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vehicles I've driven, in no particular order

volkswagen jetta

honda pilot

sonar 23 foot keelboat

possibly an early model chevrolet silverado, I don't really remember specifically

honda civic

mercedes sprinter cargo van

toyota camry

bmw x5

like four canoes

edit: why did I have this post my drafts? what point was I trying to make? was there a point I was trying to make?

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I mean. of course, yes, I have to assume the experienced, professional development team has a plan and is writing code commensurate with the implementation of said plan, and that as one person who taught themself javascript from hacking the legacy xkit code and without access to any of said plan I'm simply not in a position to create the right picture in my head to get the vision.

but like. man if the recent tumblr frontend components don't look from here like they have significant unnecessary/potentially unproductive levels of abstraction and configurability.

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Yeah, okay, sometimes I do look in the mirror and go, yeah, they could be pretty hot. Caveat being that the viewer would probably have to be really, really bi? Otherwise I'm really not seeing this happening.

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my fervent wish for a Tumblr Upgrade is a way to filter to only original posts on someone's blog. let me strip away the chaff of the self reflected in the other and come to truly know the random people who interact with my posts based on what they themselves choose to create and make available, jeez.

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dragon melting glass in its mouth and blowing bubbles with it

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Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

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did mobile web posts used to have rounded corners. they didn't did they

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should I make another github account to PR public projects that I don't want to be seen as part of the "team" for but would otherwise potentially do so by virtue of being on the very short contributors list

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do you think sociopathy is a real thing?

no psychiatric category or label is an entity-in-itself; these are artefacts of human taxonomical schemes. the question isn't whether it's 'real' but whether it's useful, to whom, & to what end

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how to write high fantasy

They dined at the castle that night, feasting upon fresh-caught river trout, cooked to crackly perfection over open flames, and served with lemon from the gardens.  There was roasted boar as well, from a mighty beast the hunters had slain, the huge chops basted in their own glistening fat.  They drank sweet summerwine, staining their lips red, and making their songs more merry as the night drew on.  And then the servants brought out platters of berries and cream and cakes, each one sweeter and more succulent than the last.

Also someone murdered the king or whatever.

For breakfast they had platters piled high with crisp bacon…

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>100,000 notes - mass market slop

10,000 notes - well executed crowd pleaser

1,000 notes - cult classic

100 notes - uncompromising avant-garde art for those of discerning taste

10 notes - misunderstood genius that the culture is not yet ready for

1 note - direct admission of suicidal ideation

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I wonder what the environmental benefits are, in total, of an apartment having a dishwasher. like, there's the water savings of washing an equivalent amount of dishes that way vs by hand (is my understanding), plus a nearly certain reduction in disposable and single use stuff because of a reduced difference in convenience factor... plus, I have to assume, some reduction in food delivery (and eating out?), which I have to assume in most cases have significant environmental impacts when compared to home food preparation? that one would have a lot of factors affecting the exact comparison, but like

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I wonder... during what period of life is each moment, on average, going to be remembered by you the most? It must be early in life, because you'll have more of the rest of your life to remember those moments than ones that occur later, but it presumably isn't super early since no one really remembers, like, their own birth.

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kind of weird, actually. I get github notifications when a user I follow forks a repository...

...into an organization with private membership, which I thus would normally have no way of associating with said user.

that very well might be a bug tbh

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why is there no way to switch to the activity page for a different blog on mobile web (and to see which have new activity). the user story of "see a new activity notification bubble -> click said bubble -> you are now on a page without the notification you clicked on and the only way to fix this is a click, a scroll, an arbitrary number of clicks and scrolls, and another click" seems. bad. is it like this in the apps?

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"framework made a desktop pc with soldered ram" I'm sorry what now