raven

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[–] raven@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Love your RMS profile.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

The hexalted posters.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wish to collect the biggest shiny

hex-moon
hexbear-majora failure

[–] raven@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I tried "ok sport ok champ" (Page of results about Oklahoma football)

"Ok sport ok champ -oklahoma -football" (Literally the exact same results)

This goes deeper than SEO, Google just isn't trying at all anymore.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think the broader issue is that tech bros have co-opted the phrase "user friendly" to mean "immediately approachable". This is good for selling a product but it sucks when it comes to something where the initial investment of learning a language or metaphor for how a program "behaves" is far outweighed by the way it allows you use it many times more proficiently than you would be able to if it was just big shiny buttons as have been normalized as "modern design".

Example: It would have been easier for you to sit down at the computer for the first time and hunt-and-peck on the keyboard with one single finger, and maybe you can get kind of fast at that over time, but it will never be comparable to sitting down with the express intention of learning to touch type, and once you've learned to touch type a little bit all future typing is reinforcement of a better way, rather than wasted time on a dead end like hunt-and-peck would be.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don't think we don't see the humor in it ourselves, we do. We know we're dorky and cringe and we love it.
If everyone is cringe no one is.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you were in a cold climate I imagine you could get somewhere with Freeze distillation where you just put your alcoholic whatever outside to freeze solid, then turn the container upside down over another container to melt slowly inside. The alcohols will be among the first things to melt.

You can do this several times but IIRC the best you can manage is about 45% or 90 proof. Hand sanitizer is only 60% alcohol so I imagine 45% would be fairly good for most applications.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Yeah but they want to re-organize it! How dare you teach my children new social constructs as if they're the same as my current social constructs!

[–] raven@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It was a glib non-apology

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

It almost reads like it's supposed to be an apology for her previous liberalism.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

I heard a suggestion once that we use an aspen leaf as an American socialist symbol. If you don't know, a grove of aspen trees is connected at the roots. One giant organism sharing resources. As such they're the first to rebound after a fire.

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