i wonder if an apple has nightmares about worms

#modernpantheon

only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. but yup, there's also darkness. a lot of darkness. i can't see a thing. where am i? oh my god, where is the moon?!

and while we are at small annoyances: there appears to be no way to quickly reload a wave file in audacity. and that may be unfixable, since if you're loading a wav file, you're really just creating a new project which has no idea, nor does it care, where its tracks come from once they're loaded.

so you're thinking "a different open source audio editor then", but people would say "NO DUMMY! we have audacity! why would we need another wave editor!"

well, uh, so we can reload files, obviously

biden definitely has dementia. i unfortunately recognize the signs. but i'm fairly sure the president's staff does 95% of the hard work. the "strong leader" has been a myth anyway. since the 90s at least, presidential decisions on the dem side have been guided by focus groups. and thanks for that! the romanticization of boneheadedness has done us all no favors.

"no politics" is the perfect non sequitur

e.g. *whacks the croissant off your breakfast plate* "i said NO POLITICS!"

makes you wonder what this is about. is it because the croissant is french? does this relate to the french not wanting to co-invade iraq in 2003? or is it because the croissant looks both like two dicks and the horns of satan, and thus promotes homosexuality? or is it due to the flagrant use of butter in the recipe, alluding to Jim Field Smith’s butter-carving satire Butter?

it appears to me the cybernetic principle "the purpose of a system is what it does" is contemporaneously misused to paranoidly imply that bad outcomes are the result of conspiratorial four-dimensional chess moves, as if *someone* out there knew what they were doing.

but "the purpose of a system is what it does" is only meaningful as a response to someone believing more in intent and design of a system rather than its actual performance and emergent manifestations.

fact: 50% of female cannabis seeds you can buy online have been previously assigned male at conception

thinking about putting "undiagnosed" in my bio. then people would ask "undiagnosed what?" and i would just say "exactly."

We have "global warming" and "climate change" as snappy titles for an important looming issue, but we also need one for the growing loss of jobs and the decay of job quality due to ever-increasing automation. At some point, machines will run nearly everything. It could become a humanistic utopia - but only if we elect leaders who recognize this social change as worthy of their attention, and start programmes to prevent their countries from falling into widespread and devastating unhappiness.

i call all proprietary solutions "experimental prototypes", because sooner or later, they're going to disappear.

@newtsoda *leaning back into armchair* i have never heard the term allistic before, but thusly shall use it as if i have always done so. now then, it is no wonder that the allistic h

another nice arithmetic operation for the polynomial rolling hash: computing the hash of replace operations without actually performing them.

@eaton money changes everything(TM)

me: sorry but i can't sign this NDA

them: why not?

me: i signed an NDA that prevents me from signing NDAs.

them: wow. with whom?

me: i'm not allowed to say

program design epiphany: you can have as many implicit side channel argument-passing stacks in your program as you like.

if trauma means approaching every person like the worst person you have met, then "tough" business people are masters at exporting their trauma as culture.

every "tough" business person started out open and honest, learned through their abusers that this position is called "naive", and then turned into a traumatized abuser themselves.

"sorry it's just business" == "sorry i need therapy"

tired: microaggression
wired: picomassacre

finally got gin! mixed my first martini - with an olive! originally i thought my local supermarket didn't have vermouth, so we bought the martini brand, but now on a revisit i knew what to look for: basically any italian-style "aperitif"/"aperitivo" bianco will do. they typically suggest to mix it with gin on the back. that's how you know :)

for any two living beings, there's a single number identifying the number of parents and grandparents to follow until one arrives at their common (grand)mother. for siblings, that number is 1.

so there's a number for how much i'm related to a leaf of grass.