Bags of dirt: The fourth little pig

I’ve been using Orion on iOS for a while. It’s not bad.

On the contrary. I want people to have their own opinions, and to buy the things that suit their tastes even if they seem silly to me.

And I want those things to have fair, consumer-friendly regulations applied to them.

And when companies try to abuse their consumers, and I want us to criticize the company rather than the consumer.

When you blame consumers for allowing antisocial tech into their lives, you’re doing free work for the tech barons.

I wonder: Has this happened with anything else?

Where an older generation struggled to understand at all, a middle generation adapted to it early enough to witness all of the quirks, and then a later generation was born into an already-smoothed out system — and they all lived simultaneously?

Seems like a uniquely modern thing, but then again agriculture and clothing and currency have all had periods of rapid change in the past.

Like were there Generation F dudes out there like “omg we’re the only ones who understand knitting frames smh”?

Cuz mass storage was a quirky extra, not something essential to your system, like your A: floppy drive was.

Honestly, I was less organized than this in my 20s.

I was 17 or 18 when I first learned that.

It inspired me to buy a copy of Muybridge’s “Figure In Motion” (still on my shelf!) and scan it and use it as a base for animations for my earliest game prototypes.

Overkill.

She only needed to beat him four in a row.

Or diagonally.

“Odd-looking salute” ain’t no country I ever heard. They speak English in “odd-looking salute”?

Four-dimensional hyperphone

Tell people what they wanna hear, and min-max a handful of variables while ignoring any context or consequences?

Dodge accountability through opaque decision-making processes?

Yeah, a lot of these skills are lining up.

Depends on your definition of “well adjusted”. And “proud”, for that matter.

If you want to build a better world, you do need to also build a better self. Part of that is recognizing the difference between self-love vs. selfishness, and contentment vs. distraction.

Building a shelter doesn’t make the storm go away. But it does mean that when it really pours, you have room to take care of others instead of them needing to take care of you.

!lotrmemes@midwest.social

ITT: Time travelers from 2009, thinking my_game_dedicated_server.exe is still how all online games work.

I’m sorry to inform you that this is 2024, AWS has invaded every cubic centimeter of computing, and most companies couldn’t extract a business-critical system from the rest of their infrastructure in a way that another company could run it even if they had 3 years and 100 million dollars to get it done.

Sure, the wolf shouldn’t have been trying to eat the stork.

But did you see how viciously the stork pecked at the wolf?

The wolf has a right to defend itself until the stork is no longer a threat.

People also drink coffee while driving. It’s a depraved world out there.

attendee’s

Here comes an s!

A two-state confederation seems good to me. Independent national governance, with bilateral laws for basic things like residency rights across the states and local voting rights based on residency.

As it was with standardized testing, so shall it be with personal behavior: the goal is not to inform the student why, but to enforce compliance.