szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Re last boost. I don’t live in a city but a small rural town. Tom has a car but I don’t drive. Within 15 minutes, I can walk to:

- shops (groceries, clothes, gifts, greengrocer, butcher, electricals, florist etc)
- a number of restaurants of different types (including seafood, street food, pizza, Indian, modern British, high end tasting menu, gastropub)
- 6 pubs (not that I would go in most of them!)
- post office
- GP
- dentist
- pharmacy
- swimming pool

1/2

Person K: I've been writing an operating system for my watch from scratch.

Me: Wow. I don't know where you find the time!

Person K: It's right there, above the date.

*sigh*

‼️ Polska, choć spóźniony, w końcu robi krok ku porządnej segregacji plastiku!

👀 W Sejmie miało miejsce pierwsze czytanie projektu ustawy wprowadzającej system kaucyjny. Przewiduje wprowadzenie w 2025 roku kaucji na:
👉 jednorazowe butelki plastikowe do 3 litrów,
👉 szklane butelki do 1,5 litra,
👉 metalowe puszki do litra.
Projekt ma dostosować prawo do unijnego.

📈 Według Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Zero Waste taki system kaucyjny pozwala zebrać nawet 90% butelek trafiających na rynek.

🏞️ Funkcjonowanie opakowań w obiegu zamkniętym zmniejsza zużycie materiałów. Kaucja wpłynie również na polski krajobraz.

♻️ Szkoda, że całość dzieje się tak późno. Nie tylko z uwagi na zaśmiecanie środowiska - do unijnej kasy wpłaciliśmy już 3,4 mld zł kar od opakowań plastikowych nie poddanych recyklingowi.

👍 Cieszymy się, że system kaucyjny u nas zawitał. Nie możemy pozwolić na nieodpowiedzialne wykorzystywanie zasobów naszej planety - zwłaszcza tych, które są tak problematyczne.

#segregacja #polityka

Think you need a car because you have kids to haul around and need to go grocery shopping? Think again! I go grocery shopping WITH 2 KIDS on this. Nearly 100 lbs of kids + 80 lbs of groceries + 150 lbs of me. I don't know what the weight limit of this setup is but we gave it healthy test this afternoon X-).

Nastał wtorek. Część z Was wie, co to oznacza, reszta dowie się z części zdania tuż po myślniku – czas na kolejną recenzję filmu fantastycznego z prasy PRL-u.

A że wczoraj pisano sporo o filmie Ridleya Scotta o Napoleonie, to wybrałem dla Was coś z portfolio tego reżysera. I to nie byle co, bo arcydzieło.

Czyli: Andrzej Kołodyński pisze o horrorze science-fiction "Obcy: Ósmy pasażer "Nostromo"" ("Alien") z 1979 roku. I pięknie pisze. Pasuje. Bo to piękny film.

Recenzja pojawiła się w 24 numerze "Filmu" z 1980 roku.

#PanOptykonRecenzjeZLamusa #PanOptykonRecenzjeZLamusaPRL #PanOptykonRecenzjezLamusaPRLSciFi #PanOptykonRecenzjezLamusaPRLHorror

Ktoś na Twitterze zapostował screenshot z aplikacji, która w ogóle nie zbiera danych. W komentarzach widzę zaskoczenie: "ale jak to, skąd twórcy wiedzą, w jakim kierunku rozwijać aplikację bez zbierania danych?!".

Odpowiedź brzmi "słuchają użytkowników".

Serio, to jest AŻ TAK proste. Wystarczy słuchać użytkowników.

At my annual summer party in Bugey France my #arthritis foot gave way while dancing and I fell into the pool fully dressed. A mate jumped in - also fully clad-to keep me company. And a rainbow appeared. #FriendshipGoals

Shadow #bloomscrolling

My granny always held that only stolen plants thrive well...
So about 20 years ago, on a bicycle tour, I took some cuttings of a rambling rose in a hedge on a country road in Kerry, carried them around for 10 days in a bag with damp sphagnum moss and then potted them. Only one of the five survived. After a year or so I planted the little survivor at the bottom of a young ash tree and the two of them "grew up together". It has climbed several metres high by now and shines for me every summer. ♥

"When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, 'I submitted to the font of least resistance.' Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void." — https://practicaltypography.com/

#typography #sickburn #gettingreal

I must admit I am getting my daily dose of enjoyment knowing the https://buttplug.zone/@buttplugio exists.

