This could only lead to good things~

If I were to wager a guess (and IANL, etc.), he’d need to’ve committed a crime since he has a permanent resident green card? Not that I wouldn’t put it past them to try it, anyway. Though it probably makes for a much more effective propaganda message of, “See; these people are illegally voting and that’s why we have to remove them,” (just don’t look to closely at who he’s been voting for).

Ultimately – though –, I dunno; I just know that’s what DHS said, according to the article.

I think you misunderstood what I was saying and’re assuming this is a point of capability and, fundamentally, it is not. We are talking about features and concepts that are still being built, thought of, and fleshed out; as I said, you are on the bleeding edge.

You are using community-built social media and that means parts are going to have scaffolding still in place; and that means, by necessity, you need to talk about the actual structure of the thing you’re using because the abstractions simply haven’t been built, yet. If we’re talking about a new feature built on a particular platform, it’s just a matter of fact that that feature may not’ve been built into the application/client that mirrors the functionalities that the platform’s website provides.

I can sympathize that this level of thought about the structure of the social media one uses isn’t generally engaged in but that is a byproduct of what we need to do if we’re considering ongoing new features (which is what the original conversation was about); because the polished, final version does not exist yet.

It’s not corporations who’re building out the features and structures that even exist, at this point in time, and they’re being built without the funds and resources that corporations can afford.

What I’m trying (perhaps too wordily) to say is that it’s not a matter of working on other platforms because the thing isn’t finished, yet, because the people building Voyager are not the people building PieFed so building said features takes coordination and time before they’re even able to and that’s not a matter of design but a byproduct that this is all community built because we’re avoiding the central control afforded to design being built by a powerful but singular entity such as a corporation; so, definitionally – not by choice –, a conversation about a new feature requires us to bear in mind that a website is not an app. and feature parity between the two may not yet’ve been reached. That’s simply unavoidable.

Why is this in this comm.? That’s unironically just basic fact.

If you really want to immerse yourself, also use it as the config. language for your Linux distribution.

Write GTK app.s with it.

Stretch your project legs with writing a simple web app. with it.

Explore the sheer joy and consummate beauty of minimal syntax.

That’s fair. I took a class while getting my Masters that used Scheme (having learned Scheme on my own ahead of time) and, after getting past the parts I was already familiar with the language on, I found it really difficult to grasp what they were trying to teach me. I can’t say it’s what you experienced but I’ve tended to find that higher level education courses that utilize Scheme tend to operate on a level of abstraction that’s hard to grasp unless you already know the big picture they’re trying to impart.

Regardless, I hope it’s easier the second time (if you ever do give it another try).

Not if you’re a Dave Matthews’ band bus driver.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/08/21-years-later-dave-matthews-bus-poop-incident-makes-chicagoans-laugh-and-groan/

I think some of us are just kind of used to checking things directly since certain features and concepts may not yet be implemented in things like clients due to being, essentially, the bleeding edge.

@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world provided a more in depth article: https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2025-11-29/coldwater-mayor-voter-fraud-deportation-ceballos-kansas-attorney-general

DHS said, if he’s found guilty, they’d start removal procedures. Of course, wouldn’t be out of character for them to do it, anyway, even if he’s not convicted.

A chicken in a programming comm.‽

Please tell me you write in Scheme…

You joke but…

https://slate.com/life/2024/08/chicken-recipes-breast-thighs-wings-baked-raw-undercooked-temperature.html

My dad knew someone who survived a car crash because he went through the windshield because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and, if he had, he would’ve been trapped in the car and (in this particular crash) died; he refuses to wear a seatbelt since.

My father was, likewise, surprised.

If you have access to it, electric bikes can make physical activity easier to do more regularly. The motor helps to focus more on the fun and you can go for longer. My city has Divvy which let’s you rent bikes, including motored ones.

I didn’t have to lose weight but my good cholesterol was below necessary levels and my doctor prescribed exercise to fix it. Biking was about the only thing I got to work with my depression also in the mix as I could, say, find a scenic trail while daydreaming the whole time. Which worked well for my brain because it had something to do other than yell at itself; basically, it felt less like a chore.

