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as a writer you will have a specific deck of vocab words you like using a lot and when you read other peoples' work you will see a very clear spread of different vocab words on their end. this is why you need to read, to collect other writers' words like it's a card game
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Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩🚀🌛
Anniversary of APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING
On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong
(gifs from the documentary Chasing The Moon, 2019)
this could be the snart of something big
this could be the snort of something pig
I made him into a pin
Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?
It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!
It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.
Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this
Hell yeah moon holiday
Ooh coming up we should celebrate
PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)
MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY
moon day is 20th July!!!
Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!
Happy moon day to all who celebrate
This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.
OH HEY, THATS TOMORROW
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hey writers, desk workers, and others who sit too much:
if you want to retain mobility and don't want a permanently stiff back, this is important!
you know how in greek myths people who die tragically sometimes get placed among the stars by the gods?
call that
call that a
Its okay, take your time
constellation prize
in my defense they did not specify the order in which i was allowed to take my time!
Dear God these tags are immaculate….
i just think it really says something about Sir Terry's view of the world etc. that every time he puts a character in front of you and posits them as The Good One, it's never the character who always thinks good things. it's the one who has grit in their soul and thinks bad things but never lets the inner bastard win.
Carrot is a force for good without a doubt, but he is not the Good Man in Ankh-Morpork. Vimes is. Vimes who is deeply suspicious of just about every group in the city, Vimes who constantly has to reexamine his beliefs and prejudices, Vimes who really really wants to kick the shit out of the bad guys but never lets it happen. If you'd do it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one.
And it happens again with Granny Weatherwax - the one who wanted to be evil, who can feel the evil nagging at her every day, who nevertheless holds the line.
idk something about how being a good person doesn't mean being perfect or idealistic or even particularly nice. it's just about doing The Right Thing, over and over again. it's about who watches the watchmen? that would be me. ah, but who watches you? I do that, too.
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Insane to me that literally preschoolers learn things like "sometimes your experience is different from someone else's experience! Sometimes what you like isn't what your friend likes! Our differences make us all special and colorful and unique!"
And then 20-somethings with an internet connection will willfully unlearn this and post comments like "why is op saying 'everyone enjoy an orange today!'? I'm actually allergic to oranges and I dont like apples or bananas and I dont really want any fruit plus im not hungry right now and I dont have time or money to go buy groceries or transport to get there and the store is closed because its Christmas day plus there's a big hurricane so I dont really understand? Op this doesnt apply to me I dont get it? You need to apologize for trying to hurt me with this. I could have died. Why didn't you say something true about me instead?" and then they expect not to be told to shut the fuck up.
Here's a small sneak peak of what I'll have at SDCC next week!
You can see the full catalog here. /// You can buy these at my shop also.
I'll be in artist alley DD-10 ! I do offer pick up if you see something in my shop not being brought to SDCC. Just email me!
Hope to see you there! Thank you!
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It doesn’t have to be like this.
every time I see an interview with someone in line for 5+ hours, I'm like: why is no one saying, screw this I'm taking the train. we do still have amtrak. it may not go everywhere but it does still go a lot of places
As a moderately technical person with an extremely good understanding of computers AND an extremely good understanding of the things that nontechnical people find frustrating about computers, it is always just a little exhausting to finish making a specific recommendation to a nontechnical person only to have people who are extremely technical and extremely bad at understanding the things that nontechnical people find frustrating about computers come in and make a recommendation that will require more effort and expense on the part of the nontechnical person or are literally exactly the opposite of what the nontechnical person is asking for because the technical respondent didn't understand what the nontechnical person was saying.
"My sister has had an expensive gaming machine and didn't use it and doesn't use it now but might do some light gaming stuff at an indeterminate point in the future and is currently using my personal laptop to do basic web browsing, I'm trying to ensure that my sister can keep doing web browsing but whenever I ask my friends for advice they start at a high price point and the people I know who have purchased used equipment have bad experiences with it that I'm not interested in duplicating; is it possible to get an inexpensive computer that will accomplish what I'm looking for here without it turning into a time suck because I'm not particularly good at computers?" is not what someone says when they want you to start speccing out a machine that requires a graphics card that costs as much as the machine that they actually need. The question was not "can you find me a less expensive gaming machine?" it was "is there such a thing as an affordable non-garbage machine my sister can use to look at Ao3 or are my choices 'used office machine old enough to have a driver's license,' 'cheap-but-trash machine that will have to be replaced annually,' or 'gaming rig that costs as much as a car'?"
It's like when people ask me for advice on improving their online security and privacy because their data was revealed in a breach and I talk about using bitwarden and protonmail and basic degoogling and then other people pop into the comments to recommend installing linux, buying a burner phone, and self-hosting an encrypted server.
