Nunca digo mentiras pero escribo mucha ficción #PuertoRico Born and living in the oldest colony #GameDev Old enterprise programmer trying to make small games #FlashFiction Dreams are my favorite literary device I lean left, but as the product of Reagan era colonialism, lack appropriate education in the matter. Money makes us inhuman. I believe only in hugs. Both science & empathy are important. I'm just a dude and I will get distracted by boobs. #mdMT
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Last Notes npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Rest in Power, Margaret Hamilton npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 There are no perfect choices. We can rationalize whatever we choose as the best option for us based on our circumstances, always. And yet... I wonder how many people have wanted to recalibrate their thinking on Biden. And wish he could have kept on being the candidate and to have gone on to vote for him. I am not saying that people SHOULD do this. What I am wondering is if anyone thinks that their current self would FOR SURE have made different choices in 2024. Or... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 should be sleeping but super hungry instead; sure wish my body and my brain where playing on the same team as me... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 sleep. switch. #iykyk npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I think that this data layout, which asks for certain industry specific IDs which have a specific length EVERYWHERE without exception because they are basically coded into law... This data layout, on version 3.3... Is not only still incomplete, but was probably made by AI... Even if you knew nothing else, you would notice these specific ID fields all have a similar name but different lengths. Like imagine if StartDate, EndDate, PostDate, and ProcDate ALL had different field lengths! Insane. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I went from: "uh, why does the touchpad move so weirdly under Linux!?" To: "oh, the always stuttery touchpad movement under Windows is NOT normal!!!" npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Absolutely unimportant, but it saddens me a bit I've yet to see anyone here mention Nanaca Crash yet... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Nothing makes me tune out and put on my headphones quite as fast as my SO putting Love Island(and others of its ilk) on the TV. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I hope I never do it, but if I ever spoil a new movie/book/game for you you are more than welcome to call me out on it. I fuken hate that shit. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…mqhy stuff npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I very quietly ghost coworkers that try selling me stuff. I dislike being sold stuff in general, but I can't tell coworkers to fuck off without getting in trouble. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Song Hyperfocus When you set the song as Repeat 1 then are unable to change it for hours... days... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Mastodon, I ❤️🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🩷🖤 you a lots.... But if you would just fucking let my browser select text on the page. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…xcrn A man like Trump, who only cares about money (and thinks he is smart enough to fool anyone into giving him their money) is certainly not being humiliated at all He laughs at fooling USians out of their money everyday. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I keep seeing this word "humiliation" in headlines linked to Trump, or MAGA, or republicans. I don't have the facts/receipts. And I don't have the exact words to express my thoughts, but... I keep seeing this word more and more and I feel like it is a liberal/democrat/sjw dog whistle. I feel like it's being used to clickbait a certain group of people who may lean democrat/liberal but aren't hip to recognizing propaganda. Trump is not being humiliated anywhere. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 "What would you call 13 billionaires at the bottom of the Pacific ocean?" #iykyk #EatTheRich npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Me (thinking): next up a toot about how it would be good to die smothered by a pair of sugar coated tits. Me (replying to myself): you see, this is why some people block you. no one wants to hear about tits this much! CHILL! Me (sighing): no sugar tits then? Me: no sugar tits. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Bard, Cook/Chef. What other four (4) letter words are there in the English language that can mean an occupation and/or an RPG class? I am drawing a severe blank! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 "But afreytes what is the solution then!?" Reparations. Reparations to Native Americans, reparations to Black Americans, and reparations to whomever else deserves them. "You ask for impossibles..." Yes. And yet... To have no justice is to have no peace. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Worst, many boricuas have been led to believe USia will fix everything if we would just become a state. Center right politicians have said, "Statehood is for the poor!" As if USia does anything without the interest of money. While we receive scraps, the amount of money leaving the island is gargantuan. This is why president Toddler hasn't gone through with kicking us down the ditch. There's much more money to be extracted from us. I repeat, statehood would just be worse for us. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Worse is that most boricuas have been led to believe that is just how things have to be. The government" hasn't done taken good care of public services. And have been sold the fallacy of privatization. So everyone ends up paying through the nose for basic utilities, in an island where everything is already 3x costlier because everything, by USian law, has to come in through US Merchant Marine (the slowest and costliest sea delivery). npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 More than half a century ago, USia wanted Puerto Rico to serve as a sample of how an Hispanic country being owned by USia was a good thing. Back then our water and electricity networks where some of the best in the planet. All publicly owned. Maintained by boricuas. But when that example wasn't needed. Reagan, and later on privatization efforts, undermined all of that infrastructure. Now we just have VCs trying to gobble what is left of the infrastructure, to raise prices on services. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…8u2z Is Stars Hollow a real place? I've never heard it before, but that name rules. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…pny6 I think I am one of the few people on the planet that LOATHES using caps lock for SQL unless it truly is an important acronym. If you ever see an LLM outputting lowercase SQL, it probably ingested my DDLs. 🤭 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 It's Friday afternoon... I predict yet another blackout as people get home from work and everyone starts blasting their ACs in this 100F heat. I want to be wrong, tho. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I love Stephen King unironically. I saw The Long Walk. It's okay. I disliked the ending. But the movie was okay entertainment. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…0pqp Now tell me what you really feel... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I really wish I could do markdown in my toots... maybe just bold, italics, code, and bullets... If possible headings and sub/super would be awesome. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 After a few years of using Godot, I finally understood how useful @tool can be. ... Related: I do not understand Scale. Position and Rotation are no brainers. But I don't have an accurate and immediate mental model for what changing scale means in practice. I need to see the Scale being applied. Yes, a 1.0 Scale 1 meter box scaled to .1 is smaller, of course. But how much exactly. I cannot "see" the calculation immediately in my head. If it's scaled to 100.0 then how big is it now, exactly? https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/085/745/439/526/064/original/c41d65a6630509f3.png npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Stuff I have in my Images folder... #ViernesDeMemes https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/117/085/439/482/990/669/original/f4960779bb003666.png npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Rainy day gave me too much joy... And I am being punished for it. There is now a blackout. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…832w NGL I was with you until "Windows isn't exactly bad" 🤭 😇 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…g0zs very cool npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…cchw Imagine that, for example, I dislike that you ATpoetaster* had many accounts... And I wanted to filter ATpoetaster globally, no matter what instance. The Mastodon filters do not work on that level AFAIK... So I can't you add a new filter called FILTER POETASTER EVERYWHERE then add a keyword that is just ATpoetaster *: AT meaning the @ npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…pu46 LOL I got mixed up! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…pu46 what is a heating pad? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 What's the deal with the word "geofront" being used in various anime? What's the lore behind this particular word? Do Japanese use this word in real life, like what's the story? #Anime #AskFedi npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I am (really!) not making my own Mastodon client. But if I _were_... Boosts would have their own separate feeds. I have a whole spiel about why Boosts are a necessary detrimental part of the fedi experience. On this separate Boosts Feed, I think Boosts _should_ defy normal chronological order. But I have no idea whatsover how to go about "calculating popularity". Might have to read about it; you know, for the client I am not making (really!). npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 The problem is capitalism. We all know it, even if not everyone accepts it. But the solution is not communism. Or socialism. Or anarchy. Good though they may be, and I'm not saying any or all aren't or can't be good. The solution isn't any -ism. The solution is education. Not misinformation of course, not mere facts, not memorization, not grades, not school debates, or sports, or individual projects, or exams... But good, empathic, well rounded, education. The kind we are not allowed. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 uh, #GodotEngine question Suppose I have a RainbowDict:Dictionary[String,Color] variable. Of course the keys are something like "Indigo","Red","Yellow" Is there no way to find keys which CONTAIN a substring? The Dictionary.get_key() seems to be exact match only, but then it returns the first found element so it assumes it's kinda like a filter. Do I really have to make a separate array to do RainbowDict.get_keys().filter("myfilter") npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I'm hungry but there's nothing in the pantry. And then I randomly remembered how a popular food delivery service was happy to deliver food to a fascist pedophile and I uninstalled that shit so so fast! I am due for a new car and would like to buy an EV. I don't know much about EVs, but I _know_ which brand I will never buy. And so, I am glad there's small acts of resistance that cost me nothing. Wish there was a hashtag for that #SmallActsOfResistanceEveryDay or something, is there? