FlickOfTheBean @ FlickOfTheBean @beehaw.org

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You know what's hyper fucked?

Back when I was a baby republican (read: a parentally brainwashed child) and just learning about gerrymandering in school, my reaction was basically "well that's shitty, but at least it's the people I like doing it".

I'm pretty sure that's very common thinking amongst hardened republicans. I don't even know how you convince someone to not be like that either, I just changed when I was out from under my parents boot and finally allowed to learn about the political effects of racism.

Tldr; common think pattern leads me to believe Texas is fucked until reepublicans lose their power there.

That's the "lgbtq+" multiplier and it ends your presidential campaign in scandal

"If you spiral into the grave, your cost of living goes down by 100%!" - some jackass at the wsj soon, probably

What an interesting problem!

Are you able to use other styles of casing? Like underscore casing might help because you can see the spaces so it's strike_through_offset Whitespace_width Etc Or maybe, if you have to stick with camel, it's every syllable (if you work on a team, I would not recommend this, but for personal stuff it should be fine)

I don't think it's a case of get good so much as it is a case of you parsing things differently depending on brain state, and you not having a tool to help you over come it/return to the previous brain state that could tell you which letter to capitalize.

I think your best bet might be to come up with hard arbitrary rules and practice those until it sticks. It's all vibes until experience hardens it into an opinion, basically

My initial kneejerk reaction though was "you're thinking too hard about it, just let it flow" but idk if that's helpful in the slightest lol certainly wouldn't help if there's a mental bump at play, so I think simplifying the rules into something regular is probably the best place to start

Lol I was having such an angry time I failed to make my point in any way, sorry about that. I also assumed you had a wider knowledge of this sort of music which is also my bad.

I think your experience is more a sign of just how much of a signal boost Nirvana/Kobain still get just because people overhype them still (fully fair if people want to pounce on me for saying they're a bit overrated, I wasn't music aged at the time they were popular and I was when Winehouse was producing music)

Amy Winehouse pulled hype to British Soul, which was a rather astonishing thing to watch happen.

Nirvana defined/popularized a newer genre.

Both should be remembered and respected, but only one really is.... And it isn't Winehouse.

Ngl I seem to only be getting more infuriated as the night goes on so if this seems unfair, it very well maybe, but did you consider that cock rock (the umbrella nirvana rests solidly under) is mainstream and soul isn't and that might be why you don't know who Amy Winehouse is?

I started with venting but that's not what deserves attention here imo. I hope the sex workers get the support and resources they need. If anyone else is super heated about this the way I am,

this is why Christians disgust me and why I distinguish between Christians (these sorts of shitty people) and christians, which i define as people who actually act in ways that would make Jesus proud. These capital C mother fuckers are worse than Satan and proud of it. I'd say all sorts of nasty cursed things at them, but then I'd be using Christian vocabulary, and I would rip out my own tongue before I stoop that fucking low.

Tldr; there is no hate as vile nor evil as Christian love.

The things they do in Jesus' name should bring them shame, but their brains are fucking broken at this point.

I could go on forever about this, so I'll stop now.

I think Skyrim was a big entry point for a lot of fans who haven't played the earlier games. I do agree though, Morrowind is amazing and is, in my opinion, a better game than Skyrim. Skyrim is kind of a dumbed down Morrowind.

I get you, it's just that I feel like this conversation might end up swirling into a "what is normal? Who gets to define what normal is and what are their motivations for defining those parameters as normal?" sort of deal.

With the current world the way it is at hand though, yeah, kids do need to be forced to focus for long periods of time so they can operate when they get into the world on their own.

In an ideal world, whatever shape that takes, I'm not so sure that would be necessary, but we don't get to work with ideals, so your stance seems the most realistic.

Ahhh this is a case of I misread one of your posts it seems.

Yeah your stance seems reasonable enough to me with that clarification.

I don't really know about the long focus sessions being necessary for proper brain development (social conditioning seems to be more the point of that) but I'm not an expert here, so I am not going to trust my gut on this one. (In the effort of reigning in my pedantism, I'm not going to ask the definition of proper development either lol)

In any case, ty for the conversation!

