danikasper.me
Here and queer š³ļøāā§ļø
Unfortunately work in tech
Dreaming about ecological civilization
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Yeah, Iām nursing a concussion atm, so Iām preemptively bailing on drama, maybe not the right context to try to tease out that nuance
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Wow, my first personal āso you hate wafflesā moment on here, and a truly unhinged one at that. Bravo
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IME groups that have some other unifying purpose beyond just everyone being queer tend to avoid a lot of those pathologies - e.g. Iāve had some great experiences with queer-focused hiking/outdoors and board game groups
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Iām a very biased data point when it comes to user-friendliness as a software engineer whoās been dual-booting Linux for ages, but I switched to openSUSE for my personal install about 2 years ago and itās easily one of the best distros Iāve used
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Having just moved to Barcelona, Iām a big fan of how we just have both š¤·āāļø
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Netherlands is also a strong contender for worst EU food cultureā¦ and I say that as someone who actually enjoyed the bitterballen and raw herring while living there
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Stone himself is making fun of her for that line over in the other place š«
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Great example! Always feels wild to me how recent that was
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This is one of the those things Iāve been jealous of forever as a USian - a key reform to include for whatever version of a constitution we have on the other side of this
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Speaking as a trans person who does have the means, it also doesnāt mean Iām cutting all ties. Getting to a more stable place ensures I can keep supporting a bunch of the orgs I donate to, try advocating to help set up routes to help other people out, etc
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Ooh, as a super nerdy kid who grew up in Worthington and Mount Vernon Iām also sad I never heard about this one, it would have been right up my alley
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Fair, I can go along with that in terms of the circumstances she was actually dealing with
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Itās honestly strictly more justifiable than the minimum age limits for senate and president from a pure cost/benefit perspective
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The thing is that the cost of the occasional person who has to retire earlier than they strictly need to from this sort of policy is dramatically outweighed by the benefits of not needing to deal with the uncertainty her death caused or the gerontocracy we have now
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I donāt know the specific etymology of dozen, but it wouldnāt surprise me. We have a few things kicking around that effectively use base 12 or base 60 (which divides evenly by 5 as well as 2, 3, and 4), like how we tell time
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Euclidās axioms are probably some of the most accessible to a general audience - e.g. the parallel postulate doesnāt really work on a globe
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Base 12 would arguably provide better utility as a default if base 10 wasnāt so ingrained already!
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I agree with the point youāre making but as a math-degree-haver I feel obligated to point out that base 10 is just a notational convention, not one of the assumptions undergirding the system. Everything, from addition to calculus, works exactly the same under a different radix
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If itās been tested and confirmed safe, then absolutely, basically for curiosityās sake. Thatās just my general stance towards unusual food, I put a high premium on the adventure aspect of it
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In those scenarios blue states continuing to resist while getting effectively severed from the country would be the more desirable outcome than them capitulating to the regime, though, including for people in red states
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This administration isnāt about to let states go peacefully, anyway - secession scenarios entail a war, and if that happens, the order of operations would be reversed, i.e. itād start with blue state resistance within the union that gets met with force, leading to de facto separation
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Maybe itās just that I work in a fairly heavily regulated sector of the tech industry and have a decent idea what these sorts of systems look like, but this threat vector has been obvious to me since the first DOGE stuff broke over a month ago, the idea anyoneās calling it paranoid is bizarre to me
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Be honest: how much is this take motivated by that being the period when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania had its greatest territorial extent?
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For now itās basically okay like this if you arenāt trying to renew a passport. The question is how long thatāll hold - my money says not through the end of the year
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Wow, TIL
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Wait, whatās the incident where India murdered Canadians???
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In my 30s, but my grandparents were of that generation and I feel this every day
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No idea why, but Bookshop sent my copy early and I just got it! Excited to dig in š
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The thing that gets me about this is, did they bother to find out anything about the book beforehand except that it was getting hype? I feel like Iād have had to actively work to not have a sense of its politics going in
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As a current New England and former Cascadia resident, Iād support either of those if things evolve in a direction where that becomes realistic
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At least for myself there was also a tiny bit of catharsis in giving Susan Collins an earful about how sheās betraying her constituents
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Not only that, Amazon itself hired them for union busting a few years ago: www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pinke...
I guess itās harder to get the police to do their dirty work for free in Europeā¦