Ininewcrow

If they didn’t have the numbers or add them to a list … they should have at least given them an honourable mention

Greetings from northern Ontario in Canada … it’s a balmy -22 degrees Celsius tonight … and that’s not even wind chill as the air is perfectly still tonight … hopefully it’s a bit warmer where you are

That was a fun interview and informative and personal … which I really enjoyed. It’s also amazing to get a response from the creative head of the project.

It’s not so much for praise worship or to become a mindless fan … I want to get to know who the person and people are that are behind a software project that I want to use. I got into Lemmy and enjoyed it for a while before I started hearing about who the developers are. Although I was disappointed by who the developers are and what they represent, I also didn’t fully understand the animosity between everyone - if they are so terrible, why do people work with them or use their software - and if they are so terrible, why do they share their work and allow it be freely used by their opponents. It feels a lot more like sibling rivalry … where the siblings are fighting one another but can’t bear or are incapable of living without each other.

As you alluded to, Piefed is a breath of fresh air as the extreme politics are removed from the conversation. It feels good to know a bit more about who the person is behind the project and what they think and how they see the world. It makes me feel more comfortable to use this software.

I also noted the books you mentioned and will add them to my reading list …

• ‘The Ministry For The Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson
• ‘Orbital’ by Samantha Harvey

… and we already watched the film ‘Don’t Look Up’ and even though it seems to be panned by others as a lacklustre film, like you, we thoroughly enjoyed it as it was a great mirror to our world and how we should look at what we are doing to ourselves and how we are dealing with global problems.

Thanks again for sharing this interview … it’s a great insight into your mind and now I feel a whole lot better about staying in Piefed and using it more. I definitely feel a whole more confident in promoting it to others around me and to grow this corner of the fediverse.

I remember reading a long time ago that raising a dog is like raising a child until the age of about three or four and the child never advances mentally beyond that age.

Which is why big dogs like dobermans, pitbulls, huskies or even labradors concern me … it’s a three year old with a knife and fangs.

Or if its in your basement on a concrete floor … the sounds of a drunken brawl happening downstairs.

Slow and steady wins the race

Mine was hit by a bus

Feng shui constipation

You also have to consider barometric pressure and humidity. I find even moderate humidity in winter time combined with low pressure makes it feel miserable, damp and cool … even with a moderate temperature.

20 C in the summer is fine because its moderate humidity, moderate pressure and everything is in equilibrium.

But 20 C in the winter inside a house with a bit high humidity, low pressure makes it feel like the cold is seeping past your skin and into your bones. So the way most people deal with it is to raise the temperature … but it seldom cures the feeling because temperature / humidity / barometric pressure are still not in equilibrium.

The way my family used to deal with it was to turn the house into a literal sauna and raise the temperature to 30 C … I’m Indigenous and this was normal life for me but my wife is non-Indigenous and she gets upset with me if it gets too warm in the house at winter time. I remember camping in the winter time with my dad for hunting / trapping trips in the dead of winter. He’d put on a fire and raise the temperature of the tent or hunt camp up to 40 C or more! I remember one night finding a crack in the wall of a hunt cabin to breathe in cool air because it was so freakin hot inside.

Probably went defunct with the advent of automobiles.

We have gas stations and old motels like this throughout northern Ontario. They were originally spaced about 100km apart but when vehicles started getting faster and more efficient, people stopped less often and further apart. Now the average gas / motel / restaurant stop is about 300/400 km apart. Anything in between lost business and was abandoned and left to deteriorate.

I had an old friend of mine with a problem with his old cottage. The interior walls had been changed so often that it had weakened the exterior walls that were beginning to buckle out from the weight of the roof.

I suggested we build some flying buttresses to support the building … then I had to take several minutes to explain to him about gothic architecture.

Is this the vehicle that radicalized women?

We get the same feeling during extreme winter storms with blowing snow, minus 20 degree weather and hollowing winds … but you’re inside next to an electric heater with a fake fireplace.

We’ve done the same in Canada for years … I remember sending one to Santa when I was kid in grade school

We use a postal code system in Canada in the format of six digits separated in two three digit groups … A letter, number, letter … then a number, letter, number

So the postal code for Santa in the North Pole for Canadians is … H0H 0H0

Put on more clothes.

As soon as the cold weather starts, I wear long underwear. Yeah, go ahead and call me an old man … but no one ever sees me expect my wife who constantly complains about it being cold in the house. I tell her to put in more clothes but she says she doesn’t want to be an old woman. I keep telling her that I don’t care … as long as you’re warm.

And it always confuses me when people make fun of others wearing long underway … unless someone tells you, you don’t notice.

I’ve been outside in minus 30 degree weather and people around me shivering and asking me how I can stand the cold. I tell them I’m wearing long underwear and they laugh at me.

And the thing is … you can’t tell if someone is wearing long underwear … it’s completely unnoticeable.

Great … thanks for the response … it’s amazing for me to jump into something new and to be able to talk to the people developing the project. It’s nice to see the community in its infancy and be part of it. Good luck to you all and thanks for everything you guys do.

Sexy saxophone intensifies

I had a dream the other night of being on top of a high rise building … I looked at the sunset only to realize that a large wall of water was approaching ready to flood the city I was in … then I woke up.

The strangest part was that this would have normally scared me … but that in the dream, "I felt like ‘meh’ so the world’s going to end - great … I felt like I didn’t care that things were ending. "

Great examples of how humans can’t be trusted with humans

adaguy!