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nostr:npub1hec0vmx99gvf2k5fa7yp6fwyh9cly40fxfegvu0q6qnne07dmelslsu834 it's fun when you start to recognize individual birds! I have names for most of the cardinals around here, mourning doves are a bit more difficult to tell apart though.
A mockingbird has started frequenting the birdbath! Sometimes I can even hear it singing on our street. #birds
Finally finished the main story of #RDR2. Overall very good but long enough to feel more like a curse than a game (there's also an epilogue I haven't played yet). Controls bad. Better-realized characters than any other game I've played. Beautiful tragic story of redemption somewhat undercut by you shooting 150 people in the head every other mission.
I think 20 hours in is enough to call it on Red Dead Redemption 2. It isn't going to get any better or less dull, frustrating, etc. This game has one of the worst control schemes of anything I've played. At least it's pretty. #rdr2
I know a lot of you nerds are reading this on a rig with at least two computer monitors so here's a life-changing rec: make sure one of the monitors is centered pointing directly at you so you can read it without twisting your neck, and turn the others to portrait mode.
It's hot enough here in Atlanta that AC has kind of stopped working effectively, even overnight. Only have to survive here for one more summer. Rolling the dice on a wet bulb event happening in a city with a questionable power grid.
okay I guess I had to go localectl set-x11-keymap us altgr-intl instead of using set-keymap. which succeeded but doesn't seem like I can type accents using altgr key in any of my programs? Is this an x11 vs wayland thing
why is everything an alkaline water now. how did that term enter the public consciousness enough to drive sales, was it from association with people talking about alkaloids? the brand alka seltzer? I guess it's just a nice word. Alkaline.
nostr:npub13w6fhssk27ffmh00g8lfr9p8adxcrvtf8lgu6z2j6je7ugmtqpws4l479m It would really simplify things. There are definitely legitimate reasons to rent out a space. sometimes people need to travel for work for a year or two but plan to come back. sometimes people rent to family or friends because they want to keep a place that has emotional weight. whatever. I'm not against renting in general, but the idea of people being a landlord for their job, purposely taking out loans they can't pay back with the intention of exploiting people looking for housing, that is disgusting.
nostr:npub1zs5hzuhuj0nt6lm9h04yxfaf0y3et87qjvg6xn33qexq44ez04xsmwmwjw yeah places like Denmark have a hybrid public/private housing system which covers the rental side. not centralized either, each neighborhood governs itself for the public housing. my coworker lived in one, they were nice.
nostr:npub1zs5hzuhuj0nt6lm9h04yxfaf0y3et87qjvg6xn33qexq44ez04xsmwmwjw I like to pitch people the idea that it should be illegal for people to own more than two housing units and almost everybody agrees with the proposal
nostr:npub13w6fhssk27ffmh00g8lfr9p8adxcrvtf8lgu6z2j6je7ugmtqpws4l479m I have a hypothesis to test: May 1994 was a few years after the collapse of the USSR (and ergo the end of the Cold War) and 2004 was three years after 9/11, so of course pro-US propaganda would be in full swing. Now that the US' reputation is in tatters, I think it's time to take this poll again and see how the French think who contributed most to beat the 3rd Reich. If they still say the US, I owe you a Coke.
nostr:npub1wnaqnkvjp2qt2kzsqqycjdd6kcff6t873vr53ru7wgkntmah8zcqwjewh8 I would also be interested in knowing the breakdown in other countries (here in the US even relatively historically literate people I know think the US was the main contributor) but of course you can't go back in time to conduct polls sadly
I'm a strong free thinker who is immune to propagandaaaaaaaa (10,000 books, films, and games about cross-channel warfare later):
nostr:npub1zs5hzuhuj0nt6lm9h04yxfaf0y3et87qjvg6xn33qexq44ez04xsmwmwjw on the other hand the fact that MPs can force the PM to resign (opening the path to power for themselves) makes for so much politicking and backstabbing that it more or less works out
time for an annual re-reading of The Enigma of Amigara Fault. maybe I should actually read some of Juji Ito's other stuff.
nostr:npub1zs5hzuhuj0nt6lm9h04yxfaf0y3et87qjvg6xn33qexq44ez04xsmwmwjw ideological camouflage
nostr:npub13w6fhssk27ffmh00g8lfr9p8adxcrvtf8lgu6z2j6je7ugmtqpws4l479m I've been following this series by you and I'm sad this is how it ends. maybe that's why I couldn't understand them
nostr:npub1zs5hzuhuj0nt6lm9h04yxfaf0y3et87qjvg6xn33qexq44ez04xsmwmwjw I'm only floating this hypothesis! I'd say my understanding of monads has been hovering at 30% for a bit now. They might be one of those things you just get used to instead of experiencing a blinding flash of insight. Also haven't yet learned about monad transformers (adding effects to pre-existing monads).
real talk, are #monads just a way of sending you to mathematical hell & back before you're allowed to write ordinary series-of-statements imperative programs in a #functionalprogramming language