you get so many points you’ll want a computation expression and some custom infix operators to handle all of them!

I’m old and remember when all the trans women were Haskellers. now they’ve all moved to Rust and here I am, still toiling away with my monads and combinators, a lonely spinster. 😔

you might enjoy Hazbin Hotel. Adam (in Heaven) is a narcissistic misogynistic bro abusing his power, while Lucifer (in Hell) is a goofball who collects rubber duckies and is a loving (if slacker) dad to his daughter (the protagonist.)

that’s a super weird take for her. like pre-op Blaire White or smth

ahh what a sweet breath of fresh air.

I needed this. thanks.

the joke equivalent of a filibuster.

I fucking loved the genetically engineered humans. such wacky guys, and amazing when Bashir starts as the straight-man only to quickly succumb to their unhinged schemes and megalomania. peak Trek.

if they’ve truly changed, they’ll accept the brand as a sobering reminder of their past.

kinda like how Germany keeps Auschwitz as a museum.

you know, I’m not sure you can have an uncountably infinite number of people. so whatever that abomination is I’ll send the trolley down its way. it’s probably an SCP.

we have to find ways to restore the other side’s empathy. it’s the only thing that’s worked for me.

I’m trans. I spent months talking with TERFs, long ago. it was horrible. but, I managed to make a connection with one of them. I described my experiences, my life, the feelings of dysphoria, the hurt from the hate… she listened, and came to care about me, and left their hateful cult.

I repeated this with conservatives I met. taught myself to keep my cool, to be honest, to answer mocking with sincerity. I didn’t try to be “one of the good ones,” I didn’t throw my sisters under the bus, I made it clear that most of us were like me - just wanting to live happy, fulfilling lives.

we need to make friends with enemies. even when they betray us and hurt us. it’s dangerous but I can see no better way forward.

I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn’t have proper education. oops…

also, Computer Vision was considered “AI-complete” and likely decades away. ImageNet dropped a couple years I graduated. though I guess it ended up being “AI-complete” in a way…

I don’t know the details, so I could be out of line, but you sometimes do have to force severe anorexia patients to eat. you can straight up die from it. and once you’re anorexic for long enough, your body stops feeling hungry at appropriate times, so you have to make yourself eat X number of calories on a schedule for a few months during refeeding.

t. recovered anorexic who narrowly avoided inpatient.

I have no scientific basis for this, but my suspicion is that what you do with your brain is more important to cognition than whatever raw intelligence you start with. the more languages you study, the more music you play, the more subjects you study and skills you develop and hobbies you tinker with and deep conversations you have… you learn to learn, you learn to think, it all gets wired up and cross-connected and you become more than the sum of your parts.

how much decline is truly biological vs. being stuck in a rut?

also there’s nootropics that could be helpful for concussion recovery/etc. but they haven’t been too well-studied, there’s many different ones with different sketchiness and sources aren’t always trustworthy… but piracetam (iirc) is actually prescribed in the EU for recovery from brain injury, and it’s fairly safe and well-studied. I’m not recommending it either way though.

I love trans-inclusive radical misogyny. it’s so blursed. imagine if we had this instead of terfs.

my cat Mittens likes to pick things up. I just keep the shopkeeper distracted while she purrloins various wares.

with 2PB of storage, what resolution could you store of a full-frontal pic of the average woman? what feature size could you get down to?

!theydidthemath@mander.xyz !theydidthemath@lemm.ee

Russia… Russia never changes.

the most secure possible? you’ll need to learn a ton. you’ll get there, but it’ll take a while.

decently secure? install Linux Mint, install your updates, don’t run sketchy commands with URLs in them unless you know what you’re doing, maybe follow a hardening guide. you’ll be okay.

if you need to be extremely secure and private, install Tails on a USB stick. it will be slow and frustrating, and you’ll need to save files to a second USB drive, but it will probably keep you pretty safe, and it’s decently user-friendly. just make sure you keep Tails updated! you’ll have to do that by flashing the new Tails onto a new USB drive, there’s no easy way around that.

those are your two most user-friendly, safe approaches.

there’s a lot of viruses: rhinovirus, other coronaviruses, RSV, etc. and other kinds of bacterial infections too. checking ProMED Mail I don’t see anything too out of the ordinary. there’s usually a flurry of emails there before an epidemic emerges.

if both parents are very sick it’s extremely unlikely to be ME/CFS. ME is a rare consequence of viral illness.