@evan strange poll?
all undocumented immigrants everywhere should be given a path to citizenship. many countries in the world don’t recognise palestine as a state so it’s documented or undocumented citizens are not treated as citizens of other countries. palestinians should be allowed self determination free from colonial rule, same as ireland.
@evan ah this did not parse to me but reading your other replies i understand the framing re settlers.
reply about palestine being denied statehood and international sovereignty feels like it’s supplants this question abt what they might do if that weren’t the case. if settlers were not an oppressive, violent, colonial and apartheid force, things would be immensely different. how can a state not in control of its borders make immigration policy?
@hotdogsladies the thing they’re showing here of a total blizzard of leaves is a cool feature of ginkgo trees, they drop all their bright yellow orange leaves in a single day. they’re very dramatic trees, and some of the oldest trees we have are ginkgos. big impressive 1000 year old trees dropping enormous quantities of theirs leaves in one unpredictable day.
@hotdogsladies was listening to an old DBF and the way you spoke about doing something the “proper” way or the “proper” amount reminded me of how in Chinese recipes often provide no measurements and only say “an appropriate amount of X” or “cook for an appropriate time”. this is in part bc w wok cooking so much is dependent on your specific setup and firm guidance would stop you being alive to those particular factors. learning to pay attention to those and learn it your way is the lesson.
the chinese word they use for the eightfold path is 正which is closer to “correct” or “accurate” and that felt too precise to me but it isn’t really. accepting it’s not providing a guide-measure and whatever is “correct” can change too. you can’t tl;dr the process.
related: there are sooooo many ways to say proper or appropriate in chinese. so many times i’ve gone to my dictionary thinking im learning abt a quantity but it is once again “appropriate”
@gruber@nerdy@jamesthomson if a calculator is smaller than you, how are you supposed to trust it? big calculator is big computer brain. we understand this intuitively.
future of pcalc where you are a tiny person on a huge calculator and jump around to press the buttons, then are carried to the display screen to see your answer.
Nearly 16 years of PCalc hitting day one on the App Store:
iPhone - 10th July 2008
iPad - 3rd April 2010
Mac - 6 January 2011
Apple Watch - 24th April 2015
Apple TV - 30th October 2015
Apple Vision Pro - 2nd February 2024
@jamesthomson sure the slagging is built in, you're only a bollix after all haha.
i’m hoping at least one person gets vision pro and the only app they already know and have purchased via their other devices is pcalc and they write a blog post like "this is the most expensive calculator i've ever bought"
its been six months since i declared to myself that i was having a health emergency and slowly but surely i am learning that like. if i am too tired to read or watch tv i am probably too tired to do anything else and i should rest (and be bored!) rather than cast around for an activity
sometimes at these times i end up on my phone for ages but its real danger time for phone use because im too tired to notice as the pain sets in and then suddenly im completely incapacitated. i gotta be bored and let my body slowly figure out what it wants and needs, if an option isn’t obvious. how is it so hard to be a normal human being