I’m definitely not a Flat Earther, but I watched a documentary about them and a lot of them seem to think the Earth is flat and the sky is like a glass dome, and the other stars and planets are presumably just projected onto the dome somehow? Kind of like this: metro.co.uk/wp-content/…/flat-earth-1.jpg
As for what’s beyond the dome or why nobody’s ever encountered the edge of it, I honestly couldn’t tell you lol.
I used to work with a flat earther and this is the description he gave. He was raised Christian and attended a Christian college, so I guess he was never taught much science.
They told me about hosting their own tile server earlier today. I’m really impressed by how fast they moved !
A pull request for a privacy page during the onboarding is in the works, and I’ve been working with them to update the settings page and documentation (with the goal of providing an easy way to switch map providers). They are also working on a privacy policy, and want to ship all of this in a few weeks as part of a single release.
Once again, I’m really impressed with how well they’re handling this
I’m pretty sure they are actually hosting it. The tech is quite different (cofractal uses urls ending with {z}/{x}/{y}, while their tile sever uses this stuff that works quite differently)
It’s because we only shop online and in warehouses, it’s because we have no choice but to not engage with anyone, it’s because we’re increasing our reliance on 6" in-our-face screens, it’s because we don’t ever need to leave the comfort of our home that our neighborhoods and society are doomed to crumble.
lol no. It’s because shopping in person is a hellish gauntlet designed to make the stock price go, not to make sure I can reliably and comfortably meet my material needs.
I don’t owe anyone anything, least of all fucking brick and mortar chain stores.
If that means the end of society, good fucking riddance. There’s nothing worth saving about retail.
least of all fucking brick and mortar chain stores.
It’s interesting you got that far into what I wrote and that was your takeaway. One of my points is that the chain stores in particular have ruined the shopping experience.
You think online shopping isn’t a hellish gauntlet designed for stock prices to go up? Dude, the entire internet is designed to sell you shit.
So, you prefer ‘virtual’ stores owned by billionaires and mega corps that you’ll never have to enter over stores owned and operated by your family and neighbors? You prefer a workforce of robots over employing your community? You prefer your personal information being bought and sold so corporations can target ads towards you for their profit? You prefer that these corporations succeed and eliminate all sense of community and turn humanity into nothing more than consumers?
victims don’t “encourage” their abusers. these are predatory practices designed to hook in as many people vulnerable to gambling addiction as possible. you have a misconception about the people that get hooked into these things. most of them are not “idiot gamers” nor oil barons, they are either children or neurodivergent people.
It’s naive to think that someone is at fault for falling prey to the psychological tactics publishers use to push people toward micro transactions.
If you think about it, it’s really not that different from saying people with gambling addictions deserve to be broke. Microtransactions might seem like an obvious scam to a lot of people, but a lot of people fall it and waiving it away and saying they deserve it will only make the problem worse.
While there are gamers hooked on gambling machines, the industry will continue to produce more and more blatant gambling machines… instead of actual balanced games.
I love using my local high street. I like looking at things before I buy them, to see what they are made of and how well. The keepers of specialist stores will absolutely help you to buy the right product and not waste your money. I like having an errand to run on my bike.
For things that need to fit right like shoes or clothes, I much prefer shopping in person. I know online shopping has free returns/exchanges, but it’s a hassle to have to send stuff back, not to mention the time it takes. I only buy online if there really is no place in my area where it’s available.
For groceries, I definitely prefer to do everything in person. I like to select fresh produce myself. I’m also kinda picky in that I always take the second or third item on the shelf instead of the one in front. I also do not like my frozen/refrigerated groceries to be potentially sitting out in room temperature waiting for curb-side pickup or for delivery.
As for salespeople, I prefer not to be approached while I’m browsing lol. But yes it would be great if there’s someone available IF I ever need help. That’s rare though because when I’m looking to buy something, I do my research beforehand so I know what to look for and the purpose of being in the store is just to check it out in person.
I look at queer people who have been completely rejected by their families and treated as second-class by their governments and communities. Despite those challenges, they still find accepting communities to belong to and thrive within.
“Chosen Family” is a term I hear very frequently from them. People’s nuclear families can be shit for a lot of reasons. We can take a lesson from the queer community and build meaningful connections beyond blood ties. It’s a lot of work, yes, but at least non-queer people don’t have the extra disadvantage of laws trying to erase their existence.
Common Lisp. It would take a long while before I’m comfortable working on a project using that language. There’s also Lem editor but setting it up is a pain on NixOS.
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