SterlingVapor

Kinda what I meant by plastics

Monied interests. It's a symptom of the system, give me a specific example and I can give you a specific group, but in general it's the trending direction of the system

IDK, I think in systems. Maybe it's an occupational hazard

Mac is genuinely a better experience. I say that as a user, as a dev, as someone who likes to throw their laptop in a backpack and not have to worry about the charger. I like the Linux-lite os, I like the screens, I like the universally premium feel to their chassis.

But damn, have Macs gotten ridiculously overpriced. Paying 150% for something you can count on to be more polished? Fine. It's premium

But paying triple? I'd rather learn to tunnel into a desktop through vscode and get something thin, nice looking, and inexpensive enough to replace (even if the thermal properties are horrendous)

I'm more worried about the plastic, pesticides, degraded pharmaceuticals and heavy metals myself

The other thing you can do is reduce consumption. However you can, to whatever extent you can

It's like turning left turns into a right, you have to do a third 360

Access to pornography lowers incidence of sexual assault

So it very much looks to be the other way around

This topic always reminds me of that shirt, "don't ratio me I'll cum"

That's just because of the websockets - they just don't respond to a bad login

I could do something similar with users, but I'm a bit hesitant to make that too easy - my main drive for doing this is to undo a lot of the problems caused by social media.

My belief is that echo chambers encourage extreme beliefs, and interacting with people who constantly push back against those beliefs will blunt them.

At the same time, it's more important to me that using it is more healthy for most users.

Maybe I'll do something like a 3-strike policy? Like if you ban users from the same site 3 times, it can unlock the feature and ask.

I'll put some thought into it. Also, I plan to do a build for iPhone, but I need to get a hold of a Mac and pay for the app store license... If the Android version gets any traction I'm sure that'll work itself out

I'm making an app with a focus on streamlining pain points for user signups, and discouraging looking for centralized lists of the biggest groups by "crawling" the network for servers and communities based on what you see and who you interact with. I hope by making this easy, I can push smaller, more diverse communities in the fediverse

It's getting close. I'm almost at the point where I can switch over to my app from jerboa for daily use, and then I'll try to put out a beta

I had grits, I really need to go grocery shopping

So I just learned this recently, but apparently after the whole Victorian "smash and grab" thing where Britain stole all the art that was or wasn't nailed down (there's a lot of feet and footless statues lol), archeologists went to sites and realized how much knowledge was destroyed by their predecessors who only cared about impressive finds they could show off

Technology and techniques are always improving, so now when they find an archeological site, they excavate only a fraction, leaving the rest for future generations who will have better tools.

Obviously, non-destructive methods are still on the table, but I found that pretty interesting