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- Comment on Anyone know where I can buy or get books by the pound to start a new library for our local jail. To help them read and prep them for a GED? 2 hours ago:
Thrift shops, yard sales… also local libraries often release their old books when new copies come in, so that’s an angle to investigate…
- Comment on I fear nothing OSHA 1 day ago:
Ah! I see Forklift Driver Klaus is at it again!
- Comment on YSK: NASA has a free guide on how to get into astrophotography with just a smartphone 1 day ago:
Nice! Thank you so much for this link!
- Comment on YSK you can fold fitted sheets neatly (guide by ratfactor) 4 days ago:
Heck yeah. You have more room in your trunk/drawer/shelf when everything’s folded up neat and tidy.
I have used the quarter sheet fold method for my fitted sheets for decades. Mom taught me that particular witchcraft.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
Guilty as charged… What’cha gonna do about it!
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
Shit… you’re all pups…
I was on whatever the hell the network was between Stanford and the elementary schools in Palo Alto in the mid 1970’s and cut my online teeth on an IBM Teletype 33!
(Now we’re talking “old school.”)
- Comment on Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI 1 week ago:
Awww. Too bad… so sad…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
4k remaster! Even BIGGER, moar hi-def Rickrolls now!!!
PHWOAAAAAAARRRR!!
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 week ago:
They’ll be closed and turned into bistros like the ones in my city have been. Actually pretty cool to go dine at, and be outside and sheltered, what with the steel canopy where the pumps were…
- Comment on I'm using my home server and coding to rebuild my brain after a stroke. 1 week ago:
Well shit… just on the ripping the optical media… that is a chore and a half!
Keep on with it, will be delightful to follow your progress and for you, I imagine, it will be glorious.
- Comment on March could be the best month for the northern lights for nearly a decade — if the sun stays active 1 week ago:
Putting the Space Weather page into my bookmarks bar now!
(I’m honestly shocked that this is still up, given what a shitshow the government is…)
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 1 week ago:
Of course it is, if you enjoy the scent of hot steamy piss.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
God’s honest, I do not know! I was sitting in a cafe and trying to peck out a reply and the network was throwing a wobbler. All I recall is at the time the page wasn’t responding when I went to post. I did actually have something written in the comment!
Weird.
- Comment on I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled 1 week ago:
Nice… I grabbed the picture of that post and am gong to share it with my friends that are getting tired of the big social media sites.
Thanks!
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Political leaning 2 weeks ago:
Eeeeaaahhhhhh…
My eyes are burning reading that…
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 2 weeks ago:
Well I nipped that bitch in the bud.
Just came in from shoveling the driveway - AND did the street margin up to the walkway of my house, leaving the curbstone exposed, so that the plow drivers will know where the edge is. Had a city worker come along and go tightly along the curb and got the stuff I’d chipped loose, so that was WAY hella nice of him. Get that road-crusty wet shit outta the way.
I will likely go out in another 5 hours and clean the space up where my husband parks, so he can just come in tonight after work with no problem.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 2 weeks ago:
NGL, any time by a fire is nice. Snow or not.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not “heavy” snow - that is lots and lots of it… it’s heavy wet snow that is the absolute fucker.
So far this winter, here in coastal New England, it’s been powdery and cold. Easy-peasy to shovel.
Love it!
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 2 weeks ago:
Yup. Bazzite for the win!
- Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked 3 weeks ago:
Hm.
I just logged into my fb account and got zero shit like that. Just posts from a distant cousin, a few local people I follow and my local news.
I make it a point to hide/block all the extraneous shit that the feed offers - and have sone so for years - so maybe that’s the difference?
Weird.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 3 weeks ago:
Good lord what a clown.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 3 weeks ago:
Oooh, IIRC it dawned on me about the time that facebook insisted all users have their actual names on their pages. (I can’t remember when that was, maybe 2012 or 2013? Not sure, it was a while ago however.)
That was the red flag for me.
It was also the point when I deleted my posts and comments on fb (it took months to get it all) then unfriended everyone and logged out for a month. When I logged back in I had a handful of comments on the (ex-)friends pages that popped up, since the feed will scour the servers to show you content on your home page, so I re-friended them, deleted the comments, logged out and waited another month. After the last time I logged in (I did four deletion waves of comments) fb was showing me totally random strangers “I Might Know…”
Perfect.
