BellyPurpledGerbil

@BellyPurpledGerbil@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like the new meta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Git gud scrub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA Alleges ‘Bully Tactics’ as Studios Suspend Negotiations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy here I go striking again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of bickering about how it works now vs how it should work. Meanwhile I’m going crazy that nobody is pointing out how much of the burden of the commute is placed on the worker. It’s literally thousands of dollars a year in being licensed to drive, vehicle registration, insurance costs, variable and ever increasing gas prices, repair and maintenance. Every single aspect of the commute is a burden on the worker, and corporations take it for granted. It’s not factored into most people’s pay rate or compensation. Whether or not the employer should be held responsible for relieving some of the burden, we should recognize that workers need to lessen this burden one way or another. Increasing tax deductibles to include commute time isn’t an unreasonable first step. Treat it just like travel for any other work related reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do folks managing servers mainly do so via command-line interfaces?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GUIs are a useful tool to give common users an accessible way to understand how they’re interacting with technology. They’re best utilized,I think, when the point of the technology is to be viewed. Like imagine you had to browse and launch Netflix shows in a terminal. That would be incredibly annoying.

  In contrast, its really goddamn slow to perform routine server maintenance and commands through a GUI. I save so much time managing my servers through CLI, scripting, and automated tasks. Almost everything I’m dealing with is text based information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you? Can you move?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite literally you are your brain, trying to account for the entire body and mind as the self simultaneously. But you may catch yourself thinking or saying things like “I can’t wrap my brain around this.” Isn’t that odd? Your brain refers to itself as my brain. Is that a linguistic issue or is your sense of perspective off?

  “Don’t you have a heart?” Why do we imply that our sense of compassion is only located in an organ that just pumps blood? That clearly can’t be the case.

  We know cases where someone gets a brain tumor and suddenly becomes violent or unfeeling. When the brain is damaged either during life or during gestation, we know that we can lose all manner of things: cognition, motor skills, memory, emotions, etc. It’s all the brain.

  What confuses the issue is everything the brain is attached to. What I think all conscious humans do is try to make sense of the mind-body connection. I feel tired, that’s not just my brain feeling tired. I can feel tired in every single part of my body independently or all together. “I” am the brain. If I lose an arm, I don’t lose my sense of self. But losing important functions can damage the self I’ve constructed of myself. If I lose my eyesight I will be a very different person when I’m unable to visually enjoy video games, movies, art, nature.

  All this to say, your self is self constructed. It’s malleable. But make no mistake that the source of where self and consciousness are maintained is the brain.