TheFriendlyArtificer @ TheFriendlyArtificer @beehaw.org

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Hell. Doohan invented the Klingon language for TMP.

If this level of transparency was available for various news and other social sites, I'd be more likely to buy a subscription to them.

The honesty is great and makes this feel more like an actual community or a co-op.

I'll be curious to see how these numbers change, both the monthly cost and the amount of contributions, as more and more people join up.

Just a sanity check here...

X née Twitter is suing a non-profit for trying to cancel it...on a platform that they literally own.

I'm confused here...

The "horse and sparrow" types have been telling us to not spend money unnecessarily. This will lead to being able to afford more bootstraps.

Soon we realize that children are crazy expensive. Doubly so here in Freedom-land where you're lucky if you get more than a few weeks off of work and a $75k hospital bill. Which your insurance company will fight to the bitter end.

So we decide to be responsible and postpone family plans until we can afford it without going into debt for the rest of our lives.

And now there's a moral panic about that?!

Pick one! Give up your monthly mega-yacht and allow the breeder class to get caught up financially, or stop griping about millennials postponing having children.

That's Voyager.

Great... Now I get to look forward to a trip back from the delta quadrant.

https://github.com/koepnick/dotfiles cloned into ~/.config

I typically start with a restrictive .gitignore and add directories as needed.

A ton of stuff that I always forget like mpv, vifm, and whatnot always slipped through the cracks before. Now I can clone to practically anywhere and have everything just work.

Totally agree with you.

I was abused in church but never in school (outside of racial epithets). Sometimes it's easy to forget that not everybody develops a gallows humor as a coping mechanism. Thinking back to those times while in a depressive stage is a recipe for disaster.

But you are absolutely correct. Some things should only be joked about when in a group of trusted people. And I accept your advice in the spirit in which it was meant. To foster a more accepting and safer community for everybody and not as a way of getting a cheap joke.

I'd much rather be gently corrected than to be part of the background noise that might be making people feel uncomfortable.

Genuinely, thank you.

Pro tip: Yell "harder, daddy" while you're being physically assaulted. You'll still have physical and mental scars, but at least you'll ensure that you'll only get a beatdown from a trusted authority figure once.¹

¹ This advice is null and void if the teacher is a dom

Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.

My own anthropological pet theory.

Dunbar's number is the concept that a person can only have so many meaningful relationships. Another way of thinking about it is that we, as a species, feel most comfortable in tribes with a certain number of people.

Which makes sense. I hated, hated the little rednecky town that I grew up in. But when I moved to a larger city, the first few weeks were spent overcoming the loneliness of not knowing everybody around me.

What massive online social media does is essentially short circuit the behavior that we developed when we began urbanizing.

Now a person can be a member of twenty tribes without ever needing to leave their homes. If we are, in fact, only capable of a finite number of close friendships then every close relationship that you have online is energy that won't be spent on a physical one.

True story: I left Facebook in 2016. I had been miserable but didn't even think to relate the two. About a month after I jumped ship I got adopted by a group of fellow nerds nearing midlife. We hang out at least twice per week. Pub trivia, bowling, hiking. Those interactions are so much more meaningful than anything you can get on social media. By our nature, humans crave physical company.

Social media isn't going to "break" us. But, if nothing changes, it will further dramatically alter society.

The most livable place outside of the Earth is in the upper atmosphere of Venus. It's way closer to the Earth. And air pirates would sail through clouds of sulfuric acid on their steampunk zeppelins.

Greatest state if you're a white cis male bath salts enthusiast.

For the rest of us, it's just another place to avoid like it's riddled with the plague. Which was also one their aims.

I'm not saying that he has late stage syphilitic dementia. But if he doesn't then I'm somehow even more confused about his recent actions.

Fun fact: You can use this phrase in practically every political context.

Gotta mention Pop_OS! as a fantastic beginner distro. My 72 year old mother refuses to use anything else. It's simple, has automated backups and disaster recovery, and installs non-free drivers for graphics cards.

I don't personally use it since it doesn't yet support Wayland and my gaming rig has a HiDPI screen and X11 doesn't support fractional scaling. Or per screen scaling.

I'm legally obligated to inform you that I run Arch.