.
Now he lives in constant fear for his life, unable to feel comfortable or safe anywhere he goes.
(Good; LOL. Perhaps LMAO, even.)
One must NEVER eat gas station sushi ._.
“Please select the toy whose attributes are more likely to statistically correlate with the reproductive caste demographic which has been labeled ‘male’ by the consensus of Homo Sapiens who speak English.”
“Ma’am do you think a college educated sociologist would work at a fast food drive-thru?”
“In this economy? Absolutely, yes.”
“…”
“…”
“…okay fair, I’ll put the toy car in the bag.”
huh. i have somehow managed to instill within myself a penchant for unambiguous specificity in response to this question before this ever became a problem for me.
“Are you busy?”
“I am not available for any communication at this moment except for textual.
I anticipate my response time shall be approximately between 30 and 300 seconds.”
somewhat alarmingly prescient o.o; i mean it’s basically palantir’s business model…
That dickhead wouldn’t understand responsibility if it tattooed a scarlet R onto his chest.
depends on the instance.
i really miss lemm.ee… it was just, y’know, nice. a nice place. with nice people. friendly, cheerful, open, welcoming.
then you have some instances that are rather uh … combative >.> i shan’t name names lest i accidentally summon their unwanted attention.
i’m new to my current instance and it’s a very cozy place so far. i worry i might be too edgy for the time being, but i’m hoping to sand those edges down, because goodness knows this cursed decade’s roughness has left me rough too. the Screaming Twenties have no brakes…
This sounds like one of 4chan’s pogroms.
Could’ve gone with grope nuts… Shoot.
funny how literally the only thing i consistently see AI being useful for is the pointless bullshit tasks that don’t accomplish anything but the further complication of shit that didn’t need to be so complicated in the first place. such as busywork. They’re jerking us around to waste our time so i see no reason to treat their time as though it’s particularly valuable either; turnabout is fair play, after all.