CombatWombat

If you take this idea a little further, you’ll eventually get a credit union.

Thoughts think themselves

Oh, this just like… happens in Ghana. That’s real bad:

In recent years, clubs including FC Savannah, Wa All Stars, Legon Cities and AshantiGold have reportedly experienced similar attacks.

I’ve never been more sorely tempted to post an old man fedi rant that you should get off youtube and onto peertube in my life.

I get my access to most of my news through my local library. My library card comes with access to NYT, WaPo, and the Seattle Times, amongst others. I pay my taxes, my library pays a deal with the news site, and everyone’s happy. Seems like a good setup to me.

I’m so hype. I’m most excited about the elevation system, and most curious about the predation engine — do you think there’s implications on the prey populations if you kill the predators?

Depends on how exotic the alternate dimension is, I suppose – maybe a physics or chemistry book, or a local language to a language you speak dictionary, might be preferable in some cases.

Seriously, just block them. It’s not a punishment, it’s a curation tool; you’re allowed to block people who haven’t done anything wrong just because you don’t want to see their content. If you don’t like women’s sports, block me! It’s fine — you should have the social media experience you want, and you can use the block button to get it.

Moderation. We had a big influx of users with the Reddit api drama that created a bunch of communities, and then all returned to Reddit shortly thereafter, leaving most of the big communities largely unmoderated. The threadiverse isn’t going to become less toxic until new moderators step in and clean up the worst of it.

Low quality and easy to digest are orthogonal concerns. You can have high-quality posts that are easy to digest and low quality posts that are hard to digest. We shouldn’t make grocery bags heavier to increase the average person’s upper body strength, even if it would work.

It used to be that if someone was concerned the government was listening to their thoughts, they’d make a hat out of tinfoil to protect their thoughts from eavesdroppers, and it was an easy identifier they were not well mentally because obviously the government isn’t listening in on your thoughts. Now, if you wear a tinfoil hat to protect yourself, I know you’re mentally unwell because obviously the tinfoil isn’t strong enough to stop the government from listening to your thoughts.

Oh that’s awesome! Thanks for sharing the link; I’m gonna rewatch it.

I wish they’d go back to four full productions each season. The concert as the fourth performance is just not the same.

My local opera company does one new opera and two traditional operas every season, so I’ve seen quite a few over the years. The wildest one was definitely The ®evolution of Steve Jobs, a 2017 opera by Bates about the Apple founder.

The last opera I saw was Fellow Travelers by Spears, an 2016 opera based on a novel of the same title about two men who fall in love during the Lavender Scare. It was absolutely heart-rending, just the most tragic love story you could possibly imagine, and the sex scenes were so hot — I don’t think I’d ever seen a fully nude scene at an opera before, even if it was just from behind, and the tenor clearly had spent some time in the gym to prepare. Highly recommend you go see it if you have a chance.

Most people, Americans included, prefer to speak well of their country to foreigners and complain to countrymen. My hypothesis is that Americans perceive online spaces as uniquely American spaces where we complain to our ingroup, and folks of other nationalities tend to think of online spaces as “international waters” and are more guarded as a result, which leads to this perception.

Yeah? I’m a Russian speaker in Seattle, it might just be possible that I’m more frequently in Russian-speaking places in Seattle? And “often overheard” is not a high bar to clear – if you take the bus to lunch and back again, you’ll hear dozens of conversations; even if only a very small portion of them are in Russian, you’ll still hear one most days.

You’re clearly not listening. It’s a rare day I don’t overhear someone speaking Russian.

edit: to clarify, I’m not sure if you just hang out in neighborhoods with a smaller group of Russian speakers, or if you have a different sense of what часто means than I do, but I can tell you I would have struggled with homesickness a lot less if I had heard English spoken in Nizhni as often as I hear Russian spoken in Seattle.

США, конечно. У нас в Сеаттл много русских, часто русский слышано на улицах. Приезжай к нам — будет лучше здесь через несколько лет, уверен.

Wasn’t everything for the C64 about that size? The cartridges were like 45 kb or something iirc.