Wandering Adventure Party

@dopey_kun@sakurajima.moe @jellal@sakurajima.moe traditional Ice Tea in my area is unsweetened (though most bottled brands are infuriatingly “slightly sweetened”). If served sugar is something someone is expected to add on their own.

Though In the southern United States if you ask for “tea” you will get a glass of “sweet tea” which is an iced tea that is sweetened to a degree I can only characterize as “repugnant”.

@dopey_kun@sakurajima.moe they do sell it in plastic bottles that are a bit easier to manage, but they’re kinda rare in my experience.

Yeah, an Arnold Palmer is also known as a “Half and Half” though in a bar you’ll often see it with alcohol added. When I make mine I often macerate peach slices with it. Simple, but something about the bitterness of tea and the sweet/sour of lemonade does it for me.

@dopey_kun@sakurajima.moe Arizona teas are large, even by American standards. They're always a bit watered down, but they're cheap so who can complain? They're kinda meh to me, but good enough.

Though the Arnold Palmer (Lemonade and tea mix) is one of my favorite drinks, enough that I often make it myself at home.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net Goodnightmorning.

I think I've encountered my first book that I think was written by AI. I won't name it because I can't be certain.

The narrator repeats things within the same context, like "I heard voices from behind the door [middle middle middle] and as I approached, I could hear voices beyond the door". This could be bad writing if it didn't happen so often. The narrator also follows an extremely formulaic paragraph structure. Action, then pithy analysis. "People did the thing. Smart, polished. Just like ...". It's uncanny valley as fuck. I also think the structure of 'Old X, new world, the same principles applied" is trigger for me. I can kinda hear the prompt used in the work.

Luckily this book cost me nothing, but I am kinda depressed by the whole thing.

@Primavera@void.lgbt 100%.

Even if done honestly it communicates a certain ... selfishness. You're asking someone to take deep risks and put themselves out there with only a 'trust me bro' assurance. You teach people to trust you, you can't just demand it.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club Yep. Constant problem with this person and their family. They often want to do stuff, but they struggle to put it in the books and communicate it. So it's always "Hey, want to do X" on super short notice, putting me in a position where I have to drop everything or they get butthurt for not participating.

... So in general I have a stated 'if you don't give me 24 hours notice, the answer is no" policy. Unfortunately this time I actually really want to do the thing their asking, and we've been talking without commitment about it for a couple of weeks. I'm just really annoyed since I kinda feel like they're exploiting me to cross this boundary, and I do have other things that need doing this sunday. ​​

11:30PM
Text: "Hey, I know it's late, but I want to drop by tomorrow morning"

Crockers rules came up again.

The people who broadcast wanting bluntness and hating politeness are often some of the most fragile people I have met. It’s some kind of weird bravado.

Yes you’ve pulled a 14 hour work day and you’ve been awake for nearly 24 hours, but you still have time for me, right?

It’s not that working on this Typescript codebase is making me dumber, but It is making me have less room for thoughts that aren’t pure violence.

It looks Washington state is getting an 9.9% income tax bracket, but only on households making over a million dollars.

It was of course, fought tooth and nail by state republicans who are now moving to challenge it in the courts since the WA Governor has signaled he will sign it into law.

I’m curious to read the full text of the bill, but it’s about 100 pages of high tax law. It’ll be a bit…
This doesn’t close the asset hole I think? But Washington and other states are dying of budget shortfalls, so this is a good initial step.

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net A brief look tells that the Queensland narrow gauge decision goes to cost cutting measures in the 1890s. The Gold Coast decision seems to boil down to Bombardier having won the design contract, and they already had a standard gauge tram design with manufacturing ready to go, thus making their bid more economical (?). That last part is a little hard to nail down.

So basically: moment-in-time cost decisions all around, consequences be damned.

@izzy@social.shadowkat.net I mean you sorta are in the way you’re fighting for a domain name, I guess.

Cool. Shop is quoting $900. Didn’t want to do anything fun this month anyways.

I think from now on I am just going to hang up on anyone eating on the phone. If our base setting level of respect is such that you can’t stop stuffing your face for 5 minutes then I’m done.

The fact that no one can afford their god damn cars and the resulting fact that I have to constantly help them get them fixed is really getting on my fucking nerves. I have spent so much money on cars that are not my own that I’m about to scream.

I just spent $500 helping someone fix their car less than two weeks ago. Now it needs to go back and they’re still just as broke.

I’m not mad at the people; no one wants this. I’m mad at this stupid fucking system, and these pieces of shit no one can afford to own but they must have to survive.

@mikoto@urusai.social I don’t know how it is in the Mastodon-glitch world, but for others: on Sharkey (and maybe misskey?) one can set their reaction acceptance to “Likes only”.

I agree the ability to remove individual reactions would be nice. There’s a lot I’d like from reactions. I wish that reactions allowed the same kind of alt text as images. It’d help just to be able to copy a description of the text and throw it in a machine translator. I’d also like them to collapse into one, instead of being per-instance. It’d be nice if I could +1 another instance’s reaction. The whole implementation seems somewhat half-baked…

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club I am resisting opening a fire hose as I am a home brewer (I make my own beer!). I am happy to answer any questions you have ​​

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club Both Modelo and Bud are classified as “American Adjunct lagers”, so they are stylistically similar.

I am kinda assuming you are in the US market given you mentioned modelo and Bud.

You will find beers that taste wildly different however. There are MANY beer styles out there. Something common like say, Elysian Spacedust (An IPA, or imperial pale ale) is going to be far more floral and bitter, while something like Guinness extra stout is going to be sweeter and roasty.