Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

finally someone gets it

Shaming people for their weight is always part of a pattern that does harm to many millions of people.

Trump sucks for many reasons, none of them are because he's fat.

Lots of people misrepresent their weight, and that's because we live in a world with power imbalances viciously skewed towards "thin" and "fit." That power imbalance is the problem, not any individual manifestation of it which is all we're seeing here.

IMPORTANT MEDICATION UPDATE FOR ADHD HAVERS
ok hi I need to actually post this because this is an incredibly recent rule change and could absolutely help someone.
Historically it has been illegal for pharmacies to electronically transfer prescriptions for Schedule II-V controlled substances such as vyvanse. Apparently literally last month the DEA finally fucking caved and made an amendment. It is now legal for pharmacies to do single-time electronic transfers of such substances, according to https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2023/08/new-dea-rule-allows-single-electronic-transfer-of-controlled
eat shit DEA but also good because this is going to allow a lot of people to get access to their medication, albeit it after going through a few hoops

@joepie91 applies to a lot of early MMOs tbh. sounds fun but is in the end set up so that only the top 5% or so of players can actually have fun and the rest is doing busywork.

i especially like the contrast to more recent small-server multiplayer games like minecraft or valheim or what have you, which feel like they occupy the same niche MMOs used to have except in a more anarchist way.

@joepie91 in a lot of ways "murder/capitalism simulator" is the easy mode of game design

I’m trying to clean.
You could be anywhere! anywhere!
But somehow you’re here.
I was stacking those!
#pica #catsofmastodon #picathecat

It upsets me when people speculate despondently that we'll never get rid of covid now, that our chance has passed, when meanwhile we're not even trying for the lowest of low hanging fruit

For example, airplanes should be running their air filtration at max when boarding and deplaning. They don't. They have never done this throughout the pandemic. They can, there's no technical issue preventing them from doing this, they just don't, helping to spread covid variants internationally

Or schools. We've seen studies show that schools are a major vector for the spread of covid (and other airborne diseases!) We've also anecdotally seen many examples of schools that kept covid out completely, either through ventilation and filtration or testing and masking or some combination. Putting air filters in classrooms is dirt cheap compared to disabling students and sickening their households, but it's not even being looked at

They haven't even tried literally pushing a button and are telling us nothing can be done

the market for network-controllable power strips is weird
it's two things:
1. 50$ devices intended for use in the home. 3 plugs, connects to some cloud service, shiny and available on amazon
2. 300$ devices with 8 ports and you can talk to it over RS232 and 10/100 ethernet and the web stack fits on a 64kb eeprom and it's only purchasable on a website that was last updated in 2008