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@geraineon I've never had to deal with them but I appreciate it when people do this for companies being persistently shitty :)

@zkat AIUI the idea is that the system-wide validation is meant to arise emergently from all clients individually applying the same set of validation rules (which may themselves be informed by state from that same CRDT, recursively, though that's trickier to get right in a way that reliably converges). Don't know if there's a better or more general answer.

@schratze (Can also be used more strongly to imply that you're not going to allow it)

@schratze "hold on a second", but more informal, perhaps more like "hol' up there"

Has anyone figured out a reasonable technical solution to thread splitting in federated forum/chat systems yet?

Today's video is all about shitposting! What's the difference between a shitpost and misinformation? What do researchers have to say about shitposting? Is shitposting just for fascists, or can the Left play, too? And finally, DID JD Vance fuck a couch? skepchick.org/2024/07/jd-vance

@jonny hot new idea: in order to pass your PhD, you need to write a Simple Wikipedia entry version of your thesis and run it by an actual layperson.

Instead of going on holidays, I am going to teach myself #medieval woodturning. As a first step, I finished the chisel.

You often see medieval woodturners at festivals, but they all use modern gouches and a tool rest.

Medieval lathes do not have tool rests, and the chisels are shaped totally different from modern ones. That tells me that the whole manner of wood turning was totally different from today.

The chisel was forged by Smederij Zwolle, and I made the grip myself from spalted beech.

hawright y'all, it is time for me to testify about my existence and experiences on the fediverse as a queer person of color in the almost 2 years i've been here.

i am finna put up this request right up front and at the end of my thread: if you white and you're reading this, please do me a favor and keep the groveling/apologizing to yourselves. i've seen and heard enough of that shit here on other POC's posts/threads about this very subject. just please hush and listen, like we been telling y'all for eons now. you can learn a lot by simply listening to others and their experiences without putting in yr two cents, even if yr intentions are meant to be good.

we good? good.

okay, here i go~ 🧵👇🏾

@jonny I'm certainly growing tired of the endless "experiments" with basic income that all show basically the same outcome, with those calling for them seemingly having no intention to ever do anything with it.

Like, it's a good thing by itself that some folks have been helped out of poverty, but as far as I can tell, these "experiments" are really just the government equivalent of 'concerntrolling' about how "we can't adopt an unproven policy like this, need experiments first" until people stop paying attention to the topic again.

LAPD's budget is $1.3 billion dollars, annually. For one year they moved $11 million of that (0.8%) to a basic income guarantee experiment that dramatically improved quality of life for 3600 people in LA by giving them $1000 a month. Like all basic income guarantee programs it is ending with no sign of sustained funding. LAPD's budget will increase by ~$75 million this year.

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advice (pt 2), re: sorta bad health news 

@mynameistillian Please let me know (DM or so) if that happens? We can probably figure out some way forward

advice (pt 2), re: sorta bad health news 

@mynameistillian I guess the bottom line is: you can't change the past anyway, you can only learn from it, so there's no purpose in getting angry at yourself over it, and learning from it is easiest when calm and doing it at your own pace

advice, re: sorta bad health news 

@mynameistillian Please keep in mind that a lot of these symptoms are 'generic' symptoms, in that they can occur for a lot of different things, ranging from "no big deal" to "serious issue" (and usually it's the former).

It's a good idea to get it tested, but I wouldn't worry unless there's concrete reason to do so (ie. actual data), because it's unlikely to be serious (and even if it is, a lot of things are very treatable).

When I got evaluated for my kidney issues, there was also briefly a suspicion of diabetes because of my symptoms + frequent co-occurrence with kidney issues, but it turned out to not be that at all.

(Also, with the kidney issues, I decided to just let things come at me and figure things out at my own speed, and this has helped *a lot* in dealing with it in the long term)

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