vee, loop up.

This prob what trump thought he was doing by “putting tarrifs on penguins”

I mean, I think not, having lived on them, and not wanting to go back.

Its about information density. The “things” we interact with, they almost never fit into an equal dimensional density across two dimensions. There is almost always more substantially more information in one dimension than the other.

A spread sheet you are interacting with is almost always either longer in one way, or wider in another. Even if it wasn’t, creating a manner in which it could be optimally viewed would make the content irrelevantly small.

We’re better off picking one of the two dimensions, committing to an orientation, and then rotating our monitor to fit that. If we do that, we’ll get more information per unit area on the screen.

We did that for decades. It was pretty miserable.

See the cat is asking if it can have a haburger.

Meanwhile:

Thanks for demanding better from Democrats on this matter, Blue MAGA.

sigh…

rule

Impeachment seems like a meaningless political gesture.

over at the university of ah… a science.

Do you own a dog house?

To be fair, I also changed my food, and I also now have diarrhea.

permanent YouTube thumbnail face

Meme is war. Its dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning I’d walk over and I’d put a meme right in his mouth.

Is this… tilted slightly?

Am I leaning?

Its 18 dollars for a combo meal the local McD’s right now. Across the street is a Puerto Rican place, where I can get a steak sandwich for $21 (or shrimp for $20, or chicken for $18) and it comes with a side of gandules rice or tostones.

Its not that complicated.

Yeah its been a journey. My cakeday for the an account I made on ml would be about now, and I think its around a month till this account is officially a year old.

Its an odd time to be on a platform like lemmy.

We’re seeing an almost complete adulteration of what we might call the internet 2.0 era sites into walled gardens of exclusion. Effectively, the stealing, en-masse of almost two decades of user generated content. The walls and gates of the gardens we planted get higher everyday; the enshittification of all things.

And yet here we are. On a self-hosted, federated, unbought, unbroken, and unbent platform. Obviously its not all roses, but for what its worth, both the users and developers have created something incredibly special: A ray of hope in a time where it seems like the world has only been changing for the worse. And while the instances have their differencs, we should be looking to embrace those differences as much as possible, because this is what truly gives the fediverse strength. If its Kbin or Lemmy or Mastadon; or .ml or .world or .blahaj.zone.

The point of the fediverse isn’t consolidation or control, but distribution and access. There is so much more possible simply because enough of us were willing to make the journey over here. We’re providing the future with an alternative that isn’t tracking them, trying to manipulate them with an algorithm, or to turn them into commodities. There is power in that.

So happy cakeday. Happy cake season to those who were messing around with a browser plug-in about this time last year, trying to delete their reddit history. Happy cakeday to the developers, to those who post, and to the commenters. And most of all, happy cake day to you dear lemming reading this. You make this place happen.