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“Stop using electricity” - Suanpan Abacus Tutorial for Beginners

If a piece of information is important enough, somebody will physically go to my house and tell me. Otherwise I just avoid information altogether

Which is why I was appalled to learn it late in life that “it” was reserved exclusively to non-humans, for some reason that didn’t exist in my native Spanish. The rest of my explanation would be better written on a longer blog-post of mine.

Non-native English speaker here. I was appalled to learn that English conjugated for animacy, and could swear “it” was the gender-neutral pronoun because that’s what was used in Pokemon for example. I’m also not a fan of toggling conjugations mid-sentence, so I prefer to construct sentences with the plural “they”, the expression “that person”, or even the singular “one(self)”, whenever I can

I should probably post my mom’s recipe notebooks there

Not sure if it’s a good idea to start at this point in life, especially since I have no friends, no prospect of dating in the short to middle term, and a carefully curated life to avoid the libido from making things worse for my loneliness.

Nobody cares about it, but I’ve been a straight-edge for 35 years and counting. No drugs, no booze, not even cranking the hog. On the other hand though, I can’t afford anything fun anyways, neither on money, time, or the less-known ethical implications (haven’t been able to watch a movie in years, for instance)

I know that the Threadiverse is currently a wasteland in process of being actually populated, but dear lord, this puts it into perspective…

No, for the simple reason that I still can’t consider I’m friends with myself

Nearly everyone else in a team I work on decided to leave along with their boss, so guess who’s left with the knowledge

The move to digital-only distribution should have more than balanced out the increases due to inflation. The fact that games are going over $70 is solely to appease the shareholders, not even to keep the developers’ salaries anymore.

Both developers have been actively hostile to DEI initiatives, and at least on the case of DHH, also coddling with ultranationalism viewpoints.

On Kling: hyperborea.org/reviews/softwar…

On DHH: tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-c…

Considering that the two projects funded by Cloudflare are headed by known bigots (Andreas Kling and DHH), it makes me distrust Cloudflare even further.

I’m of the opinion that Debian should have changed its name long ago. The dude not only divorced Deb (the first half of the acronym) but also died over a decade ago under questionable circumstances.

Even better: add a second USB-C port, so we can use a wired headphone and a charger at the same time.

Samsung, being the largest manufacturer of South Korea, has an incentive to keep their production as in-house as possible. Which is why they’re reluctant to license technology that they can build themselves, such as cameras.

I’d say you should check if any scheduled cleaning tasks are accidentally deleting your files.

My municipality does something similar but with the procedure being backwards - giving tax breaks to owners of one single property, that are, of course, unavailable to owners of multiple houses

We should be boycotting all art and entertainment from Big Media in its entirety, but nobody is willing to do so

So THAT is exactly why PowerWash Simulator, the videogame, exists in the first place