Thoughts

Just so tired all the time.
Link 2:22 p.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

Does being a full blown genius count as neurodivergent?
Link 12:57 p.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

I can't take it anymore I'm making muffins
Link 11:08 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

Welcome back to Twitter, Luke. I missed you, but now that you're back, I'll probably mute you.
Link 11:04 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

The gosh people on Reddit, can't make it more than 3 comments into a thread before someone has made a snarky comment about how Trump is
authoritarian, implying that Biden is not. Like, in what world is Biden not authoritarian?
Link 11:02 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

Why am I so tired all the time? Why can't I force myself to get out of bed before 10:45?
Link 11:01 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

So many thoughts running through my head.
Link 11:00 a.m. Feb 28, 2021, UTC-5

Throwing away receipts from October from under my bed
Link 2:14 a.m. Feb 27, 2021, UTC-5

> PLU 4080 Produce of Peru
Link 10:08 p.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

I am leaving the time stream briefly. See you on the other side.
Link 10:06 p.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

I’m so tired and so behind.
Link 4:17 p.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

Yeah I watch anime. Like, uh, *Spirited Away* and *ATLA*.
Link 11:45 a.m. Feb 26, 2021, UTC-5

Considering having a Lorde phase.
Link 6:40 p.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

Upperclassmen merely resent freshmen because freshmen still have passion.
Link 4:31 p.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

Thank good there are software updates available for my computer so I have to reboot and can’t do work. Sounds great.
Link 1:12 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

I used to listen exclusively to bands with absolutely raw lyrics.
“You’ve got a face not spoiled by beauty” -Song for Someone, U2
Link 1:11 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

I'm so tempted to make call out posts for people on here with their full names. Because like, what are they going to do.
But Google has found this page before, and I'm a coward.
Link 12:55 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

TD Ameritrade trying to convince me to start option trading; like, no.
Link 12:32 a.m. Feb 25, 2021, UTC-5

Crying myself to sleep because I want a haircut but no one likes short haired Matthias.
Link 12:48 a.m. Feb 24, 2021, UTC-5

This website is dedicated to 3 things.
First, of course, is thoughts. The mere act of creating ideas is good, and those ideas should be shared. Second, is words. Words still have power. Third, is design. Design is simplicity and functionality and form and appearance.
Link 3:36 p.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

We had a couple of mice in the attic, so I bought mouse traps. We have some left over. I've been using one as a fidget toy.
Link 10:59 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

"Sesquilinearity"
Link 10:41 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

I need something to think about.
Link 1:05 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

You claim I’m not oppressed, yet when I put my retainer in my mouth for the first time in a month it hurts like hell. Checkmate liberals.
Link 12:58 a.m. Feb 23, 2021, UTC-5

I will buy $F when they change their logo to a sans serif font.
Link 11:26 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

Compile is a myth. Magic
Link 4:29 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

People need to stop asking me to do things at 4:25. I have no energy at this time. Only death.
Link 4:27 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

Kafka’s *Metamorphosis* is one of those things that you read, the feel proud of yourself for reading, and then reference it and try to get
other people to read it because you want them to experience the same emotions; not because you actually like the book. It’s like a tragedy that isn’t sad. It’s a weird book, not necessarily a good book.
Link 1:49 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

Rule
Link 12:47 p.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

I'm an escapist.
Link 12:00 a.m. Feb 22, 2021, UTC-5

All I want is an Etho video.
Link 10:57 p.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

Domesticated water was a mistake.
Link 7:24 p.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

“Good thing / it only takes a little faith / to move a mountain / because a little faith / is all I have”
-Even If, MercyMe
Link 10:46 a.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

Reading the man page for man
Link 2:10 a.m. Feb 21, 2021, UTC-5

I wonder if you could put mayonnaise on pizza. I feel like that would be really good.
Link 12:57 p.m. Feb 20, 2021, UTC-5

People will describe something as "fiction," and it's like a story about normal people. When I say fiction, I mean fantasy. Please.
Link 10:43 a.m. Feb 19, 2021, UTC-5

I decided it would be cool to destroy my sleep schedule, so here we are.
Link 3:45 a.m. Feb 19, 2021, UTC-5

