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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Our demographics don’t support uncertainty. Most of us are here because we are certain distributed is better than centralized, community run is better than corporate run, FOSS is better than proprietary, etc. The sign-up process discourages casual users, so most users have made up their minds to be here.

    For better or worse, we’re highly opinionated, and we’ve decided some things are bad and others are good. Very few topics are open to discussion because we’ve already decided.

    And if we haven’t decided on something, it’s usually because we’ve decided it doesn’t matter, so we’ll ignore it.

    It isn’t a sustainable community, but I fit in, so I’m still here.


  • The text:

    How shall the ordinary worker get a fair share of these benefits; how prevent a few on top from hog- ging them?

    Organize; study; THINK!

    Try each day to learn something new and to make it count in your work.

    Go into the union as a worker, not a passenger; and if it isn’t going the way you think it ought to go, say so and help steer it in the right direction. As a voter stand for better schools, that your children may have a better start than you had.

    But first of all, brace up and take a course in self-improvement.

    Personal efficiency, personal skill, personal dependableness are still well worth-while the unit must be right before the combination can be strong.

    Make yourself WORTH more pay and more voice in the business and then DEMAND more. There is no better way to get it and to hold it.

    That’s really interesting. And optimistic.












  • I have a sedentary job as a software developer so it’s good to be more active.

    would you continue this hobby even though it’s wrecking my hands

    As a software developer who also has fucked up hands, no. This is your meal ticket. Don’t mess with it. Being depressed with a job is way better than being depressed without a job and a disability.

    I’ve actively avoided activities that use my hands because I don’t want to mess them up more. It sucks, but that’s where we’re at.

    I don’t know what activity to recommend. I do leg-centric stuff: swimming, inline skating, snowboarding, and soccer. I don’t know if those would be good for you.

    Edit: sorry. That came across as hostile. My hand situation is managed, but it still gets to me. I’m trying to say that you should take care of yourself and your hands. The short-term gain of an activity that messes you up isn’t worth it.

    Exercise feels great, and I hope you find something that works for your mind and your body.