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Monsters from the Id! Fish from the Wardrobe! Or something.

(TTRPG/Coding/Linux/Politics/Snark/Woo/ASD, in no particular order.)

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Edent, to random
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The "Women Are Broken" Industry

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/11/the-women-are-broken-industry/

> I get to visit a fair few start-ups. Some are hopelessly idealistic (my favourites!) some are hopelessly cynical. Recently, I got to spend a few hours with a new "Quantified Self" start-up. For the sake of protecting the guilty - let's call them "Fronk." Fronk have decided that women are under-served in the wearables market. [...]

fishidwardrobe,
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@Edent Sadly, from a business perspective, they have a point. And not just for women; look at all the US right wing Youtubers selling pills…

kyonshi, to webcomics
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I haven't read many new lately, outside of some old favorites. Any strips/pages from the last few years I should be aware of?

(Come on, boost your favs!)

fishidwardrobe,
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@kyonshi Depends what you like?

Side Quested is new, I'm really enjoying that.

How To Be a Werewolf, Wilde Side, and Monster Soup continue to be good IMO.

Gunnerkrigg Court looks like it might be approaching a climax of some sort.

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fishidwardrobe,
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@CommonMugwort @bookstodon It just seems to me that writing a historical anything is making an electrified rod for your own back. Unless you really like doing all that research, set the damn thing in a fantasy universe, where you have more leeway!

kevinrothrock, to random

my idea for an SNL reboot is to pay $100 per item for the funniest tweets, skeets, toots, posts, and grams and just have beautiful celebrities read them deadeyed into their iphones

fishidwardrobe,
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@kevinrothrock Seems more like a reboot of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in!

stevesilberman, to random
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Trick or treat! Novelist William Burroughs celebrates Halloween at home in Kansas.

fishidwardrobe,
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@stevesilberman The pumpkin is assembled at random from eight other pumpkins

glynmoody, to climate
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Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/31/banks-pumped-more-than-150bn-in-to-companies-running-carbon-bomb-projects-in-2022 appalling

fishidwardrobe,
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@aral @glynmoody Lets be fair here. They could be sociopaths.

Freyja, to random French
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Elmo said cis is a heterosexual slur.
Don't let billionaires redefine the reality.

Just trash them.

fishidwardrobe,
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@Freyja So not only does he not understand the word "cis", he doesn't understand "hetrosexual" too?

drmaddkap, to random
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Look, if you have to spell it "JIF" to get people to pronounce it the way you want, then it's pretty clear the correct pronunciation is GIF.

And if you keep arguing with me, I'm going to start calling JPEGs "GAY-pegs".

fishidwardrobe,
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@drmaddkap My personal take: neither pronunciation is "correct" because that's not how words work. Say it however you want; it's not like anyone will be confused.

I'm told the Dutch say "ghhiff". (Kind of like the Welsh "ll".)

fishidwardrobe,
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@nuncio @drmaddkap yes!

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
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If your fediverse instance were to shut down today, where would you go?

fishidwardrobe,
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@stefan I'm on two instances for this reason

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Escape
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/escape-2 (click for bonus panel)

fishidwardrobe,
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@ZachWeinersmith I've already linked to this here in a discussion about autistic masking. Amongst everything else it is, it's good advice 🤍

Tattooed_mummy, to random
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    fishidwardrobe,
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    @Tattooed_mummy A tablespoon (the measure) has always been 15ml. Tablespoons (the spoon) have always varied wildly in size.

    Unless you want to faff around with a special taplespoon measure, your best bet is to read "tablespoon" as "3 teaspoons".

    A teaspoon is almost always 5ml – I suspect because of medicines.

    kyonshi, to random
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    Got a session in an hour or so. They are going into the Bellevue sewers to infiltrate a compound with a spider drone.

    Anyone got some quick ideas what they could find there?

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @kyonshi something something actual spiders?

    Edent, to gadgets
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    🆕 blog! “Gadget Review: Plugable USB-C Voltage & Amperage Meter (240W)”
    ★★★★★

    All USB-C cables are equal. But some, as the saying goes, are more equal than others. This little gadget from Plugable is a fantastic bit of kit. Plug your USB-C power supply into one end of the gadget, plug the gadget in to your laptop, phone, or any other USB-C device. Watch t…

    👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/10/gadget-review-plugable-usb-c-voltage-amperage-meter-240w/
    ⸻
    -c

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @Edent Recently tried to do this with a multimeter. You can't, or at least, I couldn't.

    It turns out (someone please correct me if I have this wrong) that a USB cable is a tiny computer, and it negotiates with the power source for how much power to send it!

    selzero, to random
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    The terms of the new McDonald's app specify that you agree never to sue them.

    Just saying because I know you are all out there installing everything and just accepting all the terms.

    This is such a lame dystopia.

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @selzero Is that enforceable? just cos it's in the T&C doesn't mean it means anything, and that goes double if you are a punter, not another business. UK law takes a dim view to this sort of thing. Or did.

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @selzero Right. But here in the UK the law sides with the consumer. If they think something in the T&C is unfair, it usually doesn't count. "You can't bring legal action against us" seems like exactly the sort of thing that that part of UK law is for. IANAL; if I was I could tell you straight away.

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @selzero @losttourist It's true in the UK! We have laws about whether a clause in a contract is legally binding, if the contract is between a member of the public and a business!

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    @selzero @losttourist

    > Where there is a gap, courts typically imply terms to fill the spaces, but also through the 20th century both the judiciary and legislature have intervened more and more to strike out surprising and unfair terms, particularly in favour of consumers, employees or tenants with weaker bargaining power.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_contract_law

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @losttourist @selzero IANAL, but my understanding is that it goes a little further than that: there are certain things you just can't legally put in a contract with a consumer. Not many, but I think it's quite likely "you can't take us to court" might be one?

    ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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    Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/democracy

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @ZachWeinersmith This is perfectly valid but the problem, of course, is that we very occasionally need government to do something and not be idiots when they do it: climate change, pandemic, gun control (US only).

    loriemerson, to random
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    it's 1894. if you want to let someone know they are annoying because they failed to read your telegram closely enough, send the code "Butment." meaning: "You do not answer my message understandingly. Please read and translate it carefully and then reply."

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @ntnsndr @loriemerson
    Well, it is a word: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/butment

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @loriemerson @ntnsndr Well, yes, but presumably they could have used a made up word in the codex.

    Adams seems rather more advanced than other codes I've seen, with extra words for you to add your own meaning to, and codes for inserting cyphers? ("burrowing" etc.)

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @loriemerson @ntnsndr Valid. All words are made up.

    SwiftOnSecurity, to random

    YOU HAVE JUST BEEN CYBERED

    WHAT DO YOU DO?

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @SwiftOnSecurity Invade Earth and hope The Doctor doesn't turn up?

    breadandcircuses, to politics

    Want to hear some crazy radical ideas?

    Check this out...

    ❝ Capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil. Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones.

    The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital, the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

    Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. ❞

    That's from 1949 (!) and it was written by...... wait for it...... Albert Einstein.

    LEARN MORE -- https://archive.ph/jvlFD

    ALTERNATE LINK -- https://glenhendrix50.medium.com/einstein-in-1949-predicted-how-and-why-society-would-go-sideways-d9ab65ed4882

    #Politics #Capitalism

    fishidwardrobe,
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    @breadandcircuses posthumous thanks to Einstein for expressing exactly my politics in a way clearer than I could have done.

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