I recently went through Redwall again, one of my favorite book series when I was younger. I would definitely categorize it as “young reading,” but It was a nice, breezy trip and very light for when I was tired and going to bed. The Earthsea series is also classified as YA, but I think anyone of any age would be better for having read it. Le Guin is simply a master of her craft.

Personally, I’ll take good ol’ Bouldy over this.

For the record, I’m aware that this is not your quote. I am adressing a rhetorical “you” in my message. However, I’ll use the more direct you now. You asked for discussion about the quotes you posted, and I gave it to you. I am not sure what’s weaponized about my sincerity but it is, indeed, quite sincere.

Incredibly bad take. How one can look at the global negligence of COVID prevention, which I remind is a novel, highly-transmissible neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure, and conclude that it is actually bizarre and antisocial to care about it, that it is playing into conservative ideology to have trust issues from the immense trauma of navigating said global negligence as one cares about it, is beyond me. I treat people who are not doing anything to prevent the spread of COVID as a threat because they are. As it turns out, that’s a majority of the world population right now. We are all living the “if everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?” scenario in real-time. Don’t blame me for not jumping with you.

My heart dropped reading this. She died as her husband held her, and for absolutely nothing. What an utterly evil, sick place this pit of a country is.

No one knew how to use computers at all until they learned. GUIs do not mean anything until you learn them, too.

Wow

Even that started as “abolish the police.” That was too radical, so they went with “defund the police.” That, too, was too radical, and turned into “fund them more, but include sensitivity training.” The sensitivity training was not included; too radical.

It is truly impossible to make any kind of prediction for what will happen in the US because of this. I think a lot of people not from here don’t realize how bad it actually is. It’s really, really bad.

It is pretty much the singular online chat app in use by most English-speaking spaces, replacing the niche Microsoft-owned Skype used to fill. The way it works is, similarly, an inscrutable black box by design, developed and headquartered in the USA. There is no question that it is compromised.

It’s implicit. I’ve been a lurker for some time; check any of the social megathreads and you’ll certainly see people constantly going on about gatherings, restaurants, organizing this and that in person. These people are not masking. The ones that are will be talking about it, because it is impossible to be masking in the current year and also be social without noticing the dissonance. Any pushback to this point will be met with apathy at best, hostility at worst. It seems to be treated like veganism, where there is an unspoken policy that everyone acknowledges it is the correct stance to take…but if someone is not following it through for whatever reason, they just aren’t going to mention it at all, and doing so is breaking decorum. In this case “don’t ask don’t tell” doesn’t work when you still mingle about going to bars or concerts or whatever else like nothing is going on. This itself is a form of (normalized) violence, which is where “this site is pro-eugenics” comes from, a sentiment I am in agreement with because the base of modern society is pro-eugenics.

While this is despair inducing, we can’t give in and sink to the lowest depths. There is a need for moderation throughout the site when it comes to the eugenics (subtle or over) and covid denialism, and it needs to come from US, not the mods!

What do you do when the “help” is unwanted? At best, we can do agitation, and I have been barking up this tree IRL and online since the early years. People won’t change. They don’t want to change. If they do, they are an outlier, and I have not met a single one of them. The only time any of them did anything was when it was policy and under threat of consequences—visible consequences that they can’t wave away like degrading health. We won’t get there again without it. Even then, not everyone would abide. People were on their deathbeds decrying the existence of COVID. All I, a human being of “the community”, have succeeded in doing is burning myself out while no one listens and the party outside goes on unimpeded. What then? As someone else here put it, someone needs to be COVID Stalin to shape the discourse. It will not happen for our part. We have no authority, a fact that is easily confirmed by trying to talk to anyone about COVID whatsoever.

People are always talking about upworth. What if I want down?

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I don’t either. Everyone has their ways, I suppose. The way of hundreds of browser tabs is full of Sin and gluttony, is all.

Is it not? I thought there were other proprietary bits & telemetry removed, like what LibreWolf does. Maybe I’m lost in the semantics of “fork” and “custom version”…

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