smitten

queer, interested in software, politics, games

attempts anticapitalist, antiracist, antifascist. anxiously shitposting. eminently mutable

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potential block universe believer. friend to spiders. more kiki but I have my bouba moments
#exCult #maskUp

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2024-09-19 11:10:11

humans can design things to last a long time, with replaceable parts, with standard connectors, made with sturdy material. but capitalism can't

2024-09-13 16:03:34

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@npub1s7y…u8ak that explains so much. Satan put the competence there to trick us

2024-09-13 15:30:02

they should make women's elections so that men don't get embarrassed by losing

2024-09-13 15:27:44

this misogynist reaction to Harris doing well would be funny if it weren't so gross and predictable. "it was gadget earrings". no wait they told her the questions ahead of time. "she was being fed answers through the ether using witchcraft". yeah you got it man, nailed it. but wait I thought White Jesus preferred Trump, how could he allow such shenanigans

2024-09-13 14:03:04

the cognitive dissonance of 'covid is over' and 'all my friends have covid' is strange enough.
but the reaction to masks of either "are you sick" or "you don't have to wear that" (increasingly also, "you aren't allowed to wear that"...).
In the words of Chidi, "this broke me."
if ever you needed more proof that psychological avoidance is the most important thing. if you needed proof that negative stimulus will make the receiver blame and distrust the source. an invisible threat completely glitches human thought process, we can't.

2024-09-11 17:10:37

year first date formats aren't correct, nope. the year is the least relevant piece of information in daily life, it shouldn't come first. if you are looking at historical data sure, year becomes the most relevant. but we shouldn't start with that. should your address begin with the continent?

2024-09-11 12:42:00

this talking point about immigrants eating pets is decades old, it's been used against people forever and it's so gross that they bring this up again.
meanwhile Trump and his failsons fly to other countries to hunt exotic animals and pose next to their corpses. in some cases illegal poaching, or throwing enough money around in bribes that it ends up being legal on paper. repulsive white men thinking they have the right to kill any creature that walks this earth

2024-09-10 23:23:06

is Wikipedia the most trustworthy institution on earth? I think so. and it's made of a sea of irritable nerds fighting and researching their special interests. this is what humanity is about and what an LLM can never be

2024-09-09 16:57:26

my web browser hot take -
a link to a different origin should always open in a new tab

2024-09-08 22:44:18

not being afraid of climate change is like saying 'what, you're afraid of the weather?'
yes I am afraid of the weather

2024-09-08 16:00:14

starting to think fedi is bad because people are bad. I have this same feeling in public too

2024-09-02 14:54:01

I like this video from FunkyFrogBait. The first 10-15 minutes covered the bulk of it, but they go into more depth and history in the second half. I thought it was a particularly good point they made that there don't tend to be many older trad wife influencers. Often because those women end up escaping their religious and patriarchal confinement, with stories to tell about regret, financial struggles, and resentment over the ways that their earlier 'decisions' had actually been forced on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRhm6te-Fg

2024-09-02 14:11:12

"why are CEOs lying? they keep saying they can move so quickly with LLMs and can code stuff in less than a day"
they could be lying. but have you considered that they think that the code works because they don't understand how anything works? they may never realize the code doesn't work

2024-08-30 19:31:04

thank entropy

2024-08-25 23:04:01

whenever I see media doing the 'your meds are actually the problem, you're fine' trope, I think "oh this must have been made by scientologists"

2024-08-15 23:58:08

society is so polarized. between evil people and merely annoying people

2024-08-15 00:04:12

one thing I did like about Discordanism, everyone has the right to "completely rework the Erisian church"

2024-08-12 22:50:39

my brother in walled garden you installed the app

2024-08-08 14:12:04

if your fancy company gets hacked and exposes a lot of customer data it should be nationalized

2024-08-06 20:34:06

MSNBC is not owned by Microsoft (anymore, since 2012)

2024-08-06 17:59:08

no my religion does not reject medicine, in fact it embraces evidence based treatment and prevention. which is why doctors are assholes

2024-07-28 16:45:01

AIDS is in living memory. It's only been 40-50 years since the start, number of deaths peaked in 1995. I meet gay people who remember their friends dying. You can talk to people who were diagnosed right at the beginning of the effective treatments, and weren't sure if the science would progress faster or the infection would.
You know who I almost never meet? Straight people who remember losing a brother, or an uncle, or a cousin.

