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Me, encountering literally any podcast recommendation:

"This sounds really interesting. I'd sure like to read a transcript of it instead of listening to it."

Amsterdam is importing infrastructure innovations like "a post in the middle of a bike lane"

@baldur @alda All the cases I've seen over the years (a couple of folks have tested this) suggested that there is a small additional amount of savings, but it's small enough that it seems highly likely that minification is more often used as an obfuscation and/or "everybody does it" thing, and bandwidth savings are just a surface reason

(Especially considering that those same sites then often proceed to load megabytes of third-party junk and don't even bother optimizing their image compression)

re: psychologist, positive 

(I strongly suspect they are neurospicy themselves)

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psychologist, positive 

Really quite happy with this psychologist; they proactively remember to wear a mask every meeting, they can keep up with me, accept my life as it is rather than trying to 'make it normal', and actually come up with helpful advice on a ton of topics

Another day, another case of "I think I'm just going to do this in application code because I'm sick of dealing with SQL JOINs"

i'm home. it's quiet. a few hours ago, there were many people. now, there are none. there was colorful light and talk and energy and worrying about leaks in my mask and covid in the air. now, there is nothing. silence, and familiarity. and thoughts.

many people will catch covid. a sizeable number will develop long covid from an infection that can be traced to this very event. how will the community react? will we recognize our shared responsibility in the people that have been harmed? make amends for the future? or push them under the rug, like has happened before now.

maybe i will get covid too. masks are not perfect. a little gets through, always. maybe there was a leak. maybe i misjudged the risk, and i should have left earlier.

was it worth it? in hell, where the water is poison, do you drink?

stay well, all of you.

#37c3

@selfisekai I think they've all migrated to here, it's been sounding like dec 31st for the past week here

re: capitalism bootlickers 

@hazelnot Like, for me it's quite simple, if your intention is not to identify and address the problem, then you have no place in the conversation

capitalism bootlickers 

Every criticism of a company or product made on the internet eventually degenerates in bootlickers derailing the conversation and turning it into a le debate about whether the scummy and often evil shit the company pulled was justified or not and I'm fucking sick of it 💀

re: capitalism bootlickers 

@hazelnot I've started just saying "I don't care" to people trying to justify this shit, just cutting them off entirely, rejecting their participation in the conversation

It works wonders, much of the time

tired of goty lists that are like "you know the popular games from this year? those are my favourites" instead of anyone trying to share games that flew under everyone's radar

it's almost like publishers don't want us to buy games

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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: baby steps ✅ 🎮

you did your first fedi moderation action ever against a spammer on mastodon.social

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As the effervescent and wonderful Jason Hickel said over at Muskville; "Thanks to a lot of tech bros and economists getting Very Upset about degrowth, this article is now the number one trending publication at Nature."

nature.com/articles/d41586-022

@eisfunke A couple tips on living location in particular:
- Transport-wise it tends not to matter too much where you live, we don't really have 'rural' here
- Anything in the Randstad is likely to have good public transport connectivity, including towns you've never heard of
- However, there is a *huge* difference in how easy it is to deal with different municipalities; eg. Dordrecht is always being super difficult and rigid about everything, whereas Den Bosch is very easy-going on the bureaucracy

I'd definitely recommend centering your choice of place to live around "what has the good vibes to you?" and cost-of-living first and foremost, and then just double-checking afterwards that you can get everywhere you need to get, because it will most likely be Fine(tm)

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