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696I 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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@kasdeya I volunteer on Sundays in a museum on a niche "nerdy" subject (local public transit history). It's weird to me how many young/Gen Z folk keep asking us "can I buy that?" about the museum exhibits. As you say, it's like they're conditioned to associate joy from an object with a need for ownership of that object.
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this is probably obvious to y’all but I just realized that Empty Spaces, Human Domestication Guide, and mechsploitation are all genres that are trying to do roughly the same thing. the common themes are:
- an innocent POV character
- who was/is made to be completely passive
- is robbed of power, agency, and dignity
- and subjected to extreme, eroticized abuse
and I think what’s going on is that these are ways to process trauma - especially the kind of trauma that comes from abuse that happened over a long period of time, where the abuse victim is shaped into being whatever is most convenient for the abuser, with no regard for the abuse victim’s physical or mental wellbeing. which effectively shapes them into a doll, or a mech pilot, or a floret
obviously recreating trauma through kink is a well-known thing at this point, and I think that these fiction genres are probably some combination of that and vent art. I guess it’s probably a way to take control over the trauma - to re-experience it in a way that feels safe. if I felt safe reading fiction, maybe I would like these genres too
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futurebird@sauropods.winEveryone is arguing about what the Roman Dodecahedrons are for, but the "sacred geometry" crowd isn't bothered by solving the mystery. They have put some "EMF protection antennas" and "transmitting balls" on something they 3D printed and are blocking ALL the bad energy with all the confidence of God.
And someday? Someone may find this artifact too and they will wonder.
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kasdeyaironically I think that the only job that LLMs could effectively replace right now, without hurting a company’s bottom line, would be upper managers
because think about it: LLMs are fantastic at taking in a fuckton of data that they don’t understand, and confidently producing output that sounds really smart and insightful but has no substance whatsoever. that’s literally an upper manager’s entire job description
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kasdeyajust learned that paper towels make really good bookmarks. you can cut a sheet into bookmark-shaped rectangles and they’re basically perfect
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kasdeyahttps://store.steampowered.com/app/552500/Warhammer_Vermintide_2/
Vermintide 2 is free on Steam!
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the month of December is almost here. many of the December parasites have already matured into the early stages of their yearly awakening
early warning signs of infection include a single-minded obsession with disgustingly saccharine music, disgustingly saccharine food, disgustingly saccharine movies, and disgustingly saccharine phrases like “holly jolly”
soon nearly every public place will be littered with garish artifacts of the infected including an inescapable loop of ear-bleeding brainworm music in order to entice the infected into spending as much money as possible
remember to avoid contact with the infected and their ritualized gift-exchange as much as possible during this time. do not let them drag you into this no matter how much they shame, guilt, or coerce - and above all stay safe out there. I’ll see you on the other side
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kasdeya@fargate I think I was finding more advanced Haskell features on this site out-of-context lol - especially the typeclass related stuff
although using this I was able to figure out how to get a list of all operations that I can do on strings! if I search for [Char] I only find String constants, but if I search for Char then it brings me to Data.Char which is exactly what I’d want. although I don’t understand the “instances” section yet hehe. but everything else makes sense!
although, how do I find the equivalent of Data.Char but for [a] types instead? if you don’t mind explaining. I tried searching for [a] but that didn’t get me anywhere and this search intimidates me to be honest. I don’t understand what a lot of this stuff means hehe
like for example do I need to be able to use the dropdown to the left of the “search” button? that thing looks really complicated and there are so many options T_T and then when I search do I need to understand the text in green under each function, or the green text to the left under “packages”?
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zherian influencer in zhe style of one of zhose pet instagram accounts pretending to be run by zhe pet
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@ShadowJonathan this reads like a weird fanfic what the fuck
although honestly every uspol thing for the past 5 years at least has felt this way. just completely fucked-up and surreal and unbelievable
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also Haskell is fun to play with so far! it has lots of cool ideas like how operators are functions (so you can use them in polish notation if you want) and functions can be used as operators (specifically you can use them in infix-notation if you want)
I haven’t learned how to do anything practical with it yet but I think if I jumped right to the practical uses for it my brain would explode. I’m still coming to grips with basic stuff like, how to avoid off-by-one errors when you have to recurse instead of looping
also I still can’t read the documentation at all lol so I can only go back and reread parts of the tutorial that I’m following. that’s a bit of a problem but hopefully eventually I’ll learn how to read the docs
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kasdeyaa problem that I often run into when learning a new Tech Thing is figuring out how to apply the knowledge that I’m learning about, without asking myself to do something that’s too hard with my current knowledge. but this Haskell MOOC does all the work for me and that’s amazing
specifically it comes with a git repo that I can clone. for each chapter there’s a premade file full of stub code and comments that describe what the code should do. and I just edit the stub code in order to make it work. then there’s another file that I can run to unit-test those challenges. that way I instantly know if I did each challenge right
this is genuinely a lot of fun to do and it helps reassure me that I am actually absorbing the information that I’m reading
I really wish that there were more courses(?) like this for learning tech stuff. even just something at the end of each chapter like “here are some optional challenges that you might want to try at this point” would go a long way
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@lycanmatriarch omg thank you - this is so validating to hear. I feel like Fedi is so incredibly Linux-oriented that for the most part they just can’t understand how anyone could have problems with Linux - and if they do have problems then they don’t understand how those problems could be difficult to solve - and it’s so frustrating
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