Don't you think that by now, the corporate social media companies would let us rank whose posts we actually see in our feeds instead of showing completely random stuff from all of our mutuals with no rhyme or reason? Like, we could have categories for "Good Friends," "Funny People" and "People Who Sometimes Yell At Me In All Caps" 🤔
Categories, yes, but I think a slider bar (instead of a toggle: mute or unmute) would be good, because some mutuals will literally take over your timeline, so you want to dial them back, but you still want to see what they're up to occasionally.
AND you might want to randomize your timeline since some ppl only post during certain times of day, so you consistently miss them!
We need our own TL pruning and ordering algorithm. Client-side, even.
Boy, with all the bad things going on right now, people have forgotten how awful teenagers are, ever think about that? Lol, imagine having to deal with a teenager while inflation is making you more broke every minute and the US empire is collapsing and we're waiting for WWIII to start, that would totally suck😂
If we could just skip the changing-diapers-every-five-minutes-and-the-screaming-the-screaming stage of childhood, and the pimples-and-drugs-bad-friends-and-crashing-your-car-and-the-screaming-the-screaming stage of teenager-hood, I might have had kids. IFF I also knew I could afford the whole project, including giving them a college education, from the get-go. SMDH.
London was all I knew, my whole family are still there, but getting out 15 years ago was the best decision I ever made. Metropolis cities are brilliant to visit, not so nice to live in, especially if you are not born with a silver spoon.
@selzero the catch phrase you hear about NYC is "Nice Place to Visit; Wouldn't Want to Live There." The whole NY Metropolitan area.
When I go back to lower Manhattan, though, it breaks my heart to think of it all being under water someday. It's already started with the floods. Long Island has literally twice the population density from when I grew up. It used to be actually rural.
6am, I had this incredibly vivid dream that I could see some kind of other dimensional majestic celestial entity, I guess a being that in other times would have been called an "angel". I felt immersed with hope and strangely protected.
I begged them to impart some esoteric knowledge of our age, they appeared to smile, leaned in, blinding me with their glow, and just as I woke uttered the words: "The Cranberries song Linger is about someone that farted on a first date.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier, but if you've got a directory of multiple Python files that's not a package, but there's a __main__.py file, you can just type python3 . in that directory and it will run.
There are people who spend their entire careers maintaining packages.
In other words, if you don't want to do package maintenance for a living, best not even start down that road, because it can occupy every last second you have on this earth with ease.
This YT channel has a lot of recent high quality Billy Strings footage from NE US music fests and many other things you might like... highly recommend!
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"Even as Americans watch as the mean-spirited, violence-threatening, authoritarian face of the GOP rears itself, they are being taught a valuable lesson that would never have occurred had Democrats simply done the 'nice' thing—the “expected” thing—as they nearly always do, in keeping Rep. Kevin McCarthy afloat."
Just need to say that your postings of photos of your trip to Vermont -- especially Shelburne Farm and Lake Champlain (with views across the lake of my beloved Adirondacks!) have been making me feel so happy.
I've only been up to that part of VT twice, for the Vermont Cheese Festival held at Shelburne Farm. Took the ferry across to Essex on the return trip.
Dizzyingly beautiful and bracing.
Missed the Draft Animal Power Field Days this year - sigh!
@selzero This time of year so many vegetables for a salad are fresh and locally grown too.
A good restaurant is where friends make healthy and delicious food for friends. The whole experience from farm to fork can be joyful. This is the more beautiful world we know in our hearts is possible.
We had salad for dinner last night: tomatoes, red onion, basil, mint, and bright red and yellow rainbow chard all fresh from the garden. Might grow broad beans next year just for these kinds of salads.
WaPo's Paul Kane reported that Jim Jordan got just 86 votes in a secret-ballot conference vote on whether he should continue. Jordan allies had hoped it would show that his quest was being blocked by a small minority within the caucus. Guess that didn't work out as they'd planned.
I can only handle so many humiliating defeats but I guess Jordan's just built differently.
@JoshuaHolland If Gym Jordan's idea is these histrionics will keep Trump and Putin from ultimately throwing him under the bus anyway, he is likely mistaken
If my 'carpet bombing' theory is correct, on how Jack Smith is running his prosecution of Trumpomobsters, then he is currently attempting to flip someone in DC case, If so, then next comes superseding indictment. Chesebro is good bet, Kraken Lady outside bet for that flip wtih Jack
Cumulative damage in a war of attrition from all quarters. At some point the entire edifice will crumble, completely discredited before even all their followers. Like Nixon before him, he will become an object of derision and, eventually, pity.