This Can't Be Home

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[reneeissancefool]

Let's say you like taking photos of frogs. and you've learnt there's 3 categories of people when it comes to reacting thosw. Those who react with "yay frog!!!", those with "oh frog :o" and "ewww frog". You know that first two are ok with frog pics, but you'd avoid sending them to the 3rd group.

So, you meet a new person, you send them a frog pic, they're kinda hyped so you put them in category 1 mentally. Then later you send another pic and they're like "🤨🤨 why did you send me this" so you're like "well you seemed to like the first pic so i thought you liked frog pics, sorry" and then you don't send them a 3rd one, but they somehow find out that they didn't get it so they're quite upset, so you're like "well last time i sent you a frog pic, you didn't seem to like it😔" and then they just explain that they'd want to be include, so you're like ok.

So you send a frog pic, and they're ok with it again, and then you send another and they're mad again and they just keep alternating between positive and negative reactions and you find yourself even dreading taking the frog pics. what would you do?

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge wild wild abandon.

[reneeissancefool]

guess asking AI the radicals of a kanji/hanzi is the new "how many r's in strawberry"

[fraciel]

life has been a major härdelli lately don't you think

[ruttoo]

A hurlumhei u could even say

[siveydensipuli]

a hulabaloo if you will

[fairandcruel]

Why, it’s a right old hässäkkä

[holonyymi]

outright kalabaliikki when you think about it 

[biosaatana]

a veritable häslinki, if i may be so bold

[kal-yamaha]

A complete työmaa, one might add

[roskapanda]

A bit of a sekamelska, perhaps

[pupucino]

A hullunmylly, even

[flowerbleedme]

think juggling is innocent?

WRONG. SATANISM.

[charl0ttan]

genuinely so so beautiful how much mileage we're getting out of juggling lab. its always something new like its genuinely always something fully new. every time. i love it🔴

[flowerbleedme]

we love juggling!

[lucat13]

i call this one "son your mother and i are getting a divorce"

[underwhelmingalchemist]

Tumblr has got to be one of the webbed sites of all time because sometimes you log on and it seems like the entire site has gotten really into stick figure juggling and you just kind of have to shrug and accept that that's part of the furniture now

[lonk-water]

Killing You

[anton-exe]

i figured out this juggling lab thing

[flowerbleedme]

can we please have the ball

[lun4cat]

please, please help, they're going everywhere

[reneeissancefool]

i used to sing in a choir in high school (alto/tenor parts cause not enough boys XD), and it was uhm a very Interesting Experience (aka no one knowing wtf to do even if the people in the choir are technically capable singers).

anyway i thought i'd try auditioning for a choir at my uni and i sing my lil song and then the director goes "uhm could you sing a little higher" and my poor soul struggled to get that C5 out after 3h of suffering in the alto section XD so i was there like "._. uhm i dont think i can reach a much higher note actually" and then he's like "well lets test your range" and then we do some funny going up and down a scale business.

his conclusion? "oh you are definitely a soprano and you should work on your higher notes, like thats definitely where you sit, just need courage and practice to sing those notes" (aka i did not get in cause a soprano who cant sing high is uhm kinda pointless XD)

BUT LIKE XD i took 3 years of singing lessons in highschool? i was in the choir? XD NO ONE THOUGHT TO EVER CHECK MY VOICE? like where the tone/colour fits??? XD why am i now getting jumpscared by my sudden soprano identity wtf XD

like to me alto parts felt "too high" but atm i think its just hard to sing in the passaggio (which is where all alto stuff is XD) and it's not necessarily "too high" but im just not good at mix voice yet i guess and im actually happy both above and below that part

[homunculus-argument]

Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury".

[reneeissancefool]

why are breakups so exhausting?? even when its for the better??

[reneeissancefool]

ive spent too much time on here when my first thought at the sight of the word "problematic" was "?? 🤨 what has UDP done??? do we need to cancel it??"

[jellogram]

When you're a kid/teenager everyone expects you to base your career around your passions and interests and that works for a lot of people but it's not the full story. I wish they would also teach students to consider the lifestyle that career would require.

Like... if I had to choose a passion and work a career around it, I would probably work at a zoo or aquarium. But those jobs require a lot of schooling with STEM classes (which I hate) and a lot of early mornings (which make me feel ill) and an obligation to work in person with no flexibility to move (which makes me depressed). So even if I'd enjoy caring for animals all day, it's not a good career path for me.

My current job is travel writing, which is not my passion. I like it, but it's not my passion. But I work a flexible schedule, I can live anywhere, I get a travel stipend, and my team is really chill. So it works for me.

Rather than solely focusing on "What topics do you like?" I think we should ask students "Of the careers that suit your preferred lifestyle, which are the most interesting?"