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sidereal

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Hi! Freelance union organizer, cybernetician, thalassophile, bicycle rider.

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skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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Yesterday an SUV nearly ran me over when I was crossing a street. There were around 20 seconds on the count down and it was obvious that it was a red light.

I stopped in the intersection after it very unwillingly stopped, and glared at the driver.

Ever since I personally witnessed two people being killed in front of me, as a pedestrian, here in SF, I have been radicalized. It’s a big fucking deal and it’s unthinkable to me that pols don’t think so.

#SanFrancisco #VisionZero #BikeTooter

sidereal,
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@skinnylatte When we were 22 my childhood best friend was killed, while legally crossing the Embarcadero, in broad daylight at like ten in the morning. Driver wasn’t drunk or anything, people just drive irresponsibly fast around there. I fucking hate cars

sidereal, to random
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Prime Minister of Poland on using the word "war:" "I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era. The pre-war era."

Why would young people be uncomfortable with the word war? For Gen Z, there has been constant war for their entire life. Peace was something that happened back in the 90's.

sidereal,
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@vfrmedia Right, and even then. Like I'm an American millenial and the USA has been involved in forever wars since I was like 12 so.

Young people know there are wars going on!

sidereal,
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@vfrmedia Interesting, I hadn't thought about that. You may be right, sadly.

sidereal,
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@cam @vfrmedia There's also been the militarization/arming of police as a material consequence but otherwise you're absolutely right. This is interesting to think about. I hadn't even thought about what would happen if the contemporary USA & Europe shat the bed on total war the way we've shat the bed on covid

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I’m a bad person

sidereal,
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@stefanie @charles @Psychonaut @davidho One way that hydrogen cells are used that makes sense to me is like. In place of the battery. So you have your solar panel charge your hydrogen cell during the day, and then power your stuff off of the hydrogen cell at night (or when cloudy).

sidereal, to random
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Look. I know picking up dog shit isn't particularly fun. But if you have a dog in the city, you just have to do it. Don't be a toxic individualist, be a real community member and bag that shit 💰💩

There is no excuse not to! Some people walk to work and might not be able to change their shoes. Some people have medically-needed mobility devices they would prefer to not get shit on. Please. Get your shit together. I love your dog but I hate you.

sidereal,
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I used to date someone who would occasionally let her dog shit places in public (like sidewalks and people's yards, not even like kind of OK) and not clean it up and in retrospect, I should've just called everything off the first time I saw her do it.

sidereal,
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@HappyHeathen Yeah I love cats but outdoor cats were definitely a mistake. For many reasons. Including the cats themselves’ own safety from cars and coyotes and shit

sidereal,
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@lawas What would even be the point of that lmao

sidereal, to random
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Oh wow Mango Languages is good. Like better than Duolingo and way more free through the public library. Wish I had known about this awhile ago!

sidereal,
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Duolingo is like a decent idea that is hampered by the fact that they want to get you to pay for it.

Good idea: interactive flash cards and quizzes

Bad idea: limit the amount you can do per day and have a bunch of ads

sidereal,
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@cam Yeah I paid for it for a few months, it was worthwhile. Definitely improved my ability to read Spanish. It didn't really help my conversational ability much but I think that needs to be actually practiced with another person 😅

And yeah I stopped using it because it went downhill real fast.

sidereal,
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@cam To me it's like a set of really good flash cards.

An excellent learning tool! But it can't be the only thing, and it's not gonna do the work for you.

I found it helped build my vocab a lot but didn't help me understand grammar very well.

Reading childrens' books in Spanish, with an English-Spanish dictionary remains my favorite way to learn haha and it definitely feels the most effective.

sidereal,
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@cam I honestly never used it for anything besides Spanish. I thought it was cool that they had so many languages but I wondered if the quality was consistent across all of them

sidereal, to random
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I just realized that I've been using adblock so consistently, for so long, that I have basically no idea what the average person's experience of the internet is like.

Every now and then I use someone else's device that isn't so locked down. And I'm floored by how useless and annoying the internet is. IDK how people do this.

sidereal,
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@stefani Like as far as I can tell 99% of websites that aren't like wikipedia are basically unusable without adblock. I didn't realize how bad it's gotten. I truly don't understand how anyone uses the internet without adblock.

sidereal,
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@poorpossum Pretty much yeah

sidereal,
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I put adblock on my dad's laptop and I think it's been good for his mental health. He's thanked me several times

sidereal,
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@cour13r5 @poorpossum And then being unable to drive it anyway because the rental car's dashboard is all pulsating blue light, unlike a reasonable red-light-only interface.

I find most modern cars undrivable. It's actually not safe to drive at night with those iPads blasting your retinae with blue light. It's bad for your vision and unnecessarily fatiguing. I don't understand how this is legally allowed or tolerated by consumers. Replacing my current car is going to be interesting.

sidereal,
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@HappyHeathen Yeah I'm using adblock in the generic sense here (ublock origin and a pi-hole and probably some other stuff that I forgot about) rather than like a specific technology

sidereal,
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@ikeruga Yeah. Pretty much. Nobody that I am interested in supporting would put ads like that on their site lmao. Nothing is worth putting up with abusive/attention grabbing ads and spyware. I don't watch broadcast TV because of the ads, I don't listen to the radio because of the ads. If there was no adblock software I just wouldn't use the internet either.

People deserve to get paid for their work, but this isn't the way.

sidereal,
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@HappyHeathen Yeah like... no one told me to be like this. No one taught me about adblocking software. I'm happy to help people figure this stuff out and use it, but a part of me does kinda wonder why more people don't already. I know many people aren't technical, but that's not entirely it. Installing ublock origin isn't really a technical barrier. But people just... accept this shit.

JustGrist, to random
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Somebody please tell me a joke. I need a laugh, or just a smile, or even just an internal chuckle. Tbh if it's a math joke, there's like a 70/30 chance I won't get it though.

sidereal,
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@JustGrist Here's one for all you art lovers:

Q: Why do they call it the Baroque period?

A: Because they had no Monet

hazelweakly, to random
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Core competencies are something I think about a lot. I love to dig into what makes companies or ecosystems or social groups tick. Especially when that core competency enables what they do:

McDonald's, for example, is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.

Walmart is a shipping logistics company that also sells things.

What other examples can you think of where the core competency of the company is such that the "thing" a company does falls out naturally as a consequence?

sidereal,
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@tanepiper @hazelweakly IKEA?

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