KitOct 21, 2023
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Problems that were overhyped:
- quicksand
- people offering me drugs
- the Bermuda Triangle

Problems that I was underprepared for:
- nightly existential dread
- remembering all 17,392 passwords required to do my job
- arguing with robots about whether or not there is an unexpected item in the bagging area

Sep 28, 2023 at 2:52pmWeb
Show threadDanette 🐬Sep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly all the poop. No one tells you how much poop you’ll have to clean up.
Show threadChris FSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly quicksand... oh my, it were everywhere when i was a lad. Or we were told it was. Yes, me too!
Show threadChris FSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly just remembered the stuff near us was called "sinking mud".
Show threadeestileib (she/hers)Oct 21, 2023

@silentfp @LadyDragonfly

In Charleston we had a material called "pluff-mud".

Sometimes you could walk on it, sometimes you'd immediately sink in up to your knees or deeper, sometimes these conditions would be within a meter of one another.

It smelled awful, like the crap you scrape up from a clogged kitchen sink.

It would suck your shoes right off if you tried to pull them out.

Never been in quicksand, but that stuff was bad enough.

Show thread𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶  Oct 21, 2023
@eestileib @silentfp 😯
Show thread🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦Sep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly the passwords! 🥴
Show threadJamie BlumbergSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly The dearth of offered drugs is a bit of a disappointment if I’m being honest.
Show threadjonathankoren™Sep 28, 2023
@jamie_blumberg I’m so old, I don’t even know where to buy drugs, let alone what a good price is.
Show threadJamie BlumbergSep 28, 2023
@jonathankoren Right? I’m honestly glad that more things are being legalized. I understand walking into a store. (Ideally buying from an online retailer eventually.)
Show threadNapalousaSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Yep all of the above! We had drug training classes in high school and there was a folder that we were given a list of all the street drugs, their names and what they do if you take them etc. which proved pretty useless in my life and presumably everyone else’s. As if any of us were going to slip down an alley, find some shady character and exclaim “Excuse me my fine man, I’ll have an ounce of your finest fairy dust please.”
Show threadBeast of Bourbon 🩷💜💙Sep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly u sure u wanna run with this, boo? 🤨
Show threadKennethSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Now I’m wondering about the tolerances of the scanners. God forbid you slip some kipper in there...
Show threadJessamynSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly SO MUCH ARGUING WITH ROBOTS. I was unprepared.
Show threadAir AdamSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly No-one is offering free drugs in this economy
Show threadHollieKSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly No matter how carefully I place an empty bag in the bagging area, at some point it will become an unexpected item.
Show threadErgonWolfSep 28, 2023

@LadyDragonfly I mean, the quicksand thing.

We actually did training in Boy Scouts about how to rescue people from quicksand.

It's weird how that was a gigantic fear about being out in the great outdoors.

Show threadDavid Landon Sep 28, 2023
@ErgonWolf @LadyDragonfly I'm starting to feel like Gilligan's Island did a really bad job of preparing us for actual adult life.
Show threadErgonWolfSep 28, 2023
@4gottenfuturist @LadyDragonfly
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑Oct 3, 2023
@4gottenfuturist @ErgonWolf @LadyDragonfly
I did learn one important thing from it. A two hour tour is OK, and a four hour tour might be great, but NEVER _EVER_ go on a three hour tour.
Though now that I think about it, getting away from it all sounds kind of nice.
Show threadBarry Schwartz 🫖Oct 21, 2023
@ErgonWolf @LadyDragonfly Presumably you throw them a rope. My understanding is the actual risk is one will become stuck. The stuff is too heavy to actually sink into.
Show threadjonathankoren™Sep 28, 2023

@LadyDragonfly Story time!

When I was living in Chicago, a friend and I visited a bar in Ukrainian Village. We were standing outside talking when this sketchy guy walked up and mumbled something.

Having no idea what he said, and trying to just make him go away, I nonchalantly replied, “Yeah,” and went back to chatting with our group.

The guy came back and mumbled again. Again, I said, “oh okay,” or something.

He looked confused. Mumbled something again. Now I’m getting a bit annoyed and concerned. But I play it cool, and say, “Sure. Okay man.” And go back to chatting.

He then gets kind of pissed off and leaves. My group was confused on what just happened, so we really try to figure out what he was saying.