I love Ben Burrill. 10/10. Easily my favorite KA programmer of all time.
```js var ast = win.esprima.parse(code); win.walkAST(ast, null, [win.ASTTransforms.rewriteContextVariables("module_context", context)]); return win.escodegen.generate(ast); ``` What does this mean? What does it do? Only Ben Burrill knows.
Link 1:28 a.m. Feb 19, 2021, UTC-5

"Something Wild," Lindsey Stirling (feat. Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness), is really good. Genre-wise it's probably folk,
I don't love folk, but there are some songs, like this one, that are very good.
Link 11:27 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

Discord is down, cloudflare.com is down, cloudflare stock ($NET) is down.
Link 10:27 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

Going to sleep
Link 7:23 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

KonurPapa low-key active in a Discord server.
Link 1:50 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

Clearing off my desktop.
An image of a grass stair, something that should not exist in Minecraft.
Link 12:01 p.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

"I'm trying too hard, but I can't not try"
-Way Less Sad, AJR
Link 11:36 a.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

"Linear Algebra is a state of mind."
Link 9:59 a.m. Feb 18, 2021, UTC-5

Incels, garbage. But every so often you run across a volcel. It's like striking gold.
I only pulled the good parts out of his 1000 word essay. Just kidding, it's almost all like this. > This is the only time I've ever cheated for a competitive website. Not that I expect anyone to believe that, but it's true. I don't even know what alcohol tastes like. I've never smoked and I've never done drugs. I'm a 30 year-old virgin. I've never even kissed a girl. I went all the way through college and graduated cum laude without cheating a single time... but I did cheat in a video game once :) > I only pointed out that I don't know what alcohol tastes like, never smoked, never had sex, etc. to show how horrible and out of character this was. I had never done anything of this evil magnitude before and I never will again. > Just one week before caivs discovered the splices, I had a dream where I took flight over a field. A creature ascended toward me from the nearby forest. As the creature approached, I looked at it and said: > "Ah, the antelope of death. It's because I cheated in Super Mario 64. This will need to be addressed soon." [Forum archive](http://ethangaming.us/archives/sites/allegations.html) [Youtube](https://youtu.be/iL7sNPGKksc?t=345)
Link 11:27 p.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

Stress is a lifestyle, not a temporary state. It’s harder to escape.
Link 4:42 p.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

What the hell are the Brave fanboys drinking? Brave doesn't have any features that Vivaldi doesn't, but the Brave fanboys will not stop
telling me how great Brave is for its innovative amazing adblocker and it's ability to use Chrome extensions and its built in adblocker and its adblocker.
Link 3:04 p.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

I really need to start doing markdown rendering on the server. I don't know why I decided doing it client-side was a good idea.
There just kind of aren't any good Python markdown libraries, and I don't want to break the formatting on existing posts.
Link 12:47 a.m. Feb 17, 2021, UTC-5

.
An older black man sits alone in a stadium. His face and body are angled sideways; he's not looking at the field.
Link 1:57 p.m. Feb 16, 2021, UTC-5

Last night I decided to watch possibly the best sermon I've ever heard. I made it 25 minutes in before I started crying and had to stop.
Here's the sermon. Some parts of it are sad, but it's beautiful, not depressing. https://vimeo.com/groups/65464/videos/58318290 I'm not crying, you're crying. I need to go to bed. I start crying when I don't get enough sleep.
Link 1:55 a.m. Feb 16, 2021, UTC-5

This website's visual appearance is carrying, hard. It's the biggest advantage at this point.
Link 1:28 a.m. Feb 16, 2021, UTC-5

I browse Tumblr more than Instagram.
Link 5:00 p.m. Feb 15, 2021, UTC-5

It is difficult to relax. I fear that if I do I might fall down.
Link 12:42 p.m. Feb 15, 2021, UTC-5

'Two sparrows are sold for a penny, but not one will fall to the ground apart from the Father. You are more important than many sparrows.'
Paraphrase of Matthew 10:29,31
Link 12:49 a.m. Feb 15, 2021, UTC-5

I like to think I can handle the death of people, or the idea of my own eventual demise. But the death of an idea destroys me.
This needs elaboration and clarification in the future.
Link 11:51 p.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

“Getting lost is not always a bad thing. One might even consider misdirecting a stranger for his own good”
(Vladislavić 17)
Link 11:28 p.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

What's the point even of deleting old files if my computer doesn't play the satisfying *crinkle-whoosh* noise.
Link 11:21 p.m. Feb 14, 2021, UTC-5

Honestly, I’ve been considering moving back to Twitter since I don’t think anyone reads this, but it’s just so perfect. The aesthetic.
Link 5:57 p.m. Feb 13, 2021, UTC-5

I want to go parties l, meet people, start a secret society, steal a shopping cart.
Shopping carts are way more expensive than they should be. I would legitimately pay like 40 dollars for a shopping cart, but they cost like $100! I can’t take it. A shopping cart is a bucket list item for me, as soon as I have a place large enough to store a shopping cart.
Link 5:55 p.m. Feb 13, 2021, UTC-5

"We don't need a sweatshirt. You're in San Diego and I'm in hell."
-[Jon Bois](https://youtu.be/4qKWMgs4HG4)
Link 4:58 p.m. Feb 13, 2021, UTC-5

I made the mistake of going downstairs with only 1 sweater. Needed to go back up and get a vest to put over it.
Link 2:40 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

`atan2` is beautiful; heck mathematicians who use arctan.
Link 2:08 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're using regular expressions in your Apache config files there's a 95% chance you're doing
something wrong.
Link 2:00 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

Shout out to multiplication for being communicative.
Link 2:00 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

Me, listening to "Victorious", Panic at the Disco, in 2021
Link 1:04 p.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

You cannot escape God.
Link 12:33 a.m. Feb 12, 2021, UTC-5

\*Wants muffins\* \*Turns on oven\* Crippling social anxiety: Your roommates will think you're weird for making muffins twice in one week.
You have a disgusting muffin addition. You'll start making muffins twice every week. All you'll eat is muffins. What kind of weird person eats 12 muffins a week. \*Turns off oven.\*
Link 2:20 p.m. Feb 11, 2021, UTC-5

I feel like I have screamer death metal playing in the back of my head I'm trying to ignore it and drown it out with Fun.
Link 1:40 p.m. Feb 11, 2021, UTC-5

I want OK ORCHESTRA. I need OK ORCHESTRA.
Link 1:18 p.m. Feb 11, 2021, UTC-5

I understand so much. So many problems that I can't fix.
Link 10:35 p.m. Feb 10, 2021, UTC-5

Me, like, 'I'm in the mood for some rap,' listening to "Monster," Eminem, followed by "The Resistance," Josh Garrels.
Link 5:57 p.m. Feb 10, 2021, UTC-5

I am basically potato GLaDOS.
Smart, no energy, a potato.
Link 9:34 a.m. Feb 09, 2021, UTC-5

Re-downloaded Twitter.
Prompted mostly by Abigail leaving KACC.
Link 10:05 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

I ate 6 muffins in the last <24 hours
Link 3:50 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

Cold and tired, tired and cold.
Link 3:50 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

5 hours of sleep last night, no actual energy, just Starbursts and Saint Motel.
Link 2:52 p.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

"Married on a Hill" is so good it makes me want to find someone to run away and be alone with.
Link 12:39 a.m. Feb 08, 2021, UTC-5

Me, eating a "sharing size" bag of Starbursts alone in my room, hiding from my roommates.
Link 5:38 p.m. Feb 07, 2021, UTC-5

I don't know what scares me more. The idea that people read this website, or the idea that no one does.
Link 11:44 p.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

"Apple Music Connect" is a fricking throwback. My word. Is that still a thing?
Link 11:09 p.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

I don’t talk a lot.
Link 5:15 p.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

Ready to end homophobia so I can start making fun of gay people.
"Homosexuality is a mental illness," — insulting, unfunny, get blocked. Whatever the hell this is: https://v.redd.it/a7b53q4ibpf61 — funniest thing I've seen all week. I'm dying laughing.
Link 11:57 a.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

Please do not try to contact me. Please contact me with any questions. I just want to be alone. I just want to avoid hurting anyone.
Link 1:25 a.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

It's insane the amount of nostalgia I get from making my bookmarks bar visible.
Link 12:38 a.m. Feb 06, 2021, UTC-5

Yo. 12.7% (percent of U.S. that's Black) of 365 is 46. Yet we only get 28 days for Black history month. Scam.
Link 11:04 p.m. Feb 05, 2021, UTC-5

3D printer ambient noise, 8/10
Link 11:24 p.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

I don't want to lay in my bed, but I end up laying in bed. I want to float through the sky or lay in a hammock or something.
Link 9:04 p.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

Didn't post here yesterday, ending a daily posting streak that goes back to September 13th, I think.
I'm okay with that. I'm pivoting a bit. I was stretching myself too thin. Too many hobbies meant I couldn't make progress on any of them. I had a moment yesterday when I was like 'I could post now just to get my daily post in,' and then was like 'nah, that's dumb, I don't want to force it.' Honestly, I considered moving back to Twitter for a minute. All I posted the 2nd was quotes from other people. Ultimately, the point of this website is to store my thoughts. And my thoughts yesterday went other places than on this website, and that's okay. They got stored. I'm going to say all this, and then post like 20 times every day for the next week, gosh frick.
Link 12:47 a.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

The Dymaxion Map might be my new favorite map projection. My old favorite map projection was "a globe, all map projections are bad".
Link 12:40 a.m. Feb 04, 2021, UTC-5

"I do find that I like to take points off for inappropriate choices"
Link 4:47 p.m. Feb 02, 2021, UTC-5

“I miss everyone and I still don’t call”
-Maybe IDK, Jon Bellion
Link 12:30 a.m. Feb 02, 2021, UTC-5

If you don't sell, then you haven't lost money. Hold GME!
Link 1:27 p.m. Feb 01, 2021, UTC-5

WSB right now is like
\> I did an analysis of the GME trading data from December and I think there are millions of counterfeit shares \> I think I would enjoy this post if I could read
Link 9:30 p.m. Jan 31, 2021, UTC-5

My Discord username is Matthias. This person has the *nerve* DM me, "I assume your name is Matthew?" I feel attacked.
Link 5:30 p.m. Jan 30, 2021, UTC-5

I just finished binging the first 5 episodes of *Ted Lasso*. It’s so fricking good. I nearly cried.
I need to stop using this website like a personal journal, but whatever, here we go. I tend to conflate manipulating or impressing someone into liking me with loving them. This seems weird now that I realize that. When I say love, I mean of course a Biblical, self-sacrificial, love. *Ted Lasso* (TL) does a phenomenal job showing what it looks like to love someone, and for them to see that and to like you back. Ted gets to know someone, and then gives them what they need. (This is where the show is a comedy, see, because Ted is freakishly good at this, and the people are never ready for it.) I’m a very ends oriented person. Even if you say something like “love someone,” I ask, what does that mean? Loving someone is a means, a verb, not an end. I’ve asked people, years ago, pastors, “how do I love someone” and I got told that it’s doing nice thing for them or whatever. But I hear also, you should give anonymously and you can make a lot of money in CS. So one of my life’s goals is to commit a lot of time up front to making money, so that I can then donate it to charity. I fixated on the end of “helping people” and decided that the most efficient person-helped-per-hour strategy was to become a philanthropist. Of course, this was me as a child. I knew I was missing something. I figured out that I was missing friends, around 11th grade, and fixated on “friends” as the end. I was class president 12th grade. Everyone knew me. And it worked, right. I legitimately had more friends. (People get all worked up about “doing things for the right reasons.” One of my most controversial beliefs is that that’s BS. I’m ends oriented. If you donate $x to a church for your own self-esteem, your own image, you’ve done 2 things. You’ve committed a sin of pride, and you’ve made a charitable gift. One good thing, one bad thing. The good thing doesn’t go away, the charity still gets their money.) When I focused on getting friends, I got friends. But I was asking myself, “what can I do to get them to like me?” The key is to ask the other person about themselves first. To *understand them*. I fricking love understanding things. I don’t know why the idea of understanding people hasn’t come to me before. I’m normally like, I need to understand this person so that I can best make comments to get them to like me. Or, even more often, I need to understand humans so that humanity will like me. (When I say “like” here, btw, I mean a respect, regard, “think I’m a good person.” Not just “think I’m enjoyable to be around”, although that is included.) Ted tries to understand people first, then help them. I think I was skipping that. I’m a good listener, because I want to be nice and listening is a way to do that, but I never thought of listening in order to help someone. I have an anxiety, a phobia, of appearing presumptuous. I don’t want to assume people need my help. My solution should be to listen to their problems. But for some reason my solution to that was to make sure they had the ability to help themselves and then get out of the way. That’s the philanthropist philosophy. **I guess what I’m saying is that I always thought love was one step—help people. And it’s really 2 steps–understand people, then use that understanding to help them.** I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to think about this. I think about Buddy the elf. He “loves” people. He tries to do things for them constantly. But he doesn’t know what the heck is going on so he ends up making things worse. I hate that so much. I’m ends oriented. Buddy misses the understanding part, the listening part. Because sometimes people need you to hold their hand, and sometimes people need you to give them tools and leave. But that’s different for the person and the situation, and you have to understand someone first before you can know which. [X] Understand someone -> act such that they like me [X] Do things for people without understanding them -> make things worse [Checkmark] Understand people -> do something for them -> they like me
Link 3:25 a.m. Jan 30, 2021, UTC-5

HELP. Someone made a comment about *Ted Lasso* carrying Apple TV+. That was an hour ago. I've watched the first 2 episodes.
Link 12:54 a.m. Jan 30, 2021, UTC-5

Today on, bad business ideas with Matthias, we will attempt to combine my newfound passion for zookeeping with stand up comedy.
Wait. Is this a circus?
Link 11:33 p.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

There are people warning against WallStreetBets, which is so funny to me. They're like, 'Remember, the Reddit users on WSB don't have your
