Get this shitty rag out of here. NYPost is fucking propaganda spreading filth

Oh boy, I have a doozy.

I sadly went to a catholic school all the way up until highschool. In seventh grade, your hormones are waking up, you're noticing your peers in different ways. It's confusing, it's exciting, it's fucking chaos. What you need is a mentor. What you need is someone who understands what you're feeling and explains it to you.

Here's what I had.

I had the same teacher for a couple of classes...english, religion, and one more I think...it's been a long time. But the important one here is Religion.

She was one of the few teachers who wasn't a sister of the convent of the church my school was affiliated with. Yet, somehow, she was least progressive woman in the entire school.

I'm rambling. Here's two stories:

#1: She told a story about her roommate in college. Teacher was studious, polite blablabla. Her roommate was not. She went out and had unprotected sex nightly. Instead of contraception she just went and had abortions. (I'm not gonna bother unpacking how hard something like an abortion is to process as a 7th grader when you barely understand sex, but needless to say my perceptions of abortions and even conception was completely wacked from her)

They all graduate, move on with their lives but remain friends. Eventually her roommate gets married, and stops having abortions to have a child. She does, and when teacher goes to visit her in the hospital, she burts out in complete hysteric tears because she realized just how many babies she murdered.

Obviously that story is fucking bullshit, but a woman teaching a class of confused students that story is real as can be.

#2: A woman wanted to remain pure until she was married. One night she was in I think Las Vegas or some other sinful hellhole where she meets a lovely polite gentleman. He was very well dressed, well manicured, and somewhat flamboyant. They have some drinks and she is so enamored with this man, she realized he was the one. Since she knew this was the man she was goign to marry, why not fuck his brains out. (She probably didn't word it that way)

So she fucks his brains out, goes to sleep. In the morning the man is gone, but there is a bouquet of flowers in her room. On it is a note "Thank you for last night. I have many nights like that, usually with men. Welcome to the wonderful world of aids"

Now that I'm a father, I look at back at this as a teachable moment. I know that I will never hide the truth from my son, no matter how painful it might be. We're a sex positive family, and I never want my child to be confused about something and be afraid to ask me. Fuck that shit. Fuck Catholicism. Fuck indoctrinating children.

The citizens of the US voting on it would be nice

I'm sure it will eventually, but early stage tech needs some allowances while they handle growth and scale. Better to break stuff now than be hamstrung by tech debt years later

did you click 'add to homescreen'? you'll be none the wiser that it's a web app

i mean, this is the site that blocked nsfw content from hitting the front page

The existential dread I suffer from due to climate change is fucking palpable.

I remember everyone made fun of Al Gore when we still had a chance to fix this thing.

I did my part as an individual. I live in a city. I minimized my carbon footprint.

What did corpos do? They made it worse

What did our government do? Jack shit.

Giant 4 door trucks are somehow MORE common than they were 30 years ago.

I'm defeated. I honestly wish I didn't have a child, because I truly fear what the world will be like in another 30 years.

Couldn't agree more. I was a fail whale era twitter user. Wayyyyy early user. I ditched it a little bit before musk actually, but I still ended up seeing threads here and there because of Reddit.

Just today I landed on a Twitter thread, saw that x and it was like, strangely repulsing...I wanted to get the hell out of there asap

ChatGPT is incredible for middle ground developers like myself. I understand the goal I'm trying to achieve, and I understand the general process of how to do it. I can ask very granular, specific questions to ChatGPT and it will spit out some code that will get me close to what I need.

If I was a complete novice, I think ChatGPT would make me too dependent on using it for answers.

youre on lemmy.world right? If not, umm....where do I sign up to swab the decks

this gave me a mess in my pants. It's all I've ever wanted since Daggerfall

I don't miss Flash, but it's hard to deny that back in the day, it was nice to have a tool that rendered content universally for web browsers. It was also fun to make shit in. 100% obviously we're better off without relying on some proprietary software to render interactive components etc, but it did serve a purpose and give us a blueprint for what the web should, and often times should NOT be.

But, Fireworks(also part of macromedia) was a fucking fantastic program and was lightyears ahead of its time. Adobe murdering it spawned Sketch, which spawned Figma. So the irony and dread of Adobe buying Figma was never once lost on me.

I rely on these tools every workign day of my life, and fuck adobe for fucking with my workflow

A lot of it feels like they're trying to save on server costs. I got into a very strict routine of pasting in a code block, telling gpt to include xyz in it and return it to me, and its practically impossible not to get truncated code returned to me now. Very frustrating and not the time saver it once was

this is dope. is there a way I can set it as my default so when I go to lemmy.world i'll have this theme?

I just had a flashback to being in ‘the room’ where I said goodbye to my dog last year. I was with her through the whole thing and that room is forever imprinted in my mind.

Angell might be expensive, but they’re professionals, and I’m glad they’re in the neighborhood.

Sorry for your loss

Kind of dumb that the anti-vax, pro mayor harassing, pro-trump fuck face fired a couple rounds into the window of one of boston's busiest stores on one of boston's busiest streets.

They didn't strip them of the license, they temporarily suspended it until monica's appoints a new manager to handle it, since their current appointed license manager is in jail.

Good.

Wouldn’t be enough information

i've never seen a sweatier person than ftr bald

Totally. The other day I had to test a csv/xls upload tool. I wanted to make sure that no matter what configuration an asshole user had for phone numbers, it would strip everything out so it would be a valid integer for my database.

I told chatgpt to make me a csv with 20 rows, 6 columns with xyz headers, and to give me an assortment of different phone number formats. Took 10 seconds.