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not 100% sure that’s true about sending DMs to users on other instances (activitypub uses public key signing to ensure data integrity so I’m assuming they couldn’t do so without those keys from our DB), but certainly they could put up a honeypot and try to ID users.
the twitter post could be coincidence, I have no idea if that guy is a chapo head
but if the same was posted here I would assume they heard it on chapo
I don’t hate chapo but I’m glad we aren’t so focused on it anymore, its just not that interesting being like “oh that felix bit was hysterical”, “oh will’s trump impression is bad” multiple times a week for 5-10 years. I still listen when I feel like it, but its not my whole political universe, thank god
This exact story was also just on the latest chapo, this guy’s son is running for mayor of NYC now as a demsucc. small world (or this post was inspired by that)
Anyone have good tips on hiding chest growth in a way that isn’t stiflingly hot? I’m not too worried about it day to day but this summer I may end up at some family functions with family I have no interest in coming out to and am thinking that hoodies won’t work in those temps (I am pretty heavyset so it doesn’t really stand out much yet but still.) I might just send it, people are very oblivious, but if anyone’s got experience…
Thinking about becoming one of those people who gets disgusted and tells ppl to fuck off when they say “god bless” to me
I won’t because I mostly hear it from unhoused ppl tbh but people like this guy in the OP… fuck this guy
getting facts-and-logic’ed into admitting to myself that I was not straight by a like, very overbearing junior or senior, as a freshman in hs.
I just like, wouldn’t hypothetically rule out dating my friend or something and I guess lack of visceral disgust was an immediate tell. She was kind enough to not blab about it. I asked if my friend felt the same way eventually, after much prodding from her. It was a no. I think I cried, which was very rare back then. And I told nobody
I am queer as fuck it turns out so ig she kinda nailed it. I often wonder what happened to her, we only really talked for like a few months freshman year but it was a very formative time.
I recently overheard a young guy on a date(?) proudly tell his date that he decorated his new house/apt/whatever with fake plants because he can’t keep plants alive
straight up, imagining how utterly infested the world was with tobacco smoke in every public place vs how it is now really gives me some hope for change on other fronts where the bad thing is normalized and it feels immovable
the headline thing in particular is funny because a lot (perhaps the majority) are coming on private carriers. Even the ones that are USPS-delivered are now often using middlemen logistics companies to get it into the US first and then hand off to USPS to avoid paying higher premiums for international shipping
But if it’s immediately enforced on all carriers it will grind peoples online shopping treats (and essentials) to a halt which I can’t imagine will go over super well
not the same commenter
ohhhh I get it now. Well shit, I’m sorry. I would honestly kill for a place like that. General thrift stores are… uncomfortable for me, and the more hip accepting places still just don’t carry anything that fits me
So it was all well worth it in the end.
I still think its a mixed bag at best but mostly because tech companies’ greed and AI bullshit have utterly poisoned the well.
The web is bigger and flashier and capable of doing more than ever, but it requires a pretty hefty CPU to even do basic things that you could do as fast or faster on a midrange tower from 15 years ago. And all the sites are designed to be addictive. Mobile devices are technological marvels more than ever before, but they’re also always within like 2 years of being e-waste, and have become almost completely proprietary and locked into surveillance capitalism, locking out DIYers as much as physically possible. The cameras are great but “processing software” (it was verging into outright editing/enhancement for years even before the latest AI boom) has gotten so “good” that photos often no longer look like real life, they look “better”. The 4k HDR screens come from the factory with baked in ads and dead pixels, the videogames are all building in gambling mechanics to make money, etc etc. And thats not to mention “AI” shit
proprietary charging cables
2000s beauty standards
silver plastic home electronics
nimh and nicad batteries in everything that lasted all of 5 minutes
paper encyclopedias were kinda before my time but also seemed pretty bad
getting rid of smoking inside of restaurants and bars
my state was early to that so I don’t remember it much really, but holy shit yeah. I recently ran across an anecdote from someone probably 15 years older than I am and I could smell the place just reading about it online. Something about how in college his buddies would go and all smoke cigars in the basement dining room of the local pizza joint, but after a while the staff asked them to stop… so they switched to cigarettes and that was of course fine
Those crappy 2000s era phones that filled the void between old school cellphones and smartphones
I liiiiked those, at least the later ones
I probably didnt have one long enough for it to break down or for me to get sick of it though. blackberries were much better in most ways but expensive and not exactly tanks themselves.
everything else is real as fuck but also very much problems of the digital age, created by the digital age lol
pls post about it if you do! I’m extremely interested
some states let you buy them online some don’t. Even in states that “don’t” you can usually find some identical ones marketed as being veterinary insulin needles that everyone says are fine, but I haven’t tried them personally. Lotta states let you buy them in person without a prescription, though the pharmacist might give you a hard time if its a chuddy area. As a fallback, reach out to harm reduction orgs in your area and see where they get theirs/if you can get some, because they will have some. A variety of sizes should work in a pinch so don’t stress about getting the exact right gauge and length as long as its close, though you will probably have preferences.
they had a what now
damn that sucks. At least there’s still DIY. I should stock up on supplies
yep, it’s still a big fucking problem.