best interests at heart.' And you read WSB, and it's like 'I like the stock. This is not investment advice. I am an ape with a keyboard. Everyone in this subreddit is a ****ing r*****.' Like, if you open WSB, and decide that these are the types of people that seriously make good decisions, you are so unbelievably dumb. You don't deserve to manage stocks. Like, they're serious about it, but they're not trying to *fool* anyone that they know what they're doing. Speaking of utterly idiotic stock plays, I bought GME at 413 the other day. (I wish this was a joke.) (I'm holding don't worry.) (You can't lose money if you never sell.) Side note, WSB actually has content that is not suitable for minors. I found a post from a couple years ago where a literally bought a hooker and then took a picture of the naked hooker and posted it to WSB.
Link 11:21 p.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

Names that start with R. No, bad.
Link 1:48 p.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

I am going to be so fricking productive today you’re not going to believe it.
Link 9:26 a.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

Listening to half•alive is just a treat. Their music is just enjoyable to listen to.
Link 9:26 a.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

Baked cookies last night, they turned out terrible.
Link 9:25 a.m. Jan 29, 2021, UTC-5

I want cookies but I have to go downstairs and bake the cookies.
Link 10:08 p.m. Jan 28, 2021, UTC-5

I have a headache and I’m stressed and it’s painful.
Link 12:18 a.m. Jan 28, 2021, UTC-5

Bought in to GME at $283. What else can I say?
Link 10:30 a.m. Jan 27, 2021, UTC-5

I get all my investment information from Wikipedia.
Link 4:02 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

If work induces a nervous breakdown in me, can I bill for that time?
Link 2:13 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

I don't have a headache, I have like a full-body ache.
Link 1:48 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

"If you're new and you haven't subscribed, make sure you subscribe. And If you're not new and you've already subscribed, don't forget to
unsubscribe." -Gamerboy80
Link 1:17 p.m. Jan 26, 2021, UTC-5

Downloaded Carpet mod. 9/10, I love it.
Link 11:21 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

Just finished *Good Omens*. I gave it 3/5 stars. I took off a star for style, half a star for the ending, and half a star for blasphemy.
I've read only a short story by Pratchett, and *The Graveyard Book* by Gaiman. My three critiques blend together. The style of the book is very erratic, it reads like a bunch of short stories concatenated. Like the whole book is introducing the characters, and building up to something, but it feels like nothing actually advances the plot. The characters have very little agency. The human characters are written as powerless and ignorant, and the supernatural characters are written as mysterious and vague. There's a lot of passive voice. The humor is fine, but far from the funniest thing I've read. If it's supposed to be a comedy, then that would explain why I didn't enjoy it. It's definitely not boring. I understand why someone would like it a lot, or why it would receive critical acclaim. It does a lot of interesting things, ambitious things, and it pulls them off, for the most part. It just doesn't do the things that I would want it to do. The 4 horsemen are very well written; they're aloof, interesting, and terrifying. But they're not relatable, and I would prefer a book with relatable villains. The book is, in large part, written from the perspective of 2 side-characters. This is something most books don't do, because it's not easy. The problem here, is that the main (side) characters are well-developed and relatable, but they don't do anything. I don't care. Without going into spoilers, the ending is anti-climactic. There's no final battle, everyone just kind of stands in a circle and half of them talk. When *Good Omens* constantly refers to Christian terms ('angel', 'demon', etc), as well as the Bible, I end up with certain expectations. And the authors were constantly subverting those expectations. It just left me off guard for a majority of the book. They don't just re-define a few terms, they operate in a completely different system ('what if good wasn't actually good?!'), and it took me most of the book to realize that. It's not a whole-star issue, but it combines with the plot issue and the fact that the authors avoided saying anything outright. It's a good book. And in some ways, the 3 stars doesn't reflect that. The 3 stars reflects my enjoyment of it. I wouldn't re-read it.
Link 9:34 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

I want muffin
Link 7:50 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

The problem is that it's really hard to code passionlessly
One of the most important parts of coding is knowing what you want. You have to know what you want before you can problem-solve to get there. But if you don't want anything, then you're done.
Link 7:41 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

Pumping Death Cab for Cutie into my head.
Link 7:02 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

My mind has demanded Chance the Rapper.
Link 4:35 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

I don't remember the last time anything that I tried to do was easy.
Link 3:22 p.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

The part of my brain that is a compulsive completion-ist really wants me to finish *Good Omens*, right now!
Link 12:39 a.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

I subscribed to Make It and Fake It for the electronics content, but she is low-key making me consider taking up sewing.
Link 12:37 a.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

Huh, last night before I went to bed, I thought, “I’m not going to post at all tomorrow.” And aside from the one post I made before going to
bed, but after midnight, I didn’t. But I didn’t remember that until just now. Weird. Of course, the reason I wasn’t going to post was so that I could be productive, and that didn’t happen either lol
Link 12:36 a.m. Jan 25, 2021, UTC-5

My penny was minted in Denver
Link 12:51 a.m. Jan 24, 2021, UTC-5

Music from Half Alive, when?
Link 11:59 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

I feel like Tumblr users are neurodivergent, but aware of it, and are finding healthy coping mechanisms.
On the other hand, I don't think I would use the word "healthy" in the same sentence as Reddit or Twitter users.
Link 11:55 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

Reddit: 'Trump is evil and Biden will save us soon as he takes office' Tumblr: *Straight anachronism*
Link 9:51 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

I believe in a God because when I look at the world, I see broken people. I see the brokenness of humanity so clearly that I have to believe
that it is possible for someone to be unbroken.
Link 8:49 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

"We must either love each other, or we must die." -L. B. Johnson
Link 8:02 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

I hold beliefs that are extremely controversial on Reddit, like, “Christianity and logical thinking are not incompatible.”
Link 3:05 p.m. Jan 23, 2021, UTC-5

“Johnny Boy” by Twenty One Pilots speaks to me, even though none of the individual lyrics would seem to describe me.
Link 4:59 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

Sometimes I am just really fricking not in the mood for Train.
Link 4:50 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

Screw it, I'm taking a nap. Who knows when I'll wake up
Link 12:09 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-8

I'm tired. All software is bad. On the inside I'm crying but on the outside I'm also crying.
Link 12:08 p.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-8

I only know how to do things with passion, and there's not enough passion for me to do all the things I should.
Link 11:57 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

Someone spelled out “monkaaw” in discord reactions and I’m struggling to parse.
Link 8:54 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

I’m just a screwed up person.
In 6th grade the Chinese teacher would give a piece of candy to the student that got there first. She had these Asian candies with edible rice-paper around them, and I ran to class every time because I really wanted one. I was never first, and the one time I was she didn’t have the candy, and gave me like a lollipop instead. And I hate myself for not making it to class faster. And I hate her for having such an arbitrary and dumb reward system. I’m a screwed up person. I can’t take it. I pick things to care about, like getting that candy, and if I fail, it just destroys me. I say I’m not competitive, because I don’t have a lot of things that I care about winning. But if I try to win and I’m not good enough, that just destroys me. I actually didn’t get to class first. I actually don’t deserve the candy. I’m actually not good enough. I have absolutely no fear of losing. But the fear of not being good enough absolutely destroys me. It keeps me up at night, it paralyzes me to inaction during the day. I don’t want to be a bad person. I DON’T WANT TO BE A BAD PERSON. *am I a bad person?* Do I need to come to terms with the fact that I’m a bad person? Or do I need to come to terms with the fact that I’m not a bad person just because I make some mistakes?
Link 1:40 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

I need to find someone who doesn’t hurt my brain to talk to.
Link 12:56 a.m. Jan 22, 2021, UTC-5

I pronounce “pls” like “plez”
Link 6:19 p.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

Thinking about that time I was 18 and I said "what the hell" and my dad asked me not to curse.
Link 3:54 p.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

My friend was talking about how under appreciated *The Lorax* movie was, and how great a song “How Bad Can I Be?” was
And how weird it was was that everyone kind of forget about the movie. And I sat there in silence, cursed by the knowledge of Onecest, *trying* to forget.
Link 12:43 p.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

Time, like myself, is an illusion.
Link 12:22 a.m. Jan 21, 2021, UTC-5

I've checked back in on Twitter once or twice. Man, it's pretty fricking bad.
Over here, no one can hear me scream1!!!!!!
Link 11:52 p.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

I don’t know how much more I can take.
Link 11:16 p.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

I'm cold.
And alone. The snow falls lazily outside. Snow hasn't been forecast since a week ago, but it comes anyways. My mind taunts me with threats of something better. I went to the store this morning and got food for the week. I'm hungry. The chill air keeps me on edge. Relaxation is a memory. I still have to unpack, and to put in a load of laundry. I have the strength to do it, but I haven't yet. I don't trust myself. I feel dirty. The showerhead here is quite erratic. I would like to make a trip to the store to replace it, but someone took my car. I can't leave. I am, at least, awake.
Link 1:19 p.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

The problem with cult classics is that they’re not actually good. If they were good they’d just be classics.
This is about the *Good Omens* book.
Link 6:49 a.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

Me, waking up 2 minutes before my alarm goes off.
Link 6:31 a.m. Jan 20, 2021, UTC-5

As is frequently the case, while I enjoy reading about new topics in *GEB*, things that I already know about are more enjoyable still.
With exception, of course—I have to skim some of his explanation of recursive programming. But when he introduces Cage’s 4’33” without explaining it, I think I get more out of it than if I waited for the author to explain it in a couple of pages.
Link 5:49 p.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-6

The author of *GEB* describes a graph from his own PhD thesis as “a picture of God.”
> An agnostic friend of mine once was so struck by Gplot’s infinitely many infinites that he called it “a picture of God”, which I don’t think is blasphemous at all. - Gödel, Escher, Bach, p. 142 There’s too much here to unpack right now. But heck.
Link 5:39 p.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-6

I wish life was composed of more adjectives and fewer nouns.
Link 9:40 a.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-8

"u had a choice and you installed windows instead of gnu/linux"
Link 8:15 a.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-8

I just feel like humans have such a flawed understanding of the world and who we are.
Link 12:17 a.m. Jan 19, 2021, UTC-8

What the frick is with the serotonin hit that comes from receiving a text from someone.
Link 10:45 p.m. Jan 18, 2021, UTC-8

BILL WURTZ UPLOADED THIS IS NOT A DRILL. THE MUSIC IS 3D. https://youtu.be/zNTaVTMoNTk
Link 4:05 p.m. Jan 18, 2021, UTC-8

I'm starting an AJR cover band with myself as the lead singer don't at me
Link 10:09 p.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

It is 80° (not like right now obviously, but during the day). It is too hot to be outside unicycling.
Link 1:01 a.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

I would very much like to unicycle but the weather won’t let me.
Link 1:00 a.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

Life really is just improv comedy isn’t it
Link 12:00 a.m. Jan 17, 2021, UTC-8

I'm a little worried Disney doesn't understand how fricking cool Wanda Vision could/should be.
There's demand for those characters. But the show doesn't look good.
Link 12:16 a.m. Jan 16, 2021, UTC-8

*Imagine, the KA hotlist, but it's only programs that have been hidden from the hotlist*
Link 9:17 p.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

"just install ubuntu, even people with 2 braincells can do it"
Someone needs to fricking drill into all the Linux users that a *nix shell is far from a universal experience.
Link 9:16 p.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

When do I get to stop playing bedwars?
Link 3:15 p.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

At first I was sketched out that this site was showing up in search results, but I kind of love the idea that someone Googles something and
my thought on it shows up.
Link 10:48 a.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

I’m just a big confused boy
Link 10:14 a.m. Jan 15, 2021, UTC-8

Wait I left Twitter and Bill Wurtz started Tweeting again, what is this?
"phone booths no longer have phones in them. now they are a blank canvas for the open minded adventurer"
Link 11:55 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

YouTube has figured out that can serve me like 240p video and I don’t really care.
Link 10:47 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

I’m glad to see towerofglass is posting content actively. Mostly VHS recordings, which is an amazing aesthetic.
Link 1:35 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

I saw a Tumblr post last night that was like ‘Does Kitchen Sink by Twenty One Pilots count as rap’ and I’m still laughing.
That’s what prompted the posts last night.
Link 1:12 p.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

Yeah fireball-jumping is cool, but have you tried fireball-holding-and-walking-off-the-edge?
Link 10:11 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

On the theme of unpublished music, “Married on a Hill” is so good. Amazing 😢. I’m so glad it showed up on the internet.
Link 1:06 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

Listening to “Kitchen Sink” and “Christmas Saves The Year.” We should be due for a TOP album this year, but this will work for now.
Link 12:56 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

Twenty One Pilots is an amazing band.
