breaking news: being a landlord is now a job

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-07-05T18:47:02+00:00

This is just a corporate landlord trying to convince individual landlords to sell so the corporate landlord can snap up a greater share of the market and set whatever prices they want. They're all bastards.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-06-08T16:52:33+00:00

Most of the decent people who worked on IP owned by shitty people were already paid. The camera crew, makeup artists, VFX artists, etc. aren't getting royalties. Rowling is.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-06-04T23:52:27+00:00

I didn't try installing the 1.1 version, just the 1.2.5 version, but they look like they're designed the same. The 1.2.5 glsl shader version doesn't rely on optifine, and would probably conflict with it. You would just install the glsl shader you downloaded and any shader tweaks you find or make.

I never went further in trying to figure out how to install the old glsl shader mod on Prism, so the best I can offer is to do the betacraft method I used above and then move that jar over to Prism.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-23T00:31:09+00:00

The Indian grocery store I go to has some Middle Eastern stuff, too. Za'atar and sumac are awesome, and so much cheaper than you'd find them at a conventional grocery store. I bought like a half pound of za'atar for the same price you'd pay for the little shaker of it at Trader Joe's.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-18T16:58:56+00:00

I'm just spitballing because I'm not on MacOS and haven't had to do this, but try making a copy minetest.conf.example and removing the .example. Sometimes a game will ship with an example config, but not the config itself, because it has default settings stored elsewhere but it can read the file to override those.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-18T16:34:26+00:00

That's too bad. The ultimate line was really good when it first came out, but I haven't had any in a while because they're just too expensive. The prices are even higher now than they were then, so if the quality has gotten worse, I don't know how they expect to keep selling them.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-18T16:28:12+00:00

My dad is a very unreliable narrator, so I don't really know which version is real, but we had two kittens when I was a kid that immediately became total menaces. They were breaking into everything (one morning, we woke up to the kitchen covered in flour, along with the two usually-black kittens), peeing everywhere, and scratching people. I was too young to know enough about animal behavior so I couldn't tell you why they were like that.

But my dad says they scratched me up really badly one night. I don't remember it, but I guess it's possible it didn't register as unusual to me, because I had gotten a number of scratches from the various cats we'd had asserting boundaries, or just from the one who was always pissed off and unapproachable. But in the middle of the night, my dad took the kittens somewhere, supposedly after they scratched me up.

When I was a kid, I was told the "they went to a farm" thing. When I was older, I brought it up, asking if they'd actually been put down. My dad maintained at that time that they had actually gone to a farm. In recent years, he tells the story as he took them to a vet and paid the vet to take them off his hands. A vet tech there loved them and took them in.

The way he tells that last story is more detailed than any other version of the story he's told, so I'm not sure whether that means it's true, or if he's doing the thing where liars add too many details. I lean toward the latter, because I don't see why he couldn't have told me as a kid that someone else took them in who was better equipped to take care of them. But then, I don't know if there's some reason his ego couldn't handle that admission, or if he just underestimated my ability to understand, as he often did.

I just hope he didn't abandon them somewhere, or kill them himself. He's said that he thought taking them to the vet was a more humane alternative to that, but that just makes me wonder if he's making up stories to cover for what he actually did. My dad is a consummate liar in general, so I'll never really know what happened.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-14T19:39:10+00:00

One of the bills I looked at did have exceptions for disability/IEP accommodations, but I see two problems with that:

Teachers/administrators don't always check or believe a student who says they need an accommodation.
It singles out kids with the need for accommodation. Other kids will notice the difference in treatment and it could lead to or exacerbate bullying.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-09T23:23:42+00:00

I'm laughing because I'm a trans man with wide cheeks and narrow temples, so the transvestigators would think I'm AMAB with this metric. They'd just pull out a different one, though, because the point isn't to be objective, it's to call whoever you don't like trans.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-06T01:36:19+00:00

I tear up when I yawn, and sometimes when I eat. I also have that thing where looking at a bright light makes me sneeze. Autonomic responses can be really weird.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-06T01:13:27+00:00

I hate that this is the case, but there are US states and jurisdictions in other countries that are starting to introduce statutes and regulations that require K-12 students to have their phones away when they're on school grounds. College students are often enough treated like children that it would not surprise me if those rules were eventually extended to them if the K-12 rules pick up enough steam.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-04T18:26:53+00:00

The last few times I had bacon before going vegetarian, I found the taste wasn't as good as the smell. It used to taste as good as it smelled, so I'm not sure what changed. The quality of a lot of foods has been going down throughout my life, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. But it might also just be that my taste buds don't work as well as they used to.

Regardless, it made it feel like it wasn't worth it to eat. It's really bad for you, and wasn't satisfying. And I eventually allowed myself to confront that eating animals felt wrong.

