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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • This. One thing I couldn’t stand about Reddit was seeing people who have so little going on in their lives that they thought it worthwhile to “background check” other posters.

    This was a big thing with Twitter too. “Oh, they follow such-and-such in their list of 10,000 follows, who turned out to be bad in recent news, so this person’s views are worthless and they must also be bad!”

    Like, being able to have a quick glance and be like "Ah this is clearly a bot / hate-troll / what-haves, can be handy for some sense of accountability, but purity-testing and association-mobs are the stuff of cautionary science fiction, and should be avoided.


  • Hehe I kinda like this.

    People are very used to seeing short-attention-span success stories. And budding creators are often very self-conscious because of that expectation.

    The stuff in the middle before people even notice the work sometimes comes across as “cringe”, and I think being afraid to cross that barrier stops a lot of people from improving or sharing themselves with the world.

    Sometimes you gotta be willing to take that walk so that you earn the privilege of being able to turn around and laugh at the lessons learned later on…

    I dunno am I missing the point? Lol







  • Especially with Trump showing he’s not afraid to impose tariffs on a whim.

    Yeah I dunno 100% what comes imported from Brasil off the top of my head…Oh, my favorite coffee beans come from there!

    But boy oh boy are we U.S folk excited , thrilled even, to (checks papers) have handbag-baby-man frivolously attempt to bully other countries by threatening to (paper flip)…

    Punish us with even higher prices on goods and more foreign disdain. . .?

    Bros…I think we’re hostages but the hostage taker doesn’t understand countries or economics. Plz help I think it’s pretty clear this guy has a hate-boner for Americans. :(




  • You’re exactly right. And this is scary right now.

    They’ve been polarizing “tHe GuN iSsUe” for decades now, to divide people into easily sortable balls in their stupid game of “Hungry Hungry Hippos.” Playing with that fire has officially reached the “and find out” phase.

    On one hand, a large portion of 2A sided voters have started wearing stupid little red hats, buying even bigger smoking pickup trucks, and fallen to the side of literal nazis, (if they weren’t already nazis).

    A chunk of team red are terrified of the government but for some reason want our/their employers to have absolute rule of divine right or something.

    The other major faction has spent decades trying to actively disarm the people, enact bans, and straight up tried to get the Second Amendment removed. They’ve actively pushed disinformation and peddle ideas that scarier-looking firearms increase mass-murder potential and we should all be super afraid of them. “Only the rich and enlisted should be wielding these things!”

    Most of these voters’ ability to fight for their rights end at a picket line and some very harsh social media criticism. (Look out!)

    Both factions’ officials generally think everyday street cops would look absolutely baller rolling through town in more secondhand battle vehicles and fully automatic weaponry.

    My point is:

    For rational people who understand the core of our Constitution despite it going through various manipulative marketing filters throughout every cycle, it’s REALLY hard to know who your real friends are outside your immediate circle.

    So it’s more important than ever to organize as civilly as possible to fight this nonsense, but educate your friends on how to protect each other when that falls through. We’re quickly approaching a point where we can’t abide the privilege of ignorance if we’re to present meaningful resistance to these bullies.





  • It depends on the notes, for me:

    I’ve had an oddly long-running obsession with Tiddlywiki!

    It has a bit of a learning curve, but it’s VERY flexible. My favorite part being that by default it’s just a single, portable, HTML file. No special app required besides a browser, no accounts, and you can just sync it like any other file. (Syncthing, Nextcloud, and friends)

    There’s also an app called Tiddloid for Android to make managing and saving a little easier, but they open in any browser.

    I have a Tiddlywiki that I use like one might use Obsidian, where I just stash stuff I’ll want to remember and maybe link between similar ideas.

    And then I’m currently trying to use it to make a solution to sketch out my Savage Worlds RPG campaigns. It gets a little tricky but you can make templates, script buttons, and that kind of thing. If you’re already comfortable with web stuff you’ll probably catch on WAY better than I have.

    You can also host it as a website, or on your server or whatever, to use it like any other wiki. There’s also plugins to use Markdown instead of “wikitext.”

    There’s also an excellent guide to learning it at https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/ . It’s basically an online workbook using Tiddlywiki itself!

    The community is also super helpful. I do wish it had a little more out of the box, but something about a customizable, portable, digital “notebook” that doesn’t require an account or hopefully-supported-in-5-years application is SUPER appealing to me. It’s quite underrated.

    Also just for fun I wanted to share my favorite example someone’s been working on for quite some time now, a heavily customized D&D wiki

    https://intrinsical.github.io/wiki/index.html

    Tiddlywiki can be a bit dense and the documentation is slowly improving, but there’s so much potential!