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 On the other hand, y'all know I follow everyone who interacts, but sometimes I get a favorite or a boost and I think, "oh new person liked my post I will follow them!" But no... I was already following them. And I'm like, "bro, does this person never post or what!?" I go into their profile... Yup, they almost never post. They just lurk. Mind you, they don't have to post. Or do anything. It just feels strange not to write about your day at least once a week or something Lurkers, I see you! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I am not making my own mastodon client*, like, I really am not. BUT IF I WERE... An optional Home Feed's sorting option would be by "Latest Interaction Date"... 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Also, I would like to setup the node such that if I drop 3 files in the Songs array then I can call MyPlayer.play(MyPlayer. SongsArray.MySongName) And have the auto complete show the song titles from the array to pick from. I dont know if I can make this work npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…7pyy I wish I had ANY attractiveness! XD npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 So... uh... Reddit is just ads interspersed with thinly veiled ads now, right? Like, not talking about just regular ad ads... But what is supposedly user contributed posts are also just ads, or ragebait, or clickbait, or controlled upvoting. The "News" section has very little that is actually newsworthy. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…gnen that sounds like me at a couple of places I have worked at! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…m0hz you missed the joke, sorry for that npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…ty60 I was being facetious, sorry. 🫂 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…ty60 i am so sorry, what did i do now? (._. ) ( ._.) (/__-) npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Very seldom await the love that I call trouble Very seldom await the love that I call trouble Very seldom await the love that I call trouble The love The love The love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 honestly, i am not feeling that Neuromancer trailer. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…wts6 Did you maybe post a photo of white mushrooms a few days/weeks ago? There were a set of mushrooms near the foreground on a green grass field. And in an upper corner a few cars can be barely made out. Does this ring a bell? I wanted to, but forgot to save the photo. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…3qlr my goodness I haven't seen that since it came out. Will have to do a rewatch soon. If you have never heard about it there's a podcast related to the TV show Cops. I don't remember the title now, sorry, but they go on about why the TV show Cops was made, what it set to accomplish, and the real effects on people's lives who happened to be featured on the TV show. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 BTW the only "cop" show I believe with all my heart that it is not copaganda is Columbo. And except for certain details in some episodes you could even argue Columbo isn't a cop, but more like an avatar for Justice itself as concept. 3/2 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Sort of, IDK if people will remember this, or have read about it since it's common knowledge, how a certain fast food chain in USia tried to manipulate (successfully I might add) public opinion against lawsuits because of a famous "hot morning beverage" incident The effects of that nasty bit of propaganda, gave rise to certain terms like "frivolous" Every time they use that term on a TV show I immediately think of a certain fast food chain now. So even known bad propaganda has some effect 2/2 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Cop shows and movies are copaganda. I don't know what my SO was watching. But the plot hinged on some type of insurance fraud for the central crime plot. It suddenly dawned on me how many movies/shows/plots have that insurance angle. And now I wonder if those aren't also propaganda as well (yes everything is propaganda bear with me) to have people normalize buying insurance as a good thing that good people do and are entitled to. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Crocs, if you are listening! I want to sell you on the concept of Knee-High Crocs! Imagine the comfort of squishy plastic with interspersed holes all the way up onto the knee! It's a winning formula! Call me! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 The Missus convinced me to hatewatch the new Masters of the Universe... I did not hate it. It wasn't spectacular, but it wasn't really bad, Leto notwithstanding. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 "It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History" Ah, so not everything is bad! 🤭 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 What is your favorite Godot Engine plugin that is not made by yourself? I am trying to come to terms with Phantom Camera because it seems powerful and useful. But I keep making my own silly Camera3D nodes with custom controls. Phantom also has a shaker component but I was already using this Shaker plugin which I might try to phase out. Sometimes less is more, as they say. #GodotEngine https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/964/205/014/667/308/original/6de16f6a78ab9900.png npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Not to take _anything_ away from Ricky Maartin or Bad Bunny, they deserve all their fans and recognition. And I am happy if you think they are the best ever. But to me... Well they are just two more grains of sand in the historic sea that is Puerto Rico's music scene. And I tell you this as someone who barely listens to our own local music. Anyway here's some salsa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLHyRd21Iw #PuertoRico #Salsurria npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I haven't had breakfast, I think I will hold out until nearly lunch. I hope you get to eat something delicious today. