No, it has a recurring theme of transformation. You could read the first part as a trans allegory, but you could squint and do the same for Star wars or Harry Potter. It’s the story of the chosen one

Not everything written by a trans person is a trans allegory. Trans people can tell other stories…a trans allegory is about that specific personal journey, not just influenced by it

I think that’s the sign of a good person

If you build a world for good persons, it’ll collapse in your lifetime.

Good persons want to understand each other. People don’t - they want to think as little as possible above all else

Also, every other week we get another reason to make it a priority

The arguments against it boil down to “it’s different and scary/I don’t understand it”, “there’s compatibility issues that might be complicated to fix”, or “well what we have now is good enough for my needs”

I don’t disagree with that position… As a next step, it seems pretty sensible to me

To truly understand where you stand, you have to break false dichotomy - political platforms aren’t one or two dimensional, they’re multifaceted. IMO you have to pick an end goal, and chart a course towards it

Personally, my end goal is solar punk. I want to live in a green world with technology. To get there, I full throatedly resist authoritarianism or centralization of any kind- I believe the larger it is, the more it’ll attract sociopaths seeking power for powers sake

Eco socialism is a step in my desired direction - I have no issue with it. It’s a sensible waypoint and I’d gladly join hands with those who see it as the end goal. But I’d encourage you to chat with gpt (or better yet, local AI) in the context of your end goal and the next step to get there - LLMs are an extension of the user, and I think this is a proper use of the technology

That’s what makes you a leftist. Noticing we waste 1/3 of food and less than 1/5 are starving, and thinking “clearly there has to be a better way, let’s figure it out” is what separates leftists from liberals

It’s actually “Tesla real”, learn to speak Spanish you uncultured swine

Printing for a single city has got to be more than hosting for an entire country

Think of all the people you need to print everything out before the next morning - you need a big enough staff of editors and reporters that you can get everything ready in a short time frame, you need the staff to handle the printing overnight, you need drivers to deliver within a 3-ish hour period and the staff to coordinate and load them up

Meanwhile, for a website, a team of 5 developers/devops could handle all of it. You still need journalists and editors, but they are no longer on the same time frame - they can just release things as they’re ready, and maybe curate an email for the day and what appears on the homepage.

As far as paper and print costs vs hosting costs? If each paper cost 1 cent, were talking like between .01 cent and .0001 cent per page view, maybe even a tenth or hundredth of that. It adds up quickly, but compared to paper and ink?

I too appreciate when entities take the mask off

Women are causing the same as a little bit of a lot of people

Would you give a few hundred dollars and couple dozen hours of learning? Because this is a very achievable goal

I have this recurring thought that this world is like a training program. Like it’s to show what happens when you think “let’s organize people into hierarchies” or “this is what results from your ideas playing out”

Imagine a rodent with duck feet. It’s between the height of your navel to your sternum - about 300lb. The hair is very coarse. It has a stubby tail. It eats like a goat but acts like a happy cow - they enjoy pets but would run away before acting aggressive

Holy shit… When I got my wisdom teeth out, I literally broke down in tears after being awake for 20 minutes without Percocet

Friend, it’s ok to take opiates sometimes…

Kratom could be an option. You make it into tea, the first cup is a weak stimulant, the second (on an empty stomach) will start to work as a weak opiate. The third or fourth might give you stronger relief. The red strains are supposedly better for pain relief

You can’t OD on it, it’s commonly available in head shops or online. The addiction potential is very low, you’ll make yourself nauseous before getting what you’d get out of normal opiates. It’s most closely related to the coffee plant - the toxicity concerns are all about contamination, the plant itself is pretty innocuous

I can give brewing instructions if anyone wants to go down that path, I drink it for anxiety but others say it helps with pain management

That doesn’t really match the master/slave relationship. The distributed instances aren’t slaved to the master. They’re each doing their own thing, but as part of that they have a hierarchical relationship when it comes to synchronization

