Wandering Adventure Party

@velvet@zoner.work @robustjumprope yeah, they run themselves like a cousin who uses their parents money to continuously chase get-rich schemes instead of focusing on anything important.

Mobile OS, web-companies, privacy tools, and now LLMs. What’s funny is that maybe some of these could have been something, but they could never commit when it didn’t pay out immediately. They fad-chase, which is why the LLM features are so frustrating. It’s just another iteration in the same path of foolishness.

Meanwhile, Firefox languishes. It’s dumb.

Advice: Most people receive a reply-comment better if you just let them know you agree with them first.

The first of my seedlings are coming up ​​

The Zinnias and Marigolds I planted are the first to come up with gusto. But some herbs and and vegetables are peaking through

Watching seedlings come up is probably my favorite part of the growing season. ​​

@robustjumprope That’s rough. Time skips are one of my most hated devices in manga. It’s almost always a “I’ve written myself into a corner and need to hand wave things since I lack the skill to make the needed developments compelling”

The next most hated in media in general is a forceful return to status quo. Combining these two would probably make me rage quit any series outright. Good luck.

I had a lovely exchange at the bookstore today. I was checking because it’s been 2 weeks since I placed my order without communication and I wasn’t sure they had my number right.

Her: “It should be here in 3 business days”
Me: “alright, so see you after Wednesday thereabouts?”
Her: “No it should be here Monday or Tuesday”
I wanted to say “You know what, sure. you can’t math and that’s ok. ”

Chat today.

Agrees that social housing would be great a great start on the unhoused problem.
agrees that Medicare for all would be good.
agrees that the fed should do more and better food support
Thinks Iran conflict is bad.
is a rabid MAGA supporter.

so many of them are so close.

@yon@sakurajima.moe it’s only gotten more important to me. I care a lot about other people’s time and the commitments I make. I’m somewhat conservative in what I calendar or agree to, entirely out of the fact that I want to ensure I can complete it. I notice many people will schedule two things with overlap and just sorta ‘hope’ it all works out. I can’t stand that, even if I have to make some hard choices.

Showing up late tends to gut me personally for that reason. I hate wasting other people’s time, because I know how hard it is for other adults. It’s like you said though; it’s entirely about respecting other people. No one gets to tell you how valuable your personal time is.

@yon@sakurajima.moe the Germans / Scandinavians are totally right about this. Words mean things. If I was meeting with +/- 15 minutes, I would say so.

And anyone I’ve held to the fire has never contested I was wrong, just acted with a sort petulance for being caught in an inconvenient truth.

@ann3nova@corteximplant.com no kidding. I view it as disrespectful. I just hate that this shit is so endemic.

@mikoto@urusai.social the daily struggle. Our biologies are not designed for the lives we put them in. Good luck in staying awake.

let’s meet at 1:30
it’s exactly 1:30
them: I just left (20 minute drive)

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but when you say ‘let’s meet at (time)” that is not some ambiguous statement or when ‘the event’ begins for you. It’s when your mortal coil should be at the agreed upon location.

@yon@sakurajima.moe A mess, sure, but in the 'Democracy is the worst system, except all the others' way. From 'running a site' prospective it'd probably be nightmarish, but it would go a long way to healing some of the damage the web has done to us.

I also think democracy in a web framework has to be mandatory, even if that vote is just to abstain. I don't think it would work tied to the web's attention economy.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe And yeah, incoming piece about how the high gas prices will be good, or how democrats are <ruining x>, thus driving up cost.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe They're already up in my area. Totally agree with what you said about Gas price voting. It's 'shit I can see affecting me' voting, and it drives me nuts, especially when they purposely have their heads buried in the sand for most things.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe The republicans in my area have been remarkably silent on Iran. It's like even they can sense the depravity of this situation.

(Not that they'll do anything or change their mind. They'll bear with a little discomfort if Trump ensures they don't have to memorize people's pronouns. You know, a little discomfort).

Outside of that; just as planned, right? A large part of the Republican platform is to gaslight people into believing that their government can't affect these things, so the people will stop expecting action that may curtail the powers of the upper classes.

You can’t blame people for being bad at democracy. Most people spend very little of their lives living in democratic forms.

Look where we are; even the fediverse is not a democratic space. Like most of the web, it’s an accidental feudal space, where the yeoman user lives under the Lord Administrator and their knight moderators, who generally act with “extra-legal” authority.

Yes this all driven by the capitalistic way the web is set up. The fact is that the deployments, domains, and hosting bills must be owned and paid for by someone, but that doesn’t change the fact that the organization of spaces we live in train us to our norms.

You could go from work (a feudal space), to home (a private space) to hanging out online (a feudal space) and spend pretty much zero time living in a democratic space.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net my bad. I didn’t notice you mentioning them below.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net More than one. Konqueror was the default file manager AND browser for a time. I think most people prefer Falkon (formly QupZilla) for KDE web now.

There's also Angelfish for mobile.

Character is low-class chump
By fortune, character gets power.
Character by in large, is just mad that he was stepped on, not that he was stuck in a shitty, arbitrary hierarchy, and implicitly goes on to support it.

I sorta judge authors a bit when this is how their characters react to power.