[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 14 hours ago

I love when I see stuff like this online. As if farming is some luxurious fun time denied us by corporations.

I lived in a subsistence farming community in West Africa for a couple years. Farming isn't easy or fun.

People woke up before the sun every.single.day to go tend to the fields. They stopped working when they were exhausted from being out in the sun all day, or when they were finished with the field. The crops and the weeds grow when they want, not when you want.

If it didn't rain enough, they might starve, or their children might starve. Maybe both. The backbreaking farm labor was literally a gamble with their lives. Occasionally someone would get whacked by a tool and have to ask friends and relatives to farm their crops for them, often at a cost of some of that grain later. If that injury got infected, there's extra days or weeks you're asking someone else to do extra work to cover for you, and you owe them for this.

Everyone harvested crops at about the same time, flooding the market. But people also didn't just want to eat millet alone and wanted things like cooking oil or salt they had to buy. So being strapped for cash, they were forced to sell a lot of harvest up front because they simply couldn't afford to wait any longer for basic needs.

I can go on and on, but if you think being a farmer is so wonderful and amazing, I would encourage you to go do some WWOOFing and spend a few months on a farm and actually doing a real farmer's schedule and not some up at 9, done at 2:30 schedule.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 11 points 14 hours ago

Policies? What policies? What negotiation? It's haphazard short attention span theater that American taxpayers ultimately pay for.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

This is easy

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[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 48 points 15 hours ago

Whether or not the average person will go to a protest is heavily studied in Game Theory.

Unsurprisingly, the consistent finding is that either the person needs to have no risk from attending (lol, facial recognition and Palintir), have no costs to attending, or things have to be otherwise be bad enough that they genuinely think that things can't get worse for them if they attend and change might actually happen if they attend.

See you at work on Monday I guess.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

So you're telling me the prompt "ChatGPT, take this image and make it look cute and like it was a watercolor painting, but with a very subtle but gargantuan amount of judgement" really worked?

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

I have a small shop with basics and a seasonal farm stand about 400 meters from me and I walk that for anything I need from there, or another larger but still small shop another 300m past the first one. But selection is limited.

There's a gross supermarket about 2km away, and I wouldn't object to walking that, but I don't think I ever have. In the same amount of time I could drive 4km to the good supermarket or large green market and get better products. I regularly go for 5-7km runs, often past the gross supermarket, so it's more so that if I need something from a supermarket, I would rather do a full shopping trip, or stop at the store or market on the way home from work.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago

You save it up in a can or a jar and then you have a world of options:

Throw it away Make soap from it Throw it away Use it to season cast iron pots and pans Throw it away Cook with it if it's from the last few days Throw it away Add it to outdoor dog food in the winter Throw it away Soften dry ski-you know what, just throw it away.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

To be pedantic, keyboard shortcuts aren't hacks. That's the intended use of the thing, and long lists of keybaord shortcuts exist so that people can find the ones that work for them and use them. Just because most people don't do it doesn't make it a hack.

My favorite keyboard shortcut is Super/Windows key and spacebar switches keyboard languages. That's not a hack, though.

Closer to a "hack" is going into an android phone with ADB and disabling bloatware manually.

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I'm wondering if this concept would work...

I love cheese, and sometimes find that websites don't have enough info about cheese. So I'm trying to help Google and GTM know that I have a significant interest in cheese.

I want to code an extension in FF that looks for a GTM container ID and injects data into that container that sends tags for cheese, cheese products, charcuterie, etc. And even injects data showing large purchases of cheese. This will save Google time, because otherwise I would have to rely on several weeks or months of searches about cheese. Instead, if every site I visit helps me express an interest in cheese, that would be great!

I would, of course, only use this extension myself, and never share such a thing. In the extension options, I would be able to select tags to share, just in case I end up with a similar interest for pine trees, marshmallows, or tomatoes.

Thoughts? Open to any suggestions here.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile, I'm concerned about actual citizens being deported.

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 weeks ago

Just start reading subject lines from spam emails.

"You've won $10,000! -- Horny women in your area! -- Real Casino Viagra Casino Bitcoin Casino Viagra! -- There's a package awaiting your confirmation!"

[-] hansolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Same. I'll take 110F/43C any day over 10F/-10C. 85/35 is my happy place.

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