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Nice flowchart. I will ask, as I asked last time I saw something like this posted: where is this elusive "help" I'm supposed to let someone give me?

This shit is so patronizing. Oh, are you in trouble? Just let someone help! Of course, when the person who posts things like this is asked where this help is supposed to come from, they have no answer. Because this is just you feeling good about doing literally nothing.

This is not praxis.

You want to help? Leave the fucking flow chart on your hard drive and offer a trans woman a job. Offer someone who's afraid of being targeted by ICE a safe place to stay. Do something. Because this? Putting it on people who need help to just "let" people who aren't lining up to help help them? It's bullshit. You know it's bullshit.

So unless you've got some remote work for me or want to pay my rent, save it.

I dropped my full sized keychron a while back and the pcb got screwed up at the usb c port, so I'm stuck on a 60%. It's nice to have the extra desk space, but I'd be completely lost if I didn't have a macropad. Even still, it's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes. Eventually I'll be not-broke enough to justify getting a new pcb, hopefully, but I'm not even sure how to order just a pcb from them. Giant pain in the ass.

I do like my little Newman board, though. It has some nice linears that I lubed up and I've got a tape mod on it. I miss qmk but it's better than a membrane at least.

Originally I picked it up to use with my phone so I could get work done on the road without slowing my typing speed to a crawl and grappling with autocorrect. Made a decent backup!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7CkbQ_3vQ

Somebody forgot to center their edgy graphic.

Lemmy is absolutely overwhelmed with bad faith posters with dubious motivations.

Everyone who supports authoritarianism thinks they're going to be the exception. They can see other people who their politics denigrates as outsiders easily, but they could never be outsiders because they're them and they buy into the bullying. They think signalling that they're on board with mistreating other people will protect them from being mistreated, but all it does in reality is create a society where no one is safe.

Even the powerful people who buy into this thinking will find that it bites them in the ass eventually. They may be late on the list, but they're still on the list. Eventually either the ever-shrinking circle of "insiders" will exclude them, or they'll be in the last in-group once they've alienated the rest of society and put their own safety at risk. Every dictator is terrified of this, because they've seen how it plays out. They're just gambling that it won't happen to them, but eventually the mob will come. The best they can hope for is to delay it as long as possible.

But queer Republicans? Republicans of color? Disabled Republicans? Republican women even? They're on the chopping block from the start and are only surrounding themselves with the people who want to diminish them while alienating anyone who might genuinely want to help.

All the more reason they can't look directly at it. They think if they don't make eye contact or try to fight back or run, the predator won't come for them. They couldn't be more wrong.

Good god, that font. I can't figure out which part of the sign is uglier. Looks like Elon also stole about half of those Ts.

Heat doesn't go up. Hot air rises because it's less dense than cold air. You know what's less dense than hot air though? Vacuum. That's a good thing, though, because we don't want to be hemorrhaging atmosphere.

Even if we could build a physical heat sink sticking out of the atmosphere somehow, it would be less protected from solar radiation than anything inside the atmosphere, so if it were facing the sun it probably wouldn't work.

Even if we had the resources and like, enough readily available materials on Earth to make some sort of retractable heat sink sticking out of the night-side of the planet, it'd probably require more energy consumption to create than would be worth it.

Probably the best way to cool things down is to quit burning so much shit and quit knocking forests down.

This is real. I've had folks in my cab that clearly were trying to probe my boundaries to see if I'm an easy target who immediately switched gears the moment I showed my personality. Just because someone is desperate doesn't mean they want to fuck over someone who's cool with them and is real. The way you carry yourself makes a difference.

It's pretty obvious if you meet me in person that I'm a broke artist who cares about real people and detests fake corporate bullshit. That's not really an appealing target and I have fuck all to give them anyway.

But if some fuck shoots me for being on their street while being trans, or literally just someone they don't recognize, I don't get the chance to show how I carry myself.

As a late night cab driver, if you're ever wondering why I'm on the street rather than the driveway in your sketchy, pickup truck filled suburban neighborhood, this is why.

Give me a shady looking industrial district or run down residential neighborhood over semi-rural suburbia any day of the week. I feel much safer.

I love reading, but the moment an author tries to guilt me into reading their particular viewpoint as though I'm just a slave of the system if I don't, I check out. I have better things to do, and this person doesn't have any right to my time.

How are your tube grubs?