Thymos

It was such a simple yet fun device. It had really good sound and an equaliser, which was special at the time. Played loads of music on it. Great battery life too. No WiFi, but honestly, that might be a plus nowadays.

A long time ago I watched DistroTube a lot. He made content about Linux and Emacs, just chatting about it into a mic. It was relaxing content.

Then one day he uploaded a video about his gun, why he has a gun and gun rights and shit. He had all sorts of dumb takes, I don’t even remember. After that I just couldn’t watch him anymore.

• I usually sit on the couch sideways with two pillows in my back. I have a reading light now that I face towards the book. That made a big difference since I no longer have to stretch my neck to see the page.
  Back in university I had to read two books a week, that was tough. To stay concentrated I would sit at a desk or table with bright lights on.
• I mostly read at night now, after my boyfriend has gone to sleep. He’s sweet and all, but can be very loud and distracting, so reading is practically impossible if he’s around. It sucks, but hey.
• I rarely take notes, but if I do it’s in my note app on my phone. Which is kinda annoying, and might be why I don’t take many notes…
• I don’t have a recommendation, but what I noticed myself about reading difficult material is that I sometimes lack some prerequisite knowledge. The book itself usually doesn’t make this explicit of course, but it can help to read a summary of the book first or a Wikipedia page about the topic before going in.

False dichotomy? The host pretends that the only options are “We need to keep I.C.E.” and “we abolish I.C.E. and let children be raped”. There are of course plenty of other options, but he just keeps shouting this point as if there aren’t.

Ah, I didn’t know he had explained that, thanks. That’s a very manipulative way to go about things. Glad it was discovered.

guys and gals who have not had the ability to read or predict social cues nor understand how some acts will look like for outsiders.

I guess the dev in question here is either young or on the spectrum. Both are alright and we all make mistakes.

Definitely, even if old and neurotypical, we all make mistakes. And that’s okay.

I’m not sure how much of a mistake this was, though. Why would they hide the banlist in such a way if they weren’t worried about social repercussions? Wouldn’t they just proudly announce it as a great new feature, especially if they lacked social tact? It seems to me the only reason to obscure your actions like this is precisely because you’re worried you might stir up a shitstorm.

But maybe there’s another explanation for hiding the list that I can’t think of.

I live there. Car-free neighbourhoods are very rare here. I live in a big city and there isn’t a single one. So don’t get your hopes up.

Also, the Netherlands is very densely populated. It’s hard to really get away from society and even in national parks it’s hard to find a place where you don’t hear the constant background noise of traffic. And it’s only getting worse.

I think what is exceptional for English is that negation and forming a question require a modal verb. You can say “I love apples” but not “*I not love apples”, nor “*Love I apples?”. This is rare in a language. (An exception for negation could be “Apples, I love not”, but this does not sound like everyday speech.)

Do you mean Grow Cube?

For anyone like me who didn’t know about the Stockholm Telephone Exchange Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower

It’s available on archive.org. I might read this next, thanks!

I’d prefer a [HUMAN] tag for projects without A.I. But yes, tags would be welcome.

Marriage is something for the wealthy. If you live on welfare in my country and you get married or share a household, you get less money. Also, if you want to marry a foreigner, you need to earn a minimum amount of money, which is unobtainable for a lot of people. This is on purpose to make sure we get less “poor foreigners” here. So marriage is not and never will be for me.

You can always just load the page of your instance (lemmy.org) in a browser, sign in, done.

Growing up I really loved the animated series Alfred Jonathan Quack or Alfred Kvakk in Norwegian. It’s about a duck, his farther (I think) is a mole and the antagonist is a nazi-styled crow called Dolf. My favourite episode was about this island they visited which turned out to be the shell of this gigantic turtle.

Another favourite was The World of David the Gnome. It’s about a gnome who lives in or under a tree and has all sorts of adventures with animals. The books it’s based on are also great, I still have them.

I don’t know if you can still find these series since they’re pretty old.