Iced Raktajino
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14·1 day agoLatest alt of a long term persistent troll who has nothing better to do with their life. Would be sad if they weren’t such an obnoxious POS. Wish I had that kind of free time.
Looks like they got lazy and setup a bot on an endless loop.
Also, toast.ooo clearly needs to set some damn rate limits.
4·1 day agoWhat does that actually do/address?
I’ve not had any issues without it on my E3v3
9·1 day agoHer order also calls the continued operation of the existing facilities into question, by giving the government 60 days to remove fencing, lighting fixtures, and “all generators, gas, sewage, and other waste and waste receptacles that were installed to support this project.”
But not detainees? I feel like that leaves an opportunity for some very malicious compliance there.
2·1 day ago- “Paywalled”
251·1 day agoIf I need that level of precision, I’ll use a digital clock or set an alarm.
I can usually tell the time, at a glance, within 1-2 minutes which is precise enough for 99.999% of cases. Most IRL scheduling has a lower bound of 5-minute increments, so looking at an analog clock for the exact minute isn’t really necessary. e.g. 7:21 and 7:23 are effectively the same for all but the rarest of my purposes.
6·1 day agoMostly short stories based on a single “what if” concept. Like, “What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?” That may not be the premise of the story, but it factors into the characters and the world building and the story goes from there. Most of the stories don’t really “go” anywhere, but that’s not the point. The point is to spend a day in a world where the “what if” concept is true and see what society, people, and life is like.
The setting is usually ambiguously Earth but it’s never stated nor that they’re even humans or what time period. That gives it a lot of leeway.
It’s mostly just a creative outlet / thought exercises so I don’t even save half of them when I’m done.
Examples From the Example "What If"
For the “What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?” example, the short story had the following elements:
- Surnames / family names quickly became extinct since they were found to be redundant.
- Different cultures in that world implemented the unique name requirement differently:
- Some kept the family names but combined it with a unique name as a suffix. e.g. SmithFriendlyGame, SmithSoccerFan
- Some went with just number designations. e.g. 12345
- Most came up with brand new words when a child is born e.g. Fluginary
- Other cultures did something similar to “What 3 Words” does for locations by combining 3 or 4 ordinary words. e.g. BashfulCarpetTree
- Families could register specific naming conventions which could only be used by that family. Prestigious families could would add numbers to the family name with the patriarch/matriarch of the line being “0” or “first of their name”. If someone was Smith47, it meant they were directly descended from the Smith.
- The uniqueness requirement included not reusing names of those who have died. e.g. There could only be one “John” ever, for example. All mentions of “John” would only refer to that individual.
- Because of that requirement, heirloom jewelry became popular in this world to make up for not being able to honor a loved one by naming your child after them.
Dumb phones. I’ve grown to hate smartphones, apps, and all that goes with them.
Ah, yeah. I don’t Discord or Twitter so wasn’t thinking about those. ArsTechnica would benefit as well. They still do the forum-style inline replies which is hard to follow.
Don’t most lemmy clients do that?
16·2 days agoNot just Facebook comments lol.
edit: thinking about it, you probably were talking about people on the fediverse doing this out of turn and not the example I was thinking of.
I was. Collective “you” and not a personal “you”. Could’ve been more clear I suppose. I usually try to say “one” instead of “[collective] you” but sometimes that makes the phrasing awkward.
Edit: For clarity, the “you” used here is the collective you and not “you” as in the account I’m replying to.
For the record, I agree with your example and personally won’t eat/buy The Lord’s Chicken™. But do you really think you’ve changed anyone’s mind? Probably not. All you’ve accomplished is making yourself feel morally superior. You don’t like something? Fine, more power to you. Don’t buy/support the thing (you should see the ever-growing list of companies and subsidiaries I won’t buy from). But also don’t slide into the DMs of other people’s lives and shit all over what little brings them joy. Why is this hard?
Go for it. You don 't even have to credit me. I consider everything I post to be public domain anyway, double-so if it’s used for good.
Apparently I still have some curating to do on my subscription/blocks. It’s not about any one specific person - just the Debbie Downers that pop up.
3·3 days agoYeah, I was in that situation. Hard copies were limited to used paperbacks for $150. Yikes.
I ended up buying the audiobook and high-seas’d the epub which I’m reading. I refuse to buy DRM’d ebooks but I do want the authors to get paid, so I compromise by buying the audiobook (which is a bit more expensive than the DRM’d e-edition) and acquiring the epub by…other means.
Not so much “watch” but I’m about 1/3 through Andrew Robinson’s “A Stitch in Time”. The way it’s written, it’s the perfect book to pick up and read when I have a few spare moments.
2·3 days agoMy saved items / wish list is full of stuff I want and could use. When I have some extra money, it’s difficult to choose one thing, and I get stuck in limbo. So given I could set limits and hit a button, I feel like it would help me.
Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).
Ah, okay. Mine’s direct drive so probably doesn’t need that.