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goddamnit i'm arguably the fediverse's foremost questionable content expert at this point aren't i
@SophiaSurname many of us are experts on questionable topics
you are the expert on content that actually knows it's Questionable
Unless Jeph is #onHere
I wish there was a Rust-type-system-y way for a type with a generic T to have (as an example) two Debug implementations, one for the case that T: Debug and one for when T does not in fact debug.
It is kind of a niche problem and I only run into it like once a year.
There's some ancient docs that talk about how the specialization feature will fix this but I think that effort has been abandoned due to unsoundness? 
I'm curious if anyone #onhere runs has the same cursed problems and if you found a solution you can live with 
A recurring refrain #onhere, is that if we're to respond to what is happening in our contemporary moment, we have to build connections, and strengthen those we have.
Which is indubitable.
Yet, for those of us who have spent a lifetime trying and failing to build lasting connections in our and across many prior communities, the indubitable can appear insurmountable.
For those of us who have lived our lives as aliens to our own culture, etic participant observers of an all too often impenetrable emic consensus reality, a question like "Who would you reach out to?" can feel like a threat.
For those of us in this disheartening place, a lifetime of failing to connect under far less dire circumstances being our only resume, a more promising question may instead be "Who would depend on you?"
Identify those persons, or even that lone person, in your life. Or if the count on that score is none, focus on finding an adequate answer. Not finding who you'd reach out to to take action. Finding who would you be prepared to have depend on you when action is being taken.
Ideally, such a person is someone who builds connections, even if only less modest than our own, and in our support of their efforts, if only by taking other tasks not those of building and strengthening connections off their hands, now and before the shit hits the fan, their own energies would be freed up to build and strengthen those connections all the more.
Sometimes, revolution really does come down to who does the dishes.
Even if they are not, however, even if they are as alienated as we are ourselves, reaching out in advance to work out how, when *waves hands* comes to your neighborhood, you each will reach out to and support the other, and building that praxis as habit of daily actions, now, is better than waiting for such a day to come without having prepared for it.
A recurring refrain #onhere, is that if we're to respond to what is happening in our contemporary moment, we have to build connections, and strengthen those we have.
Which is indubitable.
Yet, for those of us who have spent a lifetime trying and failing to build lasting connections in our and across many prior communities, the indubitable can appear insurmountable.
For those of us who have lived our lives as aliens to our own culture, etic participant observers of an all too often impenetrable emic consensus reality, a question like "Who would you reach out to?" can feel like a threat.
For those of us in this disheartening place, a lifetime of failing to connect under far less dire circumstances being our only resume, a more promising question may instead be "Who would depend on you?"
Identify those persons, or even that lone person, in your life. Or if the count on that score is none, focus on finding an adequate answer. Not finding who you'd reach out to to take action. Finding who would you be prepared to have depend on you when action is being taken.
Ideally, such a person is someone who builds connections, even if only less modest than our own, and in our support of their efforts, if only by taking other tasks not those of building and strengthening connections off their hands, now and before the shit hits the fan, their own energies would be freed up to build and strengthen those connections all the more.
Sometimes, revolution really does come down to who does the dishes.
Even if they are not, however, even if they are as alienated as we are ourselves, reaching out in advance to work out how, when *waves hands* comes to your neighborhood, you each will reach out to and support the other, and building that praxis as habit of daily actions, now, is better than waiting for such a day to come without having prepared for it.
Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good - Your "Ah-ha" Moment is Nauseating
https://substack.com/inbox/post/184958514?r=6xdhop&triedRedirect=true
I think a lot of (maybe most?) whites #OnHere should read this.
Dear White People: Renee Nicole Good - Your "Ah-ha" Moment is Nauseating
https://substack.com/inbox/post/184958514?r=6xdhop&triedRedirect=true
I think a lot of (maybe most?) whites #OnHere should read this.
Something I've noticed as someone who requires mutual aid to get by regularly #OnHere is just how intensely puritanical this space is. Don't get me wrong, the very fact that mutual aid is so well supported here makes for a wonderful space.
But!
