otter
@otter@lemmy.ca
I live in Canada on the west-coast. I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer that I could use.
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- Comment on Innovation 1 day ago:
Why not wear it on the inside of your wrist?
Its easier and more discreet to check, you don’t need a complicated new setup, and you won’t have any issues working with your hands.
I know some people do this already, and flip it around depending on the setting. Inner wrist when walking around, and regular placement when working at a desk.
Unless I’m getting whooshed here
- Comment on Don't blink 2 days ago:
If anyone is actually worried about this
The conjunctiva is a thin membrane that covers the inside of the eyelids and the white part of the eye (sclera), making a continuous sealed area that nothing can escape from except the front.
Also the area behind/around the eye is cushioned by fat and muscle so there’s no room for it. Your eyes don’t bounce around for a reason
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 5 days ago:
Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 5 days ago:
I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
- Comment on Are you a "weedhead"? 5 days ago:
Thank you for compiling the links :)
- Comment on Are you a "weedhead"? 1 week ago:
It’s worth a read, but if you don’t have time
What makes this revival uncomfortable is its timing. Phyllis could not respond. Her family, largely gone. There was no one left to correct the record or explain the circumstances. The image became a blank screen onto which modern viewers projected assumptions about drug use, morality, and personal failure.
Yet when her life is examined even briefly, those assumptions collapse. There is no evidence that she was a habitual drug user. No record of repeated arrests. No trail of chaos or criminality. Instead, there is a woman born into economic uncertainty, injured young, living through wartime upheaval, briefly targeted by an unjust legal system, and then settling into a quiet, unremarkable life.
The insult survives because it is easy. The truth requires effort.
The Reddit comment that circulates alongside Phyllis’s image captures something essential about her case. In 1944, freedom was conditional. It depended on fitting into social expectations, on being legible to authority, on not attracting the wrong kind of attention.
The same laws that ensnared Phyllis were used disproportionately against the poor, women, and people of colour. Their eventual repeal is often celebrated as progress, but repeal does not undo the damage done to those who lived under them.
Phyllis Stalnaker did not become a symbol in her lifetime. She did not campaign, protest, or write memoirs. Her story matters precisely because it is small. It reminds us how many lives were quietly constrained by laws that have since been forgotten, and how easily a single photograph can erase complexity.
Her revival online offers a choice. She can remain a joke, or she can be recognised as what she was: a woman shaped by her time, subjected to its injustices, and deserving of more than a label.
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- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings 1 week ago:
I think he still has majority voting power in Facebook
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 1 week ago:
Yeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?
I haven’t tried any, but I would think so yes. You can probably run a script over the files to accomplish the same thing :)
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 1 week ago:
If it helps, a number of courses at my university used open source git based textbooks. For example, you can replicate this Statistics textbook using any static site generator designed for documentation: moderndive.com (github.com/moderndive/ModernDive_book/)
We use vitepress for our docs: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
Or you can get even simpler by using plain markdown files organized into folders
- Comment on Is there a platform like github that isn't for code? 1 week ago:
LaTeX has been around for a lot longer, and Typst is one of the projects looking to replace it
Typst is a lot more intuitive and easier to use, but it might be missing some packages and tools that were designed for LaTeX.
For your purposes, I think it would work just fine
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 1 week ago:
They explain where the confusion comes from in the first two paragraphs.
Different wavelengths of light do affect some biological processes, and circadian rhythms are affected by light. From what I understand, there is some consensus that the brightness of the light source can affect sleep. There is no consensus on whether some wavelengths of light are better than others, but it was a reasonable thing to explore.
- Comment on 8<9 1 week ago:
Cat just needs one solid killshot to win.
Cat might need three, if we are going off the assumption that it needs to take out all three hearts. Although I think octopi have one “brain” type organ
- Comment on Why you running if you got nothing to hide ? 3 weeks ago:
Lol, so it has come full circle then
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 weeks ago:
Even for the classes with excellent profs, sometimes I’d have to do the thing above.
If I had midterms or an important project in one class, I might have to skip the prereading / review for another class. After that, I’d get to class and not understand much of it. Then I’d catch up the best I could during weekends, reading breaks, or just during finals season.
- Comment on Why you running if you got nothing to hide ? 3 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if this is the original or bonehurtingjuice 😄
- Comment on Iran Propaganda is very entertaining to follow 3 weeks ago:
Since voting history is visible here, I’ve considered tagging the users to call them out directly.
I also think of this
- Comment on Iran Propaganda is very entertaining to follow 3 weeks ago:
Why would someone downvote this question. If you care about the difference, you shouldn’t downvote someone that’s wanting to learn…
As for the question: Nitter is a proxy service that lets people view content without giving Twitter anything, and avoiding any tracking, analytics, etc. Also some networks have blocked Twitter outright, and so they won’t see your content unless it is proxied.
Similar tech exists for other sites too.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 4 weeks ago:
We’re still working on publishing the results of the census we ran a few months ago (sample size of around 600, where most users were from our Lemmy/Piefed instances)
Here is the graph for the phone question with our mostly cleaned data:
- Comment on It's not coming back. 4 weeks ago:
Wow, dude…
- Comment on If I were to throw a live flightless bird as hard as I can, would it be safe and unharmed provided I threw it forward or up, and I held it as gently as I could during the throw? 4 weeks ago:
Sanctuary / rescue workers might do a gentle toss with some animals if it fits in with their training / recovery.
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 4 weeks ago:
Meese can mean death, geese is all but guaranteed
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 4 weeks ago:
Nope, dance fights up here in Canada tend to attract polar bears
- Comment on Spicy spicy 4 weeks ago:
Its like this toy but with coins
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 4 weeks ago:
I’m having a hard time picturing this 😄
Snapping, like Westside Story?
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 4 weeks ago:
Our public school bathrooms were as nice or nicer than the left image.
Park bathrooms however…
- Comment on I haven't seen this one yet 4 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
We have a breakdown here
- Comment on I haven't seen this one yet 4 weeks ago:
I think the images should be flipped in this one
