ZiaNitori @ZiaNitori@masto.anarch.cc

went to a cool community run workshop on solar panels the other day in a different part of cali when phoenix was up and i asked good questions so i got a cool portable solar charging thing. it was mostly stuff i already knew but getting clarification on some electrical stuff i forgot about from nuke school was nice. one of the guys there ended up making the point that "there's no such thing as alternative energy" and started talking about how the energy that goes into making panels and other stuff exceeds the energy you get out of them and talked about the other environmental effects from the extraction involved and it's so fucked up that i can like count on one hand the number of twitter communists whose egos allow them to comprehend that really basic fact because most of them are just authoritarian technocrats

it's really clear that the person who's writing the paladin *tanking* guide doesnt understand what threat is and values damage over threat so they can maximize their personal parse at the detriment of their entire raid groups. really hope that in classic plus the devs make it entirely impossible for this kind of person to exist, threat should be a real mechanic that everyone has to pay attention to, not just the people at the highest end. how the tank decides to gear and whether they prioritize threat over mitigation should significantly change how a raid feels and there shouldnt be a single tank that thinks about how much dps they're doing because that makes no fucking sense

sorry, not a christian!

worshiping martyrdom is deranged death cult(derogatory) behavior, why would you lament the lack of it?

the pile of pine needles we moved into the compost on top of all the woody material was already partially decomposing so we basically turned an already existing compost pile on top of the compost pile we're trying to start, this should get things started a lot faster and we havent even got the big mass of green material and cow manure in there yet, very exciting

moving brush out from the field to the compost makes it pretty clear i'm going to have a lot more woody material than the compost will be able to break down which is good because i want to make a lot of brush piles for habitat but it kinda messes with how i pictured things would go in terms of what order i'm doing different things in. i want to make sure all of that stuff can get covered in manure and greener stuff so it can be broken down better and i wasnt planning on getting that stuff up until i got more brambles up which while they start green they get woody quite quick if left uncovered. might have to jump back and forth between working on the lawn and clearing out brambles and then save the manure and clearing out a path through an overgrown area for last

cant wait for phoenix to get here so he can help me think of a ton more projects i can overwhelm myself with lmao

i should have all the grapes in the pasture watered by tomorrow morning and i would've liked to get the set of grapes i threw in the garden covered better with another layer of soil but they've at least been getting watered consistently. still have the jar of mostly seeds that i need to get cleaned off in the fridge chilling in there to do some cold stratification stuff and i'll try to get them started in mason jars or something in like 3 months and then plant whatever comes up when it gets warm out. still need to figure out how to get the irrigation lines for the existing vines working before the water goes off for the season. got the weedwhacker working with some blades on it instead of the normal line to help buzz down some overgrown areas for more composting material, will be nice to help access to the grapes and growing area behind the pond and for some of the nastier sections of brambles. also wanna get the lawn mower going to take down a few overgrow areas so i can rake them up for a lot of green material

@exiliaex i usually dont have or at least never remember having dreams at least for a while now but now that i'm here i keep having multiple every night

had to wait on the dirt a bit (should be getting it done tomorrow when phoenix is over) and had to work on fixing the pool, gonna work on getting more stuff into the compost pile in the meantime and joe said it was cool for us to steal the chips and some other brush laying around the shed so that's cool. we gotta get a new isp as soon as we can so i can start raiding again in wow and we dont get weird outages. still need a couple more desks and chairs as well so alie and i arent sharing the same desk/screen and kammy doesnt have to be hooked up to the tv lol

got all the soil spread out, gonna try to pick up another layer with kammy tomorrow i think. if i'm able to fit more than i did last time i might dig up another section to get all the roses covered. noticed a big chip pile that might be able to cover most of not all of the garden chilling out behind the carshed and want to get that over to cover the soil. would like to make more progress on the compost before phoenix gets here but i'll at least have the front garden ready for planting after getting the brambles up and the compost going i want to get some holes for the trees that joe wants planted out up at the top of the place and wanna see if there's any tweaks i can make to the irrigation system or get some kind of watering schedule worked out if i cant. after that i should have more info about chips and planting more trees in the pasture and will either work on that stuff or start working on the area near the compost piles or get trellises up for the grapes

it's at worst dated. his dismissiveness and jokeyness around the subject works to lure in the type of degens that play VNs that require a tsundere, kuudere, genki girl, deredere, and trap to actually take the trap seriously and not just treat like a weird fetish route.

