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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Lol exactly! I’m sure there’s gotta be some studies on this, with the prevalence of review-less written words all over the internet, and a lot of users interacting with it at a young age, or being newer to English, I’m sure there’s plenty of instances where they see it done wrong and just go “Hey that must be how it works!”

    And it just spreads from there. But c’mon, this wouldn’t be so bad with a basic foundation in phonetics, folks! :(

    I only wish:

    1. More people knew how to correct it without being mean.
    2. There wasn’t such a weird defensiveness against accepting such correction and learning something.

    I actually kinda appreciated the reddit bots that did this. They weren’t wrong and only the severest of simpletons goes ape on an automated script lol.








  • We’re at a point in the information age where even the poor, for now, tend to have access to libraries and smartphones even if the school system failed them. I’ve known many with advanced vocabulary and disproportionate economic status. Heck, I’m not rich either but I know words and letters mean things if we’re to communicate well.

    Many poor immigrants will say “sorry for my English” but be significantly more eloquent than the majority of privileged kids on Reddit or whatever. The difference? They care about being understood clearly.

    There’s a certain irritation when it comes to people on the Internet who have the world at their fingertips and misuse language out of lazy habit, and continue to do so, even when gently and non-judgingly corrected.

    This seems to happen often enough that misspellings or misuse seem to mislead people new to the concept or language, into an incorrect understanding in the first place.

    It’s a silly discussion on willful, stubborn ignorance and how that’s a pet peeve. Nothing to get too bent out of shape over.




  • Hey friend, I really appreciate it. :)

    That sincerity and love can change the world, and you’re all the more courageous for it. Even if things suck, I’m glad we’re not alone and there’s people like you here by our side, figuratively or otherwise. :)

    I always come back to a few sources of timeless wisdom in the face of all this nonsense. A lot of it found in the Bible, which I know won’t get great reactions thanks to current events.

    As a Christian anarchist, I’m also trying to do what I can to combat against the most evil cult of greed, hate, bloodshed, and misery that has become the American state-sponsored religion. It’s a lot of grief and pain to watch the Gospel of selfless love be trampled and peddled by fascists, and the reactionary hatred of it from the oppressed in turn, who’ve only ever known its perversion against themselves.

    But I digress. Here’s a some wisdom I keep returning to, etched in my soul. Perhaps it will empower you as well. :)

    I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

    For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

    -Ephesians 6:12

    “Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

    -Bruce Lee

    And lastly , I’ve posted it many times before but damnit if this doesn’t remind us why we’re still here in the face of all this madness:

    FRODO: I can’t do this, Sam.

    SAM: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.

    FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam?

    SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

    –Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film version)


  • All honesty, I tend to be optimistic to a fault and try really hard to be cheerful.

    Everything starts to crack once socioeconomics comes up. The news lately is all about how everything is about to get worse. “This is collapsing, that’s more expensive, getting a slice of diminishing wages is going to be even harder now! They’re cracking down here and forcing ads there.” Etc etc.

    When I’m knee-deep in fixing up my servers or making art or being with my people, everything is just peachy!

    But yeah, “How next money tho?” Usually starts the mental downward spiral.

    I love living, can do a ton of things, love learning, but I don’t get along with churning out a repetitive task for increasingly worthless currency.

    The world outside of what I’m choosing to do feels entirely impossibly out of our control. So I try to balance being informed with staying sane.

    Like damn I don’t need much, can’t folk just be left alone? Lol

    Wonder if a lot of people feel like I do?



  • That’s true. It’s very often I’ll get actual replies to things I contribute, which is cool!

    I think a lot of the ghost town effect is because other platforms focused on superficial things you don’t really see much here. Big sparkly notifs when you get an updoot and meta-currencies and that sort of thing.

    I don’t get a lot of upvotes on stuff, which sometimes gives the impression nobody’s seen it. Furthermore, I find if I respond to something posted older than a few days or a week? That convo is dead. Haha.



  • Why is modern webdev such a clusterfuck?

    Not a webdev.

    Have tried multiple times to “finally figure out how this web stuff works because I’d like a nice website that isn’t a huge chonky slowpoke WordPress install with ad-infested plugins.”

    I can’t do it. Gamedev is hard, but makes 1000x more sense than whatever cargo-cult bubblegum-and-hope the modern web runs on.

    I probably should learn JS, but I’m very hesitant to even bother with it because it feels like an insane time commitment. Like getting a doctorate from scratch in something you’re not SUPER jazzed about or starting OnePiece from Ep 1.

    “Oh cool, you learned that thing everyone complains about! But you know nothing until you get good at ~30 out of 400 different highly opinionated frameworks.”

    The input to result ratio just doesn’t seem like it’s there. O.o Maybe I’m just a noob but this is my experience lol.

    And don’t even get me started on RAM-munchy Electron apps.

    “Why yes, I WOULD love a separate instance of Chrome running for every messenger app I use! And I love when Discord is the only support resource! :D”

    –Nob’dy Ev’r, 2025 A.D


  • They wouldn’t want you to know it all depends on a Frankensteined chunk of spaghetti’d COBOL that hasn’t been updated since a guy they forgot about set it up before he retired in like 1996. And they’re just betting that, if they don’t look at it too hard, it won’t oopsie a cascade of critical failures.