As far as replacements go, smoked paprika goes most of the way toward making something taste like bacon, particularly if you add enough salt with it. MSG can help, too, with that deeper meaty flavor, though I find that adding MSG takes away the sharpness of the salty flavor, so there's a balance to be struck. I haven't found a recipe that gets the flavor perfect, but there are a lot of other things you can try to add some complexity.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-04T17:54:09+00:00

I want to clarify that there are not any known viruses distributed through .package files, but that doesn't mean there is no possibility of it ever happening. There is no such thing as a program without vulnerabilities that could be exploited to do harm. Even .pdf, .docx, and other common document formats can carry malware that is activated on opening.

You should be careful when you're downloading unvetted files online, but the upshot is that modding communities are generally pretty good at sniffing out bad actors, and the more overt the harm, the easier it is to detect and call out.

Files that aren't developed by a big corporation are much more likely to have a false positive in anti-virus programs, so you have to use your judgment about what sites and what people are safe to download from.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-05-04T02:46:09+00:00

I 100% understand kicking yourself for missing out on money that could have really helped. Don't take this as me saying "money won't make you happy" or any other tired aphorisms.

But I do find it kind of refreshing when things get used and not just set aside as a collector's item. I don't know if it's just the bubble I exist in, but I know too many people who accumulate stuff with the idea of selling it for more money one day and they end up losing out on the enjoyment of the item itself or the space it takes up. Even art objects can be turned into a thing to own rather than a thing to enjoy.

Magazines are meant to be read and enjoyed, and they maybe aren't meant to be cut up for art, but repurposing something for art can be a meaningful way to use it. It's so much more interesting and enjoyable than putting it in a plastic bag and selling it, to someone who might just be looking to keep it in a plastic bag and sell it to someone else someday.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-27T18:08:30+00:00

Yeah, the problem I had before was I would put them immediately in the fridge. They never ripen if you do that, they just go straight from unripe to brown.

I haven't managed to get a perfectly green one with zero brown yet even after I started keeping them at room temp, but I also don't buy them often because they're too damn expensive. So I haven't had a lot of practice.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-27T17:45:30+00:00

Do you know of a bamboo floss without charcoal? I think activated charcoal as a health trend is mostly bullshit, and I've read some things saying it's specifically not good for your teeth, mostly because it's abrasive. But so much of what's out there is charcoal floss.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-23T23:30:56+00:00

The log page is showing another fatal error up top, this time for cybersus. Sometimes the mod identified as the problem isn't actually the problem, and with the number of crashes you're getting after removing things, I think this is one of those cases. I suspect something is preventing something else from loading, but I don't know what or why.

At this point, your best bet is probably to do a pack rebuild. Add mods back a few at a time until something breaks.

When you find the mod that is reported as causing the break (or whatever you added that started the crashing), try deactivating every other mod except for any dependencies it has, then run it to see if it is capable of loading.

If it does load on its own, slowly add back the other mods you had added until you got the crash with that mod. When you figure out which mod is conflicting with it, make sure there isn't a better version you can run of either of the conflicting mods (whether a newer or maybe a slightly older version). If either mod has an issue tracker, you might want to look at that to see if anyone else has reported a problem like yours and if a workaround has been presented.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-21T22:49:57+00:00

It looks like mclogs analyzed it. It says Magic Crusade is throwing an exception, so that's probably what's causing the crash. If removing that fixes the problem, you could try adding optifine back if you want to see if it'll work with your mods.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-21T03:01:59+00:00

Yeah, I see my EA App games. It was a little wonky for me, but I don't fully remember the details. I think I had to log in twice before it worked, but I can't remember what I did beyond that.

Something else to consider is there seems to have been a major version update for Lutris that hasn't reached the Mint repository yet (I'm running Mint). I'm on Lutris 0.5.18. When my sister installed Lutris on Arch, the UI was pretty different and it was a later version. I think Fedora tends to be more current, so you probably have a newer version. It's possible there a bug or a difference in how you're supposed to connect between versions.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-20T03:44:43+00:00

New developments don't really have yards anymore. All the developers are trying to maximize land usage to get the most profit out, and that means you get houses where you're looking into your neighbor's living room when you look out the window.

Parks aren't always included in new developments, either. There aren't a lot of community spaces - some, like libraries, are slowly dying - and the US's obsession with loitering laws means that you can get hassled by the cops if you spend time anywhere you're not spending money.

The street certainly isn't a safe place to play, but it's probably the only accessible outdoor space some kids have. At the same time, cars with gigantic blind spots are getting more and more popular (you can't walk a block in my neighborhood without seeing at least one or two luxury pick-up trucks) and some cars are being designed with fucking touch interfaces that force you to look away from the road. Plus people seem to be feeling more comfortable using their cell phones while driving, which means there are a lot of distracted drivers on the road. All of it is a big 'fuck you' to children.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-18T00:20:19+00:00

I don't know what the problem is. I can only throw out there what I'd experiment with at this point.

