Thanks! Glad you love the new design! I had so much fun putting together. And yeah, I love TS2 so much â it was great rediscovering it recently, as I hadnât played it in years. Iâm still trying to figure out how to get the Sims 2 Clean Pack installer working on Linux, though⌠I can get basic package files working fine, but no .sims2pack files, alas.
Re: political beliefs, that wasnât a typo, but I guess I could have explained it a bit better! I simply mean that I support progressive liberal ideologies at the social level and am in favour of liberal (as in âgenerousâ) government spending that supports those ideologies. This is in opposition to people who claim to be âsocially liberal but fiscally conservative.â I donât align myself with classic liberalism, if thatâs how it came across.
The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include a catalog of named colors and their origin stories, a list of search engines with their own indexes and a link to a book thatâs part graphic novel, part art work and one piece in a larger collective of work that reimagines Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced the earthâs population. I talk a bit about the upcoming surgery. Thereâs another fresh helping of links in Link Lagniappe. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
I donât know why my mind went to this place, but I use this quirky linux shell called fish and your title made me nod in agreement like âYeah, thatâs right, I am on my fish shitâ
I guess gross is relative⌠do you have opinions on eating intestine e.g. tripe?
ill be honest i have no clue what tripe is, but i do like chicken and beef livers lol and the chicken heart. outside certain parts of the world a lot of people think eating liver is gross. so i guess, grossness is indeed relative
This stuff bothers me too, and English is my first language. I donât like insincerity, and loneliness is hard enough without being let down by fake invitations.
What do you do if someone says âwe should get coffee sometime?â and you arenât interested though? In this context the invitation is low-obligation by designâitâs a way of giving the other person a way to back out without having to appear rude or provide an immediate answer.
I love seeing conception to end product for your site. It makes me realize I really should just draw my next site and get my positioning to match, rather than just moving boxes around off of vibes
you just say so. âi canâtâ or similar and thats valid. you arent usually to be invited by someone u barely know so u can be direct lol
edit: to give you full context what people would usually say is âne mogu sad, drugi put?â (i canât right now, maybe next time?). but there arenât implications like it probably would have in english. if youâre at least somewhat close to that person, the next time WILL HAPPEN (usually).
Yeah thatâs the other element of the cultural difference I think.
In the US at least there is a strong culture of ânetworkingâ and trying to expand your sphere of influence, so it is quite common to meet someone for the first time at a conference, meeting, etc. and suddenly they say âWe should get coffee sometime!â If you were obligated to give a firm yes/no on the spot then this would get uncomfortable pretty fast since youâd be saying no like 80% of the time. The social consensus that an informal âyesâ here isnât actually binding gives you an easy way to say yes and then just neglect to follow up instead of embarrassing the other person.
I have had the experience before where someone said âHey we should hang out sometimeâ and I said âsureâ fully intending to ignore them, and then they immediately pressed me for my phone number, contact info, etc. and it was very awkward. Maybe itâs my fault for not being firmer but I just have trouble imagining saying âI canâtâ to every creep given that thereâs such a strong social consensus in favor of just saying sure and ghosting.
itâs not that people DONâT network here, but its usually either kept at the event. all bigger events like seminaries will be held at a dining hall, or you will go to one after. so after the keynote is done, people can dine, drink and talk. we still arenât fully into the whole âtime is moneyâ kinda thing so socialization, and even networking is quite slower.
that person might be balkan, south european, eastern european, or middle eastern lol. in all of those cultures, invitations are usually literal.
This is cool, I think the idea of starting out on paper is really interesting. I have never tried that beforeâI learned CSS when I was a kid but never learned how to draw! It pushed you toward a concept that honestly looks kinda hard to pull off if you want the CSS to be fully responsive, text wrapping etc
