PolarKraken @ PolarKraken @sh.itjust.works

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Sounds like everyone else is weirdly angry that he's STILL IN OFFICE causing problems when he's clearly not fit for the job, regardless of the reason? Isn't that the more pressing concern than his health, him being an utter stranger to almost everyone?

Why do people need to be kind and sensitive toward someone's recovery while that person insists on keeping a position of extreme responsibility, and constantly fucks it up, while "recovering"?

Crappy take, friend. And the "so much for tolerance" is such a loaded phrase, you almost sound insincere, to boot. We don't owe these politicians a fuckin thing, CERTAINLY not some prioritized level of compassion. Get real!

Idk if that sneaky little Dethklok reference was intentional or not, but I'm not letting it go unremarked! Great work!

Edit: remarked

This is a fantastic idea. To be clear, anyone working on such a thing will almost certainly gain the administration's attention, which of course is extremely dangerous. But yes, this should exist!

Cheers! And hard agree, those of us with some amount of demographic plot armor, so to speak, gotta deploy that shit lol

Fuck yeah, stay strong in the struggle my friend!

Sadly, from what I understand in the US at least, anti-immigrant sentiment is often common among immigrants themselves after some time has passed. To be clear - I'm sure there's a lot of nuance that I'm not privy to, please don't read that as some strict assertion.

But for instance, from what I understand about the Cuban diaspora in Florida, they are often viciously anti-immigrant.

Just us humans being humans unfortunately, we got a lotta work to do on ourselves, collectively.

Great advice. And anyone in authority at a place of employment that might be targeted should know exactly how they intend to respond, meaning they must plan for it. As soon as the thugs make themselves known, execute the plan - get one person on 911 doing what you said, while another confronts them directly to try to force them to leave.

I wonder if there are any resources giving concrete advice on what to do in these scenarios? Kind of like how we have great standard advice from various law professionals, etc., about what to do and not do when detained by police.

Edit to add: even if you expect the local PD to come down against your side, it's probably still a good idea to call them in. The resulting time and chaos as they get things sorted out may be just enough to do something useful for the vulnerable person needing help. Remember, once that person is in the custody of the gestapo, it's fucking over, their life is wrecked at best. See only what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia for proof.

Might be too late for you now, but for everyone else reading, involve your state employment commission! I got all my back pay from an abusive restaurant owner (like a million years ago, apologies if these no longer exist or are just too dysfunctional to do anything anymore).

I was in high school, working like 50-60 hour weeks, and this lady thought it was fine to pay regular rates past 40. I sure didn't! State employment commission didn't either. Stole some water bottles full of Grey Goose on my way out, lol, then collected a cool few very well-earned buckaroos some months later.

Restaurant folded in a year. Turns out it was basically a gift from her successful husband anyway, lady was outrageous. As in, fuckin employees in the walk-in and stealing money from high school kids outrageous lol

Aaaaand just realized I'm old. I'm apparently the kinda guy who just tells stories about strangers to no one, from 20+ years ago, for no reason.

.world is known (largely due to the Luigi Mangione stuff) to have moderation that's a bit more heavy handed and more similar to the sort of "corporate Internet".

No real hate for them and they've indicated in the past that some of their actions are just to comply with their local laws. But if you're looking for an older internet experience you'll wanna move to a different instance.

What are you talking about lol. Jeff Bezos is doing the only thing Jeff Bezos does, stuff that's good for Jeff Bezos. This is giant leverage that tells the Trump administration "we have big tools at our disposal if you don't make us happy with whatever economic policies we do end up with". He displayed that leverage, it turned into a news story, and behind closed doors, a shift occurred, likely minor, in the ever-evolving power dynamic between the two pricks.

Don't get it twisted. These dudes and the rest like them will never help us except in the most casually incidental way.

Thanks, Ken. DOLT

Let's go, friend - I make and eat a buncha ramen, and likewise for yonder spuds. Someday soon, I'll combine them, and I hope you do, too.

May we be in our bowls - together.

Ramen.

Hell yeah! And another dope thing about the whole shebang, turns out the derivative < - > integral operation is wildly useful for describing...everything.

The simplest example, that I love the most, is just the very pedestrian (pun intended) relationship between a car's position, velocity, and acceleration. It's just enough "levels" (of diff < - > int) to have some instructional "meat", and it's a totally ubiquitous experience.

And then, when peered at more closely, that kind of relationship starts to crop up everywhere, suggests so much more!

Calculus is best maf

you should absolutely jump on it right away

I will do exactly that, thank you for the great info :)

Dang it this sounds right up my alley and I really don't need it right now!

Most games that are thoughtfully crafted I go in blind, read nothing, no reviews, no wiki for help, just explore. Sounds like this game is just made for that? Or do a lot of the puzzles kind of require foreknowledge?

Lotta moments like these adding up. Lotta times I myself just end up not buying a thing instead of getting it from better places, too. Between that, financial uncertainty with all the craziness lately, and folks just being broke, I have a feeling consumers are spending a lot less these days.

So, the heart of the issue is that each object's path changes continuously, and the forces involved change in kind. Even worse, the objects interact with each other, again continuously - it's not one-sided.

If you imagine trying to do it pre-Calculus, some kind of "just map it all out into a grid, etc.", you can see the problems this continuous change imposes (exercise left for the reader).

By involving the Stravinsky Interpretation, it quickly becomes clear that the dimorphic superposition destabilizes. The clever reader might object "but what if you fold in all the noodly surfaces to recohere the manifold?"

And that clever reader would be right! But we didn't know that until old Dr. Isaac "Zeke" Newton came along and made it that way.

Some say the devil himself taught him how it's done, because no one else can read his notes! So keep your eye on old Zeke when you run into him.

"Dark Pathways" indeed, really telling on themselves lmao

Wow, what a write-up, this is lovely.

I've also been in a lot of the situations you're describing and ultimately became the person providing shelter and stability for others, too (of course it's far more complex than such a simple statement, as you know).

We've never made those arrangements permanent, it's always been phases of some years where people who've needed it most have come and then gone when they're ready. To be clear we've never kicked anyone out, nor (many years earlier) have I been kicked out, nothing like that. I just suspect the genetics in my family make it very difficult for us to be told how to live by another for long, no matter how reasonably or gently, lol.

For instance my pops having to ultimately be subject to my rules (I just mean in the ways you described) was eventually too much for him and he made the necessary steps to move on, and the relationship stayed healthy.

Like you said there's lots of different ways to do things and the most important part is that everyone's dignity is preserved, and everyone involved is prioritizing each other person as best they can in addition to their own needs, which is hard to do.

I'd be open, perhaps, to a more unconventional long-term arrangement with several of the family members in my life (including chosen family), especially as the world gets harder and harder, but I'm also content to be a temporary place of calm and respite for folks as I can.

And like you said, the mutual give and take that's involved is everything. With the right people, anyway - I have to acknowledge there's a broad swathe of folks I'd never want to live closely with and who I expect would be largely uninterested in compromising and prioritizing the well-being of others. Quite unfortunate for folks who grow up surrounded by too much of that.

Yeah, but I'm still glad to see those over the sprawling parking lot retail district approach we've been using everywhere for decades in the US. Maybe we'll do a better job on the revision when the ones you described start to fail lol, one can dream!