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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The first one, in terms of cinematic story telling, is actually incredibly good (I don't know how much that contributed to things); if you're interesting, this video essay points out a bunch of stuff I hadn't noticed, the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdBNVY55oM.

Also, entirely agreed about the first two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Treasure Planet is a well-written

Ehhh…; don't get me wrong: I still absolutely love it. But I absolutely get why it flopped, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Last year, I saw an article written by a recruiter about how recruiters are sort of biased against you if you use a non-GMail account because it "feels" like you're on old tech and out of touch and, therefore, will be hard to place and, Void, did it make be so mad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

had wheels

a bicycle

I suspect that your qualifications for what constitutes a bicycle are a tad short…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's been around in related forms, for a while; the reactions to just any comment where someone points out or mentions eugenics usually are good ones (arguably, the argument that's caught on around here that brain damage is literally conservativism is a great example of that general thinking and eugenics-adjacent (and ablism-directly!)).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damn it, I was just about to post it!

So good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty certain the family computer used this keyboard, in my youth; you're definitely right that it's great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

In a properly functioning world, this could easily be coupled with particular education on power dynamics and a lesson on consent, giving proper attention to why this might be more harmful to get than to him.

Of course, – so long as we're in this hypothetical world – you'd just have that kind of education be a part of sex ed. or the like for all students, to begin with, but, as we're in this world and that's Louisiana…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

*begrudgingly upvotes*

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Nah; I just made a typo. Thanks for catching that and I've fixed the title to be accurate.

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Transcript of the video:

If you think that Medicaid cuts will not directly impact you, you are wrong.

Medicaid is the invisible backbone that keeps our entire healthcare industry functioning, working, [and] funded.

Without Medicaid, therapy clinics close, special education staff members are let go, [and] premiums skyrocket. Crowding in hospitals is out of control because patients who were receiving Medicaid services at home end up in hospitals. Wait-lists become unmanageable. And people die.

Basically, the entire healthcare system will go belly-up and we will all feel it.

So, if the fact that 50,000 Americans – many of which will be children – will die [every year] doesn't motivate you to call your Senators, maybe the fact that you will directly feel the impact will?

I don't know; I've tried to film this a thousand times and I cry every time so this is my last take.

Description written by the creator for the video:

You might think this doesn’t affect you because your kid isn’t disabled or your family isn’t on Medicaid but that’s just not how this works.

Medicaid is the invisible backbone of the entire care system. It pays for the speech therapist at your kid’s school. It keeps your neighbor’s medically fragile kid out of the ICU. It funds the home nurses, the therapy clinics, the medical supply companies, and the hospitals. Medicaid keeps systems running for everyone.

Disability isn’t a niche issue. If you live long enough, you’ll either become disabled or love someone who is. This isn’t only a “poor or disabled” issue. It’s everyone’s issue.

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Transcript of the video:

If you think that Medicaid cuts will not directly impact you, you are wrong.

Medicaid is the invisible backbone that keeps our entire healthcare industry functioning, working, [and] funded.

Without Medicaid, therapy clinics close, special education staff members are let go, [and] premiums skyrocket. Crowding in hospitals is out of control because patients who were receiving Medicaid services at home end up in hospitals. Wait-lists become unmanageable. And people die.

Basically, the entire healthcare system will go belly-up and we will all feel it.

So, if the fact that 50,000 Americans – many of which will be children – will die [every year] doesn't motivate you to call your Senators, maybe the fact that you will directly feel the impact will?

I don't know; I've tried to film this a thousand times and I cry every time so this is my last take.

Description written by the creator for the video:

You might think this doesn’t affect you because your kid isn’t disabled or your family isn’t on Medicaid but that’s just not how this works.

Medicaid is the invisible backbone of the entire care system. It pays for the speech therapist at your kid’s school. It keeps your neighbor’s medically fragile kid out of the ICU. It funds the home nurses, the therapy clinics, the medical supply companies, and the hospitals. Medicaid keeps systems running for everyone.

Disability isn’t a niche issue. If you live long enough, you’ll either become disabled or love someone who is. This isn’t only a “poor or disabled” issue. It’s everyone’s issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Besides your point but this is the aspect about Gorsuch that I can't seem to make internally consistent. He almost always rules in terms of native rights – even when, I think, it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle – yet is more than happy to rule as a conservative on all other times and support "industry" and big business (even when it stretches his supposed originalist guiding principle).

I know that nothing necessitates a person to act logically and most act from emotion, more than anything, but most people, I find, have a relative reason they think they're being logically consistent but I can't seem to suss even that out, with regards to him.

 
 
 

I was vaguely aware of them but presumed they'd been added mostly for those who were more used to that UI convention: not something long-time users of Emacs might really need but Emacs (as usual) trying to accommodate all types of usage styles or preferences.

But, trying it out the other day briefly out of curiosity, I noticed that tabs could hold their own window configuration/layout (which, like, makes sense but hadn't dawned on me).

And I started thinking that I could use them in the same way I tend to use desktop workspaces: organizational buckets to put groups of windows in.

I've used registers to save particular window layouts but that has the added effect of, also, saving the point, as well (which, while I could keep saving to that register so I don't end up at a totally different portion of the file when I try to go to the layout, it's certainly less than ideal).

Tabs seem to keep track of your most recent buffer, per tab, – as well – so I can have each tab be their own little environment. I could open up Elfeed in one (along with all of the new buffers that might generate), a Magit buffer and various files from that repo. in another, and Wanderlust to check my E-mail in a third. And, whenever I switch to one, whatever other buffer I'd been working in before the current buffer of the tab is just a switch away because each tab keeps the correct buffer order of what was done in it.

Maybe this isn't new to anyone else but I rarely see people talk about tabs (other than brief, once-in-a-blue-moon mentions) but, while maybe not suitable for every person's workflow, this is yet another way the flexibility and power of Emacs just blows anything else out of the water, to me. It's such a useful iteration on the common UI structure.

Just wondering if anyone else uses them, found any pitfalls with them, etc. Mostly curious about people's experiences and if it's as infrequently used as my impression originally was.

 
 

Dunno if anyone would know but, basically, I want something similar to Ctrl-r, when you're using Bash.

eshell-isearch-backward kind of gets at it but it seems to fail at detecting commands that have definitely been used in the past, randomly (and finds them when invoked a second time…; the other issue is there doesn't seem to be an easy way to reinvoke it. Commands like eshell-isearch-repeat-backward don't seem to work like anticipated).

Figured I'd throw out a line, in case anyone knew.

 

After one-too-many "Buy <different hierarchical business/corporation suggestion>" posts and struggling to look up resources for my own needs, I figured there might be use (and an audience) for a hub for people to go to and collect resources at.

I considered just posing questions here but, while definitely a sub-topic, this sublemmy seems more expansive than my more limited scope (which, obviously, is also a good thing); just wanted to share here as, like I mentioned, there's obviously overlap.

Also, the original thing that kicked me to finally make this is I wanted to make and order stickers for a design I had; I could, of course, use something like Zazzle but that felt like a less good decision. Feel free to let me know if there's anything cooperatively owned out there, possibly.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15985272

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15985043

They've got a few different things going on, including discussion groups, a journal, and a publishing house.

They're also running a fundraiser with the main aim of getting people paid, which seems laudable!

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