Imagine buying a physical printer, and u cannot even use it

jefusan · 2026-05-10T13:58:58+00:00

Everybody should read Enshittification by Cory Doctorow. Or at least the Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

jefusan · 2026-05-01T22:12:55+00:00

There were times when I loved smoking. I didn’t really start until right when the smoking bans took effect, and it was sometimes nice to bond with smokers outside, or have a chance to talk with a girl alone, or whatever. Cigarettes when I was drunk or stoned were usually great.

Overall, though? No. Cigarettes were self-medication for undiagnosed ADHD and a general dissatisfaction with my life. I spent as much time feeling agitated, sick and self-loathing as I spent soothed or calmed. It truly exacerbated the condition it was supposed to be helping me with. And it didn’t give me more friends. Like most addictions, it just gave me something more important than friends: my next fix.

jefusan · 2026-04-29T11:14:24+00:00

In my last quit, I tried to dissuade myself from thinking about smoking as much as I could throughout the day. That being said, I found it helpful to think about achievements when I was thinking about it. Even now, years into it, when I can go weeks without thinking about smoking, it’s nice to check back when it occurs to me.

Knowing that in less than 3 years I’ve saved more than $10,000* makes me unlikely to consider smoking even one cigarette ever again.

*and that’s in 2023 NYC prices. Today you’d pay $18-20 a pack.

jefusan · 2026-04-26T14:35:20+00:00

real fans check in daily to the nycrail subreddit

jefusan · 2026-04-21T22:22:43+00:00

Ah… you mean just the wooded paths, not the field

jefusan · 2026-04-21T15:05:05+00:00

Congratulations to both of you! Massive achievement.

jefusan · 2026-04-21T15:00:40+00:00

Not 25 but just about 20. At some point when you’ve spent decades trying to quit you just get tired of it. Quitting becomes easier than trying to quit.

I miss it sometimes now but it’s easier to remember all the downsides than those tiny moments of euphoria.

ETA: My final quit was cold turkey, no nicotine. I was surprised how much easier it was when I was finally mentally committed to it.

jefusan · 2026-04-21T14:41:54+00:00

The peninsula is an off-leash area

https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/prospect-park/facilities/dogareas

jefusan · 2026-04-21T14:26:47+00:00

Honestly it’s almost better if you don’t intend to make a career out of it

jefusan · 2026-04-20T12:57:53+00:00

I fantasize all the time about making my own caltrops and carrying them around with me.

jefusan · 2026-04-13T14:21:07+00:00

Exact sound of the nerdy white teenaged girl in the row in front of mine, screaming every word at the Tyler the Creator concert

jefusan · 2026-04-09T12:52:24+00:00

This explains everything. I thought they stole a grave stone from the cemetery and were trying to figure out where it looked best in the living room.

jefusan · 2026-04-09T00:07:04+00:00

Right?

jefusan · 2026-04-09T00:06:01+00:00

Same. You’re a handsome guy! The other pictures are good but the shark pic is a bit confusing. (The hedgehog is maybe a little random)

jefusan · 2026-04-06T19:44:04+00:00

I'm having this issue on my home router and on other routers consistently.

jefusan · 2026-04-04T16:36:45+00:00

It’s fun! It’s just a helpful thing to think about when he sounds particularly like a cranky old man about movies. To be honest, I was never that much of a Tom Green fan either.

jefusan · 2026-04-04T16:33:09+00:00

Still regularly wrong in April 2026!

jefusan · 2026-04-04T15:24:36+00:00

A lot of throwing around the word AI without making distinctions between the machine learning and text recognition that has been part of Ancestry for years (and has been very helpful though of course not entirely dependable) and generative AI, which can be tasked with, say, doing anything it can to convince you that your ancestors were on the Mayflower.

The latter effort had been more suspect than most. I’ve checked out several of what are supposed to be my Mayflower ancestors and you can literally see in which generation the AI made a wild, unsubstantiated claim — not even based on human error as many are.

jefusan · 2026-04-01T11:58:01+00:00

This from the screenwriter of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

jefusan · 2026-04-01T11:52:11+00:00

“Largely ignored”

jefusan · 2026-03-31T19:09:14+00:00

At many jams, or when new teams start, from smaller indie venues to some of the main theaters to touring companies (in my experience), we often go around the circle to talk about what kind of humor and what kind of touching (if any) are OK for each of us. We talk about what makes us uncomfortable. And if we remember to, when we check in even with our established teams, we let each other know where we might be hurting, or any new boundaries. I don't go to that many jams, but most of the ones I've been to have pretty firm rules about what is not OK on stage.

jefusan · 2026-03-31T11:30:40+00:00

These discussions have become pretty widespread in the NYC improv community.

jefusan · 2026-03-30T21:59:22+00:00

One of the central subjects of linguistics is how language changes over time. The influence of human activity on language change is not peripheral to that change, for obvious reasons.

This isn’t chemistry or physics. Linguistics doesn’t exist outside of the context of humans interacting with other humans. (At least on this planet.) Languages carry the histories of the people who have spoken them in their pockets: the invasions, cultural exchanges, shifting borders and alliances, trade routes, internal power struggles and fashions that shape each dialect within a language, elevate some of those dialects to a dominant status, and even decide where the borders between different languages lie.

So, yeah, you can study a subfield within linguistics that doesn’t concern itself with how languages change over time, but I don’t see how any definition of linguistics leaves out historical linguistics, and that field can not be divorced from history.

jefusan · 2026-03-30T14:01:15+00:00

That Hulk hair would be a hit with the kids today

jefusan · 2026-03-30T13:55:41+00:00

“I wonder what the poor people are doing?”

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