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virtuous_sloth

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca

Married to a wonderful wife with with two adult sons, living in Calgary. I like getting out on my bike. I care about social justice.

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polotek, to random
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We got solar on the house last year. It wasn't necessarily about saving money for me. It became important to me to take a concrete step towards combatting climate change.

But something else started to dawn on me too. The fact that I'm now generating my own power, from an essentially unlimited source, is a truly radical act. I've been thinking a lot about creating a society centered around abundance instead of scarcity. It's not just theoretical.
https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/112496059286904697

virtuous_sloth,
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@tastyraspberry @polotek @pluralistic
You need to read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

virtuous_sloth,
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@tastyraspberry @polotek @pluralistic Indeed. Me too. Coincidentally, I'm re-reading Walkaway right now because I got interrupted 7 years ago.

cheeaun, to threads
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Screenshots comparing columns UI between Threads.net and Phanpy.social

#Threads #PhanpySocial

A screenshot of a Phanpy social media feed. The interface shows three main columns: Following, FediDevs (list), and Notifications (showing recent interactions and messages).

virtuous_sloth,
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@cheeaun
Did phanpy always have multiple columns (proper columns, not the slidy boosts bits)?

I started using phanpy for mobile (partly for that slidy boosts bit) and when I tried it on my desktop I was disappointed that it didn't do multi-column.

Either I was really bad at searching the settings (a distinct possibility) or they added it sometime between while I've been using the native Mastodon multi-column interface.

In either case, thanks for making be aware!

evan, (edited ) to random
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When is it OK to change the subject in your reply to a post?

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan With Usenet/NNTP every post and reply had a Subject: line like email.

If you wanted to go on a tangent you could edit the Subject:.

For example if it was
Subject: X
you would change it to
Subject: Y (was X)

When threaded newsreaders were created, they would detect these changed subject and although they presented them w/ the original thread, they would mark them as different.

There would be an ASCII art thread diagram with the original Subject: marked as [1], and tangents as [2] etc

evan, (edited ) to random
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"International law should apply equally for all people and for all countries."

virtuous_sloth,
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@evan

"The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."

Green_Footballs, to random
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I wonder if Google realizes what a complete fucking shitstorm they’re about to unleash on the internet if Chrome suddenly stops supporting all 3rd party cookies. As they’ve promised to do in the 2nd half of 2024.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @Green_Footballs I just found an article describing how 3rd party cookies work (I didn't exactly know) and it finished talking about 3rd party cookies going away in the future of the article, in 2022.

So are we sure it's going to happen?

waldoj, to random
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Heat pumps and induction ranges are two strong examples of products that are better environmentally and better products than their gas/oil competitors, for almost everybody. (EVs will get there, but they’re not there yet.)

Because carbon emissions are free, it’s important that low-emission new products be clearly better than the polluting status quo. It’s a high bar, it’s not fair, but I’m glad we have heat pumps and induction ranges as a model.

virtuous_sloth,
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@glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot Private cars are the least efficient, most expensive (for the owners and the public) way to move people or goods in almost any city of appreciable size and EVs do not change that. Accepting EVs as a replacement for ICE cars seems... counterproductive.

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@hyc @glennf @timbray @waldoj @nlpbot

Indeed, I agree. However, car companies would really love everyone to think that is all we have to do, and that is what I'm worried about.

Binder, to random
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They're called HR Departments because they provide Harm Reduction for corporations.

PS: you're the harm they're mitigating. Good luck.

virtuous_sloth,
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@Binder They are like the immune system for the body corporate and as long as you understand that they view an employee with a problem to be a potential cancer cell, you'll understand your relationship with them.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you see a crowd of 100 people:

  • In Atlanta? You can expect ~47 of them are Black. 👍🏿

  • In San Francisco? About 5 are Black. 😑

  • In Palo Alto? About 2 are Black. 😮

There are more students at Gunn High school in Palo Alto, than there are Black people living in Palo Alto.

virtuous_sloth,
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@timbray @mekkaokereke Interesting that East Palo Alto is north of Palo Alto.

Not to distract too much from ubiquitous separation and segregation of a racialized patriarchy.

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