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Cheradenine Zakalwe

Culture Special Circumstances, detached.

pp desc for vision impaired: The N7 (Systems Alliance Special Forces) Seal from the Mass Effect games.

Neuro-spicy. Aspie pretending (sometimes badly) to be human (at least, it often feels that way) while fighting depression and chronic insomnia. Aspiring mostly-SF writer, burned-out IT geek, humanist who wants to see us make at least a token effort to stop enshittifying our entire planet. Is there really anything so incredibly, soul-threateningly terrible about the idea of giving a shit about other people?

Something I said pissed you off? It may be a misunderstanding, I'm far from immune to foot-in-mouth disease. Please check with me before you assume it was malicious. It most likely wasn't. If I don't think you're someone worth talking to, I just won't talk to you in the first place, period.

Follow-backs: If you have something to say, sure. No posts? Nothing to say? What would be the point? In the words of @PatternChaser@mas.to, "I don't follow back, I follow interesting." I'm trying to keep the signal-to-noise ratio in my feed high. Still, if you follow me and I see it, I will do my best to at least find time to look. I can't guarantee I won't miss it, I'm not awake 24/7.
(And sorry, but don't expect me to follow you if you're posting the same dozen posts, day in, day out, day after day after week after month. In fact I'll most likely mute you.)

Came here to put words into my mouth so you could attack me over something I didn't say? (Yeah, sadly, it's happened.) Just don't. I WILL block your ass. Nobody has time for that shit.

Geek Stuff: I run Gentoo Linux, and I maintain a personal overlay with packages for dev-perl/Tk-MListbox, sys-apps/procmeter3, net-misc/icbm, media-sound/perljammer, app-crypt/sherpa, and app-editors/xnedit. Of those, net-misc/icbm and media-sound/perljammer are my own projects.

#nobot #writer #geek #linux #mysql #Gentoo #nosystemd #science

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2024-06-17 14:42:40

You know those anti-censorship add-ons that Mozilla recently blocked from the Firefox add-ons store in Russia by Kremlin request?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/mozilla_firefox_russia/
Mozilla just said, "No, you know what? Fuck you, buddy."

2024-06-11 17:16:50

This just in (I don't have a link, sorry)
I see it reported elsewhere that after a full trial, Simone Chriss and the Southern Legal Counsel have secured a huge win: The court ruled that #Florida's restrictions on providing #gender #affirming #care to trans kids and adults are #unconstitutional, and the state of Florida is now #PERMANENTLY #ENJOINED from enforcing them.

2024-06-09 22:53:02

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@npub1pvk…px8u Finland went HARD "Fuck you, buddy" to the fash.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20092966

2024-06-06 18:01:13

In the interests of truth in advertising, I hereby officially suggest that the Republican Party rename/rebrand itself honestly as the Russian Assets Party.
As a side benefit, news media could with a completely straight face refer to them as RAPists.

2024-06-06 17:11:18

Just in case you know anyone who still insists global warming is a hoax ... every one of the last 12 months has been a record high temp for that month ever.
"That's natural, the Earth has been that warm before!" 😜
So you're saying that you think it's OK for the Earth to be the warmest it has been in the last 55.6 million years?
(And for the record, this is pretty much what was predicted by the worst case climate models that nearly everyone said were too extreme and unrealistic.)

2024-06-02 18:46:22

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@npub1psd…9sr7 The US is at 1.7.
The US political right's solution to this is forced births.

2024-05-30 18:52:53

I just ... got nothin'.
https://s3.plasmatrap.com//76993787-af17-45d1-9947-ccbb4a7f4485.webp

2024-05-27 17:49:19

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 mmmmm.... that place looks like it has a lot of potential, with a lot of clean-up and a little restoration.
(Well, OK, after looking at the other photos, rather a lot of restoration...)

