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gendering your baby feels kind of like calling a skein of yarn a "sweater." like, yes, it might turn out to be a sweater, and it's probably gonna look like one at least for a while if you decide to knit it into one.

but ultimately, it could become anything, and even if you shape it into a sweater... it could all unravel someday.

ultimately, we don't control other people. we can observe and support them, or we can push our expectations on them. connect, or set them up to perform for you.

What's up with American food recipes being terrified of measuring stuff by weight? I mean even something like "a tablespoon of flour" can mean a whole range of amounts depending on the size of the spoon and whether you dose the flour flat on the spoon or if you create a mound..

And then there's stuff like measuring raw ginger by length which absolutely baffles me cuz like have you ever seen ginger root?? It's like the most irregular object at the grocery aisle which way am I even supposed to measure out an inch??

Man almost every larger creative person I follow aside from trans & BiPOC artists now starts to promote their masterclass what is this shit.
The vibes are outstandingly rancid in a mlm way.

I do appreciate that the shop reused the box, though, and judging from the writings on the box (which didn't match my shipment) this was actually at least the *second* time that this box was reused!

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Got my masks order in a reused heavy-duty cardboard box, the kind of cardboard that you normally use to ship machinery - except it was a manufacturer box for boxes of nitrile gloves.

Who ships nitrile gloves in heavy-duty shipping boxes?!

I’d like to speak to the architect that said “oh let’s place a giant window next to the urinals”

@baldur (Usually motivated by - at least the perception of - some personal benefit they are getting from the existence of said ideology and systems)

@baldur I suspect it's going to be very similar reasoning to the "capitalism is fine, we just need to regulate it" crowd - unwillingness to recognize that the ideology is fundamentally hostile to regulation or responsible application, and preferring to believe that the torment nexus can be contained if they draw the boundaries of what's acceptable *just* right.

The train I'm in just crossed the border from Spain into France. No announcement and I expect no one else noticed the moment. Freedom to disregard borders is a huge boon to those who have it. Many don't and many more are losing it.

video games, cursed 

Hardspace Shipbreaker is a prequel to Space Engineers

food mention 

TIL that a hot cheese slicer slices cheese more easily than a cold one

video games, cursed 

Hardspace Shipbreaker is a prequel to Space Engineers

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

OVHCloud suspended my domain after two weeks because I forgot to click on the email confirmation 🥴

@emilyenco Ik heb zelf goede ervaringen met P20. Is niet de goedkoopste, wel vegan (geen dierproeven), en het enige dat ik kon vinden qua BDS is gaza.nu/brands/?id=1822 - dus ik weet niet zeker of die volgens je criteria wel of niet hieronder valt

ranting about regrets from signing up for democrat email lists 

If there's one thing I regret from my early political years, it's signing up for ActBlue bullshit. OMG, I kept making this mistake all the way until Bernie ran for the second time, and they auto-sign you up to EVERY fucking democratic campaign in your area, state, country, fucking planet... its forever too. You can unsubscribe, but they've already shared your info with thousands of other campaign orgs completely independent from whatever you signed up to support. Signed up to support Bernie? Well, I hope you care deeply about whatever Nancy pelosi is up to, and like, every person she's ever gotten brunch with is running for office somewhere too, and They. Need. You. Please, NAME, we need you. I'm taking on trump. I'm taking on the republicans. Please, bro, your money... please...

I haven't donated to an ActBlue thing in YEARS, and I deleted my account, but I will never get rid of the emails. At least I'm actively burning this gmail account soon, but I've been working on deleteing this thing for years, and I still get actblue emails... data privacy in the USA is fucking atrocious. I regret ever thinking Bernie could win...

Honestly the only reason I haven't deleted this account is I still have a couple of banking things I need to switch the emails on, but all the banking stuff is in the USA and requires me to fucking call them, in the US, and it's so hard to find the spoons and time... but these shitty actblue emails literally all comes from different emails and they spam me so hard it will fill up my email inbox and I'll have to clear them or I won't get new banking notifications because I refuse to pay for google services anymore. Ugh, this is such a pain in the ass...

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