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zakalwe

@zakalwe@plasmatrap.com

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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Truly and honestly, I have a great time here, because you all make it great. You boost, you reply, you encourage, and inspire! It is crazy to me that I get to talk to people from all over the world every day. I get to be friends with people I'll probably never actually get to physically meet. I was born into a pre-internet world, and this still feels a little like a miracle to me.

zakalwe,
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@Thebratdragon @Uair @RickiTarr I have LOTS of IRC (and ICB) friends. I talk every day with people on both services that I've been hanging out with for thirty years now. Many, I've met face-to-face at least once as well, but by no means all.

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr @Uair It is pretty much a blast from the past. I knew a few people with five-digit IDs. But I don't think any of the people I hung out around at the time actually used it much.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why is it that the people who brag about being "self-made" aren't?

If you turned out successful odds are you had help, a lot of it, and a good amount of luck on top of that. Imagine being so self absorbed that you don't give credit where credit is due.

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr Sociopathic behavior.

RickiTarr, to random
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What embarrasses you the most?

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr To quote Information Society:

🎼 I am absolutely right, I am absolutely certain
I am absolutely right, I am absolutely certain
I am absolutely right, I am absolutely certain
Of all the mistakes I've made... 🎵

msquebanh, to random
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I am rescheduling my afternoon taxes appointment.

Not feeling good. Not feeling like I'll be able to keep my shit together, if I have to deal with any random public today. I'm having one of those super difficult, overly emotional days. When I feel that I could either start crying or start screaming, at the slightest provocation.

I avoid all public encounters when feeling like this. I don't want to misdirect sadness/anger/frustration. I listen to my internal orange flags & heed them. Self-care.

zakalwe,
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@Snowshadow @msquebanh Part of it, I think, is that there is this utterly dysfunctional attitude that being able to openly hurt and abuse people and suffer no consequences for it proves that you have power.

It also proves that you are utterly unfit for it.

zakalwe,
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@Snowshadow @msquebanh Actually this is something that I discuss a bit in my novel Fireborn. My protagonist finds himself in the position of trying to explain sexual harassment in a culture that doesn't even have a word for it, because such behavior is considered so completely unacceptable that they never needed to coin an everyday term specifically to describe it. The Saamen language also doesn't have words for the concept of slavery, because they just don't enslave people, period.

zakalwe,
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@msquebanh @Snowshadow Ah, thank you for clarifying. I understand the question better now.

It hurts, but if there is no acknowledgement of that and no apology, then I try to remember that this is on them not on me, and keep in mind thereafter that this is a person that I cannot trust — whether to have my back, or to consider my interest, particularly if they see it as conflicting with theirs. And that ranges from "This person is inconsiderate" to "This person does not actually see me as a real person."

zakalwe,
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@msquebanh @Snowshadow I don't exactly understand what you're asking there, as worded.

I'm not good at enforcing personal boundaries. That doesn't mean I don't try. It does mean that sometimes it's still very difficult — especially when I feel threatened.

Some trauma — and some abuse — takes a hell of a long time to heal.

zakalwe,
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@msquebanh @Snowshadow But also, as well, I refuse to allow this treatment to make me act that way. I WILL NOT participate in the cruelty. That is not who I am.

zakalwe,
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@msquebanh @Snowshadow If you reward the bullies and ignore the victims, you are complicit in the bullying.

zakalwe,
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@Snowshadow @msquebanh I am not good at enforcing personal boundaries. For too much of my life I was taught, quite without conscious intention I'm sure, that I wasn't permitted to have any.

ai6yr, to Youtube
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The Verge: YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131338/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-mobile-apps

zakalwe,
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@stevewfolds @ai6yr I won't be held to ransom. If YouTube tries to force me into paying $14 a month not to see unwanted ads for products I'll never buy, they can just lose me as a viewer.

RickiTarr, to random
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When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr Fox should be required to run a continuous scrolling chiron that reads "PARODY — FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY"

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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Me flirting:

If you need, I have an extra pair of eclipse glasses.

zakalwe,
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@20002ist @Saltssaltgirl 🎼 I study nuclear science, I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses 🎵

GottaLaff, to random
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Not a modern day Jesus?

