It's been brought to my attention that while #BuyNothing groups are pretty useful, they tend to exist mainly on Facebook. It'd be nice to have such a group for #WaterlooRegion here on the fedi as well.
I'd be happy to set one up, but if there's one that already exists, I'd rather use that than start from scratch. Is anyone aware of such a group here?
#KWAwesome #WRAwesome #Kitchener #Waterloo #Cambridge #Guelph
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A comic that I will think about every day for the rest of my life, probably.
(Sauce: analognowhere.com/_/ogmxha/ )
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@Jeremy List I've had this before. It took years to get a conclusive diagnosis. Turns out of was reflux, and two antacids a day typically keeps it in check.
This past week though Katy and I have been sick, and it's upset the balance.
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I keep flirting with the idea of learning the Deseret alphabet. I have absolutely no practical reason for wanting to do this, but I still want to. I guess the appeal is my obsession with weird corners of #Mormon history.
If I'm going to learn an obscure alphabet, the Shavian alphabet is probably more practical, but... I dunno maybe I'll learn that one too.
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Dumb internet article: Here's 5 reasons you should be helping your wife clean the house.
Me: If all 5 reasons aren't 'Because you FUCKING LIVE THERE' then it's bullshit misogynist clickbait
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Is this a generational thing like do younger people now not understand that piracy is illegal
Have we normalized talking about it being ethical to the point that the fact that it's still definitely not legal has been lost on people
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I'm pro-piracy for most media, like I'd rather you not download someone's $2 indie game but I certainly have no qualms with pirating $1500 of Sims DLC because nobody should be expected to spend $1500 to buy all the content in a game
But ethics and law are often not the same thing!
I just won my first game of Go.
I mean, my (online) opponent apparently just abandoned the game and ran the clock out, but I'll take what I can get.
Applying for a freelance transcription gig tomorrow (when I can hopefully go back on my ADHD meds (because I can't mix them with Tylenol Cold)). Hopefully it works out better than the freelance closed captioning job I had a while back, but time will tell.
Trying to find a way to earn some extra income that doesn't require a reliable car, which has become a big question mark.
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I'm finally starting to feel better (though you wouldn't know it from listening to my voice) just in time for Katy to start feeling a sore throat.
I really thought she was somehow going to dodge this one.
A conversation we just had:
Me: We should pick up some lemons.
Katy: We have limes.
Me: Will that work?
Katy: For what?
Me: For those teas you made me when I was sick. It really helped with my sore throat.
Katy: Yeah, I don't want that.
Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Welp, I am officially sick.
I've had both my COVID and flu shots, so hopefully I can fight it off faster.
I learned a while ago of the existence of old Soviet ternary computers and have been doing some reading about how a ternary computer would operate different from a binary one.
In a binary system, the smallest unit of data is the bit (binary digit). What would the smallest unit of data be in a ternary system?
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God I hope I'm not coming down with something. I went to bed with a bit of a sore throat and woke up this mornig feelig like I'd been gargling broken glass.
Time to load up on tea with honey and lemon, I guess.
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Gotta be honest, it absolutely sucks watching the same people who call me a groomer just for being trans say that Epstein did nothing wrong because his victims were teenagers.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
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Watching Megyn Kelly contort herself into knots to redefine child rape of 14 year olds as "adult & consensual" because Trump & Epstein "liked them young" and "barely pubescent".
This is beyond depraved. Megyn Kelly has a 14 year old daughter herself. That child needs a wellness check asap.
In a recent podcast, she & her guest absolved both men of culpability because they didn't like 5 or 8 year olds.
If these men had targeted kids under 10, Megyn Kelly would OK that too.
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I have always been annoyed by the statement that sqrt(-1) = i.
Note: I'm perfectly fine with the assertion that i^2 = -1.
sqrt(1) = -1. We're either constraining the answer to positive numbers or we're not.
piecewise function definitions are a thing though, like the abs function for instance
abs(x) = x, for all positive x
abs(x) = -x, for all negative x
sqrt(x) = positive y, for all positive x
sqrt(x) = i * sqrt(-x), for all negative x
I also find arctan really weird, because it only works if you fiddle with the domain (yet it clearly does exist, and is useful)
I enjoy the unpleasant feeling I get when I realise that all maths is made up!
abs can be defined for the whole complex plane though (the square root of the sum of the square of the real and imaginary components) i.e.:abs(a + bi) = sqrt(a^2 + b^2)
@Eric Gerlach I... guess, but I'd imagine there are less violent ways to feel that control.
Maybe that's just me.
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@JenJen @neil @me
I once worked for a major UK bank that decided it was cheaper to pay a payment processor than do PCI compliance themselves despite having all the legal, accounting and tech staff needed to do so.
So well done you for taking on something that can scare a major bank and getting it done! π
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Fortunately fountain pen ink is water soluble so it often washes right out if you get to it immediately.
Thank God it wasn't my Baystate Blue.
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You are responsible for the privacy-invasive software that you inflict upon others.
Yes, you!
Choose the software you use with the data of others carefully ππ
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people need to stop snitching on themselves and their friends.
I'm sick of seeing people sell others out for an Amazon gift card.
Perusing the terms of service my phone is requiring me to agree to after the update.
Under the section about how they safeguard my data, it reads:
We take data protection seriously. We have put in place physical and technical safeguards to keep the information we collect secure. We also take appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable law, to ensure that the personal information collected by third parties remains secure. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.
That's a very verbose way to say "trust us, bro."
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Just signed up for DoorDash yesterday to try to diversify our income a little.
Got an email from them this morning. I opened it in neomutt to read that my account had been suspended "due to [my] repeated lateness violations", which is impressive considering I haven't even done a shift yet.
When I tried to show the email to Katy on my phone, the email instead read as a generic welcome letter.
It turns out that the plain text and and HTML parts of the email are completely different.
Things are off to a fantastic start, I see.
Edit: proofreading is for suckers
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Every time I read #UnixSurrealism it makes me want to switch to #Plan9.
This is absolutely not a reasonable option for me, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to do it.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •It seems to me that at current scale, we're unlikely to see a worldwide community on Mastodon that's overwhelming. And by the time such a community WOULD become overwhelming, I'd expect sub-groups to form - probably linked to the worldwide forum to allow users to select which areas they'd want to subscribe to.
Or maybe that should be a Lemmy thing. I don't know.
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Mark Connolly moved to @uxMark@CoSocial.ca
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •FWIW, while Iβm not what a # BuyNothing group talks about, the local KW Techs Slack team has a # buylocalandcanadian channel that has great recommendations for local and more-broadly Canadian products, and is focused mainly on independent businesses. It's a great resource, though obviously not fediverse.
Also FWIW, Iβd love to see something similar here.
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