Notices by Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands @Viss @lisamelton I mean Oracle already tried that with Android and lost

@skinnylatte goddamnit, you work in the Shire, this is all too twee and wholesome 😜

@skinnylatte I've heard someone call an owl bird hardware running cat software, so this seems an even more insightful name on several levels. 🦉

@skinnylatte that's sad (that you can't visit the grave) and sweet (that family show love and understand with their choice of gifts). It's heartwarming that people were able to accept your grandfather before the label "autism" existed, I don't have clear feelings about the medicalization of fairly common human differences as abnormal/disorders, so I'm glad that your family loved and cared for him.

@skinnylatte thats why telling the young to get out there and see the world is always prescient, one way or another you end up with stronger constraints as you get older which puts this kind of travel out of reach. foresight

@skinnylatte you're not the degenerate. I'm still salty that I learned metric in grade school in America in the 80s because we were supposed to transition "soon" and have never been comfortable with Imperial measures (how many hogsheads in a furlong, who the fuck knows) but have to use them to fit in, if someone says "it's 10ft away" I have to either ignore it or mentally convert (about 3m) and then I can visualize it.

@skinnylatte I had heard about the others but not Chex, I'm disappointed but not surprised... people are weird and the repressive culture makes people even weirder

@skinnylatte it's funny to me, they always say "location, location, location!" because I have some relatives who are moderately wealthy businesses owners and their house is more than 20 times cheaper but has all the same features, it has an indoor pool, separate kitchen and space for entertaining, a boat house and dock, a pretty nice patio and is filled with their favorite artwork. It is probably bigger and nicer than what is in these photos, but it is not in Singapore so it's nowhere near as expensive a lifestyle. It's funny too because at the end of the day, it's just a house, people live there, its built with the same drywall and electrical sockets as anyone else, they shop at Costco like anyone else, esp if throwing a party, and are really at the upper end of middle class afaict with very little in common with billionaires and maybe only a little in common with people who have $50M houses, as that seems like a big step beyond into the land of private drivers and private planes and live-in servants.

@skinnylatte I don't read Ross Duhat but every time I hear his name ista because he's written the dumbest possible shit that's not in crayon, so he probably does live in a very different world 🤡💩🤡🙈🙉🤡🤑

@inthehands https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113997863796539668 it's a struggle to have public conversations and create social norms because the people who need to work on providing those off ramps and convincing people to take them discussing it in public view of those who have been harmed and catch some pushback and justified anger as they appear to be coddling the fascists, which is true, they aren't publicly advocating for vengeance. It's always unclear when forgiveness is just ritualistic lack of accountability.

@skinnylatte @stripey @http_error_418 ok, giving it a shot :-). Hmm the butter is now like a spicy crispy frosting, not bad

@mekkaokereke a lesson that too many people didn't learn is that the "backwardsness" and poverty of the US South was directly related to how they spent their time oppressing their best and brightest, lowering the standard of living for everyone, instead of supporting all the ambitious and intelligent business owners regardless of their heritage. It requires accepting an enormous amount of self-destructiveness in exchange for a meaningless and fleeting sense of "superiority". Madness

@liztai yeah, finally someone who might not think its weird. I'd rather invest time in people who invest time in me, the friend who I meet for coffee, or the one whose kids play with mine, people I actually socialize with, rather than every acquaintance with whom I might have mutual recognition.

Mastodon is different, it's more like seeing regulars at the local pub and occasionally meeting people by jumping into an overheard conversation in a public space.

@skinnylatte
> So I always say America is a shit bucket but it is my shit bucket now.

Honestly, is there any higher praise than that? Not some "lalala everything is perfect" bullshit but "I see the flaws and I choose those flaws over these other flawed places". I appreciate your perspective, and welcome to the shit-show / clown-factory. ;-)

@skinnylatte my 7yo insisted on an Instax camera and is enjoying making keepsakes, most pics are blurry but shes having fun with it 😁

@inthehands @coolandnormal @jwi there isn't enough consensus and political power to enact this now, but I think the nation would better if anyone who lives here more than half the year was considered a resident and vote in local elections and easily become a citizen with no more administrivia than getting a passport. If you chose to live under the rules of a location you have a stake and should have a say in how those rules are made. It shouldn't be substantially more difficult than moving state

@inthehands I don't want to harsh your mellow but I haven't seen any reliable study/evidence that the vote isn't representative of the missing ~25% eligible voters, the bias due to vote suppression targets likely Harris voters more, but even if you had 100% of eligible voters, while it might change the outcome (yay!), the ratio is probably not going to change much, certainly not 70/30, this brand of fascism is way more popular amongst some powerful demographics than we'd both like.

@inthehands I don't know if I'll ever _not_ bring up Mr. Fred Rogers as an example of positive masculinity in these discussions, that was one American man who was not afraid of what dipshit "bros" thought of him as he was very very publicly kind and caring, which can be the hardest, toughest, up-hill fight for social humans. Too many adopt a masculinity of abuse and cowardly violence because of fear of what others might think of them. Itd be sad if it it wasn't destructive

@inthehands @donaldball sure, people game P-values and the methodology of many scientific papers is not reproducible, but most tech/software metrics don't even reach that level of bullshit.

@inthehands I wonder how much the need to keep the dev team busy with visible "features" and trying to be all things to all people drive this MS Word level of feature creep away from a simple tool which does simple things. If there were a more competitive market with 6+ viable phone/tablet OS companies you would have a better chance at finding an OS with an interface that fits your usage, as each fights for a different overlapping set of users with different needs. Duopoly can't produce that.