to be clear for an existing community there are exactly 2 options:

1. you convince them to ban the slop

2. you create a new splinter community that bans slop

there is no coexistence with sloppers in the same community because they will drown out all the non-slop until all you've got left is slop

and frankly with how little backbone is being displayed by community leaders and how many of them are embracing the slop, #1 is probably a losing battle

because the sloppers aren't going to stop. they aren't going to stop until they've crowded out everyone who isn't slopping like them, until they've drowned all the signal with their horrible noise. we have to fight back because the alternative is to just let them have *everything* we value

and if you ask me that's not a fucking option

maybe waiting for the AI bubble to pop and people to come to their senses isn't enough. maybe it's up to all of us to #StopTheSlop

idk man, i just think we can't let the sloppers win and take all our spaces and all our hobbies and all our joy from us. we gotta fight back, and if we have to make our own new communities that ban slop to replace old ones that didn't have the backbone to do it, then that's what we gotta do

and i'm not saying it'll be easy. i'm saying that unless we wanna just lay down and give up and die that's our only choice

Me being the person I am, I decided to do some experiments with sticking needles in Halloween candy, because I had some mini Twixes that I was going to eat anyway lmao and twix/snickers are the most popular Halloween Needling Candies.  I was primarily concerned with: how hard is it to put a needle in candy, how clean does it come back out, and can magnets find it

First of all, it's clear why they're the most popular, you can pretty easily stick a needle in a Twix if you get it started then press it against a table.  If it's in the wrapper you're not gonna crush the edge too bad and frankly kids are gonna beat this candy up anyway.

I'm curious what one looks like after it's been getting beaten up in a bucket with other candy for an hour or two, but I'd rather not go to jail if I get caught walking around the neighborhood alone with a twix with a needle in it in my possession.  But if I remove the needle right away, it comes out....about 90% clean I'd say.  The needles in photos are always suspiciously clean, but a lot of it (for a Twix anyway) does kinda get wiped off by the cookie part.  You should expect some candy stuck in the eyelet though, but most people's photos aren't really clear enough to spot that kinda detail.

The main thing I realized though is, these parents waving magnets over the candy?  Fucking absolute waste of time.  I grabbed the strongest magnets I have, my big fuck off harbor freight magnets that are hard to even pull off of my toolbox, you don't feel SHIT waving them above a needle in a Twix bar.

Tomorrow I might see what a razorblade in an apple does with a magnet, I'd imagine that'd be more effective maybe, but if I do that right now then I'm committing to eating an apple and that's just not how my evening is going.

or y'know what, we could even work shorter hours when there's LESS DAY TO WORK IN???

🐹 I only use the Unix epoch timestamp, anyway I'll meet you at 1794340800

Yearly candy needle hoax contest, you get an expert in forensics to judge, but you all compete for the most convincing fake

Its a contest that's two tiered, you have your story and you have the candy sample. So part of it is making sure the two line up

The twist is the second place winner gets the prize, the first place goes to jail, we can't have you running around in society

Y'know what'd be great, if we just went to bed earlier and woke up earlier, if we agreed to do that As A Society, instead of trying to alter TIME ITSELF

🐹 We should all use UTC
🦝 I mean yeah, that'd make everything a lot -
🐹 not just on the internet, I mean in real life
🦝
🐹 anyway it's midnight, time for dinner

looking forward to reading american fedi's wild takes about time today

🦝 ugh what time is it
😾 real time or government time

My quick questionnaire for analyzing Halloween needle report stories:
1) Where and when did it happen?
2) Do they note the specific neighborhood they claim to have been trick or treating?
3) Did a parent report it to the police themselves, or did the police issue a warning after seeing a social media post?
4) How old is the kid(s) that had the candy?
5) Who found the needle in the candy? Child or parent?  (Pay close attention here, because sometimes parents will say they found it but the details show the kid told them first)
6) How was the needle found? From cutting into the candy? Breaking it in half? Biting into it? Magnets? (I can tell you right now, magnet is an auto-disqualifier)
7) One of the most telling things of all: does the report say that the child was HURT as a result of the needle?  Especially in cases where they were reported to have bit into it?
Last, of course, try to find the original facebook post (it's almost always a facebook post) and look closely at the photos.  Think about the logistics of the story told, think about what the candy would look like if these events happened in this order, etc.

Happy Halloween, remember that candy needling stories are hoaxes and the more you fearmonger over them the more you encourage actual kids to hide needles in candy themselves as a hoax
https://d-shoot.net/candyneedlers.html

@ifin thank god for this PSA, I just found the number 4 on a mini Reese's!

Moved a box or two of littleun's outgrown books so I'm happy

8-book hardback series of Cirque Du Freak going begging here, still got it 'cause the catch was you had to take the whole set

When selecting pumpkins this year I found one with a weird bulge on the side and immediately knew it needed to be the nose of a cartoony face.

Junk food for your body AND MIND

Is there good bookkeeping software for Linux?

#bookkeeping #Linux