Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 32

My most popular toot ever: mocking the oil industry. Someone is going to report me to the un-Albertan activities committee.

@adasauce "I like the Liberals and hate Sheer, but also feel like Trudeau needs to be punished, so I'm strategically voting for the party I hate. I am very smart."

Yikes. To create the scenario he's hoping for, the "strategic" option would probably actually be voting NDP...take the vote away from the Liberals without directly supporting the Conservatives. 🤦

(I know you know this, but holy shit, I have to put it into words to make sure I'm not losing my mind.)

@radicalrobit Yeah, the actual article is horrendous and reads like it was written by boomer middle manager trying to sound edgy.

Oh noes!

I've been wondering, as Canada is in the midst of an election campaign, if people's voting habits would be different if election polling wasn't allowed. Free-speech issues aside, if publishing election polls was illegal and people, therefore, didn't know which party was "most likely" to win, would they vote differently? Particularly, I wonder if people who vote strategically would vote for their favoured party instead of the one that will most likely beat the party they oppose.

@msh Despite the frequency of my toots, I have not, in fact, jacked directly into the network, so I don't think my virus can go electronic. ;)

@msh Despite the frequency of my toots, I have no, in fact, jacked directly into the network, so I don't think my virus can go electronic. ;)

I've been sick for almost a full week. It's just a bad cold, but it's so much that it kept me home from work for two days last week and I still haven't fully recovered. I'm lucky that I don't often get sick like this, but it really sucks.

@RexfordGTugwell @sculpin Of course there's a metafilter thread.

@FssOfDeath @msh I don't have much to add to what I already said but, yeah, it's hosted in Canada and has a pretty good code of conduct, plus I was already following Mark and he seemed like a good guy. Hopefully my excessive tooting isn't putting too much strain on his hobby server! 😂

@sculpin That makes sense. It's amazing how much energy our brains use!

Chess grandmasters lose a ton of weight during competition. The number of calories they burn during competitions, and the resultant stress on their bodies, is on par with professional athletes.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess

@interneteh I totally feel this. I think I'm pretty moderate, as far as socialists go (I'd prefer to do this all peacefully and democratically, even though I highly suspect that's not possible), but the fundamental critique of capitalism really helped me make sense of a lot of things that I previously hadn't been able to (because of the inherent contradictions, I guess).

The Most Dangerous Game, sci-fi sequel: Super solid space marine types go on a space safari to hunt the most dangerous game which, obviously, is the Predator aliens from the Predator movies. The humans lose, because they were the aggressor in this instance and deserve to die.

@djsundog There's probably a LOT of functionality I don't even know about, never mind the things I know about but don't use regularly, so this is a tough one! I'm almost certain I use less than 50% on a daily basis, though, regardless of whether we're talking about Windows (at work) or *buntu/Linux (at home).

@jacethechicken That t-shirt is great.

@adasauce Reviewing resumes from the team in India was also kinda fun. I guess it's still normal to include a list of hobbies and extracurriculars on your resume over there (or at least it was a decade ago), so we'd get resumes for programmer jobs and they'd make a point of mentioning that they're expert folk dancers and guitar players. Chalk it up to cultural differences, I guess, but it also sort of amused me and made me wonder who these people were.