2024-07-24 22:52:22

it's been great to see how him picking Vance is pretty universally being seen as a huge mistake

2024-07-24 03:06:01

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@npub1e2p…aqmc so true

2024-07-24 03:05:33

why is life like this

2024-07-23 23:29:15

Ipsos/Reuters poll out today has Harris ahead nationally 44% to 42%. Including Kennedy, still leading 42% to 38% to 8%.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-leads-trump-44-42-us-presidential-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-23/

2024-07-23 20:56:14

part of why millennials are cringe with our references is that there just weren't that many memes back in the day. you have to understand there were times where the same one meme lasted us weeks or months

2024-07-21 20:36:15

reductio ad absurdum, it would be absurd to suggest we don't have free choice. so it could not be so

2024-07-20 23:49:57

if anything the media is usually too calm. so no I don't think I'm freaking out because of the media

2024-07-20 23:49:57

if anything the media is usually too calm. so no I don't think I'm freaking out because of the media

2024-07-20 14:18:12

and that's how I lost my bonus... yep, just got the usual $160 million salary. it was a hard year

2024-07-16 14:59:14

I had a prophetic vision that next summer will be hotter

2024-07-15 16:30:38

I recommend analyzing everything from the perspective of emotions instead of rational statements. lately I've been finding that analyzing the rational statements leads to circles that make no sense and contradict reality. but from the perspective of avoiding unpleasant emotions and de-legitimizing people who are sources of unpleasant emotions, everything clicks, nothing is confusing anymore

2024-07-14 21:57:41

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@npub1s7y…u8ak yeah I guess they routed around that contradiction immediately

2024-07-14 21:57:41

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@npub1s7y…u8ak yeah I guess they routed around that contradiction immediately

2024-07-14 17:51:44

the right wing has been railing against pedophiles for so long but they always not so secretly meant queer people. not good Christian straight guys, not people in the foster system, not religious leaders. only the already-marginalized people on whom they project those sins. so this is a very confusing moment for them

2024-07-08 19:11:01

Remember when Rachel Maddow asked what Clinton would do to pull over Bernie Sanders' supporters? Her answer was "I'm winning!" This moment feels exactly like spring of 2016.

2024-07-06 21:35:02

Physics Girl live stream is talking about how often ME/CFS medications are used off-label. and that insurance companies won't pay because the person doesn't have the official matching diagnosis code.

2024-07-06 15:54:01

scum adjacent to the left of me, raw milk drinkers to the right, here I am

2024-07-04 16:43:12

mushroom

2024-07-04 16:42:58

why is it always grass

2024-06-17 19:12:15

admins can rewrite your DMs

2024-06-08 14:56:04

use linux so that you get this rad cursor
https://key.portend.place/files/b7f3f680-4ee5-4f3c-b114-04085c8fa34d

2024-06-04 19:04:25

AI at pride

2024-06-04 16:49:47

lies, damn lies, and public health

2024-05-29 22:40:02

if people didn't depend on the stock market for their retirement account I don't think it would ever come up. 401k was a sneaky way to give even more money to wall street and make people emotionally invested in it to boot

2024-05-25 16:29:24

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@npub19fc…ay3c I have heard some really cute stories about geese defending livestock or pets. but it doesn't seem very predictable who they will choose to target with their aggression

2024-05-24 03:11:52

they should make a kind of VOD that you can read in a few minutes

2024-05-24 02:22:34

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@npub19y8…wxgj I ask for so little

2024-05-24 02:14:08

wait is that Jennifer Connelly from Labyrinth, 1986? yeah it is

2024-05-23 03:42:49

"What tech issue radicalized you?"
Aaron Swartz downloaded PDFs from JSTOR so they hit him with a 13-count indictment and MIT didn't even step in to help him

2024-05-20 01:55:24

you don't need an IDE and you don't need neovim, you can just type in notepad

2024-05-19 14:16:10

I've seen no evidence of wrongdoing. that evidence was thoroughly destroyed

2024-05-17 21:39:12

did it work? am I here

2024-05-14 19:05:57

will every villain be gay for the whole doctor who season?

2024-05-14 19:05:57

will every villain be gay for the whole doctor who season?

2024-05-13 22:22:47

The Dems care about the climate,
they made it easier to get an electric vehicle
No, they made it easier to get $7,500 off a brand new EV. the average EV costs $37k.
But when China made an EV that could be sold for less than $15k, they put a tariff on it so no one could get it.
buying a new vehicle is already a luxury that most people can't afford. 90%+ of new car buyers own a home. This is the kind of climate action you can expect, making it easier for financially secure people to get a Tesla.

2024-05-10 10:04:54

people evolved to have 500 followers, tops. some of you on here are going against nature

2024-05-07 15:26:31

the moon is the same phase for everyone