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683I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible
I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post
I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time
I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
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Smolcasm
smolcasm@rrr.sh"it's too important to CW" and other phrases that constitute begging to be spritzed in the face with a spray bottle
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Owlor
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If there's one theme in at least the transfem community I'm loosely a part of, it's the line between good and bad dehumanization.
Like, if you're around someone cool you might a doll or a robot or a puppy, but you're still gonna react negatively if someone dehumanizes you in a malicious or a dismissive or patronizing way. Sometimes you straight up have two gender identities, one for your friends and one for society at large. (It/its to my friends, she/her to my enemies)
It can lead to some interesting collisions, like when someone who publicly self-identify as a robot have a discussion bout the implicit dehumanization of "doll" as mainstream queer slang. Like, navigating this distinction is not an issue most of the time, it's not actually a contradiction, but it does make your head spin a little when the two modes rub up against each other.
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kasdeya
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for those of you with really bad and persistent heartburn like me, hereās a tip that I just discovered:
try sucking on an antacid like itās a hard candy instead of just chewing it and swallowing it. that way itās neutralizing the acid and washing it away every time you swallow. when I do this I get relief for the entire time that Iām sucking on it, and it takes a while for it to start burning again afterward
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a while ago I posted a criticism of the word āidempotentā and this is what I was trying to say. in order to understand this word you have to either:
- memorize what it means
- google it every time
- know Latin
obviously googling a single word isnāt a problem on its own, but it becomes a problem when youāre reading an article that uses one fancy academic word after another and you canāt even get a clue about what the words are supposed to mean without - again - knowing Latin
now imagine if instead of āidempotentā we said āchange-onceā. as in, a change-once operator. it still doesnāt get the exact meaning across but itās drastically better than āidempotentā, and itās much easier to memorize too!
obviously what Iām implicitly saying is that academic words should be in English by default, instead of Latin or Greek, and I donāt like that (I wish we were speaking Esperanto or an even better conlang than that) but I think itās the pragmatic choice because itās the most-spoken language in the world
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and speaking of writing in Latin so that only other nobles can understand, isnāt it interesting how academic language almost exclusively uses Greek and Latin roots? I wouldnāt be surprised at all if speaking in plain/vernacular English was shamed as āunprofessionalā or āuneducatedā in academic circles, and I think it comes back to this same mechanism for excluding the working class
anyway yeah I suspect that this āsecret languageā thing is a widespread problem in all branches of academia - not just math
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this is also how I feel about math notation because math notation is:
- extremely terse
- extremely cryptic
- impossible to google unless you already know what the notation means
- effectively a secret language that can only be learned through {cost-prohibitive college courses} or {multiple $100+ textbooks and lots of free time and energy}
it reminds me of how Medieval nobles would speak and write in Latin so that they could only be understood by other nobles, as a form of social exclusion. because no one else had access to the leisure time and money for tutoring costs that it would take to learn a skill like that
so yeah kasās hot take of the day is that math notation is a classist secret language and knowledge of math is deliberately inaccessible to the working class
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autistic plushies š±
transoptimal@solarpunk.moein minecraft functional programming magic mod trickster we just finished making a spell that will scan a region and consume any grown sugarcane into mana
the argument passing into subcircles is a mess,,
anyways we put this spell into a spell construct, gave it a diamond knot, and that knot is now being charged up with mana whenever a new sugarcane grows in the dedicated farm we built :3
some things involved in the making of this spell:
- a spell that, given another spell, casts it repeatedly forever via recursion.
- a spell that, given another spell and two corner coordinates, casts that spell for each block in the box between those corners.
- a spell that, given a block, checks if it's non-root sugarcane, and if so consumes it for mana.
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mg. kit
kit@m.tripulse.linkwe all know the classic thought experiment, what would you do if you were given a million dollars. itās not very interesting these days
hereās one I find more interesting: what would you do with a hundred million dollars, when youāre only allowed to keep up to 1% of it for personal use?
so, assuming you keep that 1% for whatever you personally need or want, you have $99,000,000 left to use on things that donāt benefit you directly. you canāt be a capitalist about it and buy a company or invest it all or anything like that, you need to spend the money on the world around you
compared to the other version of this game, the goal shifts from selfishness to selflessness. you could just donate it all to various nonprofits, or you could get more creative and try to build your own thing with the money. the game is about trying to figure out how to make the largest possible lasting difference with the money
every once in a while, I find myself thinking about this kind of thing for one reason or another, and my answer shifts a little based on whatever Iām feeling at the time. lately, foster care and elder care have been on the mind more than usual
I think it would be neat to build out a whole campus to house foster care, elder care, a dedicated hospital and school (both with actually helpful mental health services), and plenty of park space. set up an interest bearing trust to keep the place funded as a nonprofit without having to rely primarily on government subsidies and grants. if thereās enough money left over, add an apartment complex or two to the campus and house the homeless there. of course, nobody living there would have to pay anything, though they could donate if they wanted to, and all donations (from residents or otherwise) just go straight into the trust. the biggest challenge of running the place (aside from the politics of it) would definitely be ensuring that the people working there donāt abuse anybody, and that if they do, there is a way for the victims to report that safely and confidently, and sufficient trust in the system that they would actually do it
itās a nice fantasy
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suno Nija is on a vacation
niaco@yiff.lifemy doctor will get a $50 tip on their copay if they can perform the visit in fucking esperanto
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kasdeya
kasdeyaI hate the academic style of writing that seems to value concision over clarity. because it ends up so terse and choked with jargon, with no clarifications or examples, that itās basically unreadable to me. I bet even serious academics have trouble reading this style of writing
like for example I tried reading the standard for the Scheme language, which was very interesting in the places that I could understand, but it was also filled with phrases like ālexical syntaxā ā without any context to infer what that means
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kasdeya
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before approving a follow request I look at that beingās profile and get a feel for their personality by looking at their posts. I only reject requests if:
- they seem to be only boosting things, and not making posts of their own
- I get a bad vibe from their posts
- their account is new or mostly empty so I canāt get a sense of their personality
mostly I just want to make sure that Iām not being followed by beings who are going to be toxic at me in some way. if you tried to follow me and I rejected it, itās probably just because your account is new or youāve been boosting a lot and havenāt posted in a while
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@erin woah huh! it being a browser bug never even occurred to me as an option. thatās good to know though
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kasdeya
kasdeyaYouTube just broke for me in such a way that:
- reloading the page didnāt work
- force-reloading the page didnāt work
- highlighting the address bar and pressing enter didnāt work
- the only way to fix it was to copy the URL, close the tab, and paste the URL in a new tab
how does that even happen? this isnāt the first time either
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