They should be underground, niche; they epitomizes the alternative rock sound. And yet they’ve done it so fricking well that they’re mainstream. I have a model for thinking about mainstream vs. not, that I haven’t put into words yet, but TOP breaks it.
Link 12:54 a.m. Jan 14, 2021, UTC-8

I feel like a huge amount (maybe 20%?) of programming is converting between declarative and imperative data (AKA `diff`ing)
Link 9:23 p.m. Jan 13, 2021, UTC-8

I'm working on a theory that my sanity is inversely correlated with the length of my hair. My hair is in my face and my sanity is thin.
Link 4:12 p.m. Jan 13, 2021, UTC-8

I have decided that I need to learn how to work passionlessly.
Link 3:39 p.m. Jan 13, 2021, UTC-8

I climbed some trees earlier today. Very fun, but also a workout.
Link 9:34 p.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

I finally got my McDonalds quarter pounder. It wasn’t even that good, but it was satisfying.
Link 9:34 p.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

I feel like animated adult shows are absolutely terrified of being classified as kids shows so they feel the need to be painfully explicit
in every episode.
Link 1:21 p.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

I can’t stand people whose old experience with satire is The Onion. The Onion did not invent satire. *Utopia*, Thomas More, was 1516
Also, I had to fix the spelling of More and look up the date, but I know *Utopia* was written by Thomas More, so I’m hoping that comes up in trivia at some point.
Link 10:35 a.m. Jan 12, 2021, UTC-8

I made it on top of the pergola. 9/10, very relaxing, highly recommend. A nice substitute for the roof.
Link 2:45 p.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

There are a number of concerns that haunt the mind of one such as myself.
Link 2:44 p.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

Me to my mutuals
An image of Sportacus looking at the camera, with the text "You need therapy" and "THERAPY" vertically, then in acrostic form, T - therapy, and nothing next to the other letters.
Link 12:13 a.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

Yeah KA Discord is cool, but have you tried KA Art of Problem Solving forum?
Link 12:08 a.m. Jan 11, 2021, UTC-8

BRB changing my name to Plornishmaroontigoonter
Link 5:38 p.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

I keep waiting for something to happen.
Link 1:02 p.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

Tumblr has disparaged California. CA truly is something else.
Link 12:55 a.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

I must share with you the information
Link 12:54 a.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

I just learned that "Istanbul (not Constantinople)" isn't originally a They Might Be Giants song, it's actually from 1953. I cannot process
Link 12:07 a.m. Jan 10, 2021, UTC-8

The nights are so lonely if I don’t talk to myself.
Link 11:56 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

"I have my rebuttal to the slime mold intercity rail proposal in the comments"
Link 11:31 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

People are all 'Chick-fil-A donated to "anti-LGBTQ" organizations' and you look into it and it's like, churches, that teach Christianity.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, The Salvation Army, and Paul Anderson Youth Home, are the 3 Vox mentions. All 3 are Christian organizations, and all have expressed anti-LGBTQ beliefs. But they all have a mission statement that is not related to LBGTQ at all. They are charities which have a net-positive effect on the world, and yet refuse to hire members of the LBGTQ community. I initially read "anti-LGBTQ" as 'organizations that set out to hurt LGBTQ people' and so find these headlines to be very misleading. (I am referring to the last 5 years. In 2012 Chick-fil-A also donated food to a marriage seminar with a homophobic agenda?. In 2010 the owner donated $1000 to a group that promotes gay conversion therapy. There are several other incidents related to discriminatory hiring or homophobic statements by employees/leadership. But nothing else I found about the organizations in question acting on a homophobic agenda.) My conclusion here is not to defend Chick-fil-A. I'm trying to push back on statements calling for a boycott because of misconceptions about where Chick-fil-A's money goes. If Chick-fil-A was actively funding gay conversation therapy, I wouldn't eat there. But they're not. Sources: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/3/21/18275850/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-salvation-armys-histo_b_4422938, https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/5/29/18644354/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-donations-homophobia-dan-cathy
Link 11:23 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

I need a Sherlock Holmes adaptation where Adler and Holmes curse each other out.
Link 9:58 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

One of these days I’m going to eat a cheeseburger.
Link 1:18 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

Every time I `apt-get upgrade` and there’s even a minor Python version bump I have to recompile mod_wsgi from source. Agahagahahah
Link 1:11 p.m. Jan 09, 2021, UTC-8

Really, this website is the only one that matches my aesthetic. Tumblr is too chaotic, Twitter is too passionate, Instagram to flashy.
Even this website seems a little too nice at time, too polished. I want a nice T-shirt-and-jeans-on-grass-under-the-sun website. Twitter is like a promenade, either street performers or shops competing for your attention. Tumblr has been described as an abandoned clown factory. Instagram is like a beach: public, loud, bright. Discord or The Linoleum Club (yet nonexistent) are like a bar, dark and loud but friendly. YouTube is a sports arena. This website is my bed, my head, my thoughts.
Link 10:45 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

I don’t think there are any real people
Link 3:43 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

I read Mistborn (~700 pages) in about 9 hours of reading, about 19 hours after I started yesterday.
This is why I don’t read that much—not because I can’t, but because I can’t stop myself. I’d rather sit down for 10 hours on a weekend and do nothing but read than space out a book into my free time. This means that reading is a greater commitment than other things, like a 10 minute game of bedwars. This is for fiction of course, I have no ability to focus on more than 20 pages of nonfiction at a time.
Link 3:10 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

I’m okay.
Perhaps the greatest lie I tell myself is that I am a rational creature. I fundamentally operate off of urges, feelings.
Link 2:31 p.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

AAAHAAaaaahhhh I'm screaming inside. PureScript is another functional language that compiles to JavaScript
Link 9:22 a.m. Jan 08, 2021, UTC-8

The Barnes and Noble employee who commented, 'Oh my word, that's my favorite book' when I bought *Good Omens*.
Link 5:58 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

Thinking about how physical books still outsell ebooks. Digital has a long way to go as a medium.
The reMarkable tablet was very impressive because it *replicated* (for practical purposes) the feeling of writing on paper. But it still hasn’t surpassed paper.
Link 3:39 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

No, Luke, you can’t take away my mental health Rigby!
RIP Rigby, the best social media yet.
Link 3:32 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

To quickly recap some of my issues:
1. I know my problems are smaller than other people's; so I feel like it should be easy for me to deal with them. 2. I fault myself for having problems. Any problem (that was avoidable) also carries with it the weight of knowing that I wasn't good enough to avoid it. 3. I take criticism personally. Like 2, criticizing something I've made is both a criticism of the thing and a criticism of me, either that I haven't fixed it already or else that I wasn't smart enough to know that was a problem. (If I ask for criticism, I mean it. The biggest problem is when you criticize something I think is good. ) 4. I'm a perfectionist. 1 problem is 1 problem too many. As an example, I enjoy climbing. I bought climbing shoes, then scheduled myself to go climbing. When the time came, I couldn't find my climbing shoes. ('I don't have my climbing shoes' is the first problem). Then I fault myself for losing them ('I lost my climbing shoes' is the second problem). I now feel the need to fix both of these problems, first finding the shoes and second ensuring I never lose the shoes again. Since I'm a perfectionist, I can't go climbing without my shoes. And I now have a systemic problem ('I lose things'). Combing that problem with my perfectionism means that (if I can't fix the systematic problem) I should never go climbing again (because I can't guarantee I won't lose the climbing gear). But wait, my brain can apply 2) to the systemic problem as well. I never should have bought the shoes in the first place. If I knew I was going to lose them, buying them would be a bad idea. And we can keep going. I should never buy anything again. I shouldn't go climbing. etc. My brain does this all the fricking time. I hate it. (I wrote this last night at the same time as everything else but didn't post it.)
Link 2:08 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

I posted 18 times yesterday. We’ll pass carlita_express in no time.
Link 1:11 p.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

All I want to do is sleep. And yet. I feel like there are other things to be done. Aw well
Link 12:25 a.m. Jan 07, 2021, UTC-8

I am slightly concerned about the magnitude of the site. It works well when it’s used like Twitter, being checked frequently, but I can
imagine that someone who hasn’t been here would be completely overwhelmed by the amount of content that’s built up. (Let me SSH in and count the number of Thoughts I’ve posted here so far.) Huh, only 792. I expected more, but I guess my Twitter was only at a couple thousand. Okay, we have space.
Link 11:47 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

Can we take a moment to appreciate the code that I wrote for OurJSEditor to track a line and column number through the inverse of a find and
replace? It took like fricking 2 weeks. Amazing.
Link 11:42 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

What was beautiful about 2016 me_irl was that it was self referential, but wouldn’t reference the outside world.
This what a lot of surrealists miss. I want art that disassociates with reality, but associates with itself—creating its own reality.
Link 11:40 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

This is the only good website.
Honestly the amount of carthartic release I get from just thinking about the simple beauty of this young website would be difficult to understate. I want to add things, make it better, but I’m scared of ruining the simplicity. (Rigby went downhill after markdown support was added, really.)
Link 11:34 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

PogChamp is canceled???
*They canceled pogchamp*
Link 11:28 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

My vest gives me power.
Link 11:24 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

Yeah Tumblr’s good, but have you tried Tumblr with “#current events” blocked?
Link 6:50 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

It doesn't help that I am bad at taking jokes. Sometimes I say "I take everything literally." That's not perfectly true. Obviously, with
context I can tell a joke, (even if I'm worse at it then other people). But with exaggerations (things that aren't 100% joking) or certain contexts, I do horribly.
Link 5:47 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

My fourth problem is that I'm a perfectionist, and I feel the need to fix all of my problems at once.
I keep a list of all of the problems that I have or have ever had, in an attempt to avoid repeating them. But this means that it's very easy for me to get distracted with one problem when I should be focusing on another.
Link 5:39 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

My third problem is that I take criticism or requests as a fault of myself.
Someone asking me to do something gets filed as a problem I have ('I have to do it') and then also 'why haven't I done it already' and then 'why am I the type of person who hasn't done it'
Link 5:39 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

I can't work through my problems until I've justified to myself that I'm allowed to have problems.
Right now I'm in an absolutely trashy cycle where I have a problem (even super minor things), and then I fault myself for having the problem. So I now have 2 problems, the problem, and the fact that I'm a bad person who created the problem. And I feel like I can't fix the problem until I can find out how to stop the problem from occurring again.
Link 5:34 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

I understand that my problems are smaller than other people's problems, or even smaller than problems I've faced in the past.
But that doesn't mean it's easy for me to deal with them. And it doesn't mean I have energy to deal with other people's problems.
Link 5:31 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

Like, Tumblr will have a bad take, but since there are actual words there, people can take the time to explain it. Someone on Twitter will
have a bad take and that's it. No explanation. So then it lives in my head rent free until I can figure out what the hell the person's reasoning is. This is one of my problems. Giving me an unfounded statement is like 8x worse than explaining yourself to me. I can handle not agreeing, but I cannot find closure in someone that I don't understand. I can't reject something until I understand it.
Link 5:31 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

Twitter is just Tumblr 5 years ago, that's fairly well established, but with the addition that everyone is cramming their takes into as few
characters as possible. Tumblr, in the meantime, has settled, is less radical (or at least less aggressive) than Twitter or Tumblr 5 years ago.
Link 5:23 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

The libertarian in me is trying to find a way to blame all my problems on the government.
Link 2:41 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

I am going to aca-murder the next person who makes a portmanteau.
Link 1:54 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

Aaahahahahhhhhhahhhahahhahahahhahaahah
Link 12:58 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

My Twitter feed is telling me I’m an awful piece of **** person because I haven’t condemned the evil that is going on in Washington. I
don’t know what’s happening. There are no details, no facts, just judgment.
Link 12:14 p.m. Jan 06, 2021, UTC-8

“I sometimes think I could do crystal meth, but then I thing, hmm, better not”
Link 9:40 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

Forgetting to re-complie my Typescript, ah.
Link 3:21 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

Thinking about the "How to write an alt-J song" video
Link 2:22 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

A strictly-typed language, but it's possible to define fields that exist if and only if another field has a given value.
Link 1:40 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

Beautiful CSS
```css body { animation: flicker 0.5s infinite; } @keyframes flicker { from {filter: hue-rotate(30deg) blur(0.7px) contrast(95%);} to {filter: hue-rotate(0deg) blur(0.5px) contrast(105%);} } ``` Anything more than 1px of blur makes the site unusable. I need a way to get some shaking or horizontal lines or something. Also it's quite laggy lol
Link 12:07 p.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

