Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

every animal crossing villager is good EXCEPT the motherfucking clown sheep.

he knows what he did

@alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io the shipping takes a bit, but honestly i've had amazing luck with aliexpress for such things! it ends up kinda like being your own importer, especially when it comes to 'specialty sizes'. and a pair of shoes not working out when you paid 20 bucks for them is much easier to swallow than a pair of shoes not working out when you paid 120, lol!

@alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io aliexpress definitely has a lot of sellers that all do the US-size-to-european conversion slightly differently, so go by measurements on the individual seller's chart. and returns may be a bit harder. but the good news is that the price point is often low enough where if it doesn't work out, it's a lot less of a hit, so there's a bit of an acceptable trade-off to find a wardrobe staple like a pair of ballet flats, mary janes, etc. :)

@alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io as i'm drifting by, my advice is to find a ruler and use that as the guide - many shoe sellers use slightly different systems.

of course that's mainly in conjunction with my other tip, which is looking on aliexpress for larger sizes. there are a couple of friends in the lolita fashion server i'm on with feet about in your size range, and i can see about digging up some links for you.

@salsa20 @Tutanota it never feels good to know you got duped.

but you did.

you're trusting in the ethics of a company that duped you.

by all means, you can give 'em money. but when i hand Pokemon Go two bucks in microtransactions, i know that it's not an ethical move on their part. and i know i'm paying for something more than ethics. i don't trust that company's ethics - they haven't earned that trust.

maybe sit down and have a think about if tutanota is as ethical as they say.

@salsa20 @Tutanota like i just said, i don't mind giving people money for shit.

what i do mind is this bait-and-switch pricing scheme, of "free but only to get you in the door so we can pressure you into paying us money", being held as morally superior and ethical. a company can't expect to shit-talk the others as "not really free" when also doing the exact same thing.

i've said this... about fifteen times, so i think at this point you're just going "LA LA LA LA IT'S COMMIE PINKO BS I KNOW IT"

anyway to pay the fanfic rec forward, if you're an atla fan, may i recommend https://archiveofourown.org/works/424469/chapters/710772

i need to get caught up on it but it is an utter delight of good writing. how good is the writing?

it's so good i need to do close rereadings of it as a study in how to do battle scenes, and it makes sokka/azula a believable and compelling ship.

That Good, folks.

i have a terrible thing to admit, folks: i am an awful fanfic snob. i can count on one hand the fanfics i've read in the last... ten or so years, despite writing (or at least... starting...) tons of the little bastards.

but goddamn if that giraffe don't know how to pick 'em because this is a DELIGHT

@salsa20 @Tutanota if they were stating prices up-front, i'd shrug and move on.

saying "free is never free... except for OUR free, because we're more ethical!", and then, well - it's all the same scummy shit currently infecting mobile games? that's what i object to. that's the moral failure here.

willingly subscribing to microtransaction funbuxx or tupperware party tactics as an Ethical Business Model (tm) is the shit that stinks, and you should be suspicious of.

trust me.

i'm Ethical. ;)

@salsa20 @Tutanota it was free - until it wasn't, because that free was getting you in the door to upsell you. it's free in the same way a "makeover party" from the Avon lady is free.

i'd rather just go buy my makeup from a company that sells it to me directly instead of banking on psychological tricks and pressure tactics.

if they have such a loose idea of what an ethical free service is... you really trust them to handle your data ethically like they say they do?

LOL.

@salsa20 @Tutanota the extra features, for a service you started using because it was... free.

free is never free. in this case, they made an investment on you with that "free" to get you in the door, to give them money. and hey - it was a good investment, since they've got you on the line for five whole years.

there ain't nothing wrong for paying for things you like. but a company that is playing that "oh it's free... until you get here" is not operating on high ethics.

@salsa20 @Tutanota after all, ain't you proof - with your being a customer, giving money to them for 5 years - that the whole thing is just as they said...

...free has never been free.

not even, as tutanota would have it, THEIR free.

you bought it hook, line, and sinker, my friend.

nobody:

absolutely nobody:

nobody at all in #splatoon2 's player base:

me: the final splatfest goes beyond the struggle between the two hosts, the struggle of id versus superego, to introduce hidden lore. consider pearl, the wild child too affluenza'd for consequences yet yearning to be free of her gilded cage, versus marina, raised to be a cog in the octarian military-industrial complex and seeking that familiar order, fed might-makes-right as virtue. in this essay i will

@salsa20 @Tutanota well, you're paying for a free service, ain't you?

it's not my fault if you got duped by the web equivalent of a "get a free stay in a resort (as long as you listen to our sales pitch for timeshares)".

they aren't out to dupe you - they already did. you're giving them money, remember? more than that, you've given trust and blind loyalty.

in fact, they duped you so good that you're willing to immediately defend them and do a PR person's job for them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@salsa20 @Tutanota if all you're paying for is their *assurances* that they're doing the right thing - while the company itself acts in dodgy, shady ways, contradicting itself, double-dealing - i think we both know just how valuable those assurances *actually are*. do they actually deserve your loyalty? your defense? your trust? when they're out to dupe you in return?

and there's a phrase to consider as you continue on: "don't throw good money after bad".

@salsa20 @Tutanota most recent example?

purism! a very ethical service that would never share your data, except for those web apps having data trackers, including google's, in them. for months. whoopsie-daisy! and then it took the brave ethical stance of deciding that all moderation is bad, so despite it putting the rest of mastodon in danger, they were going to happily court neo-nazis.

because the alt reich has money. and they want that money.

super ethical! phwoar!

@salsa20 @Tutanota this is a pattern that i'm seeing again, and again, and again, and again on this website.

a service is "free"! it's so ethical! it's made with open-source! it's so ethical! how is it ethical? well they say they're really very ethical. they pinky promise they're doing all these things. ethics!

and, inevitably, people buy into it with the idea that surely these noble tech bros can't lie to them.

then the tech bros smell profit.