i think if you think ruka's arc in steins;gate is transphobic you have poor media literacy skills, are blinded by insecurity or have a really trivial definition of transphobia. okabe's whole fucking arc with her is going from being dismissive of her to not only seeing her as a girl but someone he could absolutely have romantic interest in. this kind of arc of not really connecting or respecting the other people around him to taking them seriously is a constant theme in the show with all of the girls that okabe interacts with in the show. you'd have a better argument that the rest of the gendered stuff in the show carries more transphobic baggage than this. ig there is an option that you could just be unaware that japanese doesnt have second person pronouns and are confused by some shitty subs sending mixed messages about that conclusion but there's still not really a way to miss him saying he promises to never forget her as a girl no matter what world line they're in

it's amazing to watch people who play a video game ask the devs to make changes that mean they dont have to play the video game any more. in mmo's, wow classic in particular gear only feels valuable if it take some amount of effort to get, but in future iterations of the game everyone just sort of gets whatever they want and then they can upgrade the stats on them basically infinitely through a grind that never ends unless you're in the .01% of players doing content that requires you to tolerate great amounts of interpersonal abuse and treat it like a full time job. when the people who play these future iterations of the game come back to classic they ask for the game to be streamlined in a way that would cut out any amount of grinding that makes item acquisition feel rewarding. these kind of people are the kind that would play survival minecraft for like 15 minutes, enable commands, give themselves everything and then be done with the game. they're miserable to play with and they want to be given everything because the game they're actually interested in playing is being a parasite to their raid group and focusing on improving their individual DPS as measured by some spyware that players use to upload logs of everyone in their raid group so they can rank themselves against other players so they can get into another raid group that clears faster and carries them better because the faster you clear the less mechanics you have to deal with. they want to get rewarded for navigating a social environment of getting invited to the right guild for showing up to the right place at the right time instead of for anything to do with the game. these people would much prefer being in an MLM than playing a multiplayer RPG except in an MLM everyone is participating in the competition whereas most raid groups arent really trying to focus on boosting their ranking like this so they wouldnt be able to be considered better than average for showing up at the right place at the right time with the right buffs and sucking off the right raidleader

i think to me the core of steins;gate is about okabe overcoming his issues with attention and communication. in the middle of rewatching for the first time in a while now, will followup when i finish

"jack of all trades, master of none" is stupid wagie propaganda because their specialists lose the ability to follow you if you learn to speak more than one language fluently

all the clay is dug now, just need to break up some chunks and root balls into smaller bits in the last section and fill in with the soil, will be really nice to get the compost online so i dont have to till the soil like this again tho it was pretty fun for the workout. there's probably zero fungal life in there to bother but i'm definitely fucking with some insects and arachnids with this disturbance. gonna spend the last bit of the day collecting blackberries and fucking with the sprinklers. going to try to rotate through all of them to get some water to all the seeds that were dropped near them though that will prob take the better part of a week to do since i'm only swapping them 3 times a day. going through all the sprinklers should also let me find any issues in the lines so i can try to fix them at some point before the water gets turned off. i wanna start making a little map of the place and keep things like info about the lines and what's growing where on it so i can plan things out better but i've been too lazy to go out to the shed and dig through our stuff to see if we have any spare paper there (we still havent moved all our stuff in cause kammys grandma is a hoarder/impulse buyer and was keeping a ton of her shit in this house and still needs to get around to moving a bunch of it out lol)

its so cool i actually have something to do with my body lmao

might be slipping in the habit of second lunch

you have not experienced happiness until you've seen some cows excitedly trot over from halfway across the pasture cause you left some treats in their snack trough