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Forced myself to turn off the laptop. Now in bed, but unable to sleep. Usually I would seize the opportunity to play videogames but the living room is insanely hot. I need to worry less about doing more. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I don't know if this is true, but apparently, smoke from the Canada wildfires will reach Puerto Rico shortly. I wanted to visit Canada someday, but it seems some of Canada may visit me first. What a time to be alive. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 It is fun getting the reply guys all riled up, 🤭 😇 npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Is there a GUI tool (no Terminal) that allows you to rename BOTH files AND folder and is RECURSIVE? The best I have tried is Stencil, but it doesn't do folders. Sorry to be passive aggressive but please only recommend something you have used, do not ask "AI" or recommend the first hit on a search engine. No, I don't care how easy it is to do in the terminal with one line. That is not the question! #AskFedi #Linux npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…p560 The thing is that "AI" is not culture, as it does not have intention. At best "AI" can only be the macnuggets of culture, blenderizing everything, adding some coloring and presenting it as something edible but unheallthy. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…p560 I am driving at the possible corruption of already made art into paler and paler copies of itself based on selfish desire. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 How soon until they try selling some horrible "Watch With "AI" Edits" service that allows you to watch an old movue but swap/change the actors, the camera shots, and even the plot points, completely destroying the original artists vision for the sake of individualist slop. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I have seen The Mist many times. It's a horror (not that it's actually scary) comfort movie. It's also like Taken, but for horror, in that if I saw it was playing while channel surfing I would stop surfin and let it play out. I miss channel surfing and finding gems randomly. Anyway I just saw The Mist on this here streaming service so I have to see it again. No choice. That's just how it is. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…yqq5 YES! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…yqq5 but you are not the only one npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…d75w Yes, I also find it annoying. And at the same time... We need those compass points so to speak. We need someone to look up to. A leader or a mentor. A cornerstone that galvanizes and gives us inspiration to follow a path... But yeah when we aren't willing to uproot that cornerstone, when we mistake a person for the truth, it is unfortunate npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I feel like, 30, 40, even 50 years ago there were very specific nightmarish and horrific scenarios of what would happen under extreme global warming. I fee like, somehow the world was gaslighted (no pun intended) into thinking there was ample time and solutions to curtail the climate catastrophy would arise. But we didnt do anything, and those horrrific and nightmarish scenarios are here. It's happening now. I hope I'm wrong... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 tl;dr conclusion after thinking about women vigilantes, and those exploitation/revenge films from the 70s: there are not enough women serial killers npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…7pyy IANAE but I am pretty sure people can live on one lung but physical stress is heightened and complications can arise though no idea on survival rate/longevity. I guess you can technically half-drown. But I wonder if you could remain conscious with one fully waterlogged lung. At any rate I guess it would be pretty stressful. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…lht5 Thanks for the answer! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 there is a Joined Date, that says when your fediverse account was created. how hard (or easy) would it be to manipulate this date if I had unlimited access to my server's instance. Mind you, I'm not asking for instructions, or for lessons in morality, what I want to know is a ballpark estimation of the amount of effort it would entail. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Now... *makes the tiniest hill out of some dust from the corner in the room and stands on it* I don't have an answer/vision/solution, wish I did, but I kinda wonder if mastodon needs a paradigm shift in UI... in how it presents itself I feel like the commercial social media user interface might not be what federated social media should emulate. you feel me? does this make sense at all? I don't know what it should look like. but it shouldn't look like xitter IMHO 6/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 BUT ALSO ALSO... If i followed 200+ accounts I should have so many more toots on my Home Feed... but no... not really... So these accounts don't follow back... and they don't toot... SIGH now that is really frustrating to me... LOL (again people don't HAVE TO do anything) man... what are we even doing