Moz / is on Nostr

A lifelong resident of Yaramulla near Sydney, rides weird bikes and codes when bored. Entertains chickens for fun.

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2024-07-07 10:05:32

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it's important to ask "what breaks next"
You always want to have the weak link be something you can replace. Like the bolts. You definitely don't want it the be the chassis of the mower.
I build bicycle trailers and I've seen too many where the weak spot is the bike frame side of where the trailer attaches to the bike. It's annoying to break the frame of you bike...

2024-06-17 22:48:54

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presumably the 15 minutes s to give you time to caffeinise? Yoou start work at 8am, right ;)

2024-06-14 03:50:19

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it seems to be a browser thing, it's there in firefox but vivaldi doesn't let me scroll and the menu doesn't drop down, or respond when clicked. So my first look was very '13" the end'. I fear it's enabling more javascript sources that's the key.

2024-06-14 01:56:09

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Also, the 16" doesn't seem to be visible on the framework homepage? I had to use a search engine to find a link.

2024-06-14 01:55:11

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I'm excited by a laptop with a numeric keypad. For some reason I miss that a lot. The configurability is really handy, mostly in not paying for what I don't use. Getting a "big" screen on a latop is very spendy but I am old, I want a large print laptop just for web browsing.
I recently bought a refurbished Dell 13" though, so it'll be (hopefully) 5+ years before I need to buy another. Unless 13" turns out to be just too ridiculously small to read.

2024-05-27 00:40:11

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How about a different approach: what are you doing to make things better? If voting for the less awful option is something you won't do, what's something you will do?

2024-05-27 00:36:26

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But that's not the only question.
You're also refusing to vote for the candidate that supports democracy, so you're explicitly sayin "democracy: good or bad"... either is fine, I don't care.
Likewise the climate catastrophe... you don't care
Abortion/forced birth: you don't care.
I honestly fear for people who can say that stuff. I'm also concerned about your previous voting history (if you have ever voted for anyone), because this isn't the first genocide the US has supported.

2024-05-26 23:41:11

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That is to say, there's more than one issue at play. It's entirely reasonable to rank the issues across both how much difference there is between options as well as how strongly you feel.
So you might say, well both options like genocide, I hate it a a lot, so ... it has no effect on my vote.
But, I dunno, one option likes the colour yellow, the other hates it. I think liking yellow is important, so I'm inclined to vote for that option.

2024-05-26 23:38:31

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that's an observation. For example, in Australia as in the US we have "both sides" (ie, both plausible Prime Ministers) actively supporting genocide.
BUT, and this is important, there are still differences between them. Even more so in the USA, where one side is "democracy is bad and we want to get rid of it, we also love genocide" while the other is willing to continue with democracy but also likes genocide.
Refusing to vote is saying you don't care whether democracy continues.

2024-05-26 23:30:06

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what if the choice is between people who all support genocide? You're judging people whose choice is between expressing no preference and voting for someone who supports genocide.
In Australia with preferential voting it's even worse, since we (generally) have to preference all candidates to cast a valid vote.
And we regularly have to explain that "I don't have a preference between fascist-adjacent and actual fascist" *is* still a preference.

2024-05-15 04:30:29

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here's a US-based explanation of one of the problems and how they're trying to overcome it:
https://publications.ici.umn.edu/impact/23-2/sexual-expression-for-adults-with-disabilities-the-role-of-guardianship
> Sexual and intimate relationships were included within the kinds of relationships over which plenary guardians exercised control.
List the ways that could go wrong...
(I'm trying to convey "you might think that but other disagree")

2024-05-15 04:25:37

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Oh, I've spent enough time with disabled people to have been exposed to a variety of sexualities and opinions. Sometimes quite vigorously :)

2024-05-15 04:25:00

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the sex educator I recall being problematic has taken their blog down, but they were bizarrely admant that any disability at all made someone unable to consent. So Adam Hills, for example, can't have sex (one legged comedian most famous for "The Last Leg" series)
I meant my comment literally as in "if you find a research paper that portrays all gay sex with blind people as inherently abusive it may be because they don't think disabled folk can consent".

2024-05-15 04:18:09

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The obvious answer is to ask a blind organisation.
The problem you really have is than online no-one can tell that you use a screen reader, so asking in r/gayasfuck or whatever it wouldn't be easy to tell who was a typical reddit shitposter and who was actually blind.
(edit: OMG that subreddit actually exists. Satire really is dead)

2024-05-15 04:01:57

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FWIW there's a whole lot of problematic language in sexuality education around the idea that "disabiled people can't consent to sex" that vigorously offends a lot of disabled people. So you should be cautious about research that doesn't state clearly their position on whether disabled people *can* have sex rather than necessarily being subject to sexual assault.

2024-05-15 04:01:10

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I have only hung out with a few blind people, but they seem to cover the normal gamut of human sexuality.
I'm more used to the problem being for folk in wheelchairs and similar physical disabilities where "only perverts want to have sex with disabled people" (I'm trying to use polite language). One friend was dating a wheelchair user who enjoyed using blunt language to shock arseholes.

2024-05-15 03:54:29

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There was a cluster of gay deaf guys where I went to university. They were fun, especially once I learned enough sign language to follow some of the conversation.
And I had one friend at high school who was blind and gay, but he had a disability that killed him in his 30's so I can't really ask questions now... well, technically I can ask, but he's not answering my calls. Didn't seem to affect him any more than straight blind people.