“...We have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
“But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
my chatbot is so efficient it only needs one $2000 GPU per user https://awful.systems/post/4296
LB: Have people not heard of rakes??
I feel compelled to share this regularly because it proves that my unbounded hatred for leafblowers is in fact rational:
"The hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a [high-performance pickup truck]."
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This is, by the way, why you should trust *nothing* Google says about how "Web Environment Integrity" has safeguards against abuse. The pro-user safeguards are there to be removed! The moment the users have bought into the program, the safeguards aren't needed them! That's how these things work! That's the only way these things work!
@trysdyn yeah I still have a domain that is slammed because I had a matrix home server on it myself :/
All of these fedi platforms need to fix this and soon…
Watching someone being Quite Upset because they bought a domain that used to have a Matrix HS on it and it's getting flooded with Matrix API requests because apparently Synapse never gives up on a domain.
Giving vee real weird unhappy thoughts about the idea that we're "consuming" domains in a strange way. You can make a domain unusable for federation purposes on most fedi platforms now, and can make it more difficult to host something in it because the entire federation keeps hitting it for stuff that's long gone.
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