RiikkaTheIcePrincess

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 9 days ago

Aaahhh, this is horrifying! You've ruined my breakfast 🙀

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 13 days ago

Finally, my chance to say...

I use Arch, by the way :D

...Also, I tried Ubuntu and Mint and Fedora and some others (ages ago). Didn't like feeling like everything I wanted to do was stepping on the toes of some software that was trying to manage it for me, but not how I wanted or I just didn't want it managed for me.

I tend to alternate between Arch and Gentoo every few years. Sometimes Arch feels like it's making assumptions and doing things its way more than I want, but then Gentoo takes ages to install or update anything, is a bit more fiddly. I'll probably go back or maybe try out Funtoo again but for now I don't have a CPU that won't melt if I try to compile things (laptop-only booooo v.v!!) sooo Arch for now. :3 🤷

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 19 days ago

Gross! Couldn't even let schools decide, somehow it's important to ban them state-wide? Piss off.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 23 days ago

Did you enjoy humans spouting bullshit faster than humans can debunk it? Well, brace for impact because here comes machine-generated bullshit! Wooooeee'refucked! 🥳

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 27 days ago

This really isn't the article it wishes it were :-\ It kinda reeks of "I've picked a thing I want to argue and now I'm going to make up an argument for it" down to admitting that good sources aren't available (which makes me wonder whether there are no good sources at all or just no good sources that support the author's argument).

Bonus unpoints for the BDSM reference, just because I hate seeing that term held up as a negative or scary kind of thing and I feel like and/or choose to believe that's the point in such an unprofessional article, rather than simply meaning "Look, it means sex stuff and that's unprofessional." So there. Nyeh! 😝

Also, I don't think I've ever heard anyone who actually used or contributed to the GIMP (or intended to) complain about the name. I'm interested in seeing some actual data on that, if there is any. Personally I wouldn't particularly mind a name change but I can't say whether it'd get more attention and interest than it'd lose to irritating people accustomed to the current one.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 26 days ago

Idunno where you got the idea that I'm for slurs or against disabled people but it's kinda insulting, especially when you took "sometimes said as a derogatory word" and ran it like it's the whole point or the article over the complaint that got its own paragraph (the Pulp Fiction bit) and shared the same sentence the disability bit is in, or the one that got the whole rest of the article (that it's vaguely unprofessional). In fact I'm getting more irked every time I go look for evidence that I've misinterpreted it. Reading through a couple crap anecdotes to one that actually says something, we get a VP smirking at the name, which makes me wonder whether that person's just a hateful prick smirking at a disability term or one of the many who giggle at any reference to anything associated with sex. The other three are just "some people dislike the name." I conclude that the article does not take issue primarily with the name being an abusive term and wonder why you'd say that.

I muchly dislike careless use of abusive terms (I've probably got an essay or two ranting over the usage (and existence) of "crazy" and "insane," for example) so I really don't disagree that abusive terms should be treated much more seriously.

My entire point was that the author seems to be throwing things at the wall hoping something sticks, not seriously worrying some spooky scary BDSM critter (hi, it's me :3 ) is gonna tie them up (of course not, the ropes are for me :3 ), nor that anyone's getting bullied by the tool's name or it's irritating old wounds or really anything at all. I don't think they're taking any of this seriously. If the term's abusive in a way that can't be neutralized by taking it from abusers and making it something else (an arguably valid thing to do) then that's worth actual serious discussion and not just part of one sentence in a six-page essay.

tl;dr: The article barely even mentions anything about disability and, I think, does so more as an excuse for itself than out of any serious concern for anyone. My complaint/point is, to be clear, exclusively that the article is crap and not that abusive terminology is okay. The article has failed to demonstrate any actual problem with the name itself other than handwavey "some people say" that it's vaguely unprofessional.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 27 days ago

Wow!

What else can one even say? Just wow. I'd say my mind is blown but I guess that's nothing compared to what happened to that person's. Biggest shock of their life, I bet.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

"It's not my code" "It is now!"

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

I wonder what's happening to munitions markets and makers whilst we're all watching drones (sometimes down to the sort of cheap shit one can find at Wal-Mart for $15 or whatever) be as effective as very expensive missiles and bombs and whatnot 🤔

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

Daaamn, TOW blew the whole top off' that poor thing. Didn't know they were that badass.

I'll smile extra for you. I hope you can find something here that will lift your spirits. Maybe a whole-ass ammo depot becoming a crater or something? :3

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

Almost instinctively downvoted after reading what's gotta be a bot post or a bad joke. Gross.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

Ahhhh... where are you gonna drive to, that Bushmaster will eat your entire lunch. Dunno whether the smart ones already ran or that one was doing the "I'll draw their attention!" thing.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

<.< When I was a teenager (maybe early teens? Idunno, I'm not super old 😅 🧓 ) that's just how we made websites 😹

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

I kinda wanna upvote this but it's horrible so I'm posting this instead 😅

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 1 month ago

Oh hey, I heard the funding for that dried up. ... Because I went looking for ways to not spend $50/mo for a working phone while I'm sleeping in somebody's closet and have no income 🙃 Happen to know people who don't even have the closet, but I'm sure they don't need phone service either.

[Maximum Sarcasm] I'm sure the money's going somewhere more important, though.

Hey, how many gig workers are barely scraping by and need programs like this or everybody's Uber Eats orders are gonna uber eat dirt? Just a thought. Maybe taking a little care of the people at the bottom who prop up everything else is kinda asinine to not do. Grr, I say.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess , 2 months ago

Still doomed 🙃 Stressing over another talk with my host, who is... kinda difficult, honestly. I can't tell what's available to me (in any context) nor what I'm even supposed to be able to accomplish in any amount of time but I'm supposed to "advocate for myself" even knowing there's someone who needs this room so like... what the fuck am I supposed to do, beg to stay and somecritter who's in the same situation I was gets beaten or shot by their father but I get another week of accomplishing fuck-all because I need six sorts of support I'm never gonna get but what I get is a week at a time and expectations to just get my shit together and get a job without even somewhere to stay while I work?

So I went from hopeless and in danger to hopeless and about to be in danger somewhere else. Worst part is, my host has some of the same major issues that I do, so every time we talk I feel like there's some understanding there, or understanding to be had. She even recognizes it as an accomplishment for me to manage to get out and take the ten-minute bus ride to Burger King. Does not seem to recognize how screwed I am, how much of an impossible ask it is to just dump a pile of "resources" on me and think I'm gonna call them all, etc.

...I said I wasn't gonna wall-of-text you lot <.<; Sorries! Please pretend it's just a little nibble of whine 😓