This is one of my things I go off about. People sometimes tell me they want to move out of the city “for their kids” and I’m like are you crazy? The suburbs were hell as a kid. Can’t go anywhere because you don’t have a car and walking is dangerous and slow. I was always so jealous of my friends that lived in the city. They could just go do stuff

I also don’t have any social media unless you count this account. I had a similar thought years ago that it was just going to make me unhappy.

People at work the other day were talking about how they stress about which photos to post. I’m like why. That’s such a self inflicted wound.

I used to have a FB account because people used it for events, but I never posted, and I used adblock to hide the main feed.

Now when I do parties and stuff, I just send out Google calendar invites. (I should de-Google but that’s a long road I haven’t started down)

In crawl stone soup I had a win with every species and every background. They added more and I haven’t kept up, but it was a pretty big deal.

It’s a good rogue like. Recommend checking it out if you like the genre.

Language is what is spoken/written.

I don’t think any serious linguists are prescriptivists.

There are agreed upon standards for some contexts (eg: academic papers, newspaper articles, legal texts) but for casual conversation that doesn’t really apply.

Adams sucks and it’s embarrassing that people here elected him.

Friend of mine never got their driver’s license. They live in NYC and don’t need one. They also were concerned about safety- they have ADHD and are prone to inattentiveness, and they didn’t want to be driving a car when that manifested.

I have a license but I also live in NYC. I don’t need to drive. It’s pretty great. It’s expensive in time money space and externalized costs, and it’s often less effective than just taking public transit.

Unfortunately most of the US is resistant to investing in mass transit and density, so it’s going to be shitty car-first spaces for a while.

I do it to the subway doors sometimes. At least once it made someone laugh pretty hard, which was nice.

A verbal secret passphrase to identify yourself to your family would be pretty smart.

Most of the subway smells fine.

I remember being surprised that Bralessness had such a long and detailed article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bralessness

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44049/a-man-said-to-the-universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”

Written in like the 1890s. So straight forward. Feels modern.

I think a lot of people are kind of bad at written communication. It’s not an easy skill.

Often at work folks will write twice as many words and clauses as needed. The Hemingway editor ( https://hemingwayapp.com/ ) isn’t perfect, but I recommend they take a look at it.

I worked at a place where all the DB column names were like id_user, id_project. I hated it.

Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(

There’s probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.

If its free, then you are the product

Right. I get that. But I’d like to just pay once. I don’t like subscriptions. But since file storage has ongoing costs, it seems unlikely anyone would offer a pay-once-and-we’ll-host-your-files.

I want to get off Google photos, but I also don’t want to pay a subscription. And I don’t really want to self host. A pay once service I’d accept, but I haven’t seen one with an extremely cursory search. I don’t need any fancy features. Just store the photos, let me see them online, and let me put them in albums.

It’s strangely satisfying when the “this will probably never happen” test case finds a problem during development.

I had tests for deleting that were like

• create item a
• create item b
• delete item a via the code under test
• assert item a is gone
• assert item b is still there

I thought maybe the whole bit with item b was excessive, but sure enough one day I accidentally fucked something up and deleted all the items, and the test pointed it out before the bad code left my local machine.

It was a gift from an old partner. I think she bought a nice bathrobe and then put all the stars on it herself.

T-shirt. Boxers. Sometimes a wizard robe. I work from home.

You can buy music from Bandcamp. You get it drm free. There may be other sites that sell music too, but Bandcamp is the one I’ve been using.

You can also still buy CD/vinyl and rip it yourself.