If you do not know them - this is the person making an API to talk to different sex toys. There is also a mod to Stardew Valley adding a haptic feedback with usage of such toys.

Occasionally my mind goes overdrive and I am thinking, if other games I play could benefit from such kind of feedback.

Europe/American Truck simulators - certainly, it could be stimulating. To the point of overstimulating.

Snow runner - all terrain vehicles can provide more varied kind of feedback depending on the terrain being ridden upon.

Factorio - that would be rather subtle. Unless you are watching the starting rocket or natives being taken care. Similarly with the Oxygen Not Included.

I do not play shooting games (so, no Counter Strike and similar for me), but(t) I recognize the potential of having haptic feedback here. And please imagine the CS tournament with such feedback. That would make the game kinda interesting :D

So many possibilities, so little time! ☺️​

#buttplug #buttplugio

Following up on the post I made the other day about finding work whether you're an employee, contractor or other - I wanted to follow up with some advice on when things don't work out.

A couple of weeks ago a role popped up I was interested in. The working days were right, good salary, a job spec pretty much written to match my experience. It was on-payroll which isn't my first preference but I wanted to chat with them anyway so I put my name in and was selected for a call.

Great meeting - we were a really good fit and I was looking forward to being called back for a second meeting with a more in depth discussion; but instead I got the thanks but no thanks email. Gutting, usually. I spent ages thinking about what I must have said wrong, what didn't come across or I missed, laying it on myself and thinking about how much easier getting the role would have made things. This is normal - everyone does it.

What I didn't do at the time was look at the red flags. The company had very little in equity, so probably couldn't have afforded the salary they were offering. They were in quite a bit of debt and had some iffy loans to their directors on their accounts. They couldn't really articulate their growth strategy. This was all stuff I made clear during the interview, that I knew, and perhaps they weren't expecting that.

So that's likely why it went the way it did - they wouldn't have wanted to be challenged or called out on how sketchy they were looking (their website and branding were shit too but I didn't get that far). And here's what I've done when I've been in that company hiring - I don't hire the good people. I don't hire them because I don't want them to end up in a shit situation where they'll be looking for another position soon because I know the business owners are awful or that the company just isn't going to be able to keep going; I reject them so they've got a chance at something better.

When things go south, especially if you're absolutely desperate for work (and I'm doing okay but yes I've had my salad days in the past) it can really kick you in the teeth. Don't blame yourself if you did your homework, showed up and put your best self forward. Sometimes you're being held back from something really, really shitty.

We're getting catastrophic rain here in Vermont (I am in a town with a river, but I am not close to the river, so this affects my community but probably not me directly). My region is pretty digitally divided with a lot of people not very online or not very fluent in online discourse. Emergency management agencies use x-posting on social media as one communication channel. Twitter WAS one of them and now suddenly isn't, with results you can imagine.

I think I might be getting close to switching to Mastodon from Twitter. Gotta pull the plug some time! Only tricky but has been creating a feed with enough content.

Any good hashtags or people to follow on the topics of statistics, social science research methods, personality, and/or philosophy of science?

Or even just awesome general interest stuff?

We're gonna need a bigger orca

A rural Michigan school district is on the verge of losing a school-based health clinic, all because of a mural drawn by a child.

Michigan school district will get rid of health center after "Satanic" mural controversy
https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/michigan-school-district-will-get?utm_medium=email

I praised my Monstera Adisonii for doing very well in our shaded home office, so of course it promptly turned 3 leaves yellow.

Clearly I must return to the Crowley approach of threatening my plants.

#GoodOmens #plants

Behold my favorite traffic calming device.

🫳🎤

The Internet is a series of rubes