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ljwrites

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Translator, researcher, writer, and mom. This is my alt for creative writing. Current main project is a novel about a branch of Koreanic people in 1st century B.C.

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18+ ljwrites, to random
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FUCK

Opened a Kickstarter page on a whim and the thing consumed so much memory it crashed Emacs, where I was keeping a long list of editing tasks

which was in a scratchpad

so now the list, which I was working on for at least an hour

is gone

FUCK ME FUCKETY-FUCK SHIT FUCK PISS I HATE THESE RESOURCE-HUNGRY WEBSITES AND I HATE MYSELF

ljwrites,
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I guess I do need to buckle down and add at least a swap file to prevent these crashes, eh? 😑 You can tell I'm a desperado, or at least desperately lazy, living with a 2015-model computer with 4 GB of RAM (non-upgradable, yeah fuck you too, Apple) in 2024.

ljwrites,
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All these techbro types are like "Unused RAM is wasted RAM!" And I'm in the corner clutching my flimsy 10-year-old Macbook Air, nearly a GB of RAM in reserve because who knows what absolute Shit some rando on the web will cook up to overwhelm my system

msquebanh, to Canada
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FYI - I worked on 2 different shows in & after those lived work experiences - told everyone I could - don't agree to go on these shows. It's almost all scripted, not reality. Crews are forced to put pressure on voluntary participants - who rarely know WTF they're signing up for & producers exploit naivety. Don't chase easy fame/easy money - they both come at high personal costs. Don't agree to be traumatized on TV, for money. You'll regret it.

ljwrites,
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@msquebanh I get so uncomfortable with reality TV, and that discomfort is squared when children are involved. I once watched a teenager on a popular parenting tips reality show hang a coat trying to cover the camera the crew had installed in his bedroom (!), and realized I was watching the non-consenting filming of a minor, and that he will be stuck in the framing of that show, under his real name and real face, in perpetuity. I haven't watched that show since.

ljwrites,
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@farah and most of them aren't as outspoken as a "misbehaving" teenager about it, whether because they're browbeaten grownups or children who are too young, intimidated, or unaware to go against their guardians 😬 This particular kid's resistance to filming probably only made the final cut because it served the narrative that he had severe behavioral problems (he did, according to the show, but not wanting to be on national TV was not one of those problems). Maybe it was all staged in the first place. That episode had multiple instances of serious domestic abuse on camera, leaving me the options that either the crew were extremely unethical or shit was scripted. I hope it was the latter. @msquebanh

juergen_hubert, to Israel
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I've been having some online-based conversations about the #Gaza War with an American Jew as of late.

He is a #Zionist and is convinced that the overall goal of #Palestinians is not only the destruction of the state of #Israel (an admittedly unrealistic goal), but also to drive all the Jews from this reborn #Palestine .

Personally, I am dubious. My assumption is that just like not all Israelis want to destroy the remaining Palestinian territories and drive their inhabitants out, so do not all Palestinians wish to drive out the Jews from a hypothetical future Greater Palestine.

But that's just my assumption - I don't really have a good overview of what various Palestinian groups want in terms of long-term goals. So can anyone share some good links and citations with me on this (since I no longer trust Google with search results, and with this topic less than most)?

ljwrites,
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@juergen_hubert He's a racist genocide cheerleader and nothing you say is going to convince him. I say block him. Unless this is someone you know who you want a deep understanding and good long-term relations with, a German trying to tell a Jewish person they're wrong about antisemitic genocide isn't a good look anyway even if he's wrong and you're right.

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