Debian. I want that thing to be so stable they forget they ever had problems.

The ways in which we are ‘more connected’ are only quantitative, not qualitative. If you have 1000 people on your Facebook ‘friends’ list, are you ‘more connected’ than the person who only talks to two people, but one of them is their partner/spouse and the other is someone who they’d trust to move a corpse?

Though, what you are talking about there is community. It can be formed around almost anything. Why not a love for a niche writing system? There is an elianscript comm here on Lemmy. Why not one for Gregg?

On the practical side, is there a good way to digitally transmit Gregg? It was meant to be handwritten, which all the lowest-common-denominator technologies that we use most often can have some trouble with.

Almost took an interest in learning Gregg but then I found Elian Script and while it’s not a shorthand, I liked it more so come back to it more often.

A newspaper in a niche script is kind of a funny idea though, writing something meant to be broadly informative in a format only the few can understand.

Here is a PDF of the book.

No one is afraid of the gays. (Well, no one who isn’t mentally ill.) They are afraid of some locus of power, which, despite what some pundits claim about the force of the ‘woke mob,’ gay people do not have significant power. Some person or group of people have power in their life, and those boys are willing to sacrifice other peoples’ happiness, safety, and sometimes even lives, so they can virtue signal to the powers that be. "See? I’m attacking the scapegoat too, so I must be a good guy. I’m certainly not hiding a thousand secret sins that might make me an outcast. How could I be? That’d be hypocritical because then I’d be evil like him. So I’m attacking him. See? This proves I’m good.’

As the character gets older it seems like in the same way the original gave young people ways to understand their feelings of anger and sadness, it wouldn’t be the worst idea to have a fully serious but carefully done movie or just short film on dealing with what happens when the feeling ‘Horny’ takes the controls.

Fuck the -ists and -isms. Consider policies and actions on their merit, not the label. I support things that help people live better lives. Feminism is a freighted word no matter who is using it but no one has right to claim their freighted definition is ‘THE’ definition, not even you. If you want to help women, don’t worry about what people call you, just help.

The passion drives one to act, not read. The informed are resistant to the emotional manipulation of memes.

The perpetual paradox of political education. Books transmit information. The knowledge they confer will simultaneously make you better informed about how to design a better society, but less and less certain about whether revolution will encourage or even allow that kind of society. Memes transmit emotions, instilling the passion to enact revolution, but leaving you with no knowledge of how to revolt, or how to rebuild afterward.

Yes…ish. Part of the problem is the culture, at least in much of the English speaking world, was moved toward consumerism, where it’s moral or amoral to identify with your purchases. In order to shift away from that culture you have to convince people what they have been doing has been immoral, which is nigh impossible with most people. Most people don’t want to admit they are monsters, and will hate you for making them even consider how their actions might be less than completely righteous and justified.

Not exactly. Don’t get me wrong. It helps. But the solution to someone breaking into every house on your block can’t stop at just locking your own front door. The marketing industry must end.

Then they might look like the tiki torch guys, though. That scares a different set of people. Inflatables are mostly too ridiculous to scare anyone.

#notallmen

The frog suits were about making it hard for fox news types to show a load of black bloc guys shouting and looking scary to justify greater police violence. It’s much more difficult to get even incredibly stupid people to look at an inflatable unicorn and think scary monster than a masked man in all black.

The problem is the medium of memes doesn’t convey ideas well, if at all, and helps promote thought-terminating ideologies and ignorant partisanship. If you can fit the idea into a meme, it’s probably oversimplified to the point of uselessness, and if the meme relies on you already knowing the real idea, it’s not informing anyone of anything.

The people you work with and the management of the site/company/team/etc. are oft the most important factor in your experience while working there. I have worked for a company/management that literally was known for firing people without cause just to put a sense of fear into employees and a company/management that sent employees for paid educational courses without being legally obligated to do so. Same industry. Same city. Just different people. The attitudes of management tend to impart a flavor to the workspace that is nigh impossible to ignore. So, if you have the ability to get away from the workplace that mistreats you, do it. It’s really not all people. It’s those people, in that workplace, with that management. Chances are, if you chat with a few people in other places, you can find an in somewhere the people are not so awful, and the best time to look for a new job is always while you have one.

First time I saw it was in a game from Japan where it meant special, but it’s funny that it’s grouped in with the A-F scale, which doesn’t stand for anything, which itself is funny because it skips E for no apparent reason.

The fun part is the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes would let the car companies sue the country if they attempted to pass a law requiring something that might decrease sales, like that sticker.

There is a lot of expected common knowledge in the history of Israel. It has been in the news near constantly since its inception. Only half a dozen LoL no-lifers have any clue who those guys are. You’d even have to explain what a MOBA was to most people before you could ever get onto the niche understanding of a rivalry in one particular MOBA’s e-sports scene.

ANY project that involves buying a license for an IP to make it is a lie. It is not the same thing as the original. It is, at best, as much like the original as a clone. It might look like it’s related but it’s purely a marketing gimmick to milk your nostalgia for every dollar they can slurp out.

Fuck nostalgia. The past was shit. You just forgot how shit it was.