Okay will admit I wasn’t expecting this turn in the discourse
You guys speaking like every country in the world has easy access libraries smh
Great point — if only there was a way to access books for free if you don’t have access to a library. But what could that be? It’s surely not linked in the comment directly above you
A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.
This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.
But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.
But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!
And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.
But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.
Jazz convinced him to seek professional help.
transcript under the cut.
@floralflowerpower Oh my god please do, that would be awesome!
Spider-Gang/Firefly Incorrect Quotes
Pav: I mean, yes, I know why the plan called for a dress, but explain to me why Gwen wasn’t the one in it?
Hobie: Tactics, mate. Needed her on the rooftop. Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. Air flow.
Miles: And you know that because?
Hobie: You cannot open the book of my life and jump directly to the middle. I’m a man of mystery.
Miles: *to tied-up Green Goblin* Now, Norman, I don’t know how much you told Kingpin before we found you. I’ve made it Hobie’s job to find out
Hobie: He was non-specific as to how
Miles: *whispers to Hobie* Remember, just scare him
Hobie: Pain is scary
Miles: Just do it right
Gwen: What did I say about following me through the portal?
Miles: Uhhh, that it was manly and impulsive?
Gwen: Yes, precisely, only the exact phrase I used was “Don’t”
Hobie: Not only do you get to save your boyfriend, we get to do it right under Miguel’s nose. Hell, I’d do this job for free
Gwen: Can I have your share?
Hobie: No
Gwen: If you die, can I have your share?
Hobie: …Sure
Hobie: You guys might want to clear out. I hear there’s a thief around here
Pav: A thief?
Hobie: *pulling out Pav’s wallet* Yeah, snatched this clean off him
Gwen: Can I come over?
Miles: No
Gwen: *plopping on bed* See, this is why I never ask
Miles: A whole society of Spider-people? That sounds like something out of science fiction
Gwen: I’m from a different dimension, dear
Miles: …So?
*Spider-Gang finds Miles tied up on Earth-42*
Peter B: Hold on guys. This is something Miles needs to do for himself.
Miles: No! No it’s not!
Gwen: *teaching new Spider-people* First rule of battle, little ones. Never let them know where you are.
Miles: WOOOOOOOO! I’M RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE! YOU WANT SOME? YEAH YOU DO
*pre-ATSV*
Jess: Looks like we’re a man short on patrol.
Hobie: Yeah, Gwendie’s been a man short for 16 months
*muffled punch*
Hobie: Ow!
I've got these two sewing machines, made about 100 years apart. An old treadle machine from around 1920-1930, that I pulled out of the trash on a rainy day, and a new Brother sewing machine from around 2020.
I've always known planned obsolescence was a thing, but I never knew just how insidious it was till I started looking at these two side by side.
I wasn't feeling hopeful at first that I'd actually be able to fix the old one, I found it in the trash at 2 am in a thunderstorm. It was rusty, dusty, soggy, squeaky, missing parts, and 100 years old.
How do you even find specialized parts 100 years later? Well, easily, it turns out. The manufacturers at the time didn't just make parts backwards compatible to be consistent across the years, but also interchangeable across brands! Imagine that today, being able to grab a part from an old iPhone to fix your Android.
Anyway, 6 months into having them both, I can confidently say that my busted up trash machine is far better than my new one, or any consumer-grade sewing machine on the market.
The old machine? Can sew through a pile of leather thicker than my fingers like it's nothing. (it's actually terrifying and I treat it like a power tool - I'll never sew drunk on that thing because I'm genuinely afraid it'd sew through a finger!) At high speeds, it's well balanced and doesn't shake. The parts are all metal, attached by standard flathead screws, designed to be simple and strong, and easily reachable behind large access doors. The tools I need to work on it? A screwdriver and oil. Lost my screwdriver? That's OK, a knife works too.
The new machine's skipping stitches now that the plastic parts are starting to wear out. It's always throwing software errors, and it damn near shakes itself apart at top speed. Look at it's innards - I could barely fit a boriscope camera that's about as thick as spaghetti in there let alone my fingers. Very little is attached with standard screws.
And it's infuriating. I'm an engineer - there's no damn reason to make high-wear parts out of plastic. Or put them in places they can't be reached to replace. There's no reason to make your mechanism so unbalanced it's reaching the point of failure before reaching it's own design speed. (Oh yeah there is, it's corporate greed)
100 years, and your standard home sewing machine has gone from a beast of a machine that can be pulled out of the literal waterlogged trash and repaired - to a machine that eats itself if you sew anything but delicate fast-fashion fabrics that are also designed to fall apart in a few years.
