I must be so old.

“My mango is to explode then <shrug> next question?”

Yea, child abuse is horrible. Intentionally setting your child up for lifelong risk of avoidable sickess or early death is clearly child abuse.

Just lead by example. Use Linux silently right in front of them, in public even. Make lingering eye contact as necessary.

Normal people get startled once maybe twice by a new thing, then adapt to it. Transphobes make their fear their entire personality.

They did invent the word schadenfreude after all. I blame Krampus.

I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’

A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.

Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.

And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.

MTV ran a series of commercials highlighting social justice issues, that’s all.

It was a very different era, gay rights and especially marriage were becoming part of mainstream discourse and the LGBTQ+ community was still relatively well organized from the fight to get proper attention to the AIDS epidemic.

Reagans administration literally let the transmission of HIV run unchecked because they thought it was just a ‘gay thing’ that would rid then of a minority they have always wanted to eliminate anyway. To these monsters, a genocidal plague was a happy little accident.

It took immense pressure and coordinated efforts to gather data showing it impacted straight peole too in order to get research and public health funds allocated at necessary levels.

Against this dark backdrop, MTV was building its brand as the woke media outlet and the suits let the creatives run ads like this.

Really talk to any kind of ‘sexual minority’ who lived through that era and you will find we were well aware of creeping fascism all the way back then. This and other commercials was both a signal to the queer creative community that MTV ‘got us’ and a way for MTV to establish ’counterculture’ street cred.

(Sexual minority is a clinical term I don’t like much as pretty much everyone is ‘weird’ sexually, but it is used by researchers in some fields to avoid the constant and often unproductive wrangling about the letters, knowing this is useful for finding research on these subjects)

Super cool project. I visited, and I hope you keep building the site stats views out. So many people are curious about self hosting and solar, if you just kept it as a demo that shows how the system holds up over longer term, well I know I would appreciate occasional reminders to check it out. It may inspire others to try similar things.

And I would have happily signed any digital wall you implemented.

Sure, I understand annoyance with the enshittification of words with real clinical meanings. I am sick to death of how dumb popular discourse is around autism and adhd, and dissociation is clearly next on the list to be made stupid. So I hear you.

I guess I have come to see popular recognition of mental health terms as a double edged sword. It’s good in the sense that having a less-pejorative and hurtful term for a variant of human behavior is better than the ignorant hurtful alternatives.

‘Neurodivergent’ can be a lot less damaging as a label than ‘spaz’ or other archaic playground labels, as an example that is close to home for me.

I have found it easier to explain misconceptions about these sort of terms to the few people in my life who even give a crap to know the real truth. Explaining an entirely new complex word? Well it is much harder to find a receptive audience.

So pick your poison, I suppose. Either have to try to explain GRE (graduate record exam, a test for US grad school admission) vocabulary words from scratch to semi-literate relatives who only care maybe a little. Or drop a subtle hint at a chill moment to nudge their misuse toward a better path?

Either option still sucks, but I guess I will take the misunderstandings over the incomprehension.

Dissociation is a real thing that is very common. Why do you think it is not?

Right? It’s a super brain dead take. The presidential oath and things like the emoluments clause (i know, it’s quaint of me to think that ever mattered) explicitly ‘bind’ a President to act in the country’s interests.

It’s just mask-off Americanism though, we can finally admit the true core belief of our culture: nothing is immoral in the pursuit of profit.

They are so beautiful under magnification. Some morphs have gold flecks on the antennas and other amazing details you can only really see with a hand lens.

I swear I showed you the well-marked breaker box when you moved in. smh your head

The whole thing reminds me of a sketch one of the Groundlings did as a live performance. “VCR into Ca$h” was the bit and he would just meet you in a parking lot. Same vibe

Brilliant! It’s like a pawn shop without the overhead of a physical storefront.

Don’t bother buying one though. I got the 12 pack and still have like 5 left, I can certainly spare one.

Not a lot. Just compulsively before coitus

I am in this image and I resent the implication.

Extruded aluminum of that type is insanely stable and easy enough to build for a reasonably handy person.

You only need a cheap cutoff saw and a drill, or you can order pre-cut and ore-drilled pieces to order.

There are a number of makers of extruded aluminum building systems, basically tinkertoys for adults. I have personal experience using 80/20 and the Tslots brands. They are functionally identical.

I have used it to build stands for heavy equipment like ultra-cold freezers for labs. It is more than sufficient for any server racking.

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