boatswain

joined 2 years ago
[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

FYI I've got the app installed from the Google Play store, and it shows the same version as GitHub:

[–] boatswain 10 points 1 year ago

As always, there is a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/345/

[–] boatswain 5 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that the business names are there because Inari is a kami associated with merchants and businesspeople. They donate a gate, slap the company name on it, and Inari provides.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll check this out after work. Definitely been seeing this problem lately.

[–] boatswain 14 points 1 year ago

I mean, I use Discord pretty much every day, and that's what I assumed.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, and Dunsany! Can't believe I forgot him.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're both mass-market pulp that are entertaining to read. There's plenty of sci-fi and fantasy that's literature: Ursula LeGuin, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, NK Jemisin, Vonnegut... the list goes on.

[–] boatswain 5 points 1 year ago

I've been using Miryoku for almost a year now, and I love it. The home row mods became natural surprisingly quickly. I do still need to tweak a setting somewhere; I tend to leave accidental "j"s around when I get found fast and an going for a capital on the left hand.

[–] boatswain 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, it's Tom Clancy. It's a fun read, like Dan Brown or Brandon Sanderson, but it's not literature or anything.

[–] boatswain 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People worry about conservatives just having more kids but realistically they work lower end jobs and don’t have money for that. Imagine raising 3-4 kids in this economy, not many will do that.

I suspect there are a lot of corpos voting red, especially once you get to the C-suite. I don't think it does any favors to anyone to assume that Trump's sweep was just the redneck vote.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

Puerto Rico is lovely

[–] boatswain 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oregon here. Black or blue pen, in the comfort of your own home. Ballots get mailed out weeks ahead of time to everyone in the state, then you can pop them in the mail or bike over to the local library or wherever your closest dropbox is. Ranked choice voting for Portland for the first time this year, too.

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