This guy fucks!

Yeah, it fucking hurts! Get mad, nerd! The object of your desire cannot recognize you until you punch-dance your feelings.

I added it because it is the subject we are discussing. Your comments are vaguely coherent but have no real point.

Unchecked corporate power is THE problem and corporations are a small club of people of a specific demographic with a history of protectionism and shady dealings to protect their power.

It is perfectly valid to point out the root cause of problems, in this case the corporate cabal that needs to be dismantled.

CEOs are factually and demonstrably overwhelmingly white males, far out of proportion to general demographics. Since when did pointing out a statistical fact become divisive?

Awesome, thanks. It feels so good to be hip once more!

I must be so old.

“My mango is to explode then <shrug> next question?”

Yea, child abuse is horrible. Intentionally setting your child up for lifelong risk of avoidable sickess or early death is clearly child abuse.

Not a great case if you really think about the implications, unless they legislatively make human drivers completely illegal. There’s an even better case for just investing in mass transit to get more personal cars off the roads, and encouraging other modes of personal transport auch as bicycles.

I am just not interested in helping to build a world with a panopticon in my personal car.

I love OpenSCAD and also realize it is a super backward way to make 3D models, according to most other people. I don’t bother even mentioning OpenScad as an option for most people, I know it is only for certain people.

I tried my hand at modeling and designing using more traditional CAD programs that work more visually. I have good spatial reasoning and visualization abilities but I could never get the breakthrough to a point where I felt literate in those tools.

Constructive Solid Geometry approaches just work for my brain. Now when I need a part designed, I can quickly sketch it out in rough code and I feel confident seeing myself as a ‘designer’ now. Other more ‘visual’ tools waste my time as I get sucked into finger painting instead of working out the fundamentals of the design.

With the code-first framework, I have to really think about what the part needs to do before I tweak the code.

They did invent the word schadenfreude after all. I blame Krampus.

I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’

A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.

Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.

And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.

Super cool project. I visited, and I hope you keep building the site stats views out. So many people are curious about self hosting and solar, if you just kept it as a demo that shows how the system holds up over longer term, well I know I would appreciate occasional reminders to check it out. It may inspire others to try similar things.

And I would have happily signed any digital wall you implemented.

Sure, I understand annoyance with the enshittification of words with real clinical meanings. I am sick to death of how dumb popular discourse is around autism and adhd, and dissociation is clearly next on the list to be made stupid. So I hear you.

I guess I have come to see popular recognition of mental health terms as a double edged sword. It’s good in the sense that having a less-pejorative and hurtful term for a variant of human behavior is better than the ignorant hurtful alternatives.

‘Neurodivergent’ can be a lot less damaging as a label than ‘spaz’ or other archaic playground labels, as an example that is close to home for me.

I have found it easier to explain misconceptions about these sort of terms to the few people in my life who even give a crap to know the real truth. Explaining an entirely new complex word? Well it is much harder to find a receptive audience.

So pick your poison, I suppose. Either have to try to explain GRE (graduate record exam, a test for US grad school admission) vocabulary words from scratch to semi-literate relatives who only care maybe a little. Or drop a subtle hint at a chill moment to nudge their misuse toward a better path?

Either option still sucks, but I guess I will take the misunderstandings over the incomprehension.

Dissociation is a real thing that is very common. Why do you think it is not?

They are so beautiful under magnification. Some morphs have gold flecks on the antennas and other amazing details you can only really see with a hand lens.

Can we get Ron Howard to deliver the last line?

You have told us what you both watch, but what do either of you do that isn’t just consuming someone elses creative work?

Plot twist: all personal and work internet access is free! (when channeled through the 7g gubbmint chip implanted in your brain at birth)

Brilliant! It’s like a pawn shop without the overhead of a physical storefront.

‘Squids’ is a good daily-driver descriptor. I prefer to go straight to ‘organ donors’ usually.