I am somewhat disturbed by how right you are about this. Car sales estimates are 90-100 million new cars per year, so assuming we're not putting 99 million new cars on the road every year, we're destroying a lot more than we're making. I'm not even gonna look at the numbers for sharks cuz I know it'll make me big sad.

Pretty good, tbh. I've been playing Palworld and I think I'd do okay, even if I got dropped into a permadeath server. Yeah you gotta grind, but you don't really have to do much of anything, the pals do basically everything for you.

Fedi is great because if you saw as many ads as I see every day on fedi, it meant you had at least one virus, not three.

Again, you start the formulation of your moral problem too late. The bread, why is it in a hoard in your house, given that there are starving families? Bread is a very concrete thing, a result of agriculture and shipment and trade and labor; it doesn't just appear in houses unbidden.

Likely the players do not know the song by heart, and are reading the music instead. You still have a conductor if everyone has the whole thing memorized, though, to keep everyone together. By the time you are performing, the conductor is mostly ornamental -- they do keep the beat, but if you're a professional musician and you don't already know where the beat is, you're hosed. Most of what the conductor does is rehearse the orchestra. The musicians will read and practice the music themselves, and then the conductor brings them all together and had them practice important or difficult passages, and explain how they want the different parts to fit together, or stylistic changes they want. For younger musicians, they may also rehearse difficult passages to help the musicians practice, but as you get older and more skilled, you're expected to do that on your own. When you go to watch your local symphony, the conductor is basically dancing and it's more about conveying emotion and pulling the tempo faster or slower.

Unfortunately, there is a George C Wallace community college in Alabama

I dunno how quite to explain it, but for a long time I thought I needed to be nice to me, but it turns out I had it backwards -- it is the me that needs to be nice to the I. Like, my inner critic is off the rails again saying mean things, so he's obviously cranky. Maybe I need to take him on a walk, or make him a little snack, or put him down for a nap. It's okay, bud, I know you had a tough day yesterday and you're just saying that mean stuff cuz you're in pain, it's okay we'll get you tucked in. I know you don't mean that, I won't take it personally.

Is hoarding bread inaction? You have to obtain the bread and put it into your hoard, which seems pretty action-y to me.

I read Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, and Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street. Bartleby, for me, is Melville's most clear and direct criticism of capitalism, and I liked it better than I remembered. It's one of those texts that you can't quite nail down, and gives you a lot to think about -- every place you poke it, the text has a stout thickness that yields you back something in response to your inquiry. I listened to the House on Mango Street being read by the author, and she affects the voice of a young child, which makes the book much more haunting and difficult. It's written in very simple language that is often quite dreamy and poetic, which gives it a very childlike quality, and it deals with themes of sexual assault and domestic violence with the naive understanding of a child, almost obliquely. It was a harder text than I anticipated, but I think important.

Right but I want it to be healthy when I’m lying down, too.

Blowing a 0.116 is wild -- bro was going for the high score

According to the police report, Page’s truck did not move through “several” cycles of the traffic light, so the officer got out to check on him. He contacted Monroe police after seeing the open container in Page’s vehicle.

Page admitted to drinking at the golf course earlier and blew a 0.116 on the portable breathalyzer test. He was arrested for physical control. The court later dropped that charge, and Page pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of negligent driving. His sentence was suspended for two years, but he was ordered to submit to monitoring, attend alcohol classes and a DUI victim’s panel, and undergo an evaluation for alcoholism.

We must prevent the accumulation of surplus capital by launching billionaires into the sun

You can tell capitalism is the only system that works because we have a bunch of unemployed people desperate for a job, and a desperate need for more firefighters to combat the damage capitalism has done and is doing to our world, and there is simply no way to match the two.

Good riddance to bad rubbish

I am seeing now that there's a reason Calkins has spent the last 11 years quietly enjoying a cushy columnist gig without becoming widely known as one of the dumber writers working in the English language, and the reason is that his editors were really looking out for him. Quitting in a huff over these columns being spiked? Brother, you should have been bringing your editors muffins every day for how well they were covering for you.

I cannot tell you, in dollars and cents, how much money piefed admins are saving as a result of this change (and it is not to be understated that I appreciate their time and money), so I can't offer any opinion on whether it was worth it, but I do know that the cost to me in user experience of not seeing a friend, and not being able to vote on every post I see, and not understanding the majority of the historical memes I see, is not a small one.

Oh sorry, I didn't actually read the post you linked and assumed it was his going away message. Another L for reading comprehension on fedi.

Rimu added a feature to Piefed a coupla-few releases ago to limit the number of upvotes and downvotes each account can give per day. The meter you have in your screenshot is how many of your quota you've used today; if you give too many you'll get a little pop-up that has some "you're doing that too much, come back tomorrow" message. The concern was that the cost of federating votes was disproportionate to its value -- making the network connections and passing the events takes a lot of overhead. He set the quota to something where like 95% of users would never hit it, but bots and truly unhinged users like PugJesus and I do. I really do not want to sound critical of this decision -- all development decisions are about tradeoffs, and if my instance goes under because Jerry can't afford to run it anymore, I lose access to all my friends, not just one. It isn't like with a corporate social media where cutting costs increases profits, it's just decreasing the rate at which they're losing money. And piefed isn't the only service that doesn't federate likes the same as other activities -- on mastodon, you generally only see likes from your own instance. Pug was just tired and disabled and in pain a lot and took the change hard because he'd migrated from instance to instance many times (which I have too, and I completely understand the frustration at feeling like you have to start over), and so he announced he was quitting fedi completely rather than doing it again. The fediverse is an extremely hard problem space to work in because there are very diverse use cases, and basically no money allocated to work on solving them, and this is just something that happens sometimes when you have two well-intentioned actors trying their best.

This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, “savagely mocking” anyone, it’s just a garden variety message of acceptance I’d expect at any women’s sporting event

“Hey trans fans! Glad you’re here! Go Liberty!” one message said, while another read: “Welcome Trans Liberty fans! You are loved and you belong!”

Es la muerte de PugJesus. Descanse en paz.

Also mildly infuriating is the lack of crosspost button so I can add this to ![email protected] — I guess it only appears when the post originates from a piefed instance?

It's almost time for me to take this account down and create a new one. I'll choose a more appropriate username next time.