I've noticed that folks who put up mutual aid requests to help afford (traditionally) controlled substances like medical marijuana and opiate based medications seem to get far less traction. I've seen it with my own posts, and with countless others. The same goes for disabled people asking for help with tech/accessibility products that are seen as "non-necessary" (i.e, working digital accessibility tools like tablets & adaptive tech).
As a chronically ill person who is chronically in pain and who is vastly underserved and underrepresented by the medical industrial complex, I've spent the last decade of my life advocating for a bare minimum of care. That minimum of care does not include prescribed pain medications, as my medical team does not want to accept my need for pain management.
One thing you learn about over the counter pain medications when you have to take them every day all day is that they cause immense harm to your body if used as a constant relief. Tylenol can slowly shut down your liver if you have to take it every day. My pain (especially during the winter) sees me regularly need to medicate with maximum non-prescription doses of Advil, Tylenol, and Naproxen on a constant rotation.
The reality of my life is that if I were to solely rely on the traditional pain management regimen I have access too (shovelling OTC pain meds into my mouth every 4 - 6 hours), I would probably see significant risks of liver failure and serious complications. This leaves me with a simple choice: suffer in pain, or risk complications by taking massive doses of OTC medications.
However, CBD and THC products - things I used as an addict far more than I do now - have less significant long-term side affects, help me manage my pain in a more holistic manner, and help ensure that I can sleep & rest despite the pain. Adding marijuana into the rotation means that I rely significantly less on OTC pain medications, and is something I can access without doctors gatekeeping it from me. Moreover, my medical team and I are all in agreement that adding medical marijuana usage is far less risky than starting prescription opiate use.
So tell me why it becomes almost impossible to get the donations I need to stay medicated when I mention medical marijuana? It's a life saving drug that helps me get through my days with a modicum of enjoyment. Medical marijuana is the thing that helps me get out of bed every day, and is the fastest acting option I have to manage emergent pain (ie, dislocations and subluxations). Why should I have to conceal that I need to purchase this medication? Why should I have to pretend like it's not one of the things I need funding with?
It's just... infuriating. If I said I needed help affording my diabetes medications, people would likely donate much faster. But the moment I mention a need for a form of medication that has traditionally been a controlled substance (and is fully legalized where I live)... suddenly traction just dies.
Idunno. something to think about I guess
Something I've noticed as someone who requires mutual aid to get by regularly #OnHere is just how intensely puritanical this space is. Don't get me wrong, the very fact that mutual aid is so well supported here makes for a wonderful space.
But!
I've noticed that folks who put up mutual aid requests to help afford (traditionally) controlled substances like medical marijuana and opiate based medications seem to get far less traction. I've seen it with my own posts, and with countless others. The same goes for disabled people asking for help with tech/accessibility products that are seen as "non-necessary" (i.e, working digital accessibility tools like tablets & adaptive tech).
As a chronically ill person who is chronically in pain and who is vastly underserved and underrepresented by the medical industrial complex, I've spent the last decade of my life advocating for a bare minimum of care. That minimum of care does not include prescribed pain medications, as my medical team does not want to accept my need for pain management.
One thing you learn about over the counter pain medications when you have to take them every day all day is that they cause immense harm to your body if used as a constant relief. Tylenol can slowly shut down your liver if you have to take it every day. My pain (especially during the winter) sees me regularly need to medicate with maximum non-prescription doses of Advil, Tylenol, and Naproxen on a constant rotation.
The reality of my life is that if I were to solely rely on the traditional pain management regimen I have access too (shovelling OTC pain meds into my mouth every 4 - 6 hours), I would probably see significant risks of liver failure and serious complications. This leaves me with a simple choice: suffer in pain, or risk complications by taking massive doses of OTC medications.
However, CBD and THC products - things I used as an addict far more than I do now - have less significant long-term side affects, help me manage my pain in a more holistic manner, and help ensure that I can sleep & rest despite the pain. Adding marijuana into the rotation means that I rely significantly less on OTC pain medications, and is something I can access without doctors gatekeeping it from me. Moreover, my medical team and I are all in agreement that adding medical marijuana usage is far less risky than starting prescription opiate use.
