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somewhat related to the threads meta:

for the last few months i've been giving out the fake email "fuckzuck@fb.com" to marketing databases when required to enter something on a wlan captive portal

International ticket planning is like "well, if you go in the direction of Austria for 30 minutes, you're gonna be in Poland one hour earlier"

facebook threads meta 

@Rairii it's so weird watching obscenely rich people compete to do something others have already done for free with no money

what is especially frustrating is that we literally, across languages and cultures, have this saying that the least trustworthy people are politicians

so why do people just regurgitate politicians' words like they're fact!?

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the place where this becomes extra relevant is in things like press releases, where people take folks' words for things way more often since there's this inherent trust to something being said in person, which, does not actually exist

it often manifests in this sort of "clearly the (president/politician/corporate executive) wouldn't tell an obvious lie" and uh,

yes, they would actually, and rather often too

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honestly the biggest failing of modern society is convincing people that the internet is where people lie

people lie in real life, actually. and way more often, since on the internet there are way more people to see and scrutinise your words

re: subtooty grumbling 

(If you are reading this toot then it is probably not about you)

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re: subtooty grumbling 

Like, "is it worth the overhead to do community governance for this project" is a legitimate point of discussion, but also when that discussion *has already been had and concluded* years ago, and you don't even make an attempt to improve the governance process...

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subtooty grumbling 

"Community governance costs energy, so let's just make top-down decisions instead!"

I swear to $deity...

Advent of Code is not healthy for me.

A look at how it taps into my negative traits and why I must stop participating.

CW: Mental health

zoeaubert.me/blog/advent-of-co

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If you intend to keep masto away from paid advertisements, might I suggest welcoming sex workers with wide arms 😌

Credit card companies and advertisers hate us!!

OpenCola reminds me of the work I did making my own Club Mate clone, including a delicious sugar free Club Mate clone.

The one thing I never cracked was Club Mate Winter Edition.

Maybe this is worth turning into a project?

github.com/cognitom/OpenCola

#OpenCola #YerbaMate #ClubMate

ponderings about trauma and parenting 

I can't help but wonder whether the widespread cycle of "trauma and abuse passed down through the generations" might have something to do with our collective insistence that children be raised by exactly one (1) set of parents, who generally have not yet learned to process their own trauma and receive no outside support

probably a spicy take in some circles 

Poverty can be a form of disability; it can significantly impair your executive functioning, and make you literally unable to complete certain tasks

Fuck you, , and the "open-use" you rode in on, for expecting bloggers to do your unpaid(!) advertising for you, and trying to dress it up as a courtesy

The internet works a lot better when you actually plug the fiber back into the modem

I went to my local coffee shop/roaster this morning and saw that they had a Sumatra available on pour-over, so I went ahead and got that because it's been a while since I've had beans from Indonesia (I grew up in Indonesia)

when I got home, I got an email from the roaster promoting these same beans, and apparently the local place was working with my old high school roommate to source the beans??

small h*ckin' world

re: software design error 

Recent offenders (not exhaustive):
- GraphQL
- Redux Toolkit

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