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zakalwe

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Culture Special Circumstances, detached.

pp desc for vision impaired: The N7 (Systems Alliance Special Forces) Seal from the Mass Effect games.

Neuro-spicy. Aspie pretending (sometimes badly) to be human (at least, it often feels that way) while fighting depression and chronic insomnia. Aspiring mostly-SF writer, burned-out IT geek, humanist who wants to see us make at least a token effort to stop enshittifying our entire planet. Is there really anything so incredibly, soul-threateningly terrible about the idea of giving a shit about other people?

Something I said pissed you off? It may be a misunderstanding, I'm far from immune to foot-in-mouth disease. Please check with me before you assume it was malicious. It most likely wasn't. If I don't think you're someone worth talking to, I just won't talk to you in the first place, period.

Follow-backs: If you have something to say, sure. No posts? Nothing to say? What would be the point? In the words of @PatternChaser, "I don't follow back, I follow interesting." I'm trying to keep the signal-to-noise ratio in my feed high. Still, if you follow me and I see it, I will do my best to at least find time to look. I can't guarantee I won't miss it, I'm not awake 24/7.
(And sorry, but don't expect me to follow you if you're posting the same dozen posts, day in, day out, day after day after week after month. In fact I'll most likely mute you.)

Came here to put words into my mouth so you could attack me over something I didn't say? (Yeah, sadly, it's happened.) Just don't. I WILL block your ass. Nobody has time for that shit.

Geek Stuff: I run Gentoo Linux, and I maintain a personal overlay with packages for dev-perl/Tk-MListbox, sys-apps/procmeter3, net-misc/icbm, media-sound/perljammer, app-crypt/sherpa, and app-editors/xnedit. Of those, net-misc/icbm and media-sound/perljammer are my own projects.

#nobot #writer #geek #linux #mysql #Gentoo #nosystemd #science

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RickiTarr, to random
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How much alone time vs socializing do you need?

For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr About half a dozen people is really my comfort limit. Much over that, and I get overloaded and need to go find some quiet. Especially if there are LOUD people.

Nonilex, to Law
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Thurs 30 May 2024 ๐Ÿงต continue

Justice says he believes that the wants him to repeat a significant portion of the .

He will read pages 6-35.

Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.

Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.

zakalwe,
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@Nonilex Well we know Carlson is openly a Russian asset....

zakalwe,
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@chrisU @Nonilex True, but very difficult to prosecute/convict, and the US has to be in an active state of declared war. (As best I understand it.)

RickiTarr, to random
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This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr @mikey ๐ŸŽผ And nothing to get hung up on
Strawberry fields forever ๐ŸŽต

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr Possibly falling into the original question: The Monty Hall "paradox" still really, really breaks my brain. I've been through the math multiple times and understand that it does actually work that way ... and yet every fiber of intuition still screams that it SHOULDN'T.

zakalwe,
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@mikey @RickiTarr And yet here's another thing related to this. Individual atoms are too small to have "color" in the conventional sense. And yet, gold is very clearly colored.

Gold does not get its color by any of the conventional mechanisms. The color of gold comes from the fact that the nucleus of the gold atom is so heavy, and its outer electrons moving so fast as a consequence, that relativistic effects come into play.

flexghost, to random
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** ITโ€™S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonightโ€™s theme is:

๐Ÿง‘โ€โš–๏ธโ›“๏ธโš–๏ธ PRESIDENTIAL FELONIES ๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿš”๐Ÿ‘ฎ

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๐ŸŽต Post songs having to do with crime/prison along with what youโ€™re drinking. ๐ŸŽถ
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I bet there's rich folks eatin in a fancy dining car
They're probably drinkin coffee and smoking big cigars
I know I had it coming I know I can't be free
But those people keep amovin
And thats what tortures me

๐Ÿท Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues + Whiskey๐Ÿธ

Post often โ€ข share โ€ข make some friends

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zakalwe,
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@flexghost Another good one, from a dude taken from us much too soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH7J-Sx80

zakalwe,
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@flexghost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jczes_nMI

๐ŸŽผ Well good morning judge, how are you today
I'm in trouble, please put me away
A pretty thing took a shine to me... ๐ŸŽต

Don't have a drink yet. Trying to write.

zakalwe,
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@flexghost Huh. I'm having difficulty thinking of which Billy Joel song that might be. But I only have two of his albums, Stork Front and his Greatest Hits.

zakalwe,
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@flexghost Hmm. Nope, I'm not seeing that as based on I'm Not In Love. It reads to me as, look, you don't have to change anything for me, you're already perfect. Whereas I'm Not In Love is, like, OK, I am desperately in love with you but I can't admit it.

RickiTarr, to random
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Is this what y'all think living with me is like?!

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr to me, small talk is the sort of empty ritual social grease, where someone says, "Oh HI, how are you", and you know you're supposed to answer "Oh, fine, how about you", and FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S MERCIFUL don't actually answer the question unless you want to get a deer-in-the-headlights stare and a hurried "Oh, excuse me, how time flies, I need to go and varnish the cat."

zakalwe,
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@skweetis @RickiTarr This sums it up EXACTLY.

"So how about that local sports team?"
"Which one?"
"Uh, the one with the ball ... I guess?"