Also, CSS whole-page effects are laggy as heck, it will be beautiful
Link 11:54 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

I'm considering adding a flicker/blur affect to the whole site, *Gilded Dagger* style, to more accurately convey the mood I envision.
Link 11:53 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

No one checks the website anyways, right?
Link 11:52 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

I don’t know what I was thinking last night. Don’t read into it.
Link 8:42 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

I feel like I can’t say stuff like I did in the last Thought because of who I am. I’m sorry. I just want to be loved. I’ll probably shut
down this website or something dumb in the morning. I don’t know who I am. Pray for me.
Link 12:08 a.m. Jan 05, 2021, UTC-8

Feminists really be confused when men get offended by “all men are trash.” Like?
‘Obviously not all men are trash. It means that the patriarchy is bad’ Okay, can you say that? Because that’s not what you said. Sorry for assuming you meant what you said. I don’t give anyone else slack for this either. I take things literally. I will say what I mean. And people, especially leftists on the internet, *constantly* employ rhetoric which trips me up. It makes me angry. I want to have a discussion, to understand you, and I’m having to work in order to tear through the rhetoric to what you actually mean. “Eat the rich” is another example. Attacks on “the 1%.” These are not thought through, or else not meant to be taken literally. I had to ask a friend IRL if people were legitimately pushing for a violent revolution. (The vast majority of people, even on the internet, are not, to my knowledge. “Eat the rich” is a comment on the problems with wealth inequality, not a cry to actually eat people. “The 1%” I don’t think means 3,000,000 people, but views vary.) I’ve been accused before of being autistic, because I have a fixation with the literal meaning of words. And I’ve commented before how much I struggle with taking general insults personally. It makes me emotional. Say what you mean, and if you happen to insult a group that I’m a part of, don’t be surprised when I take it personally. Be ready to say it to my face. I want everyone to like me and if I have a behavior I need to change, let me know. Don’t insult half the population. I’m not a feminist.
Link 11:49 p.m. Jan 04, 2021, UTC-8

Linux users are weird
Link 1:33 p.m. Jan 04, 2021, UTC-8

Blaze and Photonic Symmetry are talking in KACC and it makes me so happy. They met on KA in ~2015.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Link 9:35 a.m. Jan 04, 2021, UTC-8

“opera browers we are working very website to all we know”
Link 8:42 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

I’m holding out for an AI girlfriend.
Link 8:41 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

I have like 8 projects going on at once here, it's painful.
Link 12:26 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

The straights are not okay. I am not okay.
Link 12:26 p.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

I want to add like 4 more pages to this site but I can't fit more links across the top on mobile. Heck mobile design
Link 11:39 a.m. Jan 03, 2021, UTC-8

I've really enjoyed using Rectangle. It still sounds dumb to me, none of the things it does are things I would say I want, and yet, I do.
Link 4:54 p.m. Jan 02, 2021, UTC-8

Mojang patches AFK fish farms. Earthcomputer, Cortex, PseudoGravity create a client-side mod that cracks fishing RNG.
AKF farms let you automatically get all fishing loot if you wait long enough. Cracking the RNG lets you just pick whatever loot you want and then get it. It does require client-side hacks. But it likely wouldn't have been worked out if Mojang had left normal AFK farms in the game.
Link 11:20 a.m. Jan 02, 2021, UTC-8

Why don’t seagulls fly over bays?
Because then they’d be bagels.
Link 10:22 a.m. Jan 02, 2021, UTC-8

Link 11:39 p.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

"I got a spleen. Anyone want to buy? :) xD"
-Ethan
Link 10:59 p.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

Considering referring to myself exclusively in the third person.
Link 10:37 p.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