I get where you're coming from here, almost everybody CAN become technical if they want to, but most people who are not CURRENTLY technical can't generally become technical in the timeframe that they would need to in order to manage whatever problem they're having.
If someone is saying "My friends insist the only bread I can eat is fresh-made croissants from a boutique patisserie, and my dad only eats stale wonderbread, is there something other than that out there that I can have for lunch?" the answer isn't "you should start making sourdough, everyone can learn to bake."
One of the things that happened with my start-to-failure linux stream the other day is I was looking up the steps for how to verify the checksum for an ISO file in Windows (because I always forget how to) so that I could trust the file that I downloaded was safe to install. The file that was the download of Ubuntu Studio. Which is, to be clear, linux.
So I search for information about how to do checksum bullshit in Windows and the instructions I come to from the Ubuntu site say "If you aren't using linux on windows, why on earth not? You should do this by installing linux."
THAT IS THE THING THAT I AM TRYING TO DO I NEED AN INSTRUCTION FOR HOW TO DO A STEP IN THE OS THAT I AM CURRENTLY USING SO THAT I CAN INSTALL LINUX.
Seriously, follow some links with me. From the link above to this:
From that to releases:
From the release download you can get info on how to burn the images to disk:
Which tells you that you need to verify the image:
and then links you for info on how to do that in Linux!!!!!
THIS CHASES NON-TECHNICAL PEOPLE AWAY. THIS IS WHY NON-TECHNICAL PEOPLE THINK LINUX IS SCARY. BECAUSE WE GO 'OH NO YOU HAVE TO VERIFY YOUR DOWNLOAD IT'S A VITAL SECURITY STEP' and then the non-technical people go "Okay how do I do that" and the instructions say "Why aren't you already using linux, dipshit?"
THIS IS POOR TECH COMMUNICATION. NERDS, I LOVE YOU BUT THIS IS WHY PEOPLE USE FUCKING WINDOWS WINDOWS SUCKS BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE FUN OF THEM FOR USING WINDOWS.
Ubuntu is not recommended by anybody worth their salt in tech and hasn't been for years, and their shitty documentation should not be representative of all who are technically inclined. Regardless, the solution is in your screenshot, method one: a single command.
wsl --install Ubuntu-24.04
Hey friend, can you point to where in the screenshots it tells you to run that command?
Because that is, legitimately, where a lot of people get lost.
*I* knew how to find other documentation without relying on ONLY links from the foundation I got the install from, non-technical people *don't* know how to do that and a lack of clear instructions paired with a tremendously unwelcoming user base makes beginners stumble.
Ubuntu is not the only tech documentation I'm familiar with (and is certainly not the only linux documentation that is confusing, circular, and poorly formatted), and there are a ton of tech literate people who recommend various ubuntu distros for a number of reasons.
My job is talking to non-technical people about their tech stacks so that the decision-makers don't have to be exposed to techs and the whole reason that my job is necessary is because "git gud" is an unfortunately common communication strategy in tech spaces.
My hobby is infosec and this attitude of "you're stupid for using this program and stupider for missing the obvious instruction to open a terminal window and install via command line" is genuinely a massive security problem because it convinces normies that any attempt to "do tech stuff" is futile so they don't bother.
There's plenty of tech stuff out there that isn't hard and could be approachable *if only the people documenting it and advocating for its use were less deeply repellant.*
I can point to where in the screenshot, but I'm not going to, because anything involving opening a terminal At All is probably too techy for anyone who has only ever used graphical interfaces, which I'm pretty sure is the vast majority of people who have only ever used Windows
Uh. Ok.
We are trying to verify the integrity of an ISO file
We do that by verifying the checksum for the ISO file
OP's Screenshots, in order, show:
The frustrating and condescending message the she received when she tried to look up further instructions for this step in the Ubuntu documentation pages. This links you to:
What seems to be the beginning of the Ubuntu install guide??? From which you can choose your specific use case, i.e. WSL, which then links you to:
The place where it tells you to run the command in question - which seems to be a page where it is telling you to install Ubuntu, NOT a page telling you how to verify the checksums on individual software packets you might have downloaded in order to do so? Which... if you're non-tech-y, and you're worried about possibly bricking your one and only computer because you ran an unverified program that might be a virus or broken somehow (damaged/missing packets - not that you, a non-tech-savvy person, would know that) you are probably ready to give up by this point? Also, if you have the individual install files and not the singular Ubuntu file referenced in that command line, that command would fail anyway, would it not???
A screenshot that indicates a list of places to download the ISO files in question [cut off, but presumably listed below] and links you to a how-to for burning the images to a disk
A screenshot that tells you that you need to verify the ISO integrity, and then apparently (per OP) links you to how to do that in Ubuntu... the thing that you don't have installed...
