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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Sidebar defaults are bad. There’s no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You can’t see the file system’s structure in Finder. The GUI doesn’t have a way to go “up” in the directory structure. I don’t think you can do it in the GUI alone.

    It won’t let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I don’t know how to open stuff in places like that without cd’ing to the location in the terminal, and doing open . in the desired directory.

    The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. It’s also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.

    I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesn’t want to cooperate. If I do find the file I’m looking for, and want the full path, it doesn’t want to give it. I don’t even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> “new iterm2 tab here” -> pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.

    Contrast with windows’ default explorer. It’s not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, there’s the “my pc”, click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.

    Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windows’ Explorer. Had no complaints about it.


  • People are kind of stupid and lazy, and if there’s no immediate benefit for doing something or punishment for skipping it, they’ll do whatever’s easiest. We’re all like this to some degree, in some contexts or other.

    It is a little funny to me that some people just don’t have professional standards. I would make a good faith effort to respond completely to a work email because that’s the job. But I don’t think that’s it for a lot of people.

    There’s a lot of ADHD and friends in the world, and a lot of it is untreated. They’re not skipping questions out of malice. They’re probably trying their best. Still failing, but trying. That counts for something.

    A lot of people also don’t read well. They won’t likely show up on a texty medium like this, but they’re out there. It may be uncomfortable and embarrassing for them to try to read your email, especially if the level of diction is high and the vocabulary extensive. Most people are emotionally kind of fragile, and won’t put up with that shame for very long. I think that’s why a lot of people want to hop on a call or have a meeting when it could’ve just been an email. They can talk fine, but communicating in written words is harder.












  • Right. No fast change will undo decades of damage.

    I guess I just want more concrete plans. Like, universal basic income, no more wealth exploits (eg: low interest loans against stocks, no tax), changing the election system to something like ranked choice, uncapping the number of representatives, statehood for DC and peurto rico… now I’m just rattling off ideas.

    Maybe policy can come later, and trying to nail it down would lead to infighting and failure? But it needs to happen eventually.


  • A core principle behind Hands Off! is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values, and to act lawfully at these events.

    Ok, but like what are we going to do? Marching on the streets alone isn’t going to fix anything. We don’t have to march into DC, drag the republicans onto the street and shoot them (but that would fix a lot of problems). What’s the next step?

    It’s like…

    • They’re dismantling the government and doing other bad stuff
    • We march in the street
    • ???
    • Things are better

    What’s the ??? there? Strikes? Sabotage (or is that violent?)? Voting? That feels too slow to save much.



  • I live in New York City and have no desire to move to the suburbs or countryside. It’s great here.

    • I can walk to most of my needs. Several grocery stores, pharmacies, a big park, bars, restaurants. I don’t need a car.
    • there’s a thriving music scene. I can go see live stuff of many genres every night if I want
    • a deep dating pool. Lots of people. Lots of queer people too, if that’s your jam.
    • I like there being people around. The empty streets of the suburbs feel spooky and hostile to me.
    • more people means it’s easier to get group activities going. Join a soccer team. Brass band. Bird watching group. Knitting community. There’s everything. Usually more than one, in case a particular group isn’t your vibe.
    • stuff is open later.

    Some of the things people imagine about cities aren’t really true

    • it’s not constant noise
    • I typically can’t hear my neighbors
    • people don’t typically interact with you on the street, but if you need help someone will usually step up
    • it’s not shoulder to shoulder constantly. People seem to imagine it’s always times Square on NYE, but it’s just not.

    While you’re not unseen like you might be in the countryside, no one really cares that they do see you.

    Some people want “more space” but I don’t really know what for. A one bedroom apartment is fine for me. What would I do with more rooms?

    If I had kids, I wouldn’t want to put them in the suburban hell cage like I had. Nothing to do. Can’t get anywhere on your own. Don’t like the few dozen kids in your school? Well that’s your whole pool of friendship options. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could just get on the train and go to the beach, or go skating, or go to a punk show, or whatever. I had to beg my parents to drive me anywhere interesting, and usually they didn’t want to.