grrgyle
@grrgyle@slrpnk.net
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
We also didn’t rely on the internet as much as a resource. Like of course you would do some of your research online, but if you were really working on something serious, you went to the library!
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
Yeah the internet now is so much nicer. And I don’t just mean the corporate spaces with the edges sanded off, but the indie web, fediverse, and random forums. There used to be this incredibly toxic masculinity that crept into everything.
A lot of us have also grown up. I know because I’m still in a forum with people I’ve known online from 20+ years ago, where we used to post the most heinous, edgy shit.
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
Look up “indie web” and just start clicking links until you see URLs you’ve never heard of before.
Congrats, you’re surfing the web. Let us know if you find anything cool.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 3 days ago:
This makes sense, but I always feel “tricked” if I don’t notice I’m reading or looking at generated stuff until after a tic.
- Comment on ‘Mass theft’: Thousands of artists call for AI art auction to be cancelled 3 days ago:
I think plagiarism fits. Producing someone (or many someones) work as an original.
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 5 days ago:
Oh my god it really is. This looks specific to mobile data, thankfully. But I could see this being the foot in the door
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 5 days ago:
Worst case, could have regional intranets. Like people just connect their routers with eachother. Sneakernet over large media between disconnected regions.
But that’s me getting way ahead of myself.
- Comment on Career day 6 days ago:
Oh wow I did not even think about that possibility. So glad I went to school before all this stuff kicked off
- Comment on Mmm kale 1 week ago:
That’s a 10 out of 10 from me!
- Comment on Gottem. :) 1 week ago:
Who would leave their sound on in the middle of the night?
- Comment on imagine 1 week ago:
I’m the guy on the left just because until for-profit corporations are reigned in I don’t trust them with control of anything.
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
Never. Do you recommend it?
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
Oh right I forgot about closed book tests. Been a while
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 2 weeks ago:
I mean same, but you can look to the official docs for like what a loop or queue looks like
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 2 2 weeks ago:
Just what am I looking at here
- Comment on Thanks Duo, I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about a coquettish green owl-unicorn 2 weeks ago:
That’s what it is
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 weeks ago:
I’m just wondering, is it not common to have backyard chickens in the US? Where I’m from, it seems like every 1 in 12 people have a few chickens clucking about.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
“Do not call list” more like “Look at that list of numbers to call”
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
It’s more of a problem in different countries. Also I find there’s a blitz every now and then and I’ll get 3+ spam calls a day, and then months without any.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
Oh wow that’s so strange. I love emails, because I can reread everything I just said before hitting send. Whereas when I’m having a verbal conversation, I’m never going to say things as clearly/accurately because I feel like I’m just riffing off of the top of my brain pan.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
Oh god, a 5 minute voice note with no accompanying text, just shoot me. Like you’re really going to make me listen to you ramble on a 1x speed while you get to some point that I guarantee could fit in one or two sentences, if you took the modicum of brain power required to compose your thoughts into coherent words.
PS. I understand a lot of people love sending voice notes back and forth, and that’s totally fine if it’s the thing.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
Just because you have a question does not make it an emergency on my part.
This is it for me. If someone is an auditory processor, or needs a more nuanced conversation in order to understand something, I sympathize. But not everyone is like that. Just send a quick message asking to chat (or better yet, find time on my calendar if it’s for work), and then I can prepare what I know on the subject, review it, and get back to you.
Otherwise you’re going to get an ear full of ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm uhhhhh hmm hang on, just loooking that upp… click scroll scroll click click scroll scrolllll Right, so silence while I’m reading Right, uh, so Okay It was last Tuesday Was that it?
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised how often honest disagreements arise from bad recollection. It doesn’t have to be ill-willed: we’ve all had the experience remembering a shared conversation completely differently from the person we had it with.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
I guess that can be true because my phone is usually on silent, but a message would still be preferable because a missed call in my notifications doesn’t tell me much of anything.
I would also put forward that a request to talk could also take the form of a request to talk, like hey are you free to talk about my part in the xyz project?
PS. I would ask the people who you call if they would prefer a text first. It could be you’re calling people who are like you, but it’s also possible that you’re calling people like me, and they’re too polite to tell you.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
I firmly disagree, but that’s because for me writing and reading are much easier than verbal communication.
This issue really only comes up when people like you have people like me have to communicate.
This is also why I keep a notebook at work. Without it, spoken exchanges would essentially be a lacuna in a conversation for me.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
In a world where async communication is effortless, demanding immediate attention is antisocial.
You’re saying that you don’t care what I’m doing at the moment. You want my full attention immediately. Even leaving a message is more of a time waste than a simple text message
- don’t call unless it’s urgent
- if you’re calling me it’s not urgent
This doesn’t apply to landlines, ofc
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 3 weeks ago:
I mean those are legitimate answers, but people around these parts don’t take kindly to primers
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 3 weeks ago:
Just throwing in a little shame for free
- Comment on Mmm kale 3 weeks ago:
Your sandwiches sounds willlld
- Comment on Mmm kale 3 weeks ago:
Kinnnda, but if you treat it like lettuce you’ll be disappointed. It’s a lot chewier. Think of it as in between lettuce and cabbage. Unless you’re just bunging it in a soup you probably have to do a little more work on it.
I like to “massage” when eating eating raw. That’s where you strip the leaves off the stalks and vigorously kneed and scrunch those up with your hands until they’re soft to the touch.
Then you can throw in whatever dressing you like. Toasted sunflower seeds and dried cranberries are good at this stage, to really emphasise the toothiness of kale.
It’s also kinda like spinach come to think of it. A lot of the same tricks work on it.