I’m sorry but that is the most high def version of that screenshot I have EVER seen.

It especially kills me when the vendor DOES have their own website, and it looks like they have their own store. You go to buy it and it redirects you to their Amazon page.

Yeah, I hear you. And even if you post at lightning speed, there’s something about forums that just feels slower compared to the speed posting in a chatroom can get you.

That’s why you dunk it a few times until it sinks!

You know, I’m gonna be the oddball suggestion here.

Forums. What forums? I don’t know, the last time I used them was proboards back in 2010 so I’m sure I’m out of the loop on the options, but I do miss forums sometimes. That was where I ran RPGs, back in the day.

The OTHER cat got me.

I wish I had a better idea of industry norms. The company I originally worked at was willing to pay for udemy classes and similar and was known to put a couple of us up in important conferences where we could reap a lot of knowledge (and network.) Then we got bought and the new company doesn’t pay for shit. Has an education “stipend” to reimburse you for things you pay out of pocket towards education/training, but it has a yearly cap.

I can’t tell if I was privileged before the acquisition or just kind of fucked over afterwards.

Let’s try to spread messages of how, then. There are a lot of ways!

My tact is going to be to get much more involved in my local politics and my community. I’m going to start going to city council meetings. I’m going to keep an eye on the various committees if I can. These meetings are all open to the public. I never once went, but I will now, so that I can make sure my voice is heard, where I feel it needs to be raised. Later on, once I get a better grasp of who does what in my city, I’m going to see about trying to encourage other people to communicate with our mayor. Maybe let my neighbors know I’m willing to talk on their behalf.

I’m also hopeful this will help me understand things better to start communicating with my governor, senators, house rep better. I’m sad to say I’m pretty ignorant on the chain of command at a local level. I want to fix that. If my mayor reports to my governor, and I establish that rapport, I can let her know that she should be leaning on the governor on policies that I don’t like. And up the chain it goes.

It’s absolutely miniscule. It affects nothing on a federal level. But it’s where my personal impact will be strongest. I can do my best to try and ensure my city is a good one and hopefully encourage other people to be involved too.

I think when we die, we rejoin the essential je ne sais quoi of what makes reality what it is. It wouldn’t surprise me if that essence is reused in other things. It won’t be me, as I am now. It’ll be parts of me and parts of everything else, making something entirely new.

I hold your power in awe. I have the exact opposite of this. I cannot picture spatial dimensions in my head at all.

The filter is atrocious.

I also feel like even though, yes it goes against the idea of a DEfederated setup, in order to entice users, there should be a big catch-all “default” instance that users will gravitate to when they don’t know what they want in particular. IMO, this isn’t a bad thing. It does lead to one particular instance getting bloated, but it gives people time to acclimate, to check out how everything works, and then once they’re cozy, they can pick up and move to a smaller, more niche instance.