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Internet in 2024 (for me):

1. Service unavailable in your country (VPN)
2. Confirm you’re a human (VPN)
3. Blank page (noscript)
4. Obscure error (fingerprint / cookie blocking)
5. Page not found (https required)

The percentage of websites that “just work” with privacy measures in place is depressingly small.

curve this waves fairphone

only because pinephones are barely usable and librems insanely priced! Or you can damn well believe I’d have a native linux phone.

National hydrography dataset and national geodetic survey (but I actually meant USGS, they provide a lot of data, their map viewer is a good introduction).

Agreed, I’ve learned a lot doing this. Sometimes it leads to a story, like the ruins of a federal fire watchtower that was destroyed by arson, or discovering one of the largest fisheries in the country. I’ve also noticed a lot more houses are torn down in my city than might be expected. Whole blocks are empty fields now, or maybe have one derelict house remaining.

It’s also disturbing just how much trash people collect in their yards… and the massive wounds of foresting and strip mining.

openstreetmaps ftw. Get that, turn on cartographic overlays (outdated scans but still useful), aerial imagery, download and import nhd data, pull up ngs website, and enjoy. Help us map rivers! Even better if you can do an actual ground survey w/ gps.

Apparently they call it “Hindu-Arabic” numbers now. Not sure if that makes it more or less frightening

Ah, the system of everything, didn’t that go out the window with quantum mechanics?

they do exist! I found some on fetlife back in the day… and I suspect a few at work. So cute.

but I honestly felt the same way about trans girls, like I was the only one in the world a few years back. Now suddenly we’re everywhere, I just saw like 10 more last night.

yeeeeah. They’ll have to hire people to work the checkout lanes in that case… which means paying enough to compete with other employers who offer more. Case in point, here it’s like 12/hr here to work in a grocery, vs 16/hr at Amazon. But even if they do this, people will still shoplift. Self checkout didn’t create the problem, it rather treats everyone like a suspect.

The grocery I go to never has more than one staffed checkout lane at any time, typically a very long line of people too old, too stubborn, or with too many items to do it themselves. During the day it’s 8 or 16 self-checkout lanes (minus broke ones), and they close in the evening, so everyone is forced to use the slow staffed checkout.

Only problem is there needs to be multiple trans girls on that bed :'(