I’ve decided, for 2021, we’re going back to Jars of Clay.
Link 12:37 a.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

Happy 2021 everyone!
Except 1 person, you know who you are. (Jk)
Link 12:02 a.m. Jan 01, 2021, UTC-8

One of my favorite tropes is the assassin that says they’re an assassin because no one will believe them. Quality.
Link 9:51 p.m. Dec 31, 2020, UTC-8

Imagine a piece of pizza but the crust is on one of the sides instead of the top.
Link 5:52 p.m. Dec 31, 2020, UTC-8

I would very much appreciate an Etho video around now
Link 10:35 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

If I do stuff with urgency than it’s stressful. If I don’t do anything than it’s a waste of time. I don’t know how to be productive at a
moderate pace.
Link 10:35 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

Zoom updated their web client so you can actually see other people (instead of just the person talking). 10/10
No reason to download the native app now, get hecked.
Link 9:32 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

Watched Wonder Woman 1984 tonight. Thoughts below the fold. (Mild spoilers)
There are a lot of things, that I would’ve done slightly differently, or that didn’t line up with what I expected. Overall, it was very good, at or above the MCU-superhero-movie average. I remember the first Wonder Woman being far above that, so my standards might have been too high. Perhaps the biggest was that the first Wonder Woman movie was really a war movie, super dark, and this one was was much lighter. It still dealt with serious themes, don’t get me wrong, but wasn’t nearly as gritty. I had to check that they were the same director, because I didn’t believe it. I actually really liked the villain, and his arc, but the final battle was anti-climactic. Throughout the movie the fight choreography was weird. Possibly just because it was different from the MCU melee style, but I don’t remember thinking about it on the first movie. Whereas this featured several fights that were just Wonder Woman pushing people over. And low-effort special effects of them sliding across the floor didn’t help either. I liked the time period set. Somehow it was super obvious about it without being annoying. Overall, quality super hero movie. I was hoping for something special, but I guess that’s on me.
Link 12:31 a.m. Dec 30, 2020, UTC-8

Tumblr ads trying to convince me I have Crohn’s disease.
Link 11:11 p.m. Dec 29, 2020, UTC-8

Not reading the BlueStacks license, probably violating it, who knows
Link 12:57 p.m. Dec 29, 2020, UTC-8

My computer can't restart. I restart it, it logs out, giving a black screen, and then hangs there.
Eventually the shutdown process times out and it is smart enough to force-kill itself without me having to do anything, but when it starts back up it gives me "your computer was restarted because of a problem."
Link 12:15 p.m. Dec 29, 2020, UTC-8

Drugs
Link 3:25 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

You don't understand how high quality William Osman used to be. He used to be a maker channel. He used to make things. It's okay though I
now have Make it and Fake it and Ian Charnas so I'm surviving. => https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3L9AcM6TxfLjpr6YzVVp8Q Make it and Fake it => https://www.youtube.com/user/iancharnas Ian Charnas
Link 3:02 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

Tag yourself I'm "An oasis in a desert starved of quality"
A screenshot of code as follows:
"A true hero among coders",
"An oasis in a desert starved of quality",
"An apex coder, second to none (except xacer, JentGent, Arrowhead Co. etc)",
"just subscribe",
"An incredibly genius fellow",
"A man with a staggering intellect",
"Subscribe. If not for my skills,\nthen for my boyish good looks.",
"Be a subber. What else is there?",
"Less of an egomaniac the Big Bad John",
"More skilled then Big Bad John",
"The most intelligent American ever, second only to Plato",
"A skilled master of PJS & HTML",
"The greatest coder, maybe ever",
"Literally flowing with charisma",
"The most amazing coder in the history of everything",
"A good coder. The best, really",
"A great coder. Very good!",
"Johnathan Wintres is a sane man; what more could you ask for?",
"The most humble man, maybe ever.",
Link 1:42 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

Tempted to walk outside in the rain and just get absolutely soaked
Link 1:32 p.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

I know I’ve said this before, but man, the first half of “Dreams & Boxes” is so good.
Link 12:31 a.m. Dec 28, 2020, UTC-8

Another Matt Parker video, featuring Eugénie.
I didn't count scientifically, but Matt refers to her as "her/she" 4 times, and "they/them" 3 times. Ben Sparks and Howard Carter are another 3 "they/them"s All I want, Matt, is consistency.
Link 12:57 p.m. Dec 27, 2020, UTC-8

Thinking about The Linoleum Club.
Link 10:25 a.m. Dec 27, 2020, UTC-8

I feel like a nomad
Link 10:00 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-8

It’s 2020, why do I still have to tie my shoes? Why isn’t Velcro mainstream? Why isn’t there something better?
Link 9:36 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-8

If *GEB* passes the Bechdel test, I quit. If *GEB* does not pass the Bechdel test, I will never quit.
Link 9:23 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-8

How are people supposed to know I’m smart if I don’t carry around a copy of GEB?
Link 6:33 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

I can’t believe toml exists. 2/10
Link 4:26 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

s/plain/plane/g
Link 3:42 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

I operate in a heightened plain of existence that you can only dream of.
This comes off super elitist if you take it seriously. I recommend imagining me asleep, slurring my words, muttering about other plains of existence.
Link 3:24 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

Much in the same way that a fish writhes, I writhe in time.
Link 2:39 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

Me, who has never been in nor had any desire to participate in theater, crying, “I really really really really want to show you my play!”
Link 1:09 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

Might start believing in Santa again idk
Link 12:20 p.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

Why can’t I get me a girl who plays chess against herself in public like the love interest in the 2010 music video
for AJR’s Go On Take a Chance?
Link 1:22 a.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

Listened to Student Loans again. Man. I regret it.
I should just loop My Play and stop caring. I want Students Loans so badly though.
Link 1:19 a.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

If random Repl.it coder adds entities to Minecraft I will shut down OurJSEditor.
Link 12:44 a.m. Dec 26, 2020, UTC-5

Oh the yearning in my heart for IntelliJ IDEA
Link 6:51 p.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

Just unwrapped a copy of GEB, get hyped!
*Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid* is a fricking meme of a book. You have to be such an iconic type of nerd in order to read it. I once said that I wanted to talk to the type of people who have read it, and now I could become one of those people. Unfortunately, it’s 700 pages of non-fiction so I’m not super optimistic about finishing it. I opened to a random page and it was talking about my favorite artist, Rene Magritte!
Link 4:08 p.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

I got a new Apple Watch for Christmas and I’m still playing with it. Hours of entertainment
Link 2:45 p.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

Merry Christmas!
Remember that time a couple thousand years ago when the God if the universe was born as a human, that was pretty cool.
Link 9:23 a.m. Dec 25, 2020, UTC-5

Carcinization gets a Wikipedia page and you’ll can’t stop yourself from acting like it’s the most important thing in the world.
Link 9:54 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

“But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler
in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” ‭‭Micah‬ ‭5:2‬ ‭ESV‬‬ “But you, Bethlehem, David’s country, the runt of the litter—From you will come the leader who will shepherd-rule Israel. He’ll be no upstart, no pretender. His family tree is ancient and distinguished. Meanwhile, Israel will be in foster homes until the birth pangs are over and the child is born, And the scattered brothers come back home to the family of Israel. He will stand tall in his shepherd-rule by GOD’s strength, centered in the majesty of GOD-Revealed. And the people will have a good and safe home, for the whole world will hold him in respect—Peacemaker of the world!” ‭‭Micah‬ ‭5:2-4‬ ‭MSG‬‬
Link 9:42 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

Humans spend a lot of time in cloth
Link 9:34 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

I wish I were alone
Link 7:17 p.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

I'm chuckling at the RayWorks ban evidence PDF. He's so stressed. The man has no chill. He's inventing problems and then blaming others.
Reminds me of KAD honestly
Link 10:55 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

RaysWorks was banned from Prototech awdjnkbwqkhd
Makes me respect Prototech so much more to know that they care about their image. SciCraft's dominance as the technical Minecraft server is being questioned. Proto and Hakate are in a position to do much cooler things. Ray feels like he's playing catch-up
Link 10:38 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

What a bad idea this was
Link 7:16 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

I have a *bad* idea for a social network.
Link 2:12 a.m. Dec 24, 2020, UTC-5

Who puts the peas in the pea pods?
Link 6:41 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

I am declaring TLS Day over!
All my maintained sites are now using TLS. I have several sites that I need to go back and update with TLS as well as other things, but that will have to wait.
Link 3:31 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

Who would have guessed that reading the Apache docs are actually helpful?
Link 1:57 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

Yeah so no one knows how to calculate the height of a table with percentage values. It's just not specified in the spec. Thanks :/
Link 12:59 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

I would not be surprised if, in the future, it becomes customary to shave one’s head in order to wear a hat/wig all the time.
Link 12:02 p.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

slep now
Link 2:26 a.m. Dec 23, 2020, UTC-5

✨ is overused. It shall now be scorned.
Link 7:09 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

Happy Tuesday!
Link 12:57 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

We're SSL, baby!
Link 12:51 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

Having to stop myself from listening to the 3 *OK ORCHESTRA* songs on repeat because they're too hype for the current vibe.
Link 12:23 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

"My Play" is beautiful.
It's like Legos but better. I said previously I didn't expect AJR to do anything radically different on this album, and while they haven't, "My Play" is definitely different enough to keep it interesting. The hype for the album has increased! Also yes I forgot to listen to it until now I'm 15 minutes late, fake fan, rip
Link 12:17 p.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

