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Baseball is a really fucking weird sport, or: Let's talk about baseballs. Like, the physical object. - pt 1 

, when I talk to non-fans about baseball, one of the things that surprises them the most is that an average baseball game goes through something like 80-120 balls per game. After a ball has been used, it's either send down to be used in minor league games, used in batting practise, sold to fans, or occasionally caught by a fan directly, so it's not *entirely* wasteful, but that's still a lot, roughly 40 pounds of baseballs.

food 

@stellarskylark i had vegan coleslaw just today, after not having it for a long time. was nice

@tobi @kim also BGS are literally scrapers/crawlers as part of the core network??

Jeff's latest new instance seems to be humanist.social

the HTML details/summary elment is so fuckin awesome

violence 

gee i wonder why they're called executives

@dragon asking for a friend what's the approval process like

adhd 

anyone with adhd (or not) do this thing where they don't just mentally defocus on the task, but physicallly unfocus their eyes too

@dumpsterqueer ah neat, I think pending better client support we should also have a way to add slugs after posting. We wouldn't be able to federate it using the slug then but we can still redirect them when accessed on the web

@MTRNord @hikari@noyu.me possible i guess, but I think chatgpt just recognized the pattern that any software you might need is hosted on github.com / random username / name of program

@hikari@noyu.me similarly saw someone reply to a help question with "I asked chatgpt and it gave these 5 steps" which just started by installing a completely hallucinated github repo....

about posting "news" for "awareness", especially for allies 

Things you should ask yourself before posting "news" articles about negative subjects in particular:

1. Is this something that nobody saw coming?
2. Is this an article that provides an actionable step forward, some sort of concrete way to deal with the problem?
3. Does this article elevate a perspective of a marginalized group that isn't normally covered?

If you can't answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, *do not* post it.

It's ragebait, it's not useful, and it won't make anyone aware of anything they're not already aware of - all it'll do is make people feel more depressed. It's worse than doing nothing.

If you *can* answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, then post it - but with an appropriate CW, because a lot of us don't always have the energy to deal with negative news.

chatgpt 

chatgpt is really being used as the new "i copied your question into Google and copy-pasted the first result with no verification or any value". I want off mr bones' wild ride

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