Coping with existential dread through snark. Also a huge Star Trek nerd, so just be ready for that. If you use "generative" AI, DNI. I will block you. There is too much creativity in the conscious minds of this world to displace it with algorithmically assembled detritus. Pronouns: she/her HRT date 💊: September 8, 2019
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Last Notes npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Just a bump of this, while it's on my mind. Are you still looking into this, or have you decided to leave it in? I know most people don't read the TOS, but I do, and I take it seriously. If you don't intend to remove the forced arbitration clause & class action waiver, then I'm going to start shopping around for a new instance (or just leave the platform altogether, because fuck it, if even Mastodon servers are going to foist this shit upon users). npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Do try to remember that all cops are bastards though. I bet most of the rank-and-file of CPD are more interested in enabling ICE than opposing them. Since you're already on CPD's Wikipedia page, scroll on down to the "controversies" section to see why the department has been under a consent decree for the last six-ish years. Civil rights violations and police brutality: Same 💩; different uniform. It's the civilians in Chicago you should expect to stand against ICE, not CPD. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin And he's still paying $200/mo. for it. What a rube. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Open post to @npub1s20…twmm: Is the document linked below a ToS that you wrote up, or a generic one that was foisted upon you (and your instance users)? I'm not on with mandatory arbitration clauses or class action waivers, so if this is meant to be binding, I'm going to be dipping off of this instance. If it's not meant to be binding, then please take out the trash. https://mstdn.social/terms-of-service npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin At the risk of being contrarian to the admin of my instance (😬): Intelligent use of solar panels *can* actually enhance the productivity of agricultural land. Turns out a lot of plants and animals evolved in environments that are occasionally shaded. Who knew? 🤷♀️ And car parks large enough to support a solar farm shouldn't exist to begin with. Put housing and mixed-use buildings there with panels on the roof, instead of panels over an endless plane of tarmac. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin I stopped using Steam for twelve years, while they had a mandatory arbitration clause in their TOS. I turned down a job because they had a mandatory arbitration clause in their employment contract. Fortunately, I'm not on the mastodon.social instance. I just wonder if they're going to merrily feed all the data from federated servers into their database of stuff to sell later. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin The legal way to do it is to print all of that information, store it in boxes, and then put the boxes in a disused bathroom at your house. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin A lot of people seem to forget that we were calling Twitter "the Hellsite" long before Musk bought it. Just because he made it worse doesn't mean it was ever particularly good. :blobfoxnauseated: npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin I believe the word on the truck's grill is an instruction for passing trains. :neofox_evil: npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Thank you for waiting for my BIOS update to finish before pulling the plug. 🙏 npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Thank you for being vocally supportive! :heart_sp_trans: npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin We don't want him anymore than you do! 😭 npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Oh, so the DoD is soliciting bids. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin We take a machine that does math--that's all it does--and then we make it do a bunch of really complex math to form grammatically plausible sentences, so that when it's asked a math question, it can give the WRONGEST answer. And we're going to spool up a bunch of decommissioned fossil fuel power plants to make it happen! npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin That's pretty easily justified. npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin The microbiology department at my lab posted one of those on their door. I don't know how they could have a problem with trespassers, given what you can usually smell cooking in the incubators. 🤮 npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin "Where is the nearest ballot dropbox?" LA County: "There are three in your living room." npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Yes. It didn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003 npub1vrph2nmfkf0sa56n3z9h7ucs683nhdtlfsk49v26xh9l5hh9w95sv3zp6e Alyssa Voronin Here I was, expecting a huge OSHA violation.