Me watching the clock waiting for My Play. Less than an hour to go
Link 11:04 a.m. Dec 22, 2020, UTC-5

Okay, we’re back up awdklanwdajdn
I restarted mysql
Link 6:47 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

I recompiled mod_wsgi from source and it fixed it.
Sic no it didn’t OurJSEditor is still down. I’m getting no error messages anywhere I have no idea what’s wrong.
Link 6:47 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

I hate apache config files. I changed literally nothing and now every website I’m hosting is giving a 500 error and there are no errors in
the Apache logs. *This is from earlier, since this site was down as well*
Link 6:46 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

The amount of imperfection in the world is absolutely staggering. Nothing is good.
Link 4:25 p.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

A friend that I follow who normally posts about his music and skateboarding just causally posted a picture of a terminal with a filter. My
first thought was that he snagged a generic terminal output and had put work into editing it, but it was a standard Instagram filter and his name was the username in the image. So it looks like he was legitimately trying to set up SSH keys with a Ubuntu remote sever (and struggling with it). Welcome to the Linux club, free as in freedom.
Link 11:17 a.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

Microwave oven with a front disguised as a etch-a-sketch
Link 12:50 a.m. Dec 21, 2020, UTC-5

If I had a dollar for every fricking pastbin website I'd have at least $20, my word.
Link 10:46 p.m. Dec 20, 2020, UTC-5

50 minute Etho!
Link 4:41 p.m. Dec 20, 2020, UTC-5

“I still feel alive”
-still feel., half•alive
Link 1:45 a.m. Dec 20, 2020, UTC-5

**My 2020 Music Roundup!***
I did replay.music.apple.com but that measures total play time so it under-represents bands that I learned about in the middle of the year. And those bands are the bands I think of as defining the year. So here we go, Matthias’s top 5 bands of 2020: 1. AJR 2. Jon Bellion 3. Saint Motel 4. half•alive 5. The Regrettes Last year I posted 15 bands. I listed to a similar amount of music this year, this list is just trimmed because there were only a few artists that defined this year. Some of the ones from last year feel stale now.
Link 4:37 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

I found another person who likes Wilderness Survival. It's too late, they're mainstream, time to jump ship.
Link 4:18 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

Just FYI, we're going to force-of-will 2021 to be better than 2020.
Link 2:54 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

I want to go to Zanzibar.
Link 2:22 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

Artists have it so easy. They put work into art and their feedback is all, ‘that’s amazing’ and ‘good job.’ I put work into a program, to
get feedback like “There are so many ways we could make this more fun” and ‘doesn’t even support mobile’ and *silence*. I guess that’s the curse of making things that are actually useful as opposed to just wall decoration.
Link 12:01 p.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

American Girl Doll movie memes are an untapped market. Invest now
Link 9:52 a.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

The KA Hearth is a complete failure. No one has the attention span to read anything longer than a Discord message these days.
Link 9:32 a.m. Dec 19, 2020, UTC-5

All people want to do is tell me that I'm wrong. Like I get it. I'm dumb, you're smarter than me.
You know more about the KA API than I do. You know how the internet works and I don't. And KA's processing-js finally has it's source available. And OurJSEditor looks ugly as hell and I'm not managing it right.
Link 11:49 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

No one uses F#
Dark moved from OCaml to F#, citing that the OCaml community was too small and that the F# community felt huge. So I'm like, okay, I can find resources for F# and I start looking, "libsodium f sharp" and nothing's coming up and I'm like, clearly I don't understand how to refer to this language. Is it "f#" or "fsharp" or "fs" or something else. But I think no, there's just actually no resources on it Edit (2022): F# runs on the .NET runtime, so it can access modules written for C#. “libsodium dotnet” is the correct search.
Link 11:45 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

Why has no one implemented ed25519 in Haskell?
Link 9:18 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

I have the attention span of a fly
Link 6:23 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

Announced OJSE 1.2 today. Not that that means anything, we’re just chilling.
Link 5:23 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

"i'm just a neural network that continuously generates js one liners 24/7"
-Alex (Edit: name)
Link 2:22 p.m. Dec 18, 2020, UTC-5

AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHHA! Browser compatibility bugs!!!!!!
What the hell. It's 2020. Why is my website doing different things in different browsers. I'm using vanilla HTML, CSS, and ES5 Javascript. I'm using features that are available in IE, not css grid layouts or next gen custom HTML elements. Chrome and Firefox can't agree on how to render a table. This should not be painful. This literally renders differently in Chrome and Firefox: ```html <table style="height: 1px;"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 200px;"> <td> <div style="height: 100%; border: solid;"> This renders differently in Chrome and Firefox. </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> ``` I reported a bug to someone on the internet, probably going to get roasted because I reported it in the wrong place or something.
Link 10:22 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

If I pretend to be a person well enough they may let me actually be one some day.
Link 8:43 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

There's a huge difference between ugly code that lets you write clean code later, and ugly code that forces you to write ugly code later.
Link 3:50 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

Okay, but why is Github's dark theme bad?
Link 2:14 p.m. Dec 17, 2020, UTC-5

I’ll admit, I wasn’t a fan of Dream ever since he click-baited Notch and then plugged Notch’s Twitter, when Notch is known to be
*questionable* on Twitter. (Things he has posted have been described as transphobic or sexist. However, he is far from the worst offender on the platform.) Some people have called for boycotting Minecraft or pretending Minecraft was made by someone else. I wouldn’t go that far; I do respect Notch as a game developer. But I don’t agree with his Twitter, and I wouldn’t link to it with a target audience of children. So when Dream did that, and didn’t to my knowledge face any backlash for it, I was taken aback. That seems like a bigger deal in some ways then cheating for a 5th place leaderboard spot. (Remember, this is a Thought, not a judgement or a thesis or my only thought.)
Link 5:02 p.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

If, on the other hand, none of my posts make sense, then that is likely because you are in the wrong timeline, in which case I can only say,
good luck.
Link 1:04 p.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

"i vote laminated paper because i'm a turtle"
Link 10:42 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

TIL that studies have been inconclusive in attempting to prove that I am anything more than a figment of your imagination.
:(
Link 10:37 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

My apologies if some of the posts on here don’t make any sense. Sometimes I forget to switch phones when traveling between timelines and I
haven’t added the ability to delete or edit posts yet.
Link 10:32 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

My head is like fricking 23 inches
Link 2:15 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

I have negotiated with Santa and he has refused to give me more time.
Link 12:28 a.m. Dec 16, 2020, UTC-5

All I want for Christmas is more time.
Link 4:02 p.m. Dec 15, 2020, UTC-5

I think my jaw is broken
Link 7:43 a.m. Dec 15, 2020, UTC-5

Brb, legally changing my name to Rene.
Link 12:47 a.m. Dec 15, 2020, UTC-5

It's wild how I still haven't met anyone who wants to be bad.
Link 11:02 p.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

I think I might have ADHD.
I mean, I don't know what ADHD is. I don't have trouble focusing, focusing just feels weird.
Link 3:16 p.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

**I wish I was a child again**
Link 2:48 p.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

Fusion 360 is bad. SolidWorks is bad. All CAD programs except for my yet unreleased CAD program are bad.
By "yet unreleased" I mean "imaginary hypothetical"
Link 1:40 a.m. Dec 14, 2020, UTC-5

We're on Python 3.9.1, almost to Python 4.
What's semver, never heard of her
Link 10:26 p.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

F tier date formatting
April, 23rd
Link 5:15 p.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

Grant Sanderson uses Julia. Languages to learn as soon as possible!
Link 7:59 a.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

Had a dream Pamela joined OJSE.
Also, I just woke up. I guess this is what happens when I go to bed at 10pm.
Link 5:13 a.m. Dec 13, 2020, UTC-5

Can you imagine if getting in bed was hard? I’m glad I just kind of have to flop down onto it and close my eyes.
Link 10:08 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

We’re going to run out of fish!
Link 5:33 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

All these "open-source" programs with like 18 terms for distribution. Public domain your code, or leave.
Public domain or all rights reserved. Nothing in between.
Link 4:06 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

"Bummerland" is a great song because you can listen to it when you're happy or sad, it has a very broad spectrum of emotions.
Link 3:54 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

I literally just found out T Swift released a second album this year, I'm great at following pop culture, 10/10.
Link 2:14 p.m. Dec 12, 2020, UTC-5

I want to sit in a puddle of hot oil
Link 6:08 p.m. Dec 11, 2020, UTC-5

Liberals be like "I'm not a tankie by any means but i've yet to see substantial proof" that the CCP uses wide scale forced labor.
The full exchange (didn't fit in the first line): "the Chinese Communist Party is holding Uyghurs in concentration camps.” "I’m not a tankie by any means but i’ve yet to see substantial proof that this is happening on as wide a scale as claimed from a source that isnt Adrian Zenz" Like, okay, they're only using a little bit of forced labor? Oh, they shut down the re-educations camps when they claimed they did in 2019? You can claim that this is a conspiracy theory by the western media to promote capitalism, but I think that makes you a tankie.
Link 12:35 a.m. Dec 11, 2020, UTC-5

I found a keyboard shortcut to launch Stickies.app
Link 9:49 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

The funny thing about Sci hub (and other forms of piracy) is that I have access to those papers, or could pay for them. But Sci Hub is so
fricking easy. I could find my library portal and do a search for the author or a similar document, or I could throw the DOI into scihub and just *have it*. (I wrote this before the paper loaded, and it just doesn't exist now. Like that SciHub doesn't have that paper or isn't working. Heck you SciHub.)
Link 9:48 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