Distributed computing gets more into the concept of swarms. Each piece is autonomous, and the swarm self-organizes. We made up a bunch of paradigms around this that were basically obsolete by the time we needed them - I think the relationship here is leader/follower, but I’ve never heard that terminology outside the classroom

They’re sharded. It’s like host/mirror, except each mirror is an equally correct part of the real picture

One of them is the leader, but it doesn’t control the rest of them. It just coordinates them

When you get into swarm concepts, like sharding or activitypub, it doesn’t make sense to describe the relationship between nodes anymore. The relationship between any two nodes is “part of the same swarm”. You describe the nature of the swarm as a whole, or the behavior of individual nodes

Fuck the webcam, what about the mic?

Primary/secondary means they’re all doing their thing, but one is preferred. There’s no instruction going on between them

If you have a primary and secondary web servers, you’ll use the primary first, but the secondary or secondaries are a fallback

If you have a primary and secondary drive, you have two drives, one of which is more important (probably because you booted from it). The secondary could be a copy or just another drive, either way the OS or a raid controller is managing it, one drive doesn’t manage another

Similarly, we have dispatch/worker- the difference between that and master/slave is that they’re different things. A master should be able to work without a slave, and a slave should be capable of being promoted to master - a dispatcher can’t do the work and the worker can’t take over if the dispatch goes down

The funny thing is we don’t use master/slave much anymore, the whole premise is that the slave doesn’t start to do what it does when it starts up. I can’t think of any examples of it in the past decade - other paradigms, with a different relationship and a different name, have replaced it

It just makes too much sense… The only way to get past electron is a better electron. Or just fix electron

We’ve been going after this concept for decades now. That’s what java swing was supposed to be, what python gtlk was supposed to be, and I’m sure there were others before that and there’s been a hell of a lot since then

It’s all trade-offs between flexibility, ease of use, and performance. Also between maintenance cost, portability, and existing library support

Electron is a good compromise. The execution could be better, but it’s come a long way. There is no one size fits all solution, but there are some decent options that handle that compromise differently

My problem with it isn’t so much their stance or how far they’ll go for it, it’s that they don’t act to achieve their stated goals.

Factory farming is legitimately horrifying, it’s so deeply wrong that one day we’ll teach children about it in a somber tone. When you start digging into it, it’s almost cartoonishly evil… It just keeps getting worse the more you learn about it

It also is extremely carbon intensive to produce so much meat, and not very healthy to eat so much

But if your problem is essentially torturing animals, why is hunting wrong? The animals live free, the ecosystem requires apex predators (which we’ve mostly wiped out), and if it doesn’t instill a respect for the animals you eat, at least it makes you look them in the eye

If your goal is reducing animal suffering, why are you sitting out there shaming people getting lunch? The problem is production, go after Purdue who forces these conditions as the supplier

If your goal is to reduce consumption, why do you draw a hard line? People in general won’t accept cutting out meat, but I think most could be convinced to cut their consumption in half.

You don’t have to have meat in every meal, or every day. You can even be mostly vegan, but have a steak occasionally.

But too many people demanding everyone meet you where you are or labeling them murderers has led to a taint on the terms. People can eat a meal with no meat and never really think about it, but then feel attacked if you mention it’s actually vegan.

The problem is vegan and vegetarian culture doesn’t seem to be about harm reduction or even cultural change - it seems to come from a place of moral superiority. The loudest voices screeching at random individuals is what most people hear. The message is “look at this horrible fact about factory farming, this is why you’re a terrible person so stop eating meat right now”

They make the whole movement hardliner and therefore easily defeatable. I genuinely think it might be astroturfing by the meat lobby

I wish I had the type of brain required to roleplay IRL

Squeezing down a crevice to poop

Stride down a hallway like Dio, alongside my infinite alternate selves, synchronizing perfectly as we sit upon the porcelain throne

Bonus points if it’s plain black tile to the right or left (don’t need mirrors for that part), but a mirror prism on the back wall that’ll make it feel like the mirror dimension. It’d kaleidoscope little warped fragments of you as you walk through if you do it just right