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hey.

if i ever make any of you feel uncomfortable with my online behavior, please just tell me to stop instead of silently blocking or muting me.

...i don't have the best social skills :-(

dork needs friends badly

mastodon is the only service i've seen where i want to fall in love with half of the people and become good friends with the other half. ^_^

what if: esperanto, but instead of having male be the default option and using a suffix for female, the default is gender-neutral and there are different suffixes for male, female, etc.?

maybe companies who collaborated with nazi germany were in a slightly tougher situation than the ones who collaborate with i.c.e. or intel services now.

for one, the latter isn't gonna get you killed and your company given to a more "loyal" owner.

to set up completely: install
to set up partially: instsome
to not set up at all: instnone

for some reason, it took me 26.5 years to find out that "Oświęcim" and "Auschwitz" are the same place, it's just that russians more often use the polish name for the concentration camp, whereas in english, the german name is used instead.

for some reason, my phone keeps having these weird behaviors, when full-screen apps (like games or videos being played fullscreen) keep shrinking or opening their menus, almost as if some other app steals focus for an invisible moment. this never happens on regular apps though.

the _gender_merie?

with all this news about privacy, maybe someone should make this whole "combining several pieces of information that individually don't identify anyone, in a way that the end result returns a high-probability match with one specific person" thing illegal or smth...

the one time i get a glimpse of a tv program, and it happens to be a political talk show where the host is seriously suggesting that the coronavirus could have been created in an american military lab >_<

can't help but feel that, in a few years, _every_ presidential candidate in the u.s. and europe will have a lot more toxic and vocal supporters online.

new moore's law: the performance of new cpus doubles every six months. however, thanks to new vulnerabilities being discovered and having to be mitigated via updates, these same cpus also become twice as slow every six months.

so, uh, what size is this boulder?

RT @SheriffAlert@twitter.com

Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315

rule of thumb: if the original sentence does not contain slurs, the translation probably shouldn't contain any slurs either

what if: a game where, when you create a character, you get to fill in certain spots in an article or such describing yourself with input fields and dropdown menus and such, and it functions like a gender/birthday/pronoun/etc. setting, but in a stealthier way.

i've been recently seeing more and more often how japanese names are written in english with the last name not only first, but in all-caps.

what's up with that?

there are a lot of choices that can be excused or justified as result of someone else misinforming or manipulating you.

being a bigot is never one of them.