What the heck? Tubbo is playing Minecraft to 80k viewers on Twitch. Jack Septic Eye has 15k viewers playing Cyberpunk
Link 4:15 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

Hmmm
This was super easy to do because of Safari's support for WebEx and the `xcrun safari-web-extension-converter` tool. Unfortunately, signing and distributing a Safari extension is still $100/year. Also, Safair runs *super* slowly with it installed, although I'm not sure why. The KA Extension, running under Safari!
Link 2:31 p.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

My solution for AoC day 7 part 1: #tw Javascript
Definitely a trickier one. At this rate, we'll be doing machine learning by the end of the month. ```js const input = document.body.textContent; const bagTypes = {}; for (let line of input.split("\n").filter(l => l.length)) { let [_, color] = /^([a-z ]+?) bags/.exec(line); const bag = {color, canContain: []}; for (let canContain of line.matchAll(/(\d+) ([a-z ]+) bags?[,.](?: |$)/g)) { let [_, count, subColor] = canContain; bag.canContain.push({count, color: subColor}); } bagTypes[color] = bag; } function canHoldGold(bag) { for (let content of bag.canContain) { if (content.color === "shiny gold") { // Then we can, base case return true; } //Otherwise, we need to check if any of this bag's sub-bags can if (canHoldGold(bagTypes[content.color])) { return true; } } //If none of them can, return false; } console.log("Part 1: ", Object.keys(bagTypes).filter(bagType => canHoldGold(bagTypes[bagType])).length) function countSubBags(bag) { let total = 0; for (let canContain of bag.canContain) { total += parseInt(canContain.count, 10); //Plus all the bags those have to contain. total += parseInt(canContain.count, 10) * countSubBags(bagTypes[canContain.color]); } return total; } console.log("Part 2: ", countSubBags(bagTypes["shiny gold"])); ```
Link 12:59 a.m. Dec 10, 2020, UTC-5

I have been informed that I am, in fact, not a goose.
Link 9:31 p.m. Dec 09, 2020, UTC-5

The more I think about it, the more I become convinced that the human brain's conception of time is not universal.
Link 2:11 a.m. Dec 09, 2020, UTC-5

I realize that my plans of dedicating my life to streaming Cyberpunk 2077 are problematic for a couple of reasons:
I don't own Cyberpunk 2077 Cyberpunk 2077 isn't publicly available I don't know if I own hardware that is capable of running Cyberpunk 2077 However! I do own Minecraft, so I for the time being I will be dedicating my life to playing that.
Link 2:24 p.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

I would like a Matthias-sized cardboard box to sit in.
Link 2:15 p.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

What about geese?
Am I a geese?
Link 2:10 p.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

It is the time for the pain.
Link 7:48 a.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

Jon Bellion > Billy Joel. I was born in le right generation
Link 12:07 a.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

I am living in a reality
separate from the reality experienced by mostpeople. One of my hopes, is that sometimes, I can bring some people into my reality
Link 12:04 a.m. Dec 08, 2020, UTC-5

“Actually, it's scientifically proven that bigger brains are dumber 😉”
Link 11:31 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

WHY AM I SO BAD AT WRITING
Link 11:01 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

Welcome to the hour of heck.
Link 10:27 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

Okay so Gaud wrote a Tony the Tiger x Grinch fanfic, and while I can handle that it exists, I hate that it is good. Like quality writing.
Link 7:53 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

I do not control the speed at which I juggle
Link 4:40 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

You have to be gentle with things that are delicate.
Sorry for spamming here I need a mental outlet right now. Post button goes post post post
Link 4:32 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

I can play, at most, 20 notes on the piano.
Link 4:30 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

"It was never enough. He just needed saving from himself."
-Cautionary Tales, Jon Bellion
Link 4:26 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

I want to be crushed.
"But people who have been flattened by the earth still live." We cannot start over.
Link 4:16 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

Thinking about buying Cyberpunk and wasting the entire rest of my life playing it. Just 70 hours a week for the next 20 years.
Link 4:13 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

Take me home.
Link 2:59 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

I can only handle small problems.
Link 2:54 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

Too much to think and I can't do it all at the same time.
Link 2:43 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

I need a way to parallelize my thoughts.
Link 2:43 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

"u have no idea how much i would love to default to Linux... 1) i cant use any of the major antivirus software on linux."
Link 2:41 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

I have no concept of the date. It feels like Dec 10th or 13th maybe.
Link 2:29 p.m. Dec 07, 2020, UTC-5

It's such a bummer to me that Tom Scott deleted his "meme-based, gamer-adjacent culture" thread. It would have been such a good copypasta
Tom had the awareness to delete it like 2 hours after it was posted, before it became a meme. He evidently has some sense, but also, how do you post that in the first place? Maybe he was super specifically talking about the "gamersriseup" culture, but it would have behooved him to specify that, rather than tossing all "memes about video games" under the bus. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tom-scott-i-am-at-x
Link 6:22 p.m. Dec 06, 2020, UTC-5

I own an umbrella, as if I'm going to leave the house.
Link 6:02 p.m. Dec 06, 2020, UTC-5

Frick I forgot yesterday's advent of code!
Link 1:42 a.m. Dec 06, 2020, UTC-5

The problem with adults is that they’re scared of falling down.
Children possess the ability to embrace the ground.
Link 4:26 p.m. Dec 05, 2020, UTC-5

OurJSEditor logs record access from the User Agent "Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0" I'm scared.
Link 12:40 a.m. Dec 05, 2020, UTC-5

Why do I have things to do that don’t involve lying in bed?
Link 8:51 p.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

The world is divided into 2 types of people. "Folx" and "cismen"
I cannot describe how seriously and in how formal of a context, the "folx" vs. "cismen" distinction is being made.
Link 2:11 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

I give the collapse of society another generation.
Maybe 2. In particular, what I'm predicting is a dramatic crash in the amount of work humans are doing. I have the distinct impression that human beings are doing more work than we need to be. That 20-30% of man-hours that are payed to be worked are superfluous to human existence. For example, systems that are upgraded because they need to upgraded because they need to be the upgraded version. Not because the old version is bad. I'm not hating on this. I have a job that feels like this and I get paid and I go home happy. I don't know what form this will take. It's fundamentally a cultural issue. It may become culturally acceptable to work 32 hours a week instead of 40, or go to school until you're 16 and take a couple years off until you start working at 20. Or jobs could become significantly easier. Or unemployment, the amount of people living off their parents, could increase to 20%. Or we could have a full-on socialist revolution, who knows. Unfortunately, my data is wildly American-centric. This may only happen in America and not globally. The question "why haven't robots taken our jobs yet" is a hard one to answer. It's an incredibly weird and loaded question, and I'll need to re-examine it in the future.
Link 1:32 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

"Also I was making fun of the swastika Matthias I am not socialist"
Link 12:09 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

Level 100 in Hypixel Bedwars! Iron prestige, baby! I've accomplished something with my life.
Link 12:08 a.m. Dec 04, 2020, UTC-5

If Python had {} and c-style for loops it would be basically the perfect language.
Link 4:51 p.m. Dec 03, 2020, UTC-5

2017 Aiden: “as is wont to occur among youngsters” 2020 Aiden: “yo” *silence*
Link 3:43 p.m. Dec 03, 2020, UTC-5

He watches
A screenshot of MineKhan with 3 full blocks each with Steve's face on all sides.
Link 11:28 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

“They should just not plow the roads and everyone should get snowmobiles”
Link 6:51 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

I'm binge watching boating vlogs in preparation for when I leave society and live in a boat in international waters alone.
Link 4:36 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

Why would people do drugs when KACP exists?
Link 12:18 p.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

"The moderation structure and policies are not intended to be an example of an anarchist society; an internet forum is not a society."
Link 10:38 a.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

"Conversations about moderation, rules, bans, and other meta topics take place in /r/metanarchism (message the mods to get in)."
When the anarchism subreddit has a separate, private, subreddit for discussions of their authority system.
Link 10:37 a.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

‘The Lord generously gave his grace to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.’ 1 Timothy 1:14
Link 12:43 a.m. Dec 02, 2020, UTC-5

I made brownies, and they're much thinner than I would like. But they taste super good, so I feel like eating 25 square inches of brownie.
Link 10:59 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

Remember, 1 square foot is 144 square inches.
Link 10:46 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

It’s weird to realize that 3Blue1Brown’s Linear Series barely scratches the surface of the concepts in Linear Algebra.
Link 5:08 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

Osmosis Jones live action when?, you cowards.
Link 5:08 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

The Arecibo Radio Telescope has collapsed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vchDbyIRP44
Link 3:50 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

"Liberals is a pejorative term"
Link 3:27 p.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

Gosh heck it better be okay because right now it doesn't look like it is going to be.
Link 9:59 a.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

Might mess around and move to Zagreb
Link 8:53 a.m. Dec 01, 2020, UTC-5

Bad website ideas with Matthias:
A website like Youtube, except the only videos are ones linked to by https://tiltlhat.tumblr.com
Link 11:49 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

I think people's desire for fame and their desire for rights or fair treatment, stem from a common desire, that of respect or dignity.
Link 11:43 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5

SQLite is one of the best pieces of software ever written.
Link 8:37 p.m. Nov 30, 2020, UTC-5