Looking for something modern built to the standard that was set 100 years ago? I'd be looking at industrial machines that are going for thousands of dollars... Used on craigslist. I don't even want to know what they'd cost new.
We have the technology and knowledge to manufacture "old" sewing machines still. Hell, even better, sewing machines with the mechanical design quality of the old ones, but with more modern features. It would be so easy - at a technical level to start building things well again. Hell, it's easier to fabricate something sturdy than engineer something to fail at just the right time. (I have half a mind to see if any of my meche friends with machine shops want to help me fabricate an actually good modern machine lol)
We need to push for right-to-repair laws, and legislation against planned obsolescence. Because it's honestly shocking how corporate greed has downright sabotaged good design. They're selling us utter shit, and expecting us to come back for more every financial quarter? I'm over it.
mj said there’s no playbook for people like them. gwen’s dad told her to do things by the book. and miles said there’s a first time for everything.
miles is gonna find his own way, and he’s gonna be the first. he’s an anomaly because he’s not doing it like anyone else. he’s doing it like him.
oh gee discord should I try adding numbers? should I try that???? should I try adding numbers to the end of my username so that it's individualized and only mine???? should I try adding numbers??????????
Based on the Cass Apocalyptic Series.
The first part of this has been rumbling around in my brain ever since that Super Sad Scene a month ago, but yesterday’s update gave me the other side of the coin, so to speak, and finally pulled it all together.
@somerandomdudelmao thanks for the fuel, friend
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Donatello’s days have become a series of checklists, as of late.
No, that’s not exactly true. His days have always been about lists: what he’s done, what he can delegate to someone else, what still needs doing. But these days he’s been doing less and listing more, piling tasks from the first category onto the second as fast as he can manage, hoping he has enough time to empty the queue.
The full catalog is written out in a series of files, reorganized for accessibility to the layperson and meticulously up-to-date as of yesterday. He meant to run through it again this morning, ensure all the relevant instruction manuals were attached to each item and double check his protocols, but he wasn’t… he couldn’t…
He’s going to die tonight.
I just thought of a funny DpxDC prompt.
Danny was at a convention in Gotham. He was also getting some unfavorable attention from someone that mistook him for a Wayne and get them to leave him alone when he spots Bruce Wayne. He immediately goes up to Bruce and goes “There you are dad! This guy won’t stop following!”
Bruce, barely paying attention, on cloud nine because one of his kids needs help, just helps Danny and threatens the other person to take them to court for stalking his son or something.
Danny says his thanks and leaves.
Bruce doesn’t realize Danny wasn’t one of his kids until later.
so do we think gayatri took some inspiration for her style or did pavitr actually pull a motherfucking model
SCOTUS will rule on anti-LGBT discrimination laws tomorrow on the basis of a case where a web designer was asked to make a site for a gay wedding. Anyway the man who supposedly asked is straight, already married, and never talked to her, and it appears the entire incident was fake. They made up a gay couple to sue and it went all the way to the Supreme Court, the legitimate institution we must all respect
To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.
If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determination…. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examples….
ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.
Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.
Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.
- Kwan, confused but has the spirit.
Danny: Are you talking about Vlad Masters?
Paulina: ... Yeah.
Danny pointing to one of the jocks: I heard a thing or two about him... Is this seat taken?
Paulina: No- that's not really a seat-
Danny sitting on the A-Listers lap: Plop myself down here.
Danny proceeds to drag the hell out of Vlad so mercilessly that even the A-Lister who was designated 'seat' didn't care anymore and just wanted the tea.
Maybe it should not be a surprise, though, that this strange fake “request” popped up in a case in which the plaintiff’s main argument rested on the claim that someday, out there, a same-sex couple would want her to design a wedding website. The closest thing Smith had to an actual inquiry—the nonwedding of Stewart and Mike—arrived within 24 hours of her having filed a suit in which said inquiry would be potentially a helpful piece of supporting evidence. The inquiry floats through the filings only later, and still it remains. Despite the district court raising doubts about it representing a genuine inquiry from two men getting married—and the court didn’t even raise the real doubt that the couple does not exist—it is now part of the case history, a bit of fan fiction joining the other phantom gays the case invokes. ADF made no mention of Stewart and Mike specifically in their arguments before the Supreme Court this session, but they don’t need to: Their entire case, after all, is built around the idea of gay people doing something that they have not yet done, nor ever will do.
Witnessed in game chat by some A-Listers about to be demolished by the Trio in a 3v3.
Sam: Danny call me a good girl. Like, give me the biggest praise buff I've ever received in my life.
Danny in just woke up voice: Here, you're such a good girl.
Tucker: Treat me like that! Holy fuck!
Danny: You're such a good f***in boy.
Tucker: YES I AM! LETS GOOO
