well i resubscribed to hit 100 twice so far so i'm feeling pretty great

I can't really blame you for how you feel here. I'm feeling pretty similarly. Choosing between two parties where the common ground is "genocide is good and we have an obligation to perpetuate it" is driving me insane.

At the same time, I can't realistically imagine any path to ending the genocide without the US democrats in control (on top of all the other things that are A Little Bit Better with dems). (Even then, I don't think it's realistic, or even plausible. Just far more likely than it coming from Republicans, and that as far more likely than something like a successful revolution with a better govt.)

I don't say this to convince you otherwise. If anything, I guess I might be convinced otherwise. If we're both in blue states, a vote for Jill Stein (mannn) might scare Dems by that fraction of a bit. Fuck it, let's vote for Jill Stein

The thing is that a ceasefire is a pause in the genocide, not an end. It's not even a return to the status quo as of October 6th. A ceasefire is a compromise that still keeps things on the course toward genocide.

It falls far short from an acceptable way for things to be, it's less than a bare minimum, and yet it's still on the optimistic fringes of what could happen in the next week or month. That sucks!!

I'm still enthusiastically pro-ceasefire as a step off of the course of genocide. Same boat as you-- I'm disgusted my senators and my rep likewise haven't been able to call even for that.

But my personal pride doesn't matter, and the only benefit I could see to not-voting (or voting for Jill Stein) is to punish and pressure the Democratic party toward the left. But I don't see an argument for that being more effective than actually voting in Democrats and continuing to pressure them while they're in office.

im a big srsly/cute_spider fan and this is wonderful to learn

the key thing is that the "both sides are the same" argument is the south park argument.

on some mainstream parts of the internet, "biden is 99% hitler" is a point of discussion we're expected to take seriously and debate with the south park folks

I appreciate this! I ended up figuring Charity Navigator is my best bet to avoid solicitations, and I could gamble on some spam if it means I could provide aid.

I ended up going with UNRWA (1) just because you posted it but also (2) a lot of the higher-rated charities with similar >90% scores had different gaps in the rating breakdown.

I also learned Doctor's Without Borders (1) is calling for a ceasefire and (2) does not operate in Israel (since they are focused on filling gaps in medical care, and Israel does not have those gaps.) I think they're generally a safe bet to send money to too.

submit to the postmasters general of the fempire

i share this sentiment

i have no qualms against people with spare money shelling it out to scamscams while ignoring the mounting evidence that it's a scam

(i call it a "scamscam" because NFTs are like a scam on top of a scam. fraudulent nfts are a scamscamscam. append an extra scam if u agree capitalism is a scam #scamscamscamscam)

but the space is also filled with a lot of enthusiastic artists, programmers, etc. who aren't just investbros but truly believed optimistically that Blockchain Will Solve Thing. boredape is kind of adjacent to that

on the other hand, a lot of the most vocal people who were blinded seem to be using their fame to promote more coinshit and didn't actually get blinded. so i think actually my sympathies waned over these past few paragraphs #apefest

i have FOUR BITCHES which is one more GET than a jstpst POST needs

certified good post

i think about this often. but for tea

something i love is that NFTs were supposed to provide a way to make a cryptographically timestamped message with verifiable authorship

but nobody is using that, and bored ape's twitter thread about the blinded attendees ended with this message, because NFT threads are full of scamscams

This is the final tweet in this thread. Anything below this that looks like us is spam/phishing links. Do not click on links unless you have determined they are safe. You can also cross-reference with http://crouton.net and official brand communication channels.

lol. lmao.

(editorial note: i added the crouton)

every one of my posts is 100% serious and describes something that has happened or is a premonition of something that will happen #apefest

all jokes aside, yeah, the #apefest hashtag on twitter was chock full of people who woke up early in the morning with tweets struggling to make sense of burns on their eyes and skin

now it's full of cryptogrifters saying shit like "When your eyesight returns, come & have a look at our collection. " nft link

you are describing something plainly and accurately but it's funny inherently

this is similar

Same situation! It's a bit more boilerplate on everything I write, but the main problem is not everyone does it.

Thankfully, now nobody writes Go at my work (^:

Unthankfully, we're language-shy because of it, lol

I much prefer Every Other Language, where you get a stack trace that runs into the library code!

something like

some_call() failed at call another_call(x, y, z)

another_call(x,y,z) failed at internal_library(x[123])

internal_library.c failed on line 1025: index 123 is out of bounds for array x

ya, what i mean is, i think you gotta:

1. write val, err := something() and use err to build your own stack trace
2. make sure something() returns that err in the first place, if you wrote it

otherwise you don't get a stacktrace when something() fails.

i'm not confident about this, because i can't imagine Go reaching any acclaim while being so hilariously designed. but "Errors are values" so maybe we are right and go is bad

to be clear i have not done a lot of go and what i have done was mostly a year ago

this is because i did not like go

I agree, and feel like Go was meant to solve problems Google had.

You have to explicitly pass and handle your own error stack, you can not have unused code, etc. It's such a pain to write and iterate in.

When I use Go, every weird thing eventually clicks into place when I imagine a first-year Google SWE writing it. It instills cultural values into compilation errors.

With Rust, all the weird things click into place, but in a way that feels empowering and not alienating. The x = match y { Ok(T) => {...}, None => {}} used to feel so alien and weird, but now it feels like a powerful incantation that all my thoughts can fit into.

There's this strange parallel. With Go, all the "clicks" were like the snapping of a bone. With Rust, all the "clicks" were like the popping of an estradiol bottle

Oh, and Kiff. How could I forget Kiff? Kiff is good if you need to watch a kids cartoon, or if you want to relive the feeling of watching Spongebob for the first time.

12:01 AM and im bustin

i like that they gave us pictures and also a dog was in the picture for those of us who can't read

(good article and thank you for sharing, i would not have seen it otherwise)

Theres tons of online services I use where I know the owner has weird politics. It's kind of unavoidable

this is why i luv jstpst dot net. nobody here is weird and i love everyone here hehe

Theres also a history of services like this that get used in ways the owners don't really intend.

Yeah-- at least Kagi isn't cultivating a community. I'm okay sharing Mastodon (the software, not an instance) with creeps and nazis.

It looks like Kagi isn't an outright scam though, which is good?

And it also has Bangs Lol. So they know what's up!

yesssssssss

if they were marketing to me, this would've been the first thing they show me on the splash page. I luv bangs

i know :( i am so desparate

I appreciate this. I couldn't find any obvious scandals or weird stuff either. I could put up with cryptocoin libguy stuff if it means Good Searches, but I haven't seen any super-good-reviews yet.