I have a theory. When I was interning with a volunteer group, there was this lovely older lady I was working with; like many groups we used computers for a lot of our tasks and (I think) Windows 7 had just come out. This lady was very much not the type to make her problems everyone else’s but I remember her excitedly telling about how she was learning the new process of things on 7, in contrast to Vista. She showed me the step-by-step notes she’d taken to open particular app.s, detailing opening the start menu and where to clickbto find them. Having recently discovered Linux (and desperate to share the good news), I thought she might find my setup somewhat similar and wanted to get her opinion. I figured it’d be pretty similar (open menu; I figured simply searching for the app.'s name would be easier for her than the many steps she was taking) but, right as I typed the first character of the app.'s name, she exclaimed, “Nope! This is too much!” She said it jovially, clearly as in, “Thanks for trying but I’m overwhelmed, already,” but I was struck by how much she was clearly going about this as concrete, manual steps rather than putting together a sense of a general UI.

And, for whatever reason, reading through this thread made me think of appliances.

They’re always different. Even similar devices, like a microwave, can have a differing UI that can provide unexpected results with little explanation because, well, lack of available physical space (as an example, quick microwaving; that threw me for a loop the first time I used one and pressing 2 immediately kicked off microwaving for 2 minutes). If I was using someone else’s microwave, no one would begrudge me asking how it works.

Of course, many of these devices come with manuals. I’m not certain how my husband’s coffee maker works but I could figure it out, if need be. I’m definitely not saying that the reactions of some older people aren’t beyond the pale.

But I think, for some, they’re thinking of it like another person’s microwave (this more applies to those who generally don’t use smart phones, etc. themselves); except a phone or computer is much more complicated so they never quite fully learn it. And, despite their attempts to avoid it, they’re becoming exceedingly more integral to our ways of operating because of how easy they make doing things. No one would bat an eye at someone who reheats everything on the stove because they don’t like microwaves (or no one gives me a side eye because I prefer to cook rice in a pot on the stove, like my mother taught me to do it, rather than use a rice cooker).

But we’re all extremely cognizant when Ethel doesn’t want to E-mail the forms because she likes writing by hand.

I dunno; I definitely think there’s a lot of malicious learned ignorance that a lot of people here have clearly encountered but I suspect that the reason “this is the way it’s been for 3 decades, now” isn’t effective is they’re still thinking it’s yet another someone’s microwave; and every appliance has a different UI (they think even though that’s very much less true with smart phones and computers); they don’t want to learn it for the (supposedly) only 5 minutes they need to use it. And the frustration that it’s not more intuitive builds (unlike with a particular microwave) because (for some bizarre reason~) they keep running into scenarios where they’re expected to use it.

I would massage all of his scalp wrinkles.

While – technically – true, our bodily reactions and us being creatures of feelings and dejection make that process much more complicated.

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/05/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calories-out-weight-loss-myth.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5639963/

It is probably not as helpful to imply (intentionally or otherwise) that the issue is a lack of willpower to someone who’s clearly been making an effort for a bit, now.

Considering his family holiday cards, he never stuck out all that much to me (I thought I vaguely remembered him sucking up to Trump in the past, too, but, admittedly, I don’t remember). Guess I never looked that closely at his specific politics, in general.

Southern tune

*minstrel tune

As much as I’m for properly assigning credit to the South that it’s managed to outright shirk in the last half century, minstrelsy’s impact and the degree to which it was popular culture (and continued to influence popular culture well after) cannot be understated.

The original lyrics were written in a “negro dialect” and it’s an example on a “plantation song”, songs which were sung by someone portraying a slave missing both the south and the plantation where they were enslaved. These songs helped bolster the narrative that slavery was a positive for the enslaved, providing a sort of parental guidance that the eternally child-like (in intelligence) slave supposedly desperately needed.

What a handsome boy.

This is perfect; really helps to get an idea of the tree.

I really appreciate the recommendation; I really didn’t want to buy something without an idea of how well it worked, again.

Routines help me a lot; granted, I also have anxiety so this may have more to do with not get overwhelmed but I look at certain points of the day as dedicated to a particular task which allows me to regain spoons because I’m not focusing on other things. Even if it’s just one task for each day, I can – say – do an hour shower at 6, each day; I shut off my brain, just enjoy the hour because I’ve put aside time for just that. Once I’ve done that for however long I needed (that can be up to months or even a year; no race), it becomes easier to add something else because it’s just routine I’m prepared for, now.

It also builds confidence, over time, which I think helps.