lilypad [she/her, undecided]

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Cake day: October 26th, 2023

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  • (cw misogyny) Not AP, but my gov/econ teacher went on a long rant one class about how he knows the reason misogyny exists,

    and that it was because women give birth, and that because of that their bodies need to be biologically weaker and need to be taken care of so they can take care of babies, and so it was only natural that men were protectors, and thus it was only natural that men get upset with women when they provide and then only get more mouths in return. He wasnt explicitly saying women deserved misogyny, but his whole rant was steeped in that attitude and justified with bioessentialism.

    Very normal thoughts he had visible-disgust











  • Just my thoughts, maybe I’m real wrong, but:

    Every candidate will be at minimum slightly different than ones platonic ideal candidate, but a vote for them is still a blanket endorsement of their politics and policies. We cannot vote for someone and say “I only support this aspect of their policies”, rather, we can only say “I believe that this aspect of their policies outweighs these other aspects.” In this hypothetical case of a government worker, that statement becomes “I believe that my continued employment for the government under this future administration outweighs the continuation of the genocide being committed and inflicted upon Palestinians”.

    It is important to recognize and grapple with the fact that by existing in the US and participating in the social systems of the US we are contributing to this genocide, some of us in small ways some in large; we must critically consider how we can minimize our contribution and how we can actively work against the states actions. However recognition of our being held hostage like this does not justify explicitly supporting genocide. A vote is an explicit act, and is an endorsement of the politics of the person and party being voted for.







  • If you ever start doing it, let me know because I’d love one.

    Ok what would you want in a midi pad? Number of controls and types, layouts, etc.? Ive been looking at ADC units and especially arduinos (not too keen on doing a 10000 unit order of ADCs lol) which have a multiplexed ADC, so 8 analog inputs plus i could do a grid of digital inputs. One thing I was thinking of was having midi note velocity controlled by a pot or encoder or something, or setting up groups of digital inputs with different velocities.

    I’ve been thinking about getting back into it because I had a lot of fun with it before depression really took over.

    code evangelizing

    If you ever feel like getting into it again, I have never had more fun than with the programming language Common Lisp. Its weird, its old, its incredibly responsive. It has a really easy to understand syntax (imo) which makes code navigation a breeze. It was also doing LSP 30 years before LSP. Its what I love to write and it makes solving problems really easy imo. And if you write good code and use a smart compiler, it can be almost as fast as C (or as fast even, if you (declare (optimize (debug 0) (safety 0) (speed 3))))

    Mental stability is a great feeling. It comes and goes in waves, but those calms are really great

    Yeah yea ive been feeling functional again, and all i can think of is “cool, so im gonna fall back into a deep depression any day now, great, lovely, thats exactly what i wanted”. And friends say “nah just find what hypes you up”, which is a shitty invalidating answer. Makes me not want to be around them.