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   Sheldon (sysop408@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 07:22:59 JST Sheldon

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   @xankarn while I was in college, I spent parts of spring breaks chopping firewood and delivering it to people living in shoddy houses deep in the Appalachian mountains.

   Anytime I feel sorry for myself, I remember how hard life was for those people and yet they always put on a brave happy face when we showed up with the firewood. We'd get invited inside to see some of their family photos. They wanted us to see their joys and know who they were.

   That was indeed resilience, but words have multiple meanings. It was the resilience of the human spirit. It was pride and the will to survive when others are trying to kill you.

   The resilience that is being inferred in fluff pieces about the resilience of rural communities is another form of the word. It's resilience in the sense of a safety net, which is not what's happening.

   It's a perversion of a quirk in the English language and 30 years later, I remember this lesson: the opposite of suffering is not joy. It's pride. We overlook the difference at our own peril.

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   Douglas (douglasvb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 04:12:26 JST Douglas

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   In prep for the #GarnetFire possibly jumping fire lines and blowing past the contingency lines, the #McKinleyGrove #sequoia trees have sprinkler systems deployed and duff is being cleared from the root systems. It seems like almost every year this ends up happening.

   It's a beautiful grove (especially the semi-secret upper grove) but it is in a precarious position right at the edge of a steep canyon with a very high tree mortality rate downslope.

   If a fire really roared out of Dinkey Canyon...

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   The Fedilore Otter 🦦 (fedilore@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Aug-2025 07:40:00 JST The Fedilore Otter 🦦

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   “Punishment is not something that happens to bad people. It happens to those who cannot stop it from happening.

   It is laundered pain, not a balancing of scales.”

   https://thenewinquiry.com/hot-allostatic-load/

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   Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 07:36:27 JST Michael Busch

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   @inthehands @Rasta @EricFielding
   That quote is false.

   As of this writing; there are three cargo container carriers docked at SEA. One in from South Korea, one in from Vietnam, and one in from Oakland (registered out of Portugal) - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-122.350/centery:47.581/zoom:15 . There are also two cargo container ships from China docked in Tacoma.

   This not to diminish the economic crisis that is now happening.

   It is just to counter disinformation.

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   Artemis (artemis@dice.camp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 23:15:46 JST Artemis

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   The fight scene was pathetic too. Started in a fog cloud, cut away to other things, back to the action (still in fog), door closes so we can't see again, door breaks, they fight up the stairs in partial darkness, and when they get up to the roof it's foggy again and then the camera cuts away at least one more time while the fight was still happening.

   It's like they were *terrified* by the idea of properly choreographing and filming a fight scene.

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   Cosmic Kokiri (reversemodule@mstdn.games)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 02:06:31 JST Cosmic Kokiri

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   @killyourfm It seriously did. I remember telling people that Lnux is actually good for gaming before the Steam Deck would get you the title of clown at the very least.

   I still rememeber how people perception of Linux changed little by little and that's still happening.

   It's great to see how successful the device was and here's hoping that SteamOS cna become the norm for handheld devices! :)