Sasha [They/Them] @ Sasha @lemmy.blahaj.zone

Yes, *that* Sasha 🍉

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I'd been thinking about this for a bit today, I used to own it but I see it pretty differently now.

I kinda realised that I'd basically done all my growing up over the last 4 or so years. That wasn't my past, I was in someone else's life and I didn't know how to play that character. I didn't grow or change or do anything interesting, I just coasted to some destination I was meant to reach to finish a story I wasn't meant to be part of.

Now, I'm living my life instead, making my own decisions, liking the person I've become and telling my own story. The only downside is that I started with 20 years of baggage that I've gotta slowly get rid of.

Even the community kitchen I use has one of these...

Oh my bad. Damn though, that's actually wild, I'm glad you got it fixed

Does it make sense? Yes Do I believe it? Yesn't

It's not testable so it just doesn't matter to me and I don't really care to make a choice about it being physical or not, I still experience the universe the same way regardless of how you interpret QM.

Very similar thing happened to me actually, now I'm just living on an old abandoned bike I fixed up that no one will ever want to steal.

I'm sorry yours was taken, it's a surprisingly painful thing to have your transport suddenly ripped away like that. Do you have a bike that you can use at the moment? I can probably help you get a new one if not, no guarantees of quality though.

Sometimes I just eat the cereal without milk

Giving me Round the Twist flashbacks

It doesn't.

I'm really against the expected gift giving and the commercialisation of it all. I don't really want things so I'm not really keen on receiving gifts either, I honestly struggle to get excited about it.

I'm not keen on spending Christmas with my family because it's basically "back in the closet" day, and it makes me want to die. If it's Christmas without the grandparents it's a lot better. That said I've gotten out of most of it this year, just a lunch and then back home to Naarm to put on a community dinner which I am legitimately looking forward to.

I'm not religious either so it also literally has no meaning to me.

Just remember to steal from the capitalists, not each other. I really don't want to lose a third bike...

My point is that weebs are considered more acceptable than furries in almost every space, it's not literal.

Everyone has a problem with furries because "it's sexual" and the usual rebuttal is that not all of it is about sex, but I think this misses the point.

Basically every adult fandom has a sexual element, weebs are the fucking same and no one goes around calling all anime fans perverts. Sexuality is a natural human thing and they have a goddamn right to explore that through their medium. Get to know a furry, they're just normal fucking people (pun not intended, I'm just Australian).

Beastiality is not a furry thing and should not be lumped into it. Fuck zoophiles.

There's also a lot of people who will use the abstraction available in furry art/fandom to explore their identity and sexuality, it's honestly a good space for helping people grow and understand themselves. I've known plenty of trans people who've only been able to find and accept their being trans through their fursonas. They're valid as hell and I'll defend them until I die.

You can make pencils with charcoal, paper bark trees are common here.

Also pirate radio, hard but not impossible to conceal its location if you've got a good portable system.

I'm going to laugh so hard if Trump has an "apparent suicide" and at least one cop says it's not suspicious, if they can do it to whistleblowers who risk their profits, surely this qualifies?

Not saying it's likely, just that I absolutely will laugh, probably for days.

If only that were possible, all my work was double checked by a senior and we had to validate all the theoretical stuff with a few million runs of simulated games, and then validated again by the testing team who tests the physical machines. It was painfully rigorous, which is why I only ever did the two machines...

I very very briefly worked as a mathematician for a company that assessed and then recommended slot machines for regulatory approval.

It is completely incomprehensible how anyone can work in that industry when all the regulations are to make sure companies are stealing the right amount of money from people. All I ever did there was mathematically prove that it was impossible to ever win. Gambling is obviously predatory on the face of it, but being involved directly in ensuring that process goes smoothly is about as in your face as it gets, and everyone there was just like "yeah this is cool and normal."

Needless to say, I got out the instant I could. I only ever approved two actual machines and I'll never stop feeling guilty about it. I don't know how anyone who works in sports betting can live with themselves...

Yeah that's what I was getting at, all we can do is guess. It's pretty easy to realise it's impossible to answer scientifically, anything that could have any impact on our universe must necessarily be part of it and so cannot tell us anything about what came before.

One of my favourite songs to quote is Courtney Barnet's Dead Fox:

More people die on the road than they do in the ocean. Maybe we should mull over culling cars instead of sharks, or just lock them up in parks where we can go and view them

I put an emergency blanket over the window in my study because that's the only window where sunlight comes in directly, it's made an enormous difference and it was free lol

Fun little edit because the physicist in me will never die: I just did a rough estimate, and when the sun hits this window it's almost exactly the same as running a space heater at full blast (it's actually a little more).

With the insulation it's equivalent to a person standing in the room doing nothing.

My water doesn't really need filtering, but I dated someone who didn't want to take the risk (and for a really good reason) we just used a brita branded one.

Don't worry, that's on my to-do list