Now that’s just a signal for training reinforcement

Guilty <-

I think it’s because people want patterns to exist even where they don’t. But this one is extra sensitive. The declaration becomes even less interesting in non-base-ten systems. I’m not even sure why 225 would be intuitive to anybody. I guess that’s what makes it a shit post.

Nice writeup

Mark Robinson has a pretty nice truck!

That is so unpresidential!

I also haven’t used it in a few years. Chat systems in general don’t cooperate with the way my brain works.

It’s kinda like lemmy here, but a little more pain because not only do you have to pick your provider, but you also need to be very mindful of how your key pair is managed. Like… don’t just uninstall a client without going through the effort of trusting and verifying a new one first, or you may lose the ability to decrypt a lot of history and also break trust with relationships you have.

Security first is a major concern in the system, so it doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination unfortunately.

That said, once you convince yourself to set it up, and convince anyone else to do the same, it works pretty nicely. It’s like an inner venn diagram of discord, telegram and IRC.

Share your love with me in my ass

Matrix works pretty good.

I don’t know what they are but I don’t want them

That’s a really long prompt just to have it roll a d2

They were kinda handy to have around tbh. Like, tissue in my backpack during allergy season, or in my car. I think we used them as tp on a camping trip.

At home, we only used them until the usual tp rolls came back into supply.

They came in a pretty big package so we had them around for a couple years, but I think they’re all gone now… So, yeah we used them, maybe not as intended and maybe not favorably, but they saved my ass in 2020, literally!

I got a box of these from Amazon in 2020. (In USA)

You wield the power. Wield it well.

I can’t speak to your experience but I’ve been farting around on the Internet since the mid 90s and I promise nothing ever changes.

Smaller communities tend to be more concise, that is true.

But what you have here is the hand you’re dealt. Complaining isn’t going to change anything any more thank joking. You can be the change you seek here by suggesting a course of action that isn’t asking others to suggest a course of action to you. If you’re seeking a course of action, you can try asking here.

But commenters on tech news aren’t likely to be expert activists, especially in whatever issue is your top concern.

My best advice to you is

• practice acceptance of reality, not as defeat but as the first step to understanding and deciding an action

• determine how much capacity you, as a person, have to contribute to a cause

• determine one cause you care about and can be effective at contributing to

After doing those things, SEEK OUT like minded groups who have leadership and self discipline and are effective.

Let me reframe my previous comment:

If you don’t want to network in person locally, you will need to find a forum whose sole purpose is activism and direct action.

It will not be brought to you, and you will not be recruited. You have to actively go seek it out.

The forum you’re on now is called “technology”. Similar ones, like “news” or literally any other topic that doesn’t solely focus on mobilizing activists will not get you what you’re asking for here.

I appreciate your position. I don’t think you’re going to start a cultural revolution on any comment section. If you’re looking for a place to make real change, you need to network with local communities.

The the best you’ll get for “town square” value from internet forums is the expression of sentiment. People are angry, like you are, and they are using humor to literally reframe the narrative to point out the state’s fallacy.

Thank you for stopping the massive expansion of surveillance in Texas.

Women are you going to be able to get the kids to go to the store?