Like. Okay. Is there a world in which downloading that specific file packet (Ubuntu 24.04) and running that specific command (wsl --install Ubuntu-24.04) bypasses the need for all of this, because it simply installs Ubuntu, this verifying checksums as part of the process? I mean, sure, maybe. But at no point in any of those screenshots does it say anything like "running 'wsl --install -Unbuntu 24.04' will verify checksums as part of the process"; so to me, it in fact does NOT say that in the screenshots. At best that's something that you read into the instructions with outside knowledge that you have, that the non-tech set that this stream was directed at do not have. That's absolutely going to scare them off!
And also, what else does that do? Does it, for instance, uninstall or otherwise render unusable the Windows OS that OP seems to be trying to leave intact, for non-techy users who are just trying to get their feet wet with Linux? Because if so, that's a perfect deliberation of why non-tech people hate tech people, and also why OP has the job that she does.
Also, there's two methods for installing Ubuntu shown in that screenshot. It's late, and I'm sick again, and very tired, but in my experience, often - not always, but often - when there's two methods to do something, there's a possibility that one of the methods accomplishes something different than the other method; you can't simply mix and match unless you understand both pretty in depth. If you are a non-tech person trying to follow these directions, you are barely following the tech jargon in these screenshots. The last thing you want to do is guess and be wrong and fuck up your entire computer. You are not going to knowingly follow instructions from Method A when you are supposed to be following Method B unless you are an idiot, because then when you take your computer to Geek nephew or Geek Squad, they're going to look at you and be like "well why didn't you just follow the instructions?" And I know this, because I've had to rewrite tech instructions on the fly for people in my real life at my real job because the engineers just assumed that Everybody Knew Stuff that Everybody Did Not Know.
All of which is to say. No. It doesn't say that. Those words may be literally printed on the screenshot in one of those screenshots, but it literally does not say to run that specific command line to verify a checksum anywhere that I can see anywhere in those screenshots, and this is why people hate tech people.
I do consider myself a tech person and let me tell you something: You are 100% percent CORRECT.
The problem with a lot of this is a lack of communication. Like, you want Linux to be used by the everyday person? Don't tell them RTFM (Read The Fucking Manual)! You need to WTFM (WRITE THE FUCKING MANUAL) so people can actually read it.
This is the reason global warming got the bullshit rep that it did: The people explaining it did not know how to actually communicate it. It took DECADES to even get what little traction we have and it's still "Golly! Look at all this snow! Sure don't look like GlObAl WaRmInG to me!"
Techies can get so lost in the sauce they forget that not everyone has their level of expertise. XKCD 2501.
This is making me realize that I phrased that poorly:
I can see where the screenshot says to run wsl --install, but what it does not say, which I can tell you the nontechnical person is going to have as the first question when they see that is:
"WHERE do I run wsl --install...?"
They aren't going to intuit that you need to open command prompt and run as admin then type 'wsl --install...'. (The .exe file is much more likely to be how a non-technical person would try to install it except that nontechnical people have been warned a million times not to click on .exe files if they don't know exactly what they do)
And no, installing that won't complete the checksum, it will give you an environment on your windows computer where you can run the checksum in linux, so once you've followed those instructions you need to go back to the instructions for how to run the checksum in linux instead of figuring out how to do it in Windows - which is possible, simple, and what you searched for.
There's a post that has been floating around that has been irritating me, it's screenshots of someone frustrated that instructions for making ramen (or something similar, something that requires boiling water) aren't clear enough; they don't say what kind of pot, or what order to do things (like do you put the water in the pot before you put it on the stove? do you turn the heat on before you add the water?) and people have been mocking the sentiment in the screenshots as, like, weaponized incompetence or an unwillingness to learn.
The thing is, if you've never cooked *anything* before, none of that stuff is intuitive and it's hard to find instructions for that sort of thing because it's assumed to be *such* baseline knowledge that it can go unsaid. It's the exact type of assumption that makes tech people skip over the "open up command prompt to run wsl --install..." instruction when they're writing these kinds of install guides.
I get that not every type of instruction set can include this level of granular detail (and there are some distros that get closer to this level of detail - it's why I tend to rec Mint to newbies if I'm not installing it for them myself) but there are going to be people who are learning how to do these things that ARE going to need this level of detail.
Anyway. It's why my site is written the way that it is both for tech guides and recipes.
This is also why I really like fandom because the explanations on here are super reliable.
I can go from "never using Photoshop" to "creating a transparent icon sized for Tumblr" in the time it takes to read one readmore post. It might be humorously written ("listen up chuckleheads" etc) but there will be 10+ red arrows and paragraphs of explanation typed as if you don't even know what a rock is, just to cover your bases.
The main reason I think is because a lot of teenagers are making these guides with the target demographic being other teenagers and they know the concept of "being too young to know something" and treat it nonjudgmentally
