cascabel

I'm a pepper (she/her) trans, queer, sapphic, bi, poly, 80s kid, Texas to West Coast transplant

[somnolentbibliophile]

@ominous-signs maybe not ominous, but might as well say "get the fuck out"

[ominous-signs]

Official omiNOus sign

[sparklypepper]

"as you can clearly see on my badge, I am a FOREST ranger, not a forrest ranger"

[javascript-official]

We need to conquer space travel for the only reason that zero-g would allow for new never before seen pastries, you know how the top of the muffin is the best part? Well that is because it is exposed to air so it changes the chemistry, in normal earth gravity it is impossible to make a muffin that is all top part because it needs to be placed somewhere which would restrict air flow, however in zero g it would be possible to make a bubble out of muffin dough which gets optimal airflow and becomes an all-top part muffin... This is the dream...

[the-bi-bilingual]

@derinthescarletpescatarian

[sparklypepper]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

due to popular demand you can now stream the Slur Song for free without Spotify, using my new streaming service slurify.co

[batshit-auspol]

Pretty amazing that the website dedicated entirely to streaming slurs is somehow more ethical than spotify

[sparklypepper]

listening to this on my way to work and suddenly becoming terrified of accidentally singing it at my desk

[seven-winged-liar]

the only place that 'i suffered and because i suffered so should you' belongs is when you see something diabolical or emotionally devastating on the internet so naturally youve gotta call up your best friends

[dragonsorceress22]

may I respectfully add: "This is awful; try it!" *holds out a food or beverage*

[sparklypepper]

[exeggcute]

the sunk cost fallacy has been my favorite fallacy for as long as I can remember. so at this point it's probably too late to pick a different one

[terri-theslime13]

I just heard about the recency bias, and honestly I think it's gotta be the best one ever

[copperbadge]

Okay but has anyone considered a strawman argument because what if someone was affected by these biases?

[sparklypepper]

not necessary, confirmation bias is the only one that really matters—all the evidence I recall seeing says so

[nasa]

Earthset

The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon. The Apollo 8 mission was the first crewed spacecraft to circumnavigate the Moon.

For more imagery from the mission, visit our Artemis II Multimedia Page.

[without-ado]

"Return to the Moon" Artemis Ⅱ 2026

l Andrew McCarthy 1,2 l Alex G Perez 3,4 l Alexander Gerst 5

[nasa]

3, 2, 1 – liftoff!

The Artemis II Moon rocket lifted off from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026. Our live launch day coverage continues on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

Stick with us for more Artemis II content including live broadcasts for lunar flyby and splashdown, daily news conferences, and 24/7 streams providing views from the Orion spacecraft and from NASA Kennedy.

[garaks-padded-bra]

the difference between ds9 season one and sfa season one is that ds9 season one was still figuring out the characters and how they fit together while sfa season was making basic setting errors that could have been resolved by spending 30 seconds on memory alpha or asking chatgpt

Opinion immediately discarded. Suggested asking chatgpt.

[sparklypepper]

peer review complete

[saint-ambrosef]

what "no sugar added" should mean: the natural sugars of the other ingredients like fruit are the only source of sweetness in this product

what is actually means: we added a fuckton of artificial sweeteners

[saint-ambrosef]

i see we are all angry about this

[sparklypepper]

I just want beef jerky that isn't sweet why is this so hard

[theonion]

Saying his advocacy for consuming animal products had painted a target on his back, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Monday that anti-protein extremists had left a head of lettuce on his doorstep. “Yesterday morning when my wife went out to get the paper, she discovered a gruesome threat left by radical herbivores attempting to intimidate me,” a visibly shaken Kennedy said at a press conference, adding that the FBI was processing the head of iceberg lettuce for fingerprints and would investigate the incident as an act of suspected anti-protein terrorism.

Full Story

[sparklypepper]

lettuce gods, I've seen what you've done to other national leaders, and I want that for ours

[curiositysavesthecat]

When you were a child, was your internet access ever limited and/or monitored by your parents (or legal guardians) in any way?

Yes, my internet access was limited and/or monitored

No, my internet access was never limited or monitored in any way

I didn’t have access to internet as a child at all

Voting ended onFeb 25

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[traegorn]

I mean, that's hard to answer. It was the 90s.

No, in the sense that my parents didn't monitor what sites I went to with any tools and the only time limits were just because we had only one computer and it had to be shared between siblings. So, like, if my brother and sister didn't want to go online too there wasn't a limit.

Yes, in the sense that the computer was in the middle of the Dining Room/Living Room and the whole family could in theory walk up behind you and see exactly what you were doing online.

[optimysticals]

For Christmas my 7th grade year we got a modem and internet access because that's when there was finally a local isp.

I had my own computer in my room (it had been my dad's but since my mom had paid for it when they split up he "gave it to me" I'm assuming under pressure from her). At that time it was the only computer we had. I think it was maybe a year or so later we got our first non-mac and that lived in the livingroom.

