abben @abbenm@anticapitalist.party

I wonder what Owen Wilson would say about the Wow! signal

Why would brutaldon have rounded corners and color highlighted text fields and buttons?

now I'm trying Brutaldon. I'll be honest. Not nearly as brutal as I was hoping.

Trying out #Pinafore. It's quite nice! Not sure it's noticeably faster though. I hope it is. It's good.

"We found some tips for staying cool without buying a thing!

Suggestion #1: Buy a thing!"

because apparently I was insulting the group by saying that "kill yourself" comments were bad for the group to have

So, this is a long time ago, but to you ever have a completely inexplicable piece of craziness that comes back to you on a random morning?

I was in a facebook group ostensibly about philosophical discussion. One guy was getting mad at other people and telling them to kill themselves.

I asked why was the group letting this behavior continue. And the only response I got disregarded the kill yourself comments and asked me why I was insulting the group. wtf?

Also, I want to get creative on tenant's rights. Some people struggle to pay rent. Meanwhile, the town seizes properties that are abandoned and/or properties where people aren't current on property tax.

Right now, the town just tries to sell property as fast as possible to the highest bidder, which is normally a very low price, because they want to sell property quick.

I want to see if we can leverage that power to help increase affordable access to housing. Put conditions on sales, etc.

Hey friends. Guess what!? I decided to run for office. Selectboard of my town.

The vote is today. I'll find out soon if I won, in a six-way race to elect two new members.

I want to focus on affordable housing for seniors, hunger, and making sure I'm the glue between residents and their access to municipal assistance, such as general assistance, being compassionate and empathetic enough that maybe people would reach out to me when they normally feel that asking is too hard.

I don't think short attention spans are inherently bad.

All else being equal, doing more in our short lives is better.

But, given the kind of creatures we are, we can't be our best selves in the time it takes to post a comment or click a like.

This is an amazing quote. It's not even that the procedure is expensive. It's about human nature in response to the procedure.

>While an ECG test of the heart's electrical activity is safe and inexpensive, the benefits for patients at low risk of heart disease are very low and the results can trigger possibly dangerous, unnecessary follow-up testing and treatment, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force . "In low-risk people, definitely don't do it,"

http://mainepublic.org/post/doctors-told-not-order-electrocardiograms-low-risk-patients

The HN thread on solar panels is a bunch of people mansplaining the one fact they know about solar, unsolicited, in a context where it may not be relevant.

"Did you know about duck curves?"

"Did you know about nameplate capacity?"

There's no reason to even be arguing about it, except that I guess it has the right mix of facts and accessibility that it resembles political subjects people argue about. And.. hey, when this info is put in people's hands, arguing is what they know how to do!

Some libraries now lend e-books and audiobooks. And some even pay companies to host a library's digital collection.

They insist libraries need to stick to a one person, one book model. So anything a library offers has to be checked out to only one person, and everything their whole digital catalog has to be individually purchased.

If that's the case, then people who buy their own ebooks and audiobooks should be able to donate them to the library, too.

If you get swallowed by a shark, bring a door with you.

Then, when you are in its belly, you can open the door and get out.

So far the main accomplishment of tildes.net seems to have been turning "bad faith" into an infinitely repeated and meaningless buzzword, the way gamers use "procedural generation" or how reddit uses "censorship."

And their idea of higher quality conversation involves having extremely basic concepts explained to them, like: "can someone explain why privacy is important?"