Wandering Adventure Party

Why are we CW piracy? Knock it off.

Unless it’s the getting kidnapped by swashbucklers kind, I do not care if piracy gives you the vapors.

For another, the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, especially by left-leaning types who call you a fascist if you oppose abortion or affirmative action.

My Texan coworkers are the silliest people when it comes to cold weather. They’re experiencing palpable distress and fear when I know for a fact that their house has plenty of heat and supplies.

I’m generally of the opinion that being involved in drama once in a while is one thing, but constantly being involved invokes an aggregate suspicion.

Like even if you’re individually innocent in each case, it still is evidence that you’re serial shit-stirrer, a poor communicator, a drama queen, or something along those lines.

I’ve gotten a lot of Mileage out of avoiding that kind of person.

@Fireweed@famichiki.jp alcohol self-medication is never a good thing, so I am glad you are off that track. I hope you’re able to recover and that things slow down for you.

@yon@sakurajima.moe You cannot convince me that these people do not like the boobs. It was advertised, it was a central thing, they sat through dozens if not hundreds of hours of this core thing, and then they write up a scandalized comment like they just walked into it an innocent victim. Not buying it.

That’s guilt, virtue signaling and embarrassment. That’s feeling yucked about yumming it and needing to generate cover.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @fridgelite@ck.catwithaclari.net I admit I would be far more satisfied when paying for things if it involved slapping down handfuls of gold coins on the counter like some 3rd century animal skin wearing barbarian.

@Fireweed@famichiki.jp are we reading anything good recently?

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net another way of saying they pass their product through whatever fly-by-night factory offered the lowest bid that year and they can’t verify whatever else was made that day.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems the one that gets me is BetterHelp. Tons of podcasts and videos push this service to vulnerable people. If it was a good service, whatever, but BetterHelp is well known for their scummy practices at this point. It drives me nuts listening to like, a leftist podcast complaining about the exploitation of people for profit, and then cutting to a BetterHelp ad with the excuse of “well, I’m just paying the bills”.

Like Fuck you guys, that’s everyone’s excuse.

The funny thing about being just a little strange sometimes is that oft people don’t know how to react, so by peer pressure they also act a little strange and soon everyone is being a big ol weirdo.

Ah, that’s why so many dog and cat rescues come from Texas / the south.
Basically

* better climate for strays
* less money for neuter programs
* less of a culture of neutering
* more of a culture of letting animals wander.
* greater poverty.

Combine that with higher adoption and less intake in the northern states (due to not having the above problems), and you have a supply / demand pair.

But seriously ffs get your animal fixed, especially if you’re going to do something dumb like let it wander.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net if you’re curious about this, it is defined as a part of IEC-60529, as are the test methods. Though for reasons that have always baffled me, IEC standards cost a pretty penny, so good luck getting a hold of it.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net A 5 (“dust protected”) in dust means that the amount of dust accumulated inside the device after being subject to test chamber filled with 50um talcum powder particles was not enough to hamper the device. A 6 means there was no dust (“dust tight”). This is extremely hard to achieve, since at that size of particle it basically means your device has to be practically fully sealed, which is pretty painful.

So overall a dust of 5 is not bad.

@niko@gts.niko.lgbt
Amazingly, each plate only costs $16 dollars!!

I like cookbooks because it’s less work to search them than the online bullshit.

But the author of each and every single one of them needs to be forced marched out of their bougie little LA or NYC ultra rich neighborhood at gunpoint and locked into a publix or other discount store for at least a year before they’re allowed to write anything else. The books are always somewhat disconnected from reality and utterly organized like ass.

@Fireweed@famichiki.jp

It's something I have been wrestling with a lot the last year as well. I find I care too much, try to do too much, and end up suffering bouts of Compassion Fatigue and isolation.

I don't know if it fits your situation, but something of a north star I'm seeking is focusing on the mutual aspect. I will probably always feel more responsibility to care more than the other individual, but mutual care should exist and be cultivated, even if it requires artificially requesting it (e.g., "Can you do X for me?") just to train those muscles, and I should not too greatly exceed that level of mutual return.

And the lower bound ... I guess it's as little as you can stomach while still being at peace with yourself. Still haven't figured this one out at all. We can't save everyone, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't save anyone either. Each of us is all we have. I don't know. I just know I feel the struggle. Let me know if you figure something out.

@niko@gts.niko.lgbt I had this thought about two years ago. So I got a friend and we packed up to go camp at a dark-sky preserve. I made some beer, and we went and found a spot and just spent hours chatting and drinking under the stars in pitch blackness.

It was great. I think everyone should do it, and we should treat our night sky like any ecological environment.

It can be a show of strength to accept a thing. It can be a show of strength to reject a thing.

I hope we know which is which when we see it.

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems don’t worry there is no need to explain. I already have you written down as “Is ‘ride or die’ for Finish”

(This was just gentle joking, for reference. No actual judgment)