I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’

A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.

Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.

And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.

As the token male, I will just be hanging around the pool eye-banging hunks. Just text me when it’s time to do the thing with the bees!

Get fucked Target!

As they say, the axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

Target has proven beyond doubt they are feckless and foolish at a deep cultural level as a company. Did they think the LGBTQ+ community was just another demographic they could appeal to for a moment and discard us when things got a tiny bit tricky? Apparently yes.

But the work isn’t done. The brand needs to be utterly destroyed and discredited. Using human rights as a cute marketing gimmick that you can take or leave as fashions change needs to be utterly destroyed as an acceptable business practice in any setting.

MTV ran a series of commercials highlighting social justice issues, that’s all.

It was a very different era, gay rights and especially marriage were becoming part of mainstream discourse and the LGBTQ+ community was still relatively well organized from the fight to get proper attention to the AIDS epidemic.

Reagans administration literally let the transmission of HIV run unchecked because they thought it was just a ‘gay thing’ that would rid then of a minority they have always wanted to eliminate anyway. To these monsters, a genocidal plague was a happy little accident.

It took immense pressure and coordinated efforts to gather data showing it impacted straight peole too in order to get research and public health funds allocated at necessary levels.

Against this dark backdrop, MTV was building its brand as the woke media outlet and the suits let the creatives run ads like this.

Really talk to any kind of ‘sexual minority’ who lived through that era and you will find we were well aware of creeping fascism all the way back then. This and other commercials was both a signal to the queer creative community that MTV ‘got us’ and a way for MTV to establish ’counterculture’ street cred.

(Sexual minority is a clinical term I don’t like much as pretty much everyone is ‘weird’ sexually, but it is used by researchers in some fields to avoid the constant and often unproductive wrangling about the letters, knowing this is useful for finding research on these subjects)

Oh yeah, I feel that. I was going for condescension as a strategy for discouraging them.

Super cool project. I visited, and I hope you keep building the site stats views out. So many people are curious about self hosting and solar, if you just kept it as a demo that shows how the system holds up over longer term, well I know I would appreciate occasional reminders to check it out. It may inspire others to try similar things.

And I would have happily signed any digital wall you implemented.

Sure, I understand annoyance with the enshittification of words with real clinical meanings. I am sick to death of how dumb popular discourse is around autism and adhd, and dissociation is clearly next on the list to be made stupid. So I hear you.

I guess I have come to see popular recognition of mental health terms as a double edged sword. It’s good in the sense that having a less-pejorative and hurtful term for a variant of human behavior is better than the ignorant hurtful alternatives.

‘Neurodivergent’ can be a lot less damaging as a label than ‘spaz’ or other archaic playground labels, as an example that is close to home for me.

I have found it easier to explain misconceptions about these sort of terms to the few people in my life who even give a crap to know the real truth. Explaining an entirely new complex word? Well it is much harder to find a receptive audience.

So pick your poison, I suppose. Either have to try to explain GRE (graduate record exam, a test for US grad school admission) vocabulary words from scratch to semi-literate relatives who only care maybe a little. Or drop a subtle hint at a chill moment to nudge their misuse toward a better path?

Either option still sucks, but I guess I will take the misunderstandings over the incomprehension.

Don’t make them feel bad. Thorn isn’t going to happen but they seem to enjoy it. It’s no worse than the fedora fad. And OC may be using it incorrectly in an ironic manner, which I can respect.

Dissociation is a real thing that is very common. Why do you think it is not?

Then he is not qualified to be a Senator, lacking political and historical accumen is a major fail. There are plenty of young adults who do have the judgement to look into what they are inking on themselves permanently.

I know I am being judgy, but Senate is one of the most influential political positions a person can run for. The bar is and needs to be very high. Just saying the right words is not enough to get me excited about a candidate.

That’s about all I have found it good for too. Larger projects need solid architecture that the coder understands well. If you leave architectural decisions to LLM, they build some real janky solutions that take more time to sus out and correct than it takes to just so do it yourself.

Yes! What’s your favorite tool? Why didn’t the tour start here, your shed is amazing!

It’s so simple.

He either is lying about knowing the meaning of the symbol and is therefore not qualified to be a Senator, no matter his apparent stances.

Or he is insanely ignorant of basic history and is therefore not qualified to be a Senator, no matter his apparent stances.

Right? It’s a super brain dead take. The presidential oath and things like the emoluments clause (i know, it’s quaint of me to think that ever mattered) explicitly ‘bind’ a President to act in the country’s interests.

It’s just mask-off Americanism though, we can finally admit the true core belief of our culture: nothing is immoral in the pursuit of profit.

They are so beautiful under magnification. Some morphs have gold flecks on the antennas and other amazing details you can only really see with a hand lens.

Can we get Ron Howard to deliver the last line?

Yeah, good idea to pad the budget like that! My friend has a tractor we could use for free. Let’s get this one in the can and spend the remaining $990,000 on taking the witches to Playa del Carmen, a known gathering spot for inter-coven discussions.

It is sad but true. I am USAian, and it is a constant battle with co-workers to get them to stand up even a little against dumb mandates. It’s especially frustrating because EVERY DAMN TIME we do push back, management backs down. You’d think they would see the pattern…

Anger is a natural result of discovering that your natural abilities are routinely exploited and taken for granted but your needs that are a direct result of those same abilities will not be met.

My emotions are very well regulated, thank you. It is normal to feel anger when gaslit into thinking your normal human variation is a disorder.

This. Simple as. It’s a common bad-faith debating technique called ‘saying whatever random-ass thing makes the stupid people listening think I am right’.