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cwdolunt

@cwdolunt@dice.camp

My name is Christopher Dolunt (he/him). I'm a #Solarpunk, #Library technologist, and former #TTRPG freelancer. I live in #Michigan.

"You are now leaving Dystopia."

Avatar image: Me on towel day 2017. Mars photo in background for dramatic effect.

Header photo: Mural from Detroit Eastern (farmers') Market.
Photo quote "They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds" - Dinos Christianopoulos, The Body and the Wormwood, 1978 (transl. from Greek)

All views and opinions are my own.

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Edent, (edited ) to random
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If you burp and fart at the same time, what happen?

cwdolunt,
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@Edent You become one with the universe. :brain3:

robindlaws, to random
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    cwdolunt,
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    @robindlaws Go D'arcy or go home.

    jlsigman, to tech
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    Welp, Substack is OK with Nazis publishing and giving them money.

    cwdolunt,
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    @jlsigman

    "in fact, it makes it worse"

    <RonHoward>It did not, in fact, make it worse</RonHoward>

    onepict, (edited ) to random
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    Thinking about how Folks held on to Twitter and Facebook for so long. I kinda feel that the folks who want mastodon/fedi to replace those networks perhaps didn't realise that for some of us, we'd already moved several times.

    Once you've moved on from your first one emotionally it's easier.

    So for those of us where this isn't their first rodeo what was your network pre Facebook? :BoostOK:

    cwdolunt,
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    @onepict From this old BBS-boy, thank you!

    cwdolunt, to climate
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    The report finds that it would take about 1,500 years for someone in the bottom 99% to produce as much carbon as the richest billionaires do in a year.

    “The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price,” said Chiara Liguori, Oxfam’s senior justice policy adviser.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says

    VVitchy, to languagelearning
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    I have no idea where to start with this request.

    Does anyone know if
    "Ta'regi" (tah-reg-ee)
    or
    "Parthia Sreting"

    mean something strange in a non english language?

    cwdolunt,
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    @VVitchy According to an online translator, "Ta'regi" in Norwegian translates to "Ta'direction".

    Some_Emo_Chick, to Michigan
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    cwdolunt,
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    @Some_Emo_Chick I remember a friend from college once ranting:

    "Grey, grey, grey. Why is the sky always grey here? I lived in London and it wasn't this grey!"

    LibrarianRA, to Halloween
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    1909 - Halloween Postcard -
    .

    cwdolunt,
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    @LibrarianRA Why are the jello salad posts a lot scarier than the actual Halloween ones?

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    cwdolunt, (edited )
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    @mobilehugh @AndreasDavour @ttrpg The characters in our most recent campaign (https://gbdw.itch.io/wave-chasers by @pocgamer ) aren't interested in killing people or even animals, so they avoid combat, and when they do fight they rely on less-lethal weapons like flashbang grenades, rubber bullets, and stun guns.

    cwdolunt, to DnD
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    I was a playtester for 4th Edition D&D way back in 2007. I recently stumbled across my old playtest questionnaires and posted the responses online in case anyone finds our party's first impressions of the game interesting.

    https://dolunt.net/web/kargas-dolunt/4e-playtesting

    cwdolunt,
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    @PlaneSailingGames I know! 5e has had a long life cycle for D&D.

    cwdolunt,
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    @float @canihasaccount I discovered OSMAnd+ just last week and it works pretty well - so far.

    micahflee, to random

    Oh wow, what an amazing investment opportunity

    cwdolunt,
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    @micahflee Quantum investment - it disappears when you observe it!

    BlackAzizAnansi, (edited ) to random
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    Remember when we were able to eliminate entire flu strains when people were masking at the beginning of the covid epidemic? Fun times

    cwdolunt,
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    @BlackAzizAnansi I went an entire year without even catching a cold. It was glorious.

    Cmastication, to random
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    I feel this in my bones…

    cwdolunt,
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    @Cmastication

    Them: What's the first browser you used?

    Me: WorldWideWeb

    Them: No, I mean browser, like IE or Netscape?

    Me: NeXt

    Them: OK fine, next question.

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    @robindlaws

    cwdolunt, to Wisconsin
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    Flamingos in . This is fine.

    https://www.9and10news.com/2023/09/24/flock-of-flamingos-gather-on-a-lake-michigan-beach-in-wisconsin/

    LibrarianRA, to food
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    What's for dinner?
    .
    Knox Gelatine, mayonnaise jello salad
    .

    cwdolunt,
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    @LibrarianRA (dry heaving noises)

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    The core moral lesson of Star Wars is that Fascists are bad and it's good to shoot them (with lasers), and while the property has plenty of issues, I still think that's a pretty strong basic ethos.

    cwdolunt, (edited )
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    @LeviKornelsen

    No, I'm saying Star Wars considers the U.S. to be former rebels who turned fascist and colonial.

    The Empire is a mashup of the British Empire, the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the United States during the Vietnam war.

    "We're fighting the largest empire in the world [British Empire], and we're just a bunch of hayseeds in coonskin hats" - George Lucas

    "[the US] was the Empire during the Vietnam war." - George Lucas

    historyofpunkrock, to punk
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    MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (1972)

    video/mp4

    cwdolunt,
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    @historyofpunkrock This is the clean version without "KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERF*&^ER!", but I'll allow it.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    If we pretend that the only options are:

    1. Chronological feed
    2. Algorithmic feed where a company chooses the algorithm and objective function

    And we pretend that "Share of time is a perfect metric for happiness," then this might make sense.

    But... time spent isn't a perfect metric for happiness, and there is another option: 3) Algorithmic feed where the user has more control of the algorithm and objective function.

    Eg, chronological is an algorithmic feed!🙂🙃

    https://www.wired.com/story/meta-just-proved-people-hate-chronological-feeds/

    cwdolunt,
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    @mekkaokereke Despite the time spent, I'm pretty sure people doomscrolling aren't happy about it.

    cwdolunt, to Disney
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    At age 63, Abigail (net worth $120 million) finally swears off private jets and has started protesting them (and gotten arrested). Too late can be just as bad as never, but I'll take it.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/20/private-planes-carbon-emissions-abigail-disney

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    @nextcloud These things exist?

    futurebird, to random
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    And Then Satan Said:

    We are going to separate into breakout groups of five people, after 8 min. each group will present what they discussed in the main group.

    cwdolunt,
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    @futurebird

    “We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”

    • C.S. Lewis, preface to "The Screwtape Letters", 1961
    NatalieDavis, to Japan

    First the Orcas and now the dolphins. I think they are sick of our sh*t.

    "Swimmers injured in dolphin attacks on Japan beach

    One man, in his 60s, suffered broken ribs and bites to his hands after a dolphin rammed him a few metres off Suishohama beach in the town of Mihama, Fukui prefecture, early on Sunday.

    Another man, in his 40s, sustained arm bites in a separate incident on the popular beach the same morning.

    Two more people were injured by the mammals later in the day.

    Fukui has now recorded six such attacks this year, local police say.

    Signs have been put up telling swimmers to avoid approaching or touching the mammals."

    🔗: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66216199

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    @splendor_solis @breadandcircuses @NatalieDavis

    In 1984 a Beluga whale taught itself to talk to us, and what did it say? "Get out of the water!"

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/oct/23/talking-whale-named-noc-revealed

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