hell we put shit we DO need in piles. we put shit we think we need in piles?? really we just like piles. the entire concept of a silo is just a pile with reinforced sides so we can make it higher. a quarry is just a reverse-pile so we can create piles out of the stuff we take out. a warehouse is just a pile with labels and shelves. factories take piles and turn them into more piles. a conveyor belt is a horizontal pile

My cuban coworker just hit me with the “my phone is slow can you clean it for me” move but in spanish and I’m like “damn this shit really does transcend every barrier”

protip everyone: if you ever heard anyone talk about electronic voting, whether positively or negatively (but primarily negatively) and they never once mention brazil, their argument is hot garbage and should be thrown straight into the trash.

this post was brought to you by: brazil has been doing country-wide electronic voting for longer than I’ve been alive and the fact that foreigners (primarily americans) think it’s some kind of novel untested idea makes me want to scream.

ten percent luck
twenty percent skill
fifteen percent concentrated power of will
five percent pleasure
ten percent pain
twenty-five percent reason to remember the name
five percent magnesium
two percent caesium wire
three percent mineral oil to prevent metal fire
one percent fats
point eight percent crab
one point three percent distilled essence of gab
point five percent perspiration
point four percent agony
one percent traces of elements such as antimony

so I got a new router for wireless PCVR use (the old one was a huawei with stupid firmware that captive portals everything to its admin page if it detects no connection ._.)

…and now that I’m not limited by the stupid fw, I could test out PCVR on linux with Envision (using wivrn) and wlx-overlay-s

I am happy to report that Shit Works

(arch linux, awesomewm on x11, tested with h3vr on GE-Proton9-5)

The ongoing death of Twitter, many people’s (entirely reasonable!) unwillingness to use the Fediverse, and Bluesky’s (much less excusable!) lack of locked accounts sure make venting online about things of a personal or private nature a bit difficult, lmao.

… …hopefully, our efforts here will, in the medium term, result in something that’s at least as good for that use case as Cohost was. I’m really hoping we can turn this into something that’s, like, at least “thousands of people” kind of serious, but in a way that’s sustainable.

yeet

We are supposed to be a democracy, but our mass media has been almost criminal in neglecting the real controversies of our time, preferring instead a mundane sort of pap which ultimately is more dangerous than any opinion because it only serves to stifle thought. In the atomic age, the last thing we can afford is a powerful, thoughtless, and sheeplike “democracy.”

The smollest cat everr

workin on something

terraform (derogatory)

Resident Evil? You mean landlords?

thanks to a helpful fediverse post that shared a blogpost teaching how to run godot games natively on mac I might decide to buy Webfishing. what a relief. it's been upsetting me as a proud fishing fanatic to be UNABLE to play a good fishing game. now I can correct this grievous error.

I think at some point, my anxiety value overflowed and got set back to 0 as a result.

I know what’s happened is horrible. I know this is about… as worst case scenario as we could get. But… I won’t give up. I don’t think anyone should. We have each other.

I think we just need to do what we can to survive, stick together, and get through this. There may be bad people out there, but there are a lot of good ones, too. We just have to endure the shit.

Crucial reminder that the Website League (any of the websites) should NOT be considered a secure communications platform

Heads up for anyone who enjoyed CathodeRayDude’s chosting, he now has a blog that’s pretty in line with his cohost stuff: https://blog.cathoderaydude.com/