jagungal

I wish I knew. Let me know if you ever figure it out

You should definitely check out Deviant Ollam and Mitxela

Except the bowerbird would be a boy and only collect blue things

Ok, surely this is a violation of the first amendment. This is clearly the government restricting speech. Wait, nope. It's the government ensuring its employees don't promote speech it doesn't like. Fuck.

"Hello large adoptive kitten. I have not seen you catch and kill any prey. It is about time you did, this is what it looks like."

21, nope. I've heard of a rocky training montage, but would have no idea what you meant by a rocky montage with no other context.

With the side benefit of providing a fast lane that emergency services can make great use of

But that is the reality of most users today. They expect to have a GUI because it gives them the options right there, rather than having to go and learn what commands this particular system accepts. If you don't cater to those users, like my parents, my friends, my grandparents, my teachers, and basically everyone I know who isn't a computer nerd, and then expect them to "come to their senses" you will be very disappointed. Good design meets users where they're at, it doesn't expect them to "educate themselves."

It shouldn't be though. A command line interface is not user friendly for entry-level users, and until Linux UX designers realise this, Linux will never gain a greater market share. And we have seen this with Ubuntu, Mint, and other "user friendly" distros gaining popularity. I'm not saying that we should necessarily aim for broad-scale adoption of Linux as an end in itself, but more users means more support for Linux which means a better experience for all.

The US should have looked to Australia as an example of why not to do that. We had very low interest rates pre-covid in a bid to try and drive inflation up to about 2.5%. It didn't work because it basically meant that people who had plenty of cash just put that into investment properties and drove house prices through the roof, instead of increasing spending throughout the economy like the reserve bank thought it would. That led to a vicious cycle of property investors using the low rates to continue investing in properties, continuing to drive house prices up and pricing new home owners out of the market.

Then, when the post-covid inflation hit, the reserve bank decided to increase interest rates because if the interest rate drops didn't have an effect on inflation, it should have an effect on inflation in the other direction right? (/s) This meant that the few first home buyers actually got their foot in the door pre-covid were the ones who got punished the most, and the rest of us dealt with the "supply chain issues" (rampant profiteering).

Not necessarily a mastodon app, but I'd love to see consistent application of markdown. The client I use doesn't seem to support spoilers, and I've seen others that implement headings differently. It would be nice to have all clients implement it the same way.

I'm always kinda impressed when people can fill silence with a lot of words without actually managing to say anything.