Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 8

@dansup
Why are you presuming that the people who are worried about this solution have never felt unsafe here?

@goatsarah well that sucks.

@goatsarah supposedly they're going to be bundled with flu shots here in the US, but I probably won't wait that long & will jsut get them separately.

@goatsarah
LIke I said, no egg, no pastry crust. That's a yeasted crust.
(Some might have egg if they're filled with ricotta, which sometimes gets a bit of egg to fluff it up.)
@po8crg @pseudomonas

@goatsarah
yeh i gotta get religious about this stuff - wife had Guillain-Barre earlier this year & now she can't get vaccines for a while. Which means I've gotta get all the shots, to keep her as safe as I can.

@pseudomonas
It ain't remotely a quiche. I've yet to encounter one that included eggs or had a pastry crust.
As a linguistic realist, I believe foods are what they are called if they are called that by enough people who eat those foods.
@goatsarah @po8crg

Started looking through some of the sites blocked by #TheBadSpace. This is at my very most charitable interpretation some serious scorched-earth #HOA nonsense, resulting from #MinimumViableProduct mindset without regard for consequences.

Again,charitably: Someone deciding his end justifies any means. It doesn't.

https://thegoodspace.neocities.org/
[h/t @TheGoodSpace | https://mastodon.social/@TheGoodSpace/111052271194393071]

Something I haven't seen mentioned about #TheBadSpace: it's an algorithmic solution to a human problem. Just exactly what people claim they don't want anymore, but now a bunch of people are lurching eagerly toward it because integrating TheBadSpace's blocklist is a simple action they can take that they believe will innoculate them from blame for racist bigotry.

@goatsarah @fne8w2ah
I loved magsafe for the first couple years I used it; then I started to see them fraying & breaking at the connector. It was almost the rule. (I ordered power bricks for Macs for an ad agency for about 8 years, so I saw this a lot.)

Mind you *mine* never went out, so I think this was a user behavior thing, but I would say they were poorly designed for the behavior of most of my users.

@goatsarah This is a fun question. Unless I'm mistaken the answer for North/South America is probably Prince Edward Island, in the Canadian Maritimes. There are much bigger islands (e.g. Baffin Island), some of those even more important (e.g. Newfoundland or Long Island [in New York state]). Caveat that I haven't looked at Tierra del Fuego to see how much of that one can get to by bridge/tunnel.

@scr
Either I didn't see it or I didn't think it had a bridge to the mainland.
@goatsarah

@goatsarah @cy
The "bug" in this case is a major conceptual flaw in the design, which basically was to create a stupid-simple CENTRALIZED blocklist aggregation tool that had no facility for documentation, review, appeal, auditing, moderation, etc. Basically "minimum viable product" [MVP] applied to a case where applying MVP methodology was guaranteed to cause harm.

@goatsarah please tell me it wasn't about admitting which shower you used.

@id1om
Was the writer also an advocate for uni-directional cables?
@goatsarah

@ZachWeinersmith
The "obsession" is that it's local, with all that entails: It stocks what the customers need/want, the owner knows a lot of those customers. IOW the "obsession" is that the bodega is part of the fabric of the community in a way that a corporate chain store hardly ever is.

The size of course is a function of real estate cost - so if you're looking at something larger, it's gotta have either higher margins, more volume, or both.

@goatsarah They're not urban but there's a species of Tasmanian parrot that is absolutely not to be fucked with. They're like crows joined the mafia & got elected mayor.

"#CollidedWithSurface" is the new "Crashed."

@KimPerales
John Bull (@garius) also has a Masto, & posted the same-ish thread there:
https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110775069963968471

@goatsarah people can compensate for a fair amount of retinal damage without being aware of it. E.g. I seem to have a fairly large blank spot in the right visual field of my right eye & I cannot make myself consciously aware of it. I only know it's there because of stuff suddenly becoming visible (like moving cars <AHEM/>) that I ought damn well have seen.

@feditips This was a good design decision for accessibility & usability. We do complain sometimes about Mastodon's support for #a11y, but there are many small decisions like this that demonstrate people did *want* to do the right think.