So tell me why it becomes almost impossible to get the donations I need to stay medicated when I mention medical marijuana? It's a life saving drug that helps me get through my days with a modicum of enjoyment. Medical marijuana is the thing that helps me get out of bed every day, and is the fastest acting option I have to manage emergent pain (ie, dislocations and subluxations). Why should I have to conceal that I need to purchase this medication? Why should I have to pretend like it's not one of the things I need funding with?
It's just... infuriating. If I said I needed help affording my diabetes medications, people would likely donate much faster. But the moment I mention a need for a form of medication that has traditionally been a controlled substance (and is fully legalized where I live)... suddenly traction just dies.
Idunno. something to think about I guess
This is some real 101 shit but nonwhites can and do uphold white supremacy and a lot of the racism #onhere has more to do with these kinds of garbage whataboutism, deflections, sealioning microaggressions to shove out uncomfortable discussions and users than it is about swastikas. Please get a clue!!
This is some real 101 shit but nonwhites can and do uphold white supremacy and a lot of the racism #onhere has more to do with these kinds of garbage whataboutism, deflections, sealioning microaggressions to shove out uncomfortable discussions and users than it is about swastikas. Please get a clue!!
@ajroach42 I just had someone try to tell me programming is art, that'd do well as a hellthread #onHere
@ifixcoinops I guess we do need a subject. I hadn't made it that far.
Hellthreads tend to be pretty loose on subject matter.
@ajroach42 I just had someone try to tell me programming is art, that'd do well as a hellthread #onHere
Is there a titty emoji. Not #onhere but I mean like,,,on most phone keyboards?? Like we have 🍑 and 🍆
Where are the titty emojis?!?
Is there a titty emoji. Not #onhere but I mean like,,,on most phone keyboards?? Like we have 🍑 and 🍆
Where are the titty emojis?!?
@wohali …while making your professional work dependent on a third party that can and will charge 10x for the privilege as soon as the bubble starts popping.
Also had several DM's or replies from folk asking if it's okay for them to submit their ad and tbqh the answer is pretty much always gonna be yes, if you're #onHere then you're not fucking Coca Cola are you haha
Bsky is 'What if Twitter, but only the cancelling and bullying parts?'
@quinn maybe we can get a movement going to block the bsky bridge #onhere.
I already do the emotional labor of explaining that bsky is a containment tank for those assholes every time I see a thread where somebody mentions being sad that they got all the "growth" which fedi "missed out on" during the big migration.
Eternal November in 2022 was bad enough. if 20 million un-detoxed users had landed here rather than on #bsky, this place would be an unrecoverable smoldering ruin.
i hope all the Black folks that have been driven away from the fedi by the pathetic racists who thrive #OnHere are thriving irl and in their chosen online spaces
i miss many of the folks i've known for years before they finally got sick of the constant racist bullshit in this place and threw in the towel; i wish them joy and strength and peace wherever they are now and whatever they're doing ❤️
and if you're one of the pathetic fucking losers who bandies racist innuendo about and contributes to the frequent waves of unhinged racist harassment directed at Black folks and other folks of color on here: fuck you forever, eat shit
i hope all the Black folks that have been driven away from the fedi by the pathetic racists who thrive #OnHere are thriving irl and in their chosen online spaces
i miss many of the folks i've known for years before they finally got sick of the constant racist bullshit in this place and threw in the towel; i wish them joy and strength and peace wherever they are now and whatever they're doing ❤️
and if you're one of the pathetic fucking losers who bandies racist innuendo about and contributes to the frequent waves of unhinged racist harassment directed at Black folks and other folks of color on here: fuck you forever, eat shit
Last night my middle kid got my 2011 vintage personal laptop converted over to #Linux in advance of #EndOf10 doom. Using Debian and XFCE. Excited for many reasons:
- Giving throwaway/surveillance capitalism the finger
- Extending the life of a perfectly good piece of hardware (honestly the best laptop I've ever owned personally)
- Learning a new OS and advancing my nerd credentials
- bonding with my kid over geeky stuff
I'll still be using Windoze at work...for now...
A number of folks #OnHere have given me advice - and confidence - on this transition in recent years. Wanna say THANK YOU!!!