I then changed up my primary email on FB to my yahoo throwaway, logged out for another month, logged in with the new email and made a totally fake name for myself… Who I am does not exist on facebook, nor are any friends or family listed as friends and no one can see anything on my page.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 3 weeks ago:
You know… here’s the thing…
Years ago, I’d be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state… and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.
Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.
I’d consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being “naive.”
God fucking dammit… on this… I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.
FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 3 weeks ago:
I am certain Spez and his minions/investors (fuck /u/spez) doesn’t want people to start using alternatives.
Dude, that is the absolute truth. After I got banned in October, I spent days using logins on several different devices I had and deleted ALL my posts (back to 2010) and got the last years worth of comments (the prior 14 years were of course made unavailable when Reddit locked down the database to prevent AI from scraping the site…) and then tried to delete the account.
Tried to.
Reddit won’t even let users delete their accounts.
If that’s not ginning the numbers of users to look good for the investors, I don’t know what is. Point of fact, I’m probably not the only person to notice this behavior and methinks it’s part of why Reddit stock is lower than the market says it should be and they’re reassessing “user metrics.”
I’ve certainly not been silent online about the fact that I was permabannned yet cannot delete my account.
Reddit fuckiness, for sure.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit. Lemme guess… it’s a southern state and in a majority black district?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I recognize that ‘script!’ Just like my younger brothers when we were kids.
I like that you’re getting sneaky with it. The thing with the comic book lettering or the architectural stuff is that it is all capitals. Is a good start for just getting the shapes down and the basics are of course squares.
My younger brother was an emergency C-section and he came out fully purple as the umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck and was choking him…
Ended up with impared development due to lack of oxygen and he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum - used to be called Aspergers… He would literally sit on a pillow on the floor and rock back and forth for hours and God save you if you touched him. He’d freak out. Too much stimulus. When he was still an infant, folks had to feed him by leaning him back and putting a small throw pillow on his belly and propping his bottle on that.
Touch was too much.
Dad taught him to write with the architectural lettering and he’s now in his late 50’s and has a beautiful script.
It takes time and it’s just a matter of finding something the kid can latch on to and be excited by. Brother loved Star Trek and sci-fi in general so we ran with that.
Part of his adult education classes he was taking a few years ago involved writing a page of whatever he wanted… So he wrote a short science fiction story - as he put it - more of a part of a chapter of a story he’d had in his head… It was quite well written!
I told him he should keep at it once the class was over. Instead he decided to focus on cooking afterwards. Who’da thought?
He’s a fantastic cook, eats better than I do - is all organic and whole foods. So funny how we all turned out.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
This was a public school and they tolerated this shit?
Sweet Jesus the standards have fallen.
Is it the parents, school board and administration or a combination of all 3?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
The fine motor control that comes of handwriting is critical if he likes to tinker or discovers any sort of work/hobby that requires manual dexterity.
Keep pushing on that, also, get a book on how to print like you’re writing the dialogue in a comic book or how to print like an architect making a blueprint. If he can work out the spaes and spacing, he can develop his own legible style in time and move on to a fusion-style cursive with those print shapes… It realy does make a difference in note-taking.
My dad was a design draftsman and taught me how to do that block print that I’d see on blueprints, and I have a super easy to read cursive based on that now.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 weeks ago:
… it’s a problem that’s arisen because class sizes are out of control …
If I may ask, just how large are the classes today?
For reference, in 1980, my 10th grade English class (Mrs. Chase, she was awesome) had 36 students.
That was average for my school at the time.
The BIG classes like general US History (taught by Mr. Conway, who was wildly popular) had 40+ kids.
Mr Conway also kept a real honest to goodness stocks in his class room, so anyone that misbehaved had two options… into the stocks for the class or off to the assistant Vice Prinicpal’s office and spend a day in ISS. (in school suspension)
There would ALWAYS be one jackass Junior in each class that would opt for the stocks, at the start of every year and then NO one EVER caused a beef in Mr. Conway’s classes - or really ANY of the government studies (US History, Civics, Social Studies) deparement classes… Hearing about who chose the stocks and the rumors usually scared the underclassmen shitless, so they rarely ever piped up… except for the really stupid smartasses that always tried to test how far they could go…
