Dave

@dm@alpha.polymaths.social
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Just a nerd connecting to the world.
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Matrix@dm82308:matrix.org
Githubhttps://dm0328.github.io

I love English. It's a trash fire disguised as a language and I'm here for all of it. However, I really need to be better about people not speaking it "correctly." It's a goddamn trash fire. Of course people don't speak it correctly. I'm pretty sure there's no correct way to speak it. And that's leaving out all the racism and classism which goes into "grammatical perfection."

English isn't Latin. It's a glorious clusterfuck of stolen parts bolted onto a bastard chassis and powered entirely by the burning of dictionaries. There is no way that it should be the lingua franca of international affairs, and yet it is. Speak it any way you want. English doesn't give a fuck. English will take your error and turn it into a part of itself. English drinks prescriptivist tears like fine wine. Contribute to the delinquency of English any way you can.

I've begin approving account creation requests for Polymaths.social. Here's a guide to migrating your Polymaths.social account:

https://polymaths.social/news/the-great-migration/

I'll be migrating my own account shortly. Let me know if you have problems. See you all over there! It's finally happening!

Migrating to your Polymaths.social account

It’s time to migrate your Polymaths Alpha account to Polymaths.social.

Ellen Ripley is the perfect action hero: brave, strong, forklift certified.
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Me while installing Fedora on a laptop I've recently acquired from work: "I know I have a yet to be used Polymaths sticker around here...where the blazes did I put that thing??"
It is -17C outside (~1 degree American). This seems like the perfect day to not leave my house.
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Ya'know, if the Onion sent out a call to ask people to donate $5 to help them buy Infowars, I bet they'd raise enough to blow any other offer out of the water.

Well, the three main things I needed to accomplish before going on vacation are done. I have other things that management wants me to accomplish, but if they're not done for a few weeks, it's not the end of the world (or my career).

It's going to be hard not to slip into relaxing mode the next two days...

them: "i want a vehicle that doesn't have any telemetry, doesn't sell my data, and is simple enough that a regular person can repair and maintain it"

me: