Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 5

Another thing I'd want is fully federated threads, by which I mean that *every* post in a thread should be visible to everyone viewing that thread, independently of whether a poster's account is followed by anyone on the viewing instance. On Mastodon, only the original poster can see every reply, leading to a lot of unnecessary repetition.

Also, the ability to edit posts, and to change their visibility, and the instant propagation of these changes, so if you edit a post as someone is writing a reply, the post will change on their screen, perhaps with a little flash/beep effect, so they won't be replying to something you didn't mean to say.

I wouldn't mind it if threads on Mastodon were more like forum threads and could be deleted, removing any replies and blocking any future replies to that thread. There are cases where an entire discussion was regrettable and you don't want to be reminded of it.

Come to think of it, this is closely related to another thought I had earlier about how there should be a social network where posts fading away over time is an explicit feature.

They didn't breed these animals for stupidity, but that was the end result. A tame, intelligent animal is thus an impossible combination, and the best you can hope for is a little bit of both.

The men that many women are attracted to have a similar problem: Their attractive traits inevitably come with a number of not so attractive traits. The "perfect" man would have one, but not the other, and that's also an impossible combination.

The best you can hope for is a little bit of both.

I think what some women want from men is an impossible combination. They want all the positives of masculinity, but none of the negatives.

Let me draw an analogy to my cat: He's a thoroughbred Ragdoll. Someone once told me that animal breeders don't like intelligent animals, because they try to run away all the time. What they want is a tame animal, and tame animals aren't very bright. That's what makes them so docile.

I've noticed that a number of feminists feel at liberty to generalise about men, especially when they want to criticise them.

These criticisms rarely fit me.

I think people like me are basically invisible. I rarely go outside, I don't have many friends, and I rarely go on dates.

When the topic is relationships, what these women mean by "men" are the men they want to date.

When the topic isn't relationships, what these women mean by "men" are the men they pay attention to.

I've noticed that a number of feminists feel at liberty to generalise about men, especially when they want to criticise them.

These criticisms rarely fit me.

I think people like me are basically invisible. I rarely go outside, I don't have many friends, and I rarely go on dates.

When the topic is relationships, what women mean by "men" are the men they want to date.

When the topic isn't relationships, what women mean by "men" are the men they pay attention to.

@hil @EdS Note: German and Norwegian (and Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Frisian and English) are descendants of the old Germanic language, spoken all over Europe in ancient times. Perhaps you already know this, but that is what is meant by "Germanic words". Our common heritage.

@hil @EdS I just happened to be listing a few stuff-related words as the first words because the text is full of them. I wasn't establishing a pattern, and why would I, a Norwegian speaker, confuse stoff (stuff) and stav (staff, Stabe)? That's a really obvious mistake.

@hil @EdS You thought I was talking only about stuff-related words in German? No, I was talking about words from my own Germanic language of Norwegian. I speak Norwegian, dude. I know my language. bokstav means exactly the same thing in Norwegian as your German word Buchstabe.

"The problem is that politics just doesn't work like this - people have views, felt experiences, faith; meaning that the answer might be a different one from that produced through the expert's systems."

— Simon Cooke, blogger

Little-known quirk of DHCP: When assigning or renewing IPs, DHCP servers may ping the IP to check if it's available. A DHCP client who wants to keep the same IP address may momentarily stop responding to ping requests to encourage the DHCP server to do so.

The Linksys LAPAC1200 access points on my network do it. My network checking script occasionally picks up on that, and sends me false alerts. I may have to add a DHCP lease expiry check to the script in order to fix that.

Does the use of surface-mount technology tend to force you to use more than two PCB layers? These surface-mount chips are so inconvenient because their pins don't double as vias, so I'm forced to begin and end every trace from the same side of the board.

This board is getting very hard to route. I'm beginning to get worried.

@Mainebot So, if you have widespread financial adversity, a significant share of the voter base will, due to a stronger sense of self interest, want to eliminate things that make that adversity worse.

@Mainebot So, if you have widespread financial adversity, a significant share of the voter base, due to a stronger sense of self interest, will want to eliminate things that make that adversity worse.

@Mainebot I'm well aware that I wouldn't be saying any of this if I wasn't in a difficult financial situation that is threatening to blow up in my face.

However, with time, I have come to realise that ones perspectives change depending on the situation. I have also come to realise that this is why democracy works. People vote based on their current pain points, and the system will try to address the most common ones.

@Mainebot There are benefits to open borders, but also disadvantages. Borders are there to protect what's within them. My next statement is probably where a globalist would disagree strongly, but I also happen to think that this applies to a number of nonmaterial things.

I can receive welfare benefits if I'm willing to violate my principles, but I think I shouldn't have to. This situation has come about because open borders bit politicians in the ass.

@Mainebot Now, there are probably numerous arguments in favour of letting it have such consequences, but that bloody well doesn't help me or other people in my situation, does it? Yes, it's self-interested, but so is leaving a country. You might then argue that my problem is less severe, and you'd be right, but that's roughly like telling your kid to eat his vegetables, because children in Africa are starving. Doesn't make those veggies taste one bit better, does it?