2024-05-23 03:33:00

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@npub1a4g…yuyx I'm reminded of a comment of Sir Winston Churchill's.
"The Americans can be relied upon to do the right thing, after they have first exhausted all other options."

2024-05-21 17:49:54

"We live in trying and cynical times, and I just want to start off by saying I believe in democracy, I believe in our constitutional government, I believe in the separation of powers, and I wish the #supreme #court felt the same way." — Stephen #Colbert

2024-05-12 02:38:13

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@npub1yck…ujmw My kids' school did. I think the picture the school showed them of how personal finance worked terrified them for life.

2024-03-13 15:27:01

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@npub19fc…ay3c I didn't make it through the first season yet. It's ... well done in many ways, and yet failed to grab me.
But then, some of it is that I just plain don't watch all that much TV. Because Reasons.

2024-02-06 19:49:32

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@npub14pk…80yc @npub19fc…ay3c Same. You CANNOT use touch-screen controls without looking down away from the road. Making everything a touchscreen that is out of the driver's line of vision while driving is an inherently terrible idea.

2024-02-01 22:49:36

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1enf…qnda Of course. Why do they need to understand what their business plan is to disrupt and smash anyway?

2024-01-25 17:15:35

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@npub1wfe…kewj @npub19fc…ay3c @npub14pk…80yc I think there are a class of people who reflexively want to continue on to the second. And I have a personal hypothesis that many of these people have a broken or non-functioning "I am secure, I have enough now" circuit in their brain. No matter HOW much they have, it will NEVER be "enough".

2023-12-28 19:19:30

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@npub19fc…ay3c Data point: My eldest daughter likes to watch documentaries while she does her cross-stitch and embroidery. For a while she was just letting YouTube recommend the next video for her on autoplay. She would start out watching something like new discoveries about pre-Cambrian crinoids, or Marie Curie's discoveries, or Nikola Tesla, and it was seldom more than about six to eight recommendations down the line before YouTube was offering her videos on Real Ghost Hunters, or how ancient astronauts built the Pyramids, or how NASA is secretly developing alien faster-than-light technology recovered from Roswell at Area 51.

2023-12-28 19:09:18

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@npub19fc…ay3c The other thing that it's crucial to remember in this context as well is that "I searched the web" mostly means "I used Google", and Google's core business is not search any more, it is advertising, and that means putting ad impressions in front of eyeballs, and that means engagement, and driving engagement means showing you more of what they've already learned from your behavior that you want to see — well seasoned with a drift towards radicalization and outrage, because that drives engagement as well and sells more ad impressions.
I truly think that most of us drastically underestimate how much of an existential threat to civilization the advertising industry is. 90% of the utter crap products on the market would be unable to exist if not for advertising. How much product turnover is driven by advertising? How much conspicuous consumption? How much waste? GOTTA HAVE THIS YEAR'S MODEL. Buy this, buy that, buy more, more, more. Throw away what you have so that you have room to buy more. Never mind whether you need it. Just so long as you keep buying more.

2023-12-28 18:42:28

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@npub19fc…ay3c Sadly I know too many people for whom "I did my own research!" means "I searched the web for sites that agree with what I already believed, I found three, and it doesn't bother me at all that two of them had sponsored links to Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones."
It's easy to say "vet your sources", but the trouble is, all too often we're talking about people who believe that InfoWars, OANN and Truth Social ARE perfectly valid, trustworthy sources. "It says Truth RIGHT IN THE NAME!"
The problem isn't a shortage of sources. It's a shortage of critical thinking skills.

2023-12-26 21:31:53

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Really, are there any fuel cycles that CANNOT yield nuclear weapons material?
We used to think you couldn't make bombs using a thorium-cycle reactor. Now we understand that it's just more difficult ... but the techniques have gotten better. The nuclear genie cannot be put back in the bottle any more than firearms or explosives can.

2023-10-02 21:46:25

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@npub1xg3…su2c US politics is an abusive relationship where the abused spouse can't leave.