Notices by voxpopsicle (voxpopsicle@mastodon.social)

@aral when you find yourself writing "legally killed children" is when you need to stop and check yourself and wtf you are doing

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

- John Rogers

@anildash if you're a Prince fan (and I get the feeling you are) Drew Dempsey from Sunset Sound has a series of interviews on Youtube many of which focus on Prince, like this one with Susan Rogers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iv__walYL4

@goatsarah so theoretically all the bugs were worked out before that, I think/hope

@goatsarah probably is the best anyone can do ;)

@inthehands wisdom!

although there are probably a minority of situations where the team gets to the other side sans wolf and realize that the wolf was keeping the local rabbit population under control, etc

@carnage4life afaict it's pretty much a guarantee that if you're successful in business you attribute it to things that you did instead of luck and timing

@inthehands @hosford42 @pippa @Adam_Cadmon1 i'll double down on that and suggest that neurotypicals often wildly misunderstand each other but *think* they understand and both leave the conversation with different views of what they're agreeing on.

this works fine when they're both operating in a sea of shared context that holds them up but falls apart quickly when deep into the world of abstractions and theory.

@BethanyBlack that's great you got tomorrow's panicking out of the way already

@aral question: what do they hear when you write a11y?

@Gargron +1 I hit peak digital a while back and now my goal is to do as much as possible in the analog world without terribly inconveniencing myself.

Our car has a key fob which the car senses when you get close and it lets you open the doors, start the engine etc. Except that the battery runs down every two months (or so it feels) and I'm constantly carrying the cognitive load of "must replace battery". So I've mostly gone back to using the physical key, which works at all times.