Shadow Firebird @shadowfirebird@weirder.earth

I've just seen slate.com show me a page that said "You are offline. Please reconnect to the internet to continue reading this article."

Tangentally: I agree that liberal/conservative are opposite ends of a spectrum, but is it really a political one? For me it appears to be about forming your opinions based on evidence, or not. Or caring about other people, or not.
I think it's a sapience spectrum, not a political one.

At approximately the other end of the spectrum, if I'm coping really badly with my life because I've been in a shitty situation for a long time and don't see a way out of it --- is that a MH problem? Or just clear thinking on my part?

It seems more than a little odd that guy with the gun doesn't figure in the DSM, but the guy not coping because his life sucks does.

I think maybe we need a new taxonomy. If a guy with no MH history runs into an office and starts shooting people, then we are told he doesn't have a MH problem. Partly that's to deflect extreme US right wing politics, I get that. But if the guy thinks he's *helping* by doing that (and he sure as hell doesn't think he's a "bad guy", a term that should only be used in the playground), then he's certainly something. Something that apparently we need a new name for.

I suppose it's normal enough to have a TV show from when you were a kid stick in your mind even as an adult. Certainly true of this show for me.
But, more unusually and seperately, I vividly remember the theme tune and titles. Won't go away.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei7i7RFvrUM

Nice thing that's just hit me: because the type of parameters can be specified, I don't feel under any pressure to name the parameter in a way that implies the interface. I can just name it after what it does.

Writing a method to populate the map, taking the player location as a parameter. In Ruby I would call it "tile", the location class. In Crystal I can call it "from"... :)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon on Android just gave me "Cursed Wand Error: Abort/Retry/Fail" and I can't work out whether it's taking the piss or not.

Laid out flat with a foul virus that's sapped my strength, but that meant I was able to make a start on the birthday game. It does nothing much so far but I was able to get quite a way into the code.
suddenly Crystal clicks for me! Don't know whether it's the new update, or I'm just avoiding Hashes, which aren't really like Ruby Hashes because of the type system.

TFW your part of a Mastodon conversation thread but you can't actually see all of it, presumably because some of the participants are on a proscribed instance.
Someone just answered "no", and I have no idea what the question was…