One time when I was a kid we were staying in a seaside hotel in Latin America. This wasn’t exactly a fancy hotel so someone had just dumped a bunch of fish entrails outside by the wall. I saw some cats eating them and I thought they were tame hotel cats so I went up to them and saw one little kitten in particular I thought was cute and I bent over to say her there little kitty.

People, that was not a tame kitten. I’m pretty sure that kitten was half-panther or something. That kitten was wild and I had just cornered it and it turned into a little hurricane of claws and teeth. Since then I’ve always remembered that cats can go crazy if you really push them.

That isn’t money, those are Pokemon cards.

Yeah, or if the car had a sticker on it saying “award - safest student driver” on it, it might be ironic.

That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I’d argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like “everything turns out well like in a romance movie.”

• STATEMENT: rain on your wedding day is ironic
• PRESUPPOSITION: it should not rain on your wedding day bc that is a magical time
• CONCLUSION: life is not ideal

I mean, it’s not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you’re in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.

I vaguely remember from grad school that “copresence heuristics” were a workable solution, but I don’t remember the details.

Here you go. List formatting added:

• “Be like water making its way through cracks.
• Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.
• If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
• Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.
• If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash.
• Be water, my friend.”
  ― Bruce Lee

You could try talking about it on !techtakes@awful.systems.

waiting that long sounds worse the older you get.

in 10 years the worst of the boomers in power today will be dead.

I remember thinking this about the WW2 generation back in the 90s. The result:

In ancient Rome, geese are credited by the historian Livy for giving the alarm when Gauls invaded (see Battle of the Allia).[9][10][11] Geese were subsequently revered in the supplicia canum annual sacrifice, and the Romans later founded a temple to Juno, to whom the geese were considered sacred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_goose

Stalloo! Stalloo! A-hunting we shall go!

ytf do they number their stalls? is it like: “help, my zipper’s stuck! I’m in stall oo. Whatever you do, don’t go into stall o!”

“where did you say you were?”

(sighs) “stall oo, toilet |||, co-sharing toilet roll ~~~. Hurry!”

also see: https://indivisible.org/resource/guide

So there’s a formal/professional approach and there’s an informal approach.

Formally, there are fields like Risk Management aka Risk Analysis; in these fields there are various frameworks and approaches for things like threat models and risk assessments. This is more than most of us need.

Informally “this is what I want to protect myself against” is indeed a good way of thinking about it. You can write something up for yourself, or you can just think it through. If the threat model helps you use your time / resources wisely, then it’s a good threat model.

Reminds me to check out lynx again.

Dating apps aren’t working time to make a meme with bad punctuation.

You might even say… “Let one hundred and ninety-six flowers bloom!”

So if I’m right about this…

• !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is the original one, which was frozen and brought back to life after everyone left. people still post here tho dunno why maybe they’re lost?
• !196@lemmy.world - this is where the mods went. it has a lot of subscribers but most of those are dead accounts
• !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is where all the posters went. the most active one.
• !19684@lemmy.blahaj.zone - bc “[kittenzrulz123] thought it was funny and … its more left wing”
• !196@pawb.social - the furry version
• !195@lemmy.world - this is locked and just points to one of the 196es.

But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?

Crazy talk. Next you’re gonna say we only need one 196 instead of five.