From my Guix to your Nix.

It shouldn’t be discounted, either, that they’re willfully abusing perception.

It’s like when they argue that voter suppression or them winning without a majority of the vote is actually what was intended because that’s why we’re a Republic and not a direct democracy.

Like, I don’t doubt that there were founders who would be sympathetic of depriving certain groups the vote (after all, they hadn’t given them the vote in the first place for that very reason) but “tyranny of the majority” very much wasn’t meant to mean outright suppression like through a carceral system.

It meant boosting minority opinions so you’d have to actually address and debate with them rather than rushing past.

But they know most people won’t have familiarity with the concept so they argue that their suppression of representation is actually a good thing, though I cannot believe anyone who’s passingly familiar with these concepts could say that and truly mean it.

Ran out of spinach, again, this week so tagged kale in (in case you wanted to see it in action):

See, the issue is you’re assuming it was a staircase that’s the cause and not, say, oesteoporosis.

Honestly, you said literally everything that immediately popped into my head when I saw this (though even more thoroughly and precisely).

The number of times I’ve watched Twins and that…didn’t, at all, stick out to me…

Not the 6T but I owned the 6 for years until AT&T decided to forcibly disable any of their SIM cards in one when they sunsetted their 3G network (still very pissed about this…).

I know the spec.s were similar, while being improved on the 6T, so not 1-to-1 but I can say the 6 was a really solid device.

When I ran Mobian on it, the extra spec.s (over, say, the PinePhone) really made things pretty nice; I’d expect you’d have a nice time with it and I think it’s a solid device.

Pair it with Ferngully for a 90s-environmentalism double-feature.

Is The Brave Little Toaster that unknown? I know it’s no Disney film or Anastasia but I thought it was more beloved (and known) than all the others listed here.

If I remember correctly, I think the reason is that it wasn’t originally meant to be a children’s movie but for adults.

I mean, you always see this around new technology/fads, all the time. When it’s new or ongoing, there’s either an excitement at the novelty or being in the minority of people doing it; people see the chance to do some of the things that fix limitations of the current process and there’s always those willing to try that out.

For a day that’s already compounded with expectation and often hyped as a sort of zenith in one’s life, it’s easy to see being able to customize things exactly to the way you’re having them play out in your head as really alluring.

And, once the hype dies down or we get used to the novel aspects, all the things you mentioned with get greater focus in the general attention, again, and people will likely value those things more (because, ultimately, you’re not wrong).

But I do feel like this is a pretty consistent phenomenon with almost any trend and you always see an uptick of adopters because the ability to solve some pain points is novel.

Thank you

Incident on 57th Street by Bruce Springsteen, live at the Main Point '75

It’s always hard to gauge, with Bruce (obviously not an unknown but, also, lots of people who’ve only casually listened to him, if even that), but this one’s a live performance for a track that doesn’t get a lot of radio play.

Also a great example of his early storytelling work and great use of violins, to boot. The whole original album is a classic but this one’s great as a one-shot.

I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, “C’mon, guys; I’d never cozy up to Meta,” and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.

Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I’m not the only one getting that.

EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that’s so much worse than I originally thought. That’s an inane degree of unprofessionalism.

They really love using

Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me

in the context of abortion.

We were out of spinach (admittedly, I hate lettuce so I usually use spinach, instead) so I subbed in kale for my lunch sandwich, one time. I thought it worked alright, though.

Yeah; exactly. You’re seeing what I’m seeing. Reaffirming (to me) that this idea of ours is a good one.

I doubt I’d have the skill to write it but I’ve long thought something like Etsy could be interesting.

I think the federated nature of the Fediverse could do well to stave off the worst of any spamming.

But the thing I notice the most with independent sellers is that the bulk of what they’re doing is networking, generally amongst friends. Which, really, is the ideal environment for goods and services to be sold.

But, since capitalism always demands the line goes up, places like Etsy inevitably abandon them and making their sites encouraging of that kind of interpersonal connecting in favor of entities which can mass churn products out.

Setting up shops in the fediverse would allow people to easily host their own shops (and not be reliant on the infrastructure of, say, Etsy) and boosting would organically encourage a web of trust since their friend is essentially saying, “I know this person; they’re good.” You could even have the code autotag listings with a hashtag so people can filter out those types of posts, if they don’t want to.

Not sure how you’d handle federation when you first spin up an instance but, still, more alternatives are better than less, I expect.

I dunno; I think it’d be interesting.

Jerry already caught me up.

To those who haven’t heard it before, it sounds like a way to note that Threads can interope with the Fediverse, now (I can see people who were super excited about Meta joining doing that).

Maybe it being capitalized also made it the first thing my brain jumped to.

In any case, I was mistaken and just hadn’t heard of the term before; just ignore my original comments, basically: they’re wrong.