Naharie

The ramblings of an only slightly crazy girl.

[shamebats]

[03josten]

stop fucking using the word psychotic to describe bad behaviour and violence already god fucking damn it

[03josten]

oh my god i'm so tired psychotic does not mean violent it does not mean angry or erratic. it refers to a person suffering from psychosis, a loss of touch with reality that includes hallucinations and/or delusions. psychotic people are not inherently violent and y'all need to understand how much stigma you create when you again and again incorrectly use the word psychotic without even thinking about it

[03josten]

would appreciate if non-psychotic people could reblog this

[lunamilliesapphire]

why is the economy so bad in the years where I'M gonna be an adult 🥀

[thememedaddy]

[palatablepain]

Students in China are legit told that they are a burden on the environment and on farmland. There are similar feelings and policies elsewhere. Governments and corporations will do anything to make small individuals feel like they are responsible for the sins of the collective. It's the post-Industrial-Revolution equivalent of blaming sin, plague, disease, and famine on peasants, serfs, slaves, the chronically ill, sex workers, and the poor.

Classicism, ableism, and selfishness in the name of environmental and moral consciousness.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.

hmm. I wonder why governments might want this

[ruhrohrexia]

i wont worry about it i say to myself with the always worried disorder

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 4 days 6 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[nick-nonya]

it is the goal of all ui designers to instill misery in those who lack the surgeon's precision

[naharie]

Let me correct you. The ui designers build a thing of beauty, but the cruel overloads, the bureaucratical middle managers, take away their lovely colors and shapes and refuse to give them back, refuse to even feed them or house them, save should they cave and corrupt their very own child and bind it under the cold and callous bonds of capitalism.

[naharie]

Do you ever have a moment on tumblr where you are about to like or reblog a post but then you see that it has a perfect number of likes or reblogs (or both)? Who am I to break the divine 5,000? Not one more and not one less. The scales is balanced and the weight of a single like will cause it to come crashing down. Yet at the same time I know that someone else will come along and like or reblog it without a second thought, never even hearing the crash of the scale behind them.

[tescosfinest-deactivated2013111]

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

[glowstickhaloboy]

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

[naharie]

@niri-unofficial Tagging you just because it's niri being awesome stuff!

One of my favorite features of Niri is the seamless handling of fullscreen windows. In the DEs I used before (yes, even Gnome) it was always sketchy. Fullscreen windows are "special" and you can't not composite them and then composite them again. You can open the overview on Gnome at least but it often freezes the game or window and popups can't be allowed to happen ever. KDE? Even worse. You just lose all compositing. Niri? You can literally forget that it isn't just a normal window. Overview? Of course. Animations? Perfect anyway. I can slide windows across it with the column rearrangements and it will show up correctly (and animated!) in the blur behind my bar. Pop ups? Yup, yup, yup. And whatever magic Niri is performing means that I don't lose performance when the fullscreen window is forced to be composited.

I love Niri so much.

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[cattywatofficial]

hit factorio youtuber doshdoshington has acknowledged my chat message that nobody is in the factorio tumblr is this how we get people into the factorio tumblr

i think theres a community thats not what i mean i just mean the tag

[naharie]

You do know, however, that it is going to be a good play through when you have 300+ mods installed and your computer no longer has the concept of free VRAM anymore. Why yes, I'm sure I'll get to all of it. How many planets? I don't know, to be honest. I just kept adding things I wanted for a given category until I hit some hard coded engine limit or my poor computer simply couldn't load the mod pack anymore. Those 300? Only a start. Technically the limit is 2,222 mods. *I* think I have room. My PC's RAM? That is a whole other question.

[alpaca-clouds]

Something I keep thinking about is how a lot of people consider it a good thing that children cannot by themselves consent (or refuse consent) to medical treatments. Some people do kinda get it that maybe it might be a problem with stuff like kids not being able to access trans healthcare, or kids being refused vaccination by antivaxx parents. But in general I see that most people are actually okay with this idea for the most part.

And like... you do get that that is kinda insane, right?

Because this is something that so often leads to suffering. And I am saying this as someone disabled, who had so many issues due to this in his childhood.

Just three examples: when I was 7, I was supposed to get checked for autism. My mother did not want an autistic child. Since she just could have a "neurotypical" child by refusing diagnosis, she did just that.

When I was 12, my mother had decided I needed a certain plastic surgery (one that had a minor health benefit, but still was largely a beauty thing). I did not want it. I really, really did not want it. We still went through almost the entire process until thankfully there was a doctor who went: "Wait, this is elective. I am refusing to do this on a child that does not want it."

And when I was 14 my mother refused to get me to the hospital when I had severe food poisoning. She refused me hospital treatment for almost two weeks. By the time I got actually taken to the hospital I was almost dead.

And here is the thing: all of this should just not happen. The doctor when I was 12 was cool, but... he refused to do the surgery because he had the right to make a conscience call. Legally my mother was in the right to force me into that elective surgery. And that just should not be the case.

A lot of children die and suffer due to their legal inability to consent - or refuse consent - to medical treatments. And I wish y'all would understand that.

Whenever this is brought up, people will go: "Oh, but parents will decide what is best for the child." And here is the thing: No, they are not. There is so much stuff out there showing that indeed, a lot of parents suck at this. Some out of malice, some because they are religious nuts, and some because they literally treat their kids like some sort of doll or some shit.

[stxrfiish]

‘this character is actually an evil, irredeemable monster and I hope they die!’ and then it’s literally a child

[my-dailydreams]

[wizardarchetypes]

it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

[carolinalaurel]

One summer I was running ferry rides across a lake so people could see the waterfalls without walking 6 miles when a guy snapped my bra strap as he was boarding the boat. So i immediately threw him off, he started yelling for my manager, my boss cheerfully informed him that, yeah, she’s the captain of the boat and she can kick off anyone she wants. He goes to storm off, looks expectantly at his girlfriend, and she just goes, “Well, I’M not walking six miles, Michael! I’ll meet you back at the car!” and sits right back down!!!!

The expression on his face when he was told that he couldn’t get on the boat, then immediately told that his girlfriend was ditching him? PRICELESS. he just blinked at her and then stormed off like a child. I gave her a free hat and was like maybe rethink this relationship…….

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

i once had this fucker come up to order a beer. while i pour it he shows me the wanky fucking chemical structure tattoo on his arm and he’s like “hey. you know what this is” i was like “nah sorry” (never cared abt chemistry in school, plus having to look at a some rando’s pretentious tattoo gives me the douche chills). he decides to respond with “heh. you must not read many books”

i immediately stop pouring his beer. i reply: “heh. you must not want this beer.” thirsty boy immediately starts groveling like a worm “please please no i do want the beer im sorry im sorry” believe me when i say it was one of the most pathetic things ive ever witnessed

[lezbadeez]

gotta love people immediately backpedaling when they realise that there are Consequences To Being Mean

[lastvalyrian]

I genuinely believe that part of why it has become so normalized to be openly callous and evil in politics is that customer service culture has trained affluent people that they can treat everyone they consider beneath them however they want and still be treated kindly.