“I got good weed here. I got dimes. I got nickels.”

It was just like how Nancy Reagan warned me, only I unknowingly just said, “Yes”.

Show thread𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶  Sep 28, 2023
@jonathankoren I like how you "sure Jan"d him 😆
Show threadjonathankoren™Sep 29, 2023
@LadyDragonfly when we figured it out, we’re like, “Damn it! We could have gotten some weed!”
Show threadeestileib (she/hers)Oct 21, 2023

@jonathankoren @LadyDragonfly

I gotta believe it was pretty schwaggy, hash seems like the winning play out there.

Show threadTheSwiftDojoSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly yeah - point to the unexpected item you vision impaired armless robot! Where?
Show threadDoctor DerpSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Have you tried using a Password Manager like Bitwarden?
Show threadJack JacksonSep 30, 2023
@Doctor_Derp thank goodness someone else said it! My desire to be helpful was warring with my knowledge that some people on the Internet dislike unsolicited advice.
Show threadsabikSep 28, 2023

@LadyDragonfly
* being carried by water toward a waterfall

(though I have been to places where that's at least plausible)

Show threadsabikSep 28, 2023
@LadyDragonfly
The existence of nightly existential dread implies the existence of dev existential dread, beta existential dread, release [candidate] existential dread, extended support existential dread, end of life existential dread, legacy existential dread, retro existential dread
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.Oct 24, 2023
@sabik @LadyDragonfly And dread snapshots.
Show threadBelle (she/her)Sep 29, 2023

@LadyDragonfly

Also:

- catching on fire and needing to ‘stop, drop, and roll’

Show threadKayla “Iacovino with an i”Sep 29, 2023
@LadyDragonfly @4gottenfuturist - robots demanding I prove I am not a robot by training their algorithm (the audacity)
Show threadJ. Steven York RESISTSSep 29, 2023
@LadyDragonfly
The disproportional importance of being able to identify traffic lights.
Show threadMarcos DioneSep 29, 2023

@LadyDragonfly I would suggest to let your browser remember passwords, but neither chrome or #firefox relock the vaults after a period of time, and you only unlock the once at start time.

Meanwhile, any password manager should be fine. I personally use #keepassxc because it allows me to manage it's replication and does not rely on 3rd parties.

So for every context (usually just personal and work) I have two passwords: session password and password vault master key.

Show threadRosamundiSep 29, 2023
@LadyDragonfly it's a pint of milk and three bananas and I'm in a supermarket! I'm sorry you were expecting Hubert the performing seal and a small nuclear submarine! 😁
Show threadTim RichardsOct 3, 2023
@LadyDragonfly @joannaholman Another overhyped problem: crawling through air vents to escape enemies.
Show threadYaoi Box BalloonOct 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly I'm specifically sour about number 2 on the first list.
Show threadBillOct 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Overhyped should include being on fire. As many times as I was taught to stop drop and roll in primary school, I thought I'd be on fire a LOT more as an adult.
Show threadChris AbbeyOct 8, 2023
@LadyDragonfly there are great solutions for that second problem. I heartily recommend @1password for it. I’ve heard good things about Dashlane. I wouldn’t wish LastPass on my worst enemy however.
Show threadLuisOct 24, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Now being offered drugs seems to be the least of my problems. Some might even would like to go to Bermuda triangle just to get some solitude. I am still not sure what to think about quicksand.
Show threadAiniriandOct 24, 2023
@LadyDragonfly taxes!
Show threadInfrogmationOct 24, 2023
@LadyDragonfly and you can’t stop the robots by telling them a logical contradiction.
Show threadKevOct 24, 2023
@LadyDragonfly oh my God --- OX BOW LAKES
Show threadBardMoss the Bodhi Linux GuyOct 24, 2023
@LadyDragonfly
The best way to avoid having to remember 7,000 passwords is to get a Yubikey
Show threadNate BarhamOct 26, 2023

@LadyDragonfly I’d like to add:

top half
- moments in which I would not have a calculator in my pocket

bottom half
- the calculator in my pocket becoming so advanced that it cannot reliably execute basic addition or counting

Show threadMasterMischiefOct 30, 2023
@LadyDragonfly Passwords, yo.
Show threadCarla MartinNov 1, 2023
@LadyDragonfly 😂 👍