Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Let this be a reminder that they get you young. If I hadn't taken the intellectual pathway I did, the first thing I would have found challenging that narrative would have been my Texas Government professor during my second semester of college. Even as it was, I was a junior or senior in high school before I really found out that narrative is bullshit. Children are the future, and it's children that fascists will target.

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Let that sink in. Fourth grader. Told this during social studies. By an outside speaker. Like, this would have been bad enough if I was a senior in high school. But at least I would have had the ability to, if not call it out, do my research and find out how bullshit it is. To intellectually defend myself, as it were. As a fourth grader, though? No. Not in a million years could I have hoped to defend my young, impressionable mind.
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So, if you asked me what the most insidious lie I was ever told was, there's one that easily wins out over all others: Lost Cause of the South nonse. Now, on it's own, it's bad, but not exactly "the most insidious lie". But here's the kicker: I was in 4th grade, and I was told this by a speaker who my social studies teacher brought in to tell us about how the civil war wasn't actually about slavery.
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@rainonwires@merveilles.town I use emacs for random files (e.g. notes, configs in my home folder), nano for config files that only root can edit (easier to just `sudo nano ...` than break out emacs), and Visual Studio Code w/ emacs keybinds for serious coding (e.g. my website, FENIX and its subprojects)

@haskal """""""""""""""""""""useful"""""""""""""""""""""

@hammerhead You can always find the energy to clean another time, but if you neglect the clams, they're gone forever

Ya know, sometimes I hear about the state of modern dev tools, especially in web dev*, and become thankful the OS I'm writing is in C, assembly, and the occasional makefile or lex/yacc grammar combo. Like, yikes.

*Okay, almost exclusively in web dev.

My stickers are here! (Well, two of them. Still waiting on the industrial werewolves of the world one, but I'm sure it'll arrive soon enough.)

I did the thing. Hewwo. It me, adventure fox.