Well, now that Trump is a demented dictator of a backwater country, he also needs to update the aesthetics to match. Putting gold everywhere while the impoverished populace is getting whacked by police just makes sense, you know? A time-honoured tradition.

I can get frozen chicken bits pretty cheap. My cheap options right now look like a half a kilo plus sauces, or (with some walking) a full kilo, plus no extras.

“Man, however, is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material wants are satisfied, other needs, of an artistic character, will thrust themselves forward the more ardently. However, if there’s some rotisserie chicken available, you absolutely should grab that immediately, because that’s a rare treat.”

• Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread, ch. 9

" Man shall not live by bread alone, but if you grab some of that damn good rotisserie chicken, mm-mmm, that’s some good stuff." Jesus, Matthew 4:4

Folks! Are YOU thinking of getting Disney+? Well, you can see the only content worth watching there, right here. …that’s not much, now is it?

Obligatory comment from someone on the !fuckcars@lemmy.world crowd:

How cars fly on planes? WELL THEY USUALLY DON’T. We just make shitloads of infrastructure for them. BCUZ OF FREEDUMZ

All the good luck with that!

These things happen, can’t expect five nines from every server.

—Sincerely, some girl who once ran a minimal resources server off of DSL and janky Debian hax

…Is math related to science?
If the universe is so big, then why doesn’t it fight me?

(Yeah, I know, I shouldn’t be quoting Internet Historian, these could be stolen jokes. It’s funny because these are the sort of jokes I could come up with)

Lollipop snatching? Amateur tier. Now let’s do some bronze tier stuff.

You can register on a Piefed instance and use Lemmy’s subscription export feature and Piefed’s import feature to retain your subscriptions. Porting comments/posts isn’t a thing.

There’s work underway creating migration scripts for Lemmy databases to be imported to Piefed, but that is a tool for instance administrators only, of course.

Well, the .ml folks are often espousing authoritarian points of view and I fail to see how that will bring forth a more positive society. I think authoritarian societies have been problematic in the past. But that is just my opinion.

But there are a lot of societal issues that need to be improved for good though!

I remember the comic being much larger than I expected back in the day.

Technically it was a three parter: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Just that it was published in Flickr which really wasn’t good at this whole “webcomic” thing.

Well that’s just a contentless bait. I’ve never seen this, even in Reddit. True garbage for the ages. Goodbye, good sir. May you be remember’d as the shit’st troll of ever.

I’m not spewing any kind of “insane word salad” here. I’m just questioning what you are doing.

So let me reiterate.

What

What

What

I keep thinking of one of the old videos I saw.

“…I dunno, maybe we should get rid of all of the landlords!”

“But who would we then pay rent to?”

I was, like, holy shit, things are so much more complicated than I even realised, everything is based on some dumb suppositions or some shit.

Singular “porvari”, plural “porvarit”, social class “porvaristo”. Finnish is easy!

Varmasti yksi syy tähän on se, että työttömiä kannustetaan yksityisyrittäjiksi, vaikka kaikilla ei siihen ole rahkeita. Sen sijaan, että keksittäisiin kehittää työttömyystukijärjestelmää niin, että freelancereita ja muita lyhyen työrupeaman löytäneitä ei enää rankaistaisi ja oudosti mulkoiltaisi, kun tämä on monilla aloilla jo normaalia. Ja kevytyrittäjyyteenkin Kela suhtautuu mulkoilevin silmin.

There’s been times when I thought I had completely planned out the book well before starting NaNo - and then it turned out that, as they say, “the difference between having strategy and tactics is that in the battlefield, strategy is the first thing that gets thrown out as unpractical”. Even if I think I have a daily plan for everything, some days I might sit down and write 2000+ words and sometimes do 200 and then go “eeh, my head is empty, what now?”. And then I’d feel really bad. The biggest skill at that point is to learn not to feel bad and instead just accept that sometimes you have to improvise.

I’ve tried a lot of approaches through NaNos. Last year I had a very loosely sketched structure plan which worked okay, while letting me come up with ground-level details on the fly. I’ve sometimes done a lot more clearer plans too. Sometimes I just go “damn it, absolutely had no time to plan anything this year” and go completely wacky. This year it was something different, had ideas on setting and main character and the structure, and at practical level it worked pretty darn okay for generating more ideas for worldbuilding on the fly.

A round of applause to everyone! I’m happy that this year I’ve managed to get back my writing spirit, and this NaNo was a great success. Absolutely looking forward to next year being even better!