What a racist, vile POS.

Via Kyle Cheney:

says on Truth Social that it would me “my great honor” to go to jail for violating Judge Merchan’s gag order and that it will make him a “modern day Nelson Mandela.”

zakalwe,
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@ReedsDad @GottaLaff Trump would spend his entire time in prison whining that it was unfair, unconstitutional, and unjust persecution.

RickiTarr, to random
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You are Entangled with someone, you'll see them throughout your life. You are connected in some way that always brings you back to this person. There's a good chance you don't like each other at all.

zakalwe,
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@pmonks @RickiTarr The entangled link is INSIDE THE HOUSE!

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr @LoganFive If I observe myself to try to find out, it will collapse the quantum superposition and break the entanglement.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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I find today's outing most interesting because as I told you guys, I'm renting a vehicle through Lyft. The way that works is until I "earn" enough in fares to cover the cost of the rental (in addition to giving a required number of rides) I can't withdraw any funds.

zakalwe,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 There is nothing benign about any part of Uber's or Lyft's business model (or their copycats elsewhere in the world). There's fundamentally four parts to the plan:
— Destroy existing taxi service by undercutting it
— Get driver labor as close to net free as possible, denying drivers benefits by classing them as contractors
— Eventually replace human drivers altogether with automation
— Once 100% of fares go to the company, jack fares up as far as the unregulated market will bear

In the rare markets where government forces them to play by the rules, they declare it "unfair" and pull out.

rbreich, to random
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Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $17.8M salary is driving up the cost?

zakalwe,
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@Huntn00 @rbreich @Mary625

Another thought, how do the Capitalists expect to maintain their markets if everyone is unemployed?

I don't think they've thought it through that far.

zakalwe,
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@Mary625 @rbreich Never forget that if the oligarchs could eliminate ALL paid labor ALTOGETHER from their business processes, they would do it without even thinking twice.

WmShakesp3are, to random
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I really hate really old people. What sucks is that I am old people.

zakalwe,
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@WmShakesp3are @Snowshadow @CivilityFan @thepoliticalcat @Barbramon1 @dbc3 It used to be common knowledge that Hollywood RAN on coke.

zakalwe,
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@thepoliticalcat @WmShakesp3are @dbc3 @Barbramon1 @CivilityFan @Snowshadow short additional stimulants, most humans pass the point of diminishing returns after about six and a half hours, research suggests.

RickiTarr, to random
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Maybe some people are "sad", because they live in a society that is actually prejudiced against them, and trying harder isn't going to fix it for them.

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr @gentrifiedrose And they ask a lot of things they're not allowed to ask, hoping that the interviewee doesn't know they're not allowed to ask it.

RickiTarr, to random
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I remember when I was a kid, if someone was in therapy, people talked about it in hushed tones, like it was a shameful secret, and now people talk about it casually in every day conversation. It's good to see that things can change, even if it's just a bit.

zakalwe,
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@RickiTarr Slow progress is still progress.

skykiss, to random
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"Truth social" Scam Phantom Stock:

  • Social media platform is like phantom stocks. They appear substantial, but their value is elusive.
  1. How Phantom Stock Works:
  • Phantom shares mimic real stock value.

  1. Pump & Dump Scheme: A fraudulent practice where individuals artificially inflate the price of a stock (or in this case, social media company) to attract unsuspecting or criminal/dark money investors who “pump” stock prices, the inflated worth is illusory.

  2. Money Laundering: Trump concealing the origins of illicitly obtained funds by passing them through a complex sequence of banking transfers or commercial transactions.

Truth Social is a failed social media platform, that will merge with a publicly traded SHELL company. Financial Performance: Since its 2021 launch, Truth Social generated sales of less than $5 million. However, Trump’s supporters rallied to boost shares in the shell company, Digital World Acquisition Corp. Its a money laundering scheme.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/trump-truth-social-dwac-shares/index.html

zakalwe,
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@skykiss These fuckers are BUYING OUR FUCKING COUNTRY for tiny fractions of a penny on the dollar, and we're letting them get away with it.

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