Hi, I’m Lemuria
Were you able to find car parking in Harvard Yard?
TLDR: My optimistic view of what human culture could be like is summed up pretty well by the Orion’s Arm project.
I am familiar with the Orion’s Arm universe, a hard sci-fi transhumanist worldbuilding project… shall I recommend you take a trip through the Wormhole Nexus to the Sephirotic Empires where you’re ruled by benevolent S6 transapient dictators (supercharged AGI)? Because you’ll see a fuck ton of entities playing around like retirees. You’ll see “aliens” which actually are just extremely genetically modified humans. In fact, here (https://orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b177d3ef3b1) is their “Culture and Society” page, which sums up a lot of my optimistic OA-based beliefs in a human culture.
Oh, and most Terragens (humans + any life that can trace its origin back to Earth) live in orbit. Story goes that we made an AI system that decided we humans were bad for the environment and then told us to get the fuck off Earth (Great Expulsion).
My (hopeless) attempt at explaining some of the terms:
So… if I have the money to fly down to Fort Scott do I get to ramble on for 3 hours about how their city council has been such a great source of white noise, generating additional white noise for me in the process that I can use once I return to Manila?
Well, Spokane enforces a 2 minute limit. What city do you recommend I listen to if I want to hear longer open forum stories?
EDIT: Oh wait, I replied from the inbox, nevermind. Fort Scott, Kansas is definitely the place.
So “background ambience” would be a better term to describe the city council meetings?
Interesting. It looks quite dull from the thumbnails indeed. At the moment my current source of city council white noise is Spokane, Washington - the stories that people tell during open forum are entertaining and I sometimes hate how an amazing story gets cut off by the 2-minute limit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise#Work_environment
Just background noise to listen to, because sometimes you just don’t like silence.
Yeah, but the city council meeting I’m listening to is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean (Filipino here), so I couldn’t do anything even if I wanted to. And given the geographical distance, the impact on my day-to-day life is… zero.
But still, the stories I hear during the meetings are entertaining and they really do help me understand America just that little bit more. Curiosity for the win!
When I set dark mode in an app, the top of the window would remain light, in XFCE. But in early January 2024, I realized it was because XFCE had a theme setting in both Appearance and Window Manager, and they were conflicting with each other. I ignored it for quite a while but now I’m happy with my full dark mode computer
Didn’t we use copies of that book to alleviate the toilet paper shortages back in the day?
Research. Many people I’m interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/
A combination of both. I write paper entires sometimes, but most days I type them up in a local MediaWiki installation.
shit i think i need to update the regex again
Not writing “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, or “Ms.” in documents. Waste of ink, typing time, and reading time.
Do we really want normies on our site? Will they really act as bait for the megacorps to come and ruin our federation?
This also screams “I am a selfish and self-centered person”.
Manila, Philippines: My drinking water comes from a delivery service that drops off a few blue containers of drinking water every few days. I’ve never swallowed tap water but I do use tap water when rinsing after toothbrushing. The sticker on the blue containers has the company name on it, contact details (obviously), and something about “18-stages latest US technology”.
I’ve been thinking about handing over control of my sublemmies to the reddit mods but I’ve changed my mind now that I’ve read this post. NO!
WE THE PEOPLE OF LEMMY AND THE FEDIVERSE REFUSE TO HAND OVER OUR SUBLEMMIES TO THE CORRUPT REDDIT MODS!
AND WE DECLARE INDEPENDENCE FROM THE REDDIT MODS! (refugees welcome)
Digg made changes to their site that pissed off a lot of users, so they went to Reddit. And then Reddit did the same, so now here we all are on Lemmy.
Try out open-source games too, not just the big corporate games. Space Station 14, OpenTTD, Endless Sky, Naev, plenty of choices. Saw someone here rant about how the “videogames industry has become very rotten” and decided I’d point you to a non-rotten part of it.