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maya_b

@maya_b@hachyderm.io

hardware/firmware/embedded-systems designer/engineer/consultant

I seem to boost far more than I post. I should do something about that.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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He’s at a high school graduation. Why does no one ask where that criminal’s son is going to college.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

Baron's going to Trump U of course

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

are there many Trump real-estate assets near Penn to bilk the secret service into over paying for Baron's protection?

I mean papa needs cash, and to save cash buried one of the mama's on a golf course.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

"don't accept checks from this guy"

StillIRise1963, to random
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It’s interesting to see racism not only seek to destroy the object, but also destroy the racists themselves.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

chickens voting for KFC

RickiTarr, to random
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Oppression is not a competition.

maya_b,
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@RickiTarr

but but but who's going to win the opression olympics then?!?!

🤦‍♀️

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

maya_b,
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@RickiTarr

There's a philosophy(?) that:
We aren't responsible for how we got to this moment, but we are responsible for what we do from now going forward.

I like that as it allows us to change, acknowledge screw-ups, and move forward to a better place. We can acknowledge, own and move on positively.

However, that conflicts directly with the litigious nature we've fallen into, and any admission is something to be punished, rather than a teachable/learning moment.

RickiTarr, to random
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Tapas in most of Spain: Free snacks when you order drinks.

Tapas in the U.S.: $10 Beers, $18 cocktails, $20 for 4 pieces of garlic bread with some tomato on it.

maya_b,
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@RickiTarr

Aperitivo (after work, before dinner, or "dinner" if you're a broke grad student) in Italy is free snacks with drinks too

skinnylatte, to random
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Honestly the state of the driving around the DMV in San Francisco gives me a lot of confidence that I can pass my first ever driver’s test as long as I know how to push a Costco cart around

maya_b,
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@skinnylatte

according to an Italian friend, in Rome, if you make it around the block without hitting anything, or being hit yourself, you get your license.

maya_b, to random
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having moved back to north America from the UK, I no longer have any idea what the going rate for a senior freelance electronics engineer is. Any suggestions?

evacide, to random
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Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

maya_b,
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@evacide

one of the amusing benefits of a (now only used) BMW i3 is that they used the 3G network for all it's "remote" and that network has been turned off now so it physically can't share. 🤷‍♀️

not all model years but upto, iirc 2017 or 2018 before they got upgraded

StillIRise1963, to random
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The fascists won’t help your asses with your climate fucked houses.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

nor will your insurance company.

"oh you bought in a flood plane..."

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

you can't even sell up and move because no buyer will be able to get insurance even if nothing's happened to your property.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

fingers crossed they can make as much of their equity back before they lost it all 😞

skinnylatte, to random
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For someone who lives in San Francisco who doesn’t know how to drive a car, I’ve certainly eaten my way through large chunks of the Bay Area

maya_b,
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@skinnylatte

"geographically incurious" sounds like someone deliberately limiting themselves to only where their own car can go.

maya_b,
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@skinnylatte

exactly. and if other means exist, why even drive?

I had a weekend in Boston from Montreal, and the wiper motor burnt out and needed to be replaced. Lost so much time getting that fixed that I could have been doing literally anything else.

StillIRise1963, to random
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For a nation where the average person has $400.00 in savings, the rhetoric is RIDICULOUS.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

in Canada the estimated amount required to comfortably retire is $1.4M - and that's with free social healthcare included

StillIRise1963, to random
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It would be totally fair if nations turned your American ass away when you try to flee, so. THINK.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

Canada is totally not building a southern border wall. nope.

we already have an invisible force field - all that socialist and communistical health care and social safety net stuff.

plus you have to live in an ingloo for the first two years if you immigrate or cross north illeagally. I don't make the rules.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Kids in the back, please remember that elections are not about one single issue. Your rights and climate change are on THE AGENDA.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

skinnylatte, to animals
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I was able to get the drugs for her gallbladder compounded into little tiny chicken flavored treats.

Cookie doesn’t have many talents other than looking cute and ‘spitting out every goddamn pill’, ‘eating the pockets of pill pockets and removing the pill’ and ‘ignoring any food that has been contaminated by medicine’

So this will help!

maya_b, (edited )
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@skinnylatte

they're not stupid when it comes to meds.

old cat used to pretend to swallow, smile, walkaway, look over her shoulder, spit out the pill and keep walking

skinnylatte, to animals
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On weekends I pull out a mattress and sleep in the living room with Mila, my 17yo cat who loves cuddling but can’t come upstairs anymore (arthritis).

Her face goes from 0 (cuddling) to 100 (you better wake up now I’m hungry) real quick.

(She’s on Solensia, it helps; we can’t use ramps because of the way our apartment is designed)

maya_b,
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@skinnylatte

We used cosequin with our and that was a night and day difference for her. Even at 24yo she could do stairs easily enough, and short hops up onto furniture, no big leaps though.

She too wasn't shy about her cuddles/food demands/schedule

liztai, to TikTok
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I don't use . Don't even have an account. Can't stand the app. But this thing with TikTok in the US is grossing me out. It's one thing to ban the thing but quite another to force the co to sell the platform to a US company. That's like a land grab, even if money is exchanged. This is going to put a chill on business relations not just with China but with companies globally, because they'll be wondering, "will I be the next Bytedance? Will they try to grab my company too?"

maya_b,
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@liztai

It also really does nothing to solve the underlying rational which is user data privacy - why not regulate consumer data protections?

What it really signals is that only US companies can profit from consumer surveillance.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I’m going to work out. I’m all pissed off and annoyed with this shit.

maya_b,
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@StillIRise1963

sure you don't want to go somewhere you can legally punch the daylights out of something?

skinnylatte, to animals
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Before you comment on my photos of Cookie to tell me you think it's really sad and abusive that I put shoes on her, perhaps consider that you don't live on a street full of broken glass and needles and human poop, and I do. I don't do this for fashion, I do this because she's literally gotten sick being around this stuff.

maya_b,
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@skinnylatte

all about freedom so long as it's their version of it

thomasfuchs, to random
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And this is why people use Macs
https://journa.host/@mathewi/112322859973165069

maya_b,
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@thomasfuchs

https://symbol.wtf/#

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Poll: Were you taught how to type on a computer keyboard in school?

maya_b,
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@BoydStephenSmithJr @nixCraft

someone I know had a typewriter with a built in spell checker, so definitely some computation going on in it.

though it choked on "syster" which could have been "sister" or "system". It was satisfying to break it on the first try 😜

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