But that is to say for about a year I didn't have any insight over what I did online. The only "restriction" I had was that we only had one phone line so I couldn't be online all the time until after 8pm when my mom wasn't going to answer the phone anyways.

Now in theory I was supposed to be in bed by 9... but again the computer was in my room.

Things changed some when we got the other computer (I still have violent hatred in my heart for that Compaq to this day). We still only had one phone line and my mom had a daycare in the house so during the day and in the early evenings internet was limited to half hour chunks with an hour in between. After dinner was internet time and I could do pretty much whatever I wanted except that my younger brothers would be running around and my mom was probably also in the livingroom watching TV.

I did tend to stay up late and do things online that were absolutely things my mom would have "yelled" at me for in high school. But I always had a second browser open so I could quick close whatever I was doing if her bedroom door opened. And I wiped my browser history before bed every night, not that she had any idea how to check.

[vaspider]

My first internet access was literally logging on through my mother's work email at the university where she worked soooooo I needed to be very careful. I didn't have my own email and there were no messaging systems and if I posted on UseNet using Mom's email that might have been Weird.

And then I found MUDs and stopped being nearly as careful, because that was my first actual login of my own.

[lizzibabedrinkstea]

I had no access to internet as a child, because the internet literally did not exist when I was a child.

I'm 50 years old. We had computers in the house, yes. I played on those computers, yes. But the internet that everyone recognizes did not come into existence until the mid 1990s and it was called The World Wide Web. Before that, the internet was all text, with esoteric commands that did mysterious things. But now, you could see images! And links that took you to other places! And it was *fascinating*!

And my best friend in college handed me a 3.5" disk that allowed me to connect to Internet Relay Chat and I met The World.

[vaspider]

I'm 48. The internet existed. It didn't have pictures, but it had UseNet from 1980 on, and the first MUD existed from the time I was less than a year old. The World Wide Web? 1989.

It existed. You just weren't on it and that's ok.

[sparklypepper]

The terminology was a bit messy here, and that might at least partially explain the different perspectives.

In the early 80s it, there were multiple (inter)networks that weren't globally interconnected. So in some contexts, folks would say "the internet" meaning "the network we connect to here", while in other contexts they'd say "an internet", meaning one of multiple extant (inter)networks. Probably the most obvious of these was ARPANET, and even here there's not a single clear beginning - a commonly cited one is its adoption of TCP/IP in 1983, i.e. when it became the type of network that ultimately became the globally interconnected internet, but ARPANET existed well before then.

We didn't really get a single entity called the Internet until 1989, when that level of global interconnection was reached, with connections between Asia, North America, and Europe. That doesn't mean every network was connected, though; It took a few years more, into the early 90s (and the world wide web) for it to get standardized enough that you could really confidently say there was just one Internet.

And to make it more complicated, Usenet was separate from all of that! ARPANET was primarily accessible to researchers and academics. Usenet was more generally accessible and decentralized; you weren't connecting to a server to see the content offered by that server, you were connecting to one server of many that propagated content back and forth. There could certainly be ways for data to get between Usenet and ARPANET, but they were not the same network or the same networking protocols. In any case, some pretty fundamental differences between Usenet and what we eventually called the Internet.

So, in a colloquial "a (sufficiently lucky) person use a computer to access content from elsewhere" sense, yeah, the internet definitely existed well before the 90s. On the other hand, in the partially colloquial partially technological sense of there being just one Internet, one thing one might want to connect one's computer to, it genuinely didn't exist until the late 80s to early 90s.

Given all this, even technical experts often have varying definitions and timelines here! And given that most folks reminiscing about such things aren't/weren't computer scientists, it's not surprising to run into differing definitions and perspectives, without any of them being wrong.

[cumvvelt]

"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

[thedupshadove]

"I know a guy" = "I have a useful contact."

"I know a man" = "I am about to tell you a story."

[turtletotem]

“He’s a great guy” = he is pleasant and fun and well-intentioned

“He’s a great man” = he has saved countless lives and changed the world irrevocably

[sparklypepper]

"tree wizard"

[thememedaddy]

[sparklypepper]

re the "Enhanced Games",

"[...] he believes that athletes are entitled to do what they wish with their own bodies, and that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is corrupt for exploiting them."

is a wild take from someone proposing an event (from which he would presumably profit!) that would encourage people to risk their health in exchange for a competitive edge.

[memecucker]

A good rule of thumb is that whenever someone says we need to “end the Wild West days” of something online they are causing worse problems

[sparklypepper]

end the wild west days (unchecked colonial expansion, railroad barons getting rich off of exploitative labor and a stranglehold on communication and commerce in absence of anti-trust regulation) not the wild west days (people wearing cool hats)

[labelleizzy]

Venn diagrams my beloved

[memewhore]