We had some demanding clients lol

I remember having to use pie.htc to hack rounded corners for buttons into ie6. I remember liking ie7 a little bit better, but ie8 felt like a god send compared to 6 lmao

I recall having to support multiple versions of ie as well at the same time as well. I can't remember what year we dropped support for ie6 but it wasn't too long after I started.

I danced every time we got to drop another ie support version all the way up to 11

Ah ok, that's true, that is their responsibility to educate the students. I'd also say it's their responsibility to provide reasonable accommodations to in demand constituent methods of communication.

So how is allowing a kid checking a phone between classes and having it put away in a locker (so not on their person) during class the school abdicating it's educational responsibility?

(This specific case is my own "reasonable accommodation" theory, so I'm really curious about genuine counterpoints to this that aren't just devil's advocate, and you really seem to believe this, so thank you for your input so far, it is appreciated)

Does not sure. Cannot though... How does that work? What's so imperative that it warrants cutting off communication for this person's daughter? Like I get telling a kid to wait till in between classes to check, but "cannot have" the right? Why?

Even I think this is a bit pedantic, but it feels like you're using the word cannot for an odd authority grab, and I don't understand it, so I figured I'd question it at the very least

I do web dev and I can say I was super guilty of this back in the 2010s. I bit the hype hard, and now we're getting right back to the circumstances that made ie such a POS to work with. (In my defense, I got my dev job in 2013 and had to develop for ie6. It's not a good defense, but I think that really lead to my overhype for google. I had no knowledge of chrome's bloated whale carcass days, so it always felt like the browser that "just worked ™")

Market monopoly inspires evil in the good intentioned. Market monopoly also inspires nefariousness in the evil.

I'd say this is the sort of thing that inspired Google to remove the "don't be evil" from their guidelines.

....I mean that could explain his very alt-right bent...

Endorse a fascist into office then ban the rest (this is no more likely than any general conspiracy theory though. We'll have to wait and see if that's what his actions actually align with in this coming election season to give this theory any actual weight)

Probably when "I use ie to download chrome" became a mainstream meme.

Unfortunately this is a money-ocracy (data-exploitation-ocracy), not a democracy.

So the interesting thing about this is that I personally don't think just because you haven't had those experiences doesn't mean you can't write about it (for the most part, I think there are likely exceptions I would draw the line at). However, as someone who hasn't experienced those things, my reasoning goes, it's part of your duty to ensure it's not going to cause harm, and that takes a lot of research into the topic (ideally with people who have experienced what you want to write about) along with a healthy dose of empathy.

I think you've made some mistakes in the past that you're currently feeling growing pains from. Don't feel like you're a bad person just from your past actions, you seem to be growing. You'd be a worse person than you are if you were continuing to do it on purpose despite realizing all of this.

The only issue I currently take with it is when it's presented as real. Otherwise, creative writing is a good thing in general. It's like the set of emotions one uses to approach the content with is different when one thinks it's real vs when one knows it's fake, and people get real sore when they feel like their emotions have been exploited for any reason, even if it's only for internet points that don't matter for anything.

I really hadn't considered the trauma perspective, I seriously don't understand why someone would fake a story about enduring trauma for internet points... But that's my perspective.

Personally, when I find out reddit stories are fake, I usually just feel a little annoyed and roll my eyes, but then I move on. I don't think it's really anything to beat yourself over. Keep writing, just advertise it for what it actually is (just my opinion of what the best path forward is though, this is not a command lol)

In the words of one of my favorite memes that I'm too lazy to learn how to link right now: '"who would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?"

Are you claiming that the US doesn't contribute using the defense budget to NATO? Are you claiming the US had bases in Ukraine that failed to stop the Russian invasion?

Sorry for the question deluge, I just want to make sure I'm reading you right because I don't think either of those things are true...

Idk if I'm able to have an in depth conversation about this topic but I also don't want to get you wrong, you know?