when a politician says "if they can do it to Trump, they can do it to you" he doesn't mean YOU you, he means other rich people you. that's the you he's talking to.

It's expensive to be poor. It's ironic but true. You get charges and fees for everything. Higher interest rates. Overdraft fees. Late fees. Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk. Losing your job because you can't afford to get your car fixed. Losing your car because you don't have a job. Even your mental faculties are drained, as you are forced to continually eat low-nutrition foods, "sleep" in miserable conditions, and be exposed to toxins and lack of medical treatment. The lack of liquidity wipes you out. Life really does kick you while you're down.

You can't tell someone trapped in that vicious cycle to "just" get a job or "just" make responsible decisions. Sometimes, no amount of good decision-making can stop the vortex sucking them down. So the next time you are tempted to place moral judgment on someone who lives in poverty, think twice.

Signed, someone who has been both a Have and a Have-Not.

Someone asked, "Are you open to try different IDE or Text editor to improve your workflow?"

So I'm sharing a quote from myself from March 9, 2017:

"Some things you can change, like boy/girlfriend, house, car.
Some things you just can't change, like your fav text editor."

Spring is the latest short film produced by Blender Animation Studio. Made in Blender 2.8. Get the production files, assets and exclusive making-of videos by joining Blender Cloud at https://cloud.blender.org

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Spring is the story of a shepherd girl and her dog, who face ancient spirits in order to continue the cycle of life. This poetic and visually stunning short film was written and directed by Andy Goralczyk, inspired by his childhood in the mountains of Germany.

The Spring team used the development version of Blender 2.80 for the entire production, before the software was in official Beta even. As for all of Blender’s Open Movies, the entire production process and all its source files are being shared on the production platform Blender Cloud.

Director: Andy Goralczyk Producer: Francesco Siddi Executive producer: Ton Roosendaal Music: Torin Borrowdale Sound: Sander Houtman Concept art: David Revoy Animation director: Hjalti Hjalmarsson Modeling and shading: Julien Kaspar Animation: Ignacio Conesa, Nathan Dillow, Pablo Fournier Rigging: Juan Pablo Bouza Lighting and effects: Pablo Vazquez, Sam Van Hulle Software and Pipeline: Brecht van Lommel, Jacques Lucke, Jeroen Bakker, Sergey Sharybin, Sybren Stüvel, Tobias Johansson

Rendering IT4INNOVATIONS VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Format: 3D animated film, 7:44 minutes. 5.1 sound. No dialogs. Fit for an audience of 6 years and older (PG). Everything you see was made with Blender, GIMP, Krita and Inkscape.

#EditorialCartoon

‘Under His Wings’: Leaked Emails Reveal an Anti-Trans ‘Holy War’

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kxpky/leaked-emails-reveal-an-anti-trans-holy-war

The days ahead may be difficult, the path ahead uncertain. There may be many who will root for you to falter. You know this, but you will forge ahead anyway, because you are a warrior. Take heart, and take on everything that comes your way, warrior.

38 years and 9 months ago, Tetris is officially released in the Soviet Union on the Electronika 60, closer to World War II than to today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika_60

So this is a bit of a mind-bender: the release of Tetris is closer to the World War II than it is to today. WTAF? (via @migurski) https://botsin.space/@ww2halfwayline/110039807080445831

The FCC is ordering phone companies to block scam text messages. Carriers must block texts from "invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers" and those from numbers that never send text messages. Finally! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fcc-orders-phone-companies-to-block-scam-text-messages/

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine, namely the forced deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia. https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

Cargo e-bikes are selling like hotcakes now. "It feels as if the industry and the government have simultaneously woken up to the enormous potential of cargo e-bikes to replace car trips and improve the environment." (via @marcprecipice) https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/18/23645151/cargo-ebike-electric-golden-age-prices-utility-dtc

@khaosgrille out of mana is how I feel all the time

How To Copy Files And Create Target Directories At The Same Time In Linux #Linuxcommands #Linuxhowto #Linuxtips #Linux #Commandline
https://ostechnix.com/copy-files-and-create-target-directories-at-the-same-time/

My good sir, is this man a hero, or a criminal?

06:35 I have felt ‘under the weather’. Which is a way of saying ‘unwell’. What this has meant is that I haven’t been out IN the weather and I have missed it. Going out in all weathers is what uplifts me. So no new photographs for three days. So this morning I’m going out.

O7:58. Took two photographs from the hill. Some cropping and zooming in. This one is the more dramatic of the two.

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde

#boring #outdoors

The people who don’t want to give kids free lunches, have never tried to teach a hungry child.

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”