pensivepangolin

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[–] pensivepangolin 8 points 1 year ago

There’s a really cool French machine for dealing with people like him

[–] pensivepangolin 5 points 1 year ago

…that has no bearing on the fact that they’re both bad policy as measured by their impact on this country.

[–] pensivepangolin 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe he ruined any such claim with his work on criminal justice legislation long before he endorsed genocide of a captive population.

[–] pensivepangolin 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is the most obvious outcome, and anyone saying otherwise is deluded, in my opinion. If the American medical-industrial complex has taught us anything, it’s that any benefits research like this is likely to accrue will be hoarded by a few rich people who can continue to enjoy an absurd standard of living, maybe for a few years longer now. That is the best case scenario, assuming that further research results in any applicable treatments, etc.

Maybe I’m too cynical but I can’t even imagine it playing out otherwise. Look at what happened with insulin.

[–] pensivepangolin 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! As the other commenter who replies to you said, it definitely can. You don’t even have to selfhost it; the app’s developer hosts a cloud sync server you can pay for thays dirt cheap. You can also sync notes without the cloud server. There are a lot of ways you can use it without having to get into the technical aspect of it!

[–] pensivepangolin 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And I’ll take “Things we probably shouldn’t do” for $500, please.

[–] pensivepangolin 38 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I boost Joplin on here every chance I get, so please allow me to do so again now! I run it with my own sync server and a small userbase of about 6 people on a cheap VPS. I could not be happier; between the webclipper, sharing, encryption, embedding of pdfs, photos, even mp4s, ease of selfhosting, it’s an amazing project! It’s been (knock on wood) rock solid!

[–] pensivepangolin 19 points 1 year ago

No offense, but is this move motivated by a true need to move ASAP? Because this doesn’t really read like it was written by someone in their thirties. Frankly, if it’s not a true need, it doesn’t seem from this post that you’re in a financial position to do this on anything close to a safe manner. And thus: if this is just a desire, no matter how strong the impulse is, it sounds like you need to wait.

I am not trying to be patronizing or condescending: I would just hate to see someone put themselves at the mercy of the world like it seems you may be about to.

[–] pensivepangolin 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Have you ever considered…not being cranky?

[–] pensivepangolin 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real trick is to do this when it isn’t actually anyone’s birthday

[–] pensivepangolin 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Banning driving on the phone while allowing iPads to be put im dashboards shows how fucking stupid our legislators really are.

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