Posts made by Auspice

https://www.thesource.org/freeforher - a women's clinic in Austin is providing free products for women (1 order a month). Tampons, pads, pregnancy tests...

This is super awesome. Share it with any ladies you know in Austin (and hopefully other clinics in other cities will do similar).

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

And schooling online is a whole other bag.

Schooling in general needs an overhaul, but not like this.

Entirely agree. From my own experiences, from siblings experiences, to my stepson's (when I was married), to my current studies in certification.

But 'shove it all into online schooling' is not the answer.

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Grabbing a moment to vent about the person who just in all seriousness told me that I don't understand what it's like at all for someone to be quarantined for weeks and not able to leave their house. Because I have lived like this for years and hence I am used to it, and it's not hard for me.

Yeah, sure. I mean, I don't mind at all not being able to walk, no worries, it's permanent, that makes it cool.

The conversation I keep having is the 'this proves that we should have people work and school from home all the time! It's so easy!'
usually said by people who are on furlough / still working because their job literally cannot be done from home.

Like, yes, if working from home works for you: great. It doesn't for everyone. And it requires a certain level of discipline that not everyone has.

And schooling online is a whole other bag. Part of why it took me so long to pursue my degree is while I can work from home, I don't learn great without a structured environment. Online school is basically audio/visual learning only and a relatively small number of people benefit from that style of instruction. I'm very much someone who is hands-on, who needs to be able to see things done and then mimic so that I can see myself go through the process. Video calls help this, but they're also not as feasible. There's no replacement for a teacher moving around the classroom to see people at their work and spot where help is needed.

And 'but what about their parents' is not valid, either. As someone who had to homeschool (my parents wouldn't enroll me in a school for HS: I asked, often)....my mother barely graduated herself and would stare blankly at my work. My father's style of teaching was 'yell until I got it or left in tears' (usually the latter). Or worse: kids with bad home environments?

I think the unfortunate thing is that quarantine is still 'novel' to a lot of people and seen as a fun-thing-to-do (which, I guess is OK if it means they're staying home).

@L-B-Heuschkel said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

@Kestrel What makes me mad is that it keeps clogging up my social media feed except -- this meme doesn't even have the worst one. Namely that Corona doesn't even exist, it's all 5G radiation killing people.

I thought the same when I saw the meme.
'Where's the 5G theory?'

@Jennkryst said in Altered Carbon Style MUSH - Eclipse Phase 2e:

I HEARD SOMEONE SAY FLYABLE SPACESHIPS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

@Gnome said in Altered Carbon Style MUSH - Cyberpunk 3.0:

I will eventually get ASpace working for the new version Rhost , so.. it's plausible!

@Jennkryst is crashing through the wall rn.

I wanna be a space whale and just chill

My vote is for 2E. You should still be able to download the 2e QuickStart rules for free on DriveThruRPG so that'd make the playerside pretty readily available to people. Won't go in-depth, but enough to get the feel.

Also yes, AI being playable would be

ETA:
I would also be happy to provide my copy of the quickstart rules (just don't post it publicly anywhere plz) if DriveThru isn't offering it anymore

@JinShei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Ok. I give in. The sourdough experiment has now gone into the food waste bin. I refuse to feel like a failure because it was eating flour and not doing anything!

Also. I thought it was Friday today.

Sourdough is hard. It's easy, but it's hard.
Because you have to approach it more like having another pet in the house vs food and keeping its environmental needs, the timing, etc. In fact it can be harder than a pet. My cats don't need to be fed at the same exact time every day. They don't require a strict/stable temperature and humidity.

I'm actually, once my flour order gets in, thinking of restarting my sourdough. I kept a mother for a while until I was just too busy/tired. But. I also had a starter for it. I wanna try purely from scratch this time, no starter.

@Aria BreakoutBras is my go to primarily because their storefront was in the town I used to live in and the girls that worked there were always so nice and helpful.

It felt nice to be a bigger woman and not get the 'tsk, your breasts aren't that size, you just need to go up in band sizes because you're fat'

Heck. It was thanks to them that I stopped doing that (because of years of my mom doing the same thing). They got me sized and were so great with having recommendations. 'This brand rides a bit high' would be met with 'Why not try this one or....'

So I'm def loyal to them.

Udemy has released a bunch of free courses. Many are focused on helping people do work/school from home, but not all: https://www.udemy.com/courses/free/

@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

"Hmm, it looks like something went wrong..." is not just useless, it's fucking annoying.

Sometimes there's nothing more to say. Not all software errors have 'here's what you can do...' solutions.

I doubt it would be any less annoying to have a message like: "You shouldn't be seeing this message. If you are, then somebody screwed up something somewhere in the code and we're going to have to go on a scavenger hunt to figure out who and what. Until then maybe try again? Good luck." Because most of the time, that's the honest truth.

Programmers can't plan for every single outcome, so a generic error message is kind of required.

If some third-party tool causes a hiccup in their code.... how could they factor for that? And the code is just code. It's dumb. It just does what it's supposed to.....until something stops it. So it doesn't know 'Hey this other thing running on your machine caused a problem! fix it!' It just knows: 'I couldn't execute what I was told to, help!'

I am so desperate for a haircut that I am about to cut my own hair with kitchen shears

because apparently everyone ELSE is desperate for haircuts too and all the shears on Amazon are on wait until May

someone send me this book
the blackram library needs it

7707-5232-3125

Tho I'm playing Octopath right now lest I get burnout on Animal Crossing. I'll pick it back up in a day or two for sure. I just realized if I kept binging on it, I'd hit a wall of never wanting to touch it again.

Heck, the story last week between Tobin and Leif was really touching.

THEY MADE STRIFE BETWEEN BROS RELATABLE AND TOUCHING.

@Seamus said in Good TV:

@Auspice said in Good TV:

I love Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

My only complaint is I wish I hadn't started watching right away because the wait each week sucks. It's such a happy, lovely, upbeat show and I love Mo (the 'in on the secret' friend who is genderfluid) and I love Zoey's mom. And I love Lauren Graham.

But the last two weeks have both had stopping points that have me SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I WANT MORE.

I got hooked on this show yesterday, I binged the entire thing. I can't wait to see what happens next.

Did the most recent episode make you cry?

***=because holy shit***

Spoonflower (they make printed fabrics) is offering one of their fabrics for free to people who are willing to sew masks for healthcare facilities. (They themselves, at their office, are using remnants to make masks!)

All you have to do is fill out this form.

This is a great venture and I suggest sharing it to anyone you know who sews.

@Auspice said in Good TV:

I love Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

My only complaint is I wish I hadn't started watching right away because the wait each week sucks. It's such a happy, lovely, upbeat show and I love Mo (the 'in on the secret' friend who is genderfluid) and I love Zoey's mom. And I love Lauren Graham.

But the last two weeks have both had stopping points that have me SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I WANT MORE.

well this week's episode was both the most secondhand embarrassment cringe-y thing ever and made me sob because of all the feels

I guess with The Good Place over I needed another HEY HAVE SOME FEELS show and this is it.