speaking of early reading. in kindergarten I remember being furiously angry and refusing to read the books they gave us because I had already read the hobbit and they wanted me to read about this fucking thing:
which like. if I hadn’t learned to read at home before starting school I don’t think I would have learned to read via reading lessons simply because the content was so condescending. I don’t know why they thought 5-6 year olds would want to read about this fucking creature. every word of huggles was a punishment.
You wake up one day with the ability to freeze time at will for as long as you want with no repercussions. What’s the first thing you do with your newfound powers?
I really hope john keeps the beard. I like this new John.
He has known this woman for 5 minutes and she is straddling him. At least he is being calm about it. At least he is not the instigator of this violation of personal space.
The beard comes off and he immediatly starts getting grabby again. Why?
I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
Too much to comment on here. Lets just say i too know what its like to have happiness constantly kept out of arm's reach by wreched interdimensional gremlins(writers).
The first time I saw this photoset I didn’t know what it was from so I thought he was just some guy who trying to comfort/distract her by getting her to think about literally anything other than the fact that her family is probably dead.
And then I found out that they’re dead because he killed them.
Life comes at you strange more often than not. The unexpected is the norm and plans are longshot dreams put together by engineers who match einstien's definition of insanity. Chriton dies a hero after having known the happiness of experiencing the love of the woman he loves, and then i watched that woman mourn for him in a way that made me need to step outside for a hot minute.
Its a good thing that between these two episodes was a stupid ass episode about what the rest of the crew was doing with the other Chriton. I dont even remember the plot. I think they were all pissed off at each other over some thing.
today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.
Discord is supposedly saying this is going to affect "only 10% of users", but I really don't believe them at all. It's always going to be way worse and affect more people than what they claim.
So in case anyone needs it:
After Discord announced plans to require age verification for all users, a free, HTML-based tool emerged that aims to bypass facial scans on
I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.
And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.
The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.
The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!
For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!
There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.
GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
LineageOS Android Distribution
Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.
I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.
I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.
AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab
An alternative app store:
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy
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