i'm well aware canada's healthcare system is vastly inadequate, but just imagine if the housing system were anywhere near what the healthcare system was like.

for-profit housing should be as obscene as for-profit healthcare. flipping houses should be seen as as unethical as hiking up insulin prices.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 18:04

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**toxic shock yuri** @Zero_Democracy@jorts.horse · Sep 27, 2019, 18:04

Sep 27, 2019, 18:04

toxic shock yuri @Zero_Democracy@jorts.horse

USpol

Robert O'Rourke held one of his gun control PR fests at Kent State and said the Kent State massacre is why we need civilian gun control, if you're wondering how liberalism is doing.

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 20:17

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**rae** @raye@sunbeam.city · Sep 27, 2019, 20:17

Sep 27, 2019, 20:17

rae @raye@sunbeam.city

Seattle/Eastside trans-safe housing sought

Posting for an acquaintance, I will connect interested parties.

Tech-services #professional who regularly works 16-hour days seeking #transgender-safe shared household in #Seattle or Eastside areas. A parking space and cat-free household are what this quiet nite-owl needs at home. Relocation by October’s end preferred, by mid-November at the latest, in order to avoid homelessness.

Boosts in appropriate circles welcome.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 27, 2019, 18:32

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 27, 2019, 18:32

Sep 27, 2019, 18:32

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Hey, want to know an easy programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Programming_Language

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 16:44

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**crows call me breadlady** @garbados@toot.cat · Sep 27, 2019, 16:44

Sep 27, 2019, 16:44

crows call me breadlady @garbados@toot.cat

so many horror stories are just "what if this happened TO YOU" about a thing that regularly happens to people

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 14:34

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**Lynnesbæn** @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space · Sep 27, 2019, 14:34

Sep 27, 2019, 14:34

Lynnesbæn @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space

"The specification had provisions for reporting whether the floppy drive door was open, but IBM didn’t implement that part of the specification because it saved them a NAND gate."

"Mark Zbikowski led the MS-DOS 2.0 project, and he sat down with a stopwatch while Aaron Reynolds and Chris Peters tried to swap floppy disks on an IBM PC as fast as they could.

They couldn’t do it under two seconds.

So the MS-DOS cache validity was set to two seconds."

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 13:28

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**Good Girl Energy** @AzureHusky@yiff.life · Sep 27, 2019, 13:28

Sep 27, 2019, 13:28

Good Girl Energy @AzureHusky@yiff.life

People say there are cisgender werewolves but I've never seen one

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 00:22

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**Harp** @wigglytuffitout@elekk.xyz · Sep 27, 2019, 00:22

Sep 27, 2019, 00:22

Harp @wigglytuffitout@elekk.xyz

the legend of zelda game we truly need and deserve, revealed after the cut

it is a beautiful day in hyrule

and you are a horrible g̶o̶o̶s̶e̶ ganon.

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 26, 2019, 20:01

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**pamela** @pamela@bsd.network · Sep 26, 2019, 20:01

Sep 26, 2019, 20:01

pamela @pamela@bsd.network

Thank you to @solder_on for putting a finger on something I've been trying to figure out how to communicate for a long time (paraphrased):

Documentation is code for the human mind. Telling someone to read it again is just saying "it works on my machine!"

also, different "architectures" are great for helping expose bugs in your documentation. Have others read yours, and don't assume they are wrong to point things out.