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr I hate small talk. If you're going to talk to me, don't make me do some empty formalized ritual dance, TALK to me. SAY something. Even if it's no deeper intellectually than "Hi honey, I love you."

micchiato, to random
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should have codified as promised. should have codified Roe as promised. Campaigning on the Court is a ploy to GOTV and to raise more campaign cash:

โ€œWe really need a book titled โ€˜Those Who Knew Roe Was Never Enough and the the SC would overturn Roe.โ€™ There are thousands such people.โ€

https://bsky.app/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social/post/3ktidd632dg27

zakalwe,
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@Jennifer @Mary625 @micchiato Obama was a huge disappointment. He hardly delivered on any of his big campaign promises. He ran on "hope and change", and delivered mostly "same old same old."

evan, (edited ) to random
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Should citizens of your country who live abroad be allowed to vote in national elections?

zakalwe,
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@evan It occurs to me that I possibly misinterpreted the question and thus cast a wrong vote.

If you're a RESIDENT somewhere, that should be where you vote. You shouldn't get to vote somewhere you don't even live.

GottaLaff, to random
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Of course.

Via Ryan Reilly:

zakalwe,
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@GottaLaff "Why aren't they showing me here? I'm supposed to be on this!"

GottaLaff, to random
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The amazing Jamie on how to force & to recuse.

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v00.1DYU.BwyXypgGhMDF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

zakalwe,
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@GottaLaff Recusal would be a good start, but what's really needed is impeachment.

zakalwe, to random
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"I paid off MY myself! Why should these kids get theirs ?"

Dude. You had $3,000 in student loans. Some of "these kids" graduated from college $70,000 in debt for the same degree you got, now they're earning half as much as you did for a comparable job and they have no expectation of any retirement benefits, and they've been paying on that loan for fifteen years and owe more on it now than they did when they started paying it. They are being ruthlessly exploited by student loan management companies whose entire business model is based upon gouging people who are struggling to pay off their student loans.

Would it fucking KILL YOU to show a little compassion and understanding?

Skepticat, to random
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DONALD TRUMP IS A FELON!!!๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ

UNANIMOUS GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

zakalwe,
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@Skepticat W000000000000T!!!! โ€‹:ablobfoxbongo:โ€‹โ€‹:ablobfoxbongo:โ€‹โ€‹:ablobfoxbongo:โ€‹โ€‹:ablobfoxbongo:โ€‹โ€‹:ablobfoxbongo:โ€‹

zakalwe, to random
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You know what I want to see come out of this shitshow?

I want the word 'trump' to become an epithet, outside of card games.

"Man, you really trumped that one up."

"Damn. We're really trumped this time."

"Now GO OUT and TRUMP THEM UP!"

"Trump around and find out."

Shanitoba, to random
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Dinner! Air Fryer Crispy Tilapia and Ground Cherry Fattoush Salad with Spiced Pita Chips. ๐Ÿ˜‹

zakalwe,
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@Shanitoba Looks tasty.

I'm making Little Hero's Beef tonight. (Orange and bites, like a Kzintosh. But only bites a little bit, so must be just a cub.)

zakalwe, to gaming
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Yopu know, I love how some of the bugs in Diablo just go on and on and on. Some of the oldest bugs in Diablo are still there in the very latest Diablo games.

Like, there's this one bug that I first saw in the original Diablo, and it is still there in Diablo Immortal. You'll be trying to fight some mob, and you swing, and you miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. "Nothing there to hit," says the game. Or "You can't hit that." (It doesn't tell you its rationale for why you can't hit that mob, you just keep missing and missing and missing.)

In desperation, you try some AOE attack, and it works.

"Oh, THAT monster," says the game. "Well why didn't you SAY so?!?" And from then on, you can hit it.

Waitnwallflower, to random
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In case anyone remembers the threatening email I received (and griped about) that said I would be kicked out of the work system I've been working in for >6years if I didn't take introductory training (to which 1 literally says I did already and for which do not specify duration to take, have multiple modules, and must be physically manned to progress slide after slide as it reads to you):

The 10 day warning has come and gone. I received another warning email now. The clock has apparently been reset.

I'm dug in.

I remain firm on not taking unnecessary introductory training on a system I work in often and have worked to have tools implemented in.

I'm fighting the good fight, peoples.

Stop making us take bullshit trainings that waste our time for no good reason. Allow a demonstrated-skill option if you must, by skipping to test. Less than 5m, 5 or less relevant questions.

โฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ—“

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zakalwe,
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@Waitnwallflower I remember a colleague of mine being asked to demonstrate proficiency with some software tool or another, I forget offhand what.

His answer was three words. "I wrote it."

zakalwe, to random
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!!!!!!

Tip for the wise (and the less wise): DO NOT play the drinking game "One shot for each count."

zakalwe, to random
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OK, so look, I'm seeing a lot of people who are really, really unhappy with how the current system in the US works.

And you're not wrong. It's bloody awful and has a staggering amount of room for improvement.

The troubling part of this is how many people think that the solution to this is to burn it all to the ground and start over.

Stop and think for a moment about where the power lies right now.

You are deluding yourself if you think that YOU are going to get to define the new system. It is going to be designed and built BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HOLD THE POWER. And it will have none of the protections that keep them from just doing that right now.

If you succeed in burning the existing system to the ground and starting over, what those people will build to replace it will ALMOST CERTAINLY be SO MUCH WORSE that I don't think you can even really imagine it. The people you are so violently opposed to WOULD JUST LOVE to see you burn it all to the ground.

That way, they get to build THEIR utopia on a clean sheet of paper with nothing to hold them back.

But it won't be YOUR utopia.

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