here? UNSOCIAL media? I'm tired boss. 5/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Now I admit it's been hardly a day or two. But out of following 200+ accounts maybe 10 followed me back. That's 5 percent or less. Again, they don't have to follow me back. That's not the point. And also, any number of accounts may be bots (I did not follow any account which is labeled as automated). So I wonder, what is social media to them? Is it just reading popular posts? No attempt at making connections? Yes, this is indeed a bit frustrating to me. 4/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 So I had a post during the weekend "break containment" which is shorthand to say that it spread around on the fedi. I used the post's popularity to follow as many new accounts I could, as long as they didn't have Follow Requests turned on because as I have stated before almost no one actually answers Follow Requests. (Side Note: you don't need to justify your having Follow Requests turned on. That was never my point.) Sooo... I ended up following something close to 200+ accounts!!! 3/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Disclaimer: If you are reading this, and you don't yet know me, I am not now and not ever saying that people HAVE TO do X or Y People should do whatever makes them happy as long as they don't hurt anyone against their will. Please for the love of all that is good and true in the world save your outrage for someone who truly deserves it, I assure you I am not now or ever will be your enemy unless you are a billionaire or their bootlicker. End disclaimer. Lemme continue. 2/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I usually follow anyone who interacts (boosts, faves, replies) with my toots. I think (maybe naively) if they liked what I wrote. I should reciprocate and see what they toot about. It is very likely I will like something they post. I also think (for sure naively) that if I follow them maybe they will follow back. AND... this is the most naive of all thoughts... maybe I can get to be friends with this random online person on the internet. More ranting to follow but first a disclaimer 1/? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I often feel like I cannot just post something like, "I like the color blue." It has to be, "I like the color blue. (No I don't hate the other colors. No I don't hate numbers either. Yes, I also know that random weird fact about blue LEDs because I have been online for probably more decades than healthy people should. No, trying to link the color blue to {random thing that you hate} doesn't make me like it less, that is only your burden to bear. Please no whitemansplaining colors. etc etc)." npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I finished the latest season of the animated Vox Machina show and now I am playing the opening theme on repeat. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I really enjoyed the two seasons of Interview With A Vampire. The writing was good. The effects were good. But the acting, I feel, was beyond exceptional all around. I have a few nitpicks, but they are so minor they are mostly unimportant, and may be addressed in The Vampire Lestat. Looking forwards to watching that. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…nhh3 earlier today I was (wishful) thinking... if maybe orbital drone strikes could ever become a thing... like, extrapolate from ukraine seemingly successful drone strikes... and start taking the fight to actual satellites... imagine making the drones so light that going further and further up just means they dont need escape velocity but escape buoyancy (not a real thing but just imagine with me) and using satellites own comms to zero in on them... npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 Unimportant, but maybe a sign of age. The longer the anime's name the less inclined I am to even start watching it, LOL npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…7ntp Stores are running out of bottled water. County does emergency water distribution but there are long lines. I got plenty of water from a family member's place, but it's at least an hour drive if I run out (until their water gets cut off too which is also possible). npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…vkr8 Thanks. It's almost par for the course at this point. Tooting it makes it not fester in my mind, or fester less at least. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 So power came back, but the water was cut. #ExtremeColonialismLiving #HardMode npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 And... Not totally unrelated to my orevious posts... But I remember there was a... I think the laargest diamond... Hope? And it was cursed? And someone saying USiamerica hasnt been the same since it gotnthe Hope diamond. That it has been cursed. And sometimes I think about that, and I wonder if the curse didn't start long long before... as soon as the first native american was killed. npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…ljc0 Now is the time to cheer them! This is when they need it most! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…ljc0 Please dont be! cheer your team! npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 I totally forgot peeps talk about sports here and now I regret deleting my sports filter LOLOLOL 🤷♂️ npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 It's so hot, I don't want to human anymore... Or... What if we drove up to Costco and went straight into the walk-in produce freezer? npub14sqvuw3e636jdnnar6vc332xh8lh69mze2vg7w8lf3fr23cnpets2l7xly afreytes 🇵🇷 @nprofile…gv38 I am not faulting the people for feeling what they are feeling. Just that it would be nice to have a different kind of interface where the outrage is less likely to get to me.