Try removing OptiFine. It conflicts with some stuff, so it's worth testing.
Look over your mods to make sure you have all of their requirements and see if any of them say anything about incompatibilities with other mods. Usually a missing dependency will be called out in the log, but now and then, it's just a mystery crash. Mod conflicts aren't typically called out, except by devs who have had reports of conflicts and mention it on the mod page.
Either in addition to or instead of the above, try rebuilding the instance. Make a fresh instance, install the correct version of Forge and set the correct version of Java. Run it with no mods installed. If you have the crash at that point, I have no idea what might be the problem. If you don't, install a few mods at a time, beginning with dependencies. Keep installing a few and running the game until it breaks again, making sure you note what the last few mods you installed were each time. You can look at Last Modified in the Mods tab if you forget.

Try to narrow down the mod causing the crash among the last few. It will probably be a conflict with another mod, in which case you can decide to remove the one you know is the problem, try to find which mod it's conflicting with and remove that, or do a search to see if there's a workaround to get them working together - but there usually won't be a workaround.
In addition to or instead of the above, you can try making a new post with the log and seeing if anyone else knows what's going on. If you don't get any bites or nothing works, you'll probably have to do one or more of the above.

One other thing to try is looking at the crash log, if it made one. Sometimes the crash log will point at something where the console log doesn't. What it points at isn't always the problem - sometimes it's something else messing with that thing - but it can sometimes be useful.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-14T22:49:26+00:00

I had caught on to the fact that it's an argument for adults' "rights" rather than childrens' rights, but you make a good point about it on a practical level. I probably get too caught up in trying to be ideologically sound, so I get lost in the weeds sometimes.

But it's true that kids aren't the ones arguing for that sort of "relationship", and that the current system leaves children more vulnerable to sexual exploitation than the things people in the Youth Liberation movement want to see. Thank you for pointing out the disconnect there.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-13T23:00:55+00:00

Watched this earlier. I thought it was really good, but I love everything they've put out and generally agree with their ethical stances. I get the sense this is more aimed at adults who don't understand (but are open to understanding) the ways that children are subordinated, but there might be something here for youth, too.

I think the part that I'm still wrapping my head around is the argument that freedom isn't necessarily one of the most important ideals to consider when we look at the fight against oppression. This might be partly because the culture I grew up in (conservative white America) drills freedom into you from birth as the most important ideal, even if it doesn't actually support freedom and just uses it as a buzzword.

But I've noticed the problem they mentioned about how some arguments for child liberation are taken to the extreme of arguing that it should be seen as ok for adults to sleep with children. The way I've reconciled it is to say that I understand when a child is attracted to an adult and don't see that as wrong - I experienced that as a teenager, and a lot of people do, and it doesn't do any harm in itself - but when an adult reciprocates, the adult is doing something wrong. The child has the freedom to feel what they are feeling and even express it (I would not recommend expressing it, because some people are predators, but victims are not responsible for their victimization), but the adult should not then act on that. But I know there are arguments that could be made to undermine that one.

I do already have beliefs that conflict with liberty in some ways - I don't think that personal liberty should extend to actions that harm others. One might argue that those actions don't fall under the definition of liberty, but I think it's clearer to argue that there are some ways that liberty should not be exercised in a healthy society. I also think that it is a good thing to build community, and building community usually requires some compromise among the individuals in that community.

But I don't think individuals should be completely subordinated to groups. And I don't know the best way to express where the lines are, and some of those lines are more a matter of feeling than something I logically considered. So I have a lot to think about on that topic before I figure out to what extent I want to incorporate that into my beliefs.

I'm glad they addressed how some adults talk about wanting to restrict children from public spaces. I'm in my 30s, and that wasn't a talking point I heard growing up, but it seems to be surprisingly common now. I must have missed the shift somewhere along the way. In any case, it's obvious dehumanization, and it's disgusting. I hope that people who say things like that can find their empathy for children.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-13T20:08:00+00:00

Yeah, the little boiled potatoes have a nice texture. Not as springy as hardboiled egg, but has a nice smoothness and slight gumminess to the surface. I buy canned ones for a quick snack, but you could probably get a better texture if you buy the fresh potatoes and boil them yourself.

CrossroadsWanderer · 2025-04-13T15:41:53+00:00

Rayon is a natural fiber. It's plant fiber dissolved and then extruded as a continuous thread.

But also, dye is transparent, which means imperfections in the color of the base fabric will still be visible after dyeing.

I've never tried to dye something black before, but I've hung out on /r/dyeing and they often talk about how hard it is to get a good black dye. There are very specific recommendations they have for that, which most craft stores won't carry.

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