shot, chaser

saw a post about fanfic.net having issues again and people panicking yet again about the site going offline and rushing to archive their fics. i... have mixed feelings about this. i don't know how to put it but an attempt to sum it up would be something like...

"i don't think any of you realize you are making this worse by effectively DDoSing the already strained servers with your fichub/fanficfare/etc scrape requests and also i feel that this will attract the r/datahoarders type who does this shit bank run style and then dumps on the internet archive without consent of anyone who posted to the site"

I want a competing philosophy meme because I'm tired of the Trolley Problem. The ethical conundrums of our age seem to be less about when we get to exercise power over others, and more about how to compete with others to avoid harm in a rigged system.

I'm thinking about the Outrun The Bear Problem. (probably needs a more catchy name. Pursuit Bear Problem?) It's based on that old joke that if a bear is chasing you and a companion, you don't need to be faster than the bear, but just have to be faster than your companion. The conundrum is this: Is it ethical to outrun your companion so the bear catches them instead of you? And what about variations? Is it ethical to do something to slow your companion down? What if you could cooperate to have a 50% chance of both of you escaping but there's a 50% chance the bear gets both of you? I think this could be just as rich a thought experiment as the Trolley Problem, and perhaps more applicable to our current social issues.
#philosophy #TrolleyProblem

need to do this sometime

looking for a safe, queer friendly instance to have a lewd account on - any recommendations?

I wanted to try rendering shine but I gave up halfway

The absolute audacity of the wealthy elite (which includes members of Congress) to advocate for cutting social services that WE, not they, pay for.

They don't pay taxes like the rest of us do. WE pay the taxes that fund Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and food stamps.

Like walking up to someone who just bought a sandwich they are going to eat and slapping it out of their hands onto the floor.

The fucking nerve. The fucking audacity.

this comment under a video about bike theft is sending me

This is so charming I can *almost* not mention the absence of ants.

via tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/queerorthodoxy/764458256069476352?source=share

Also HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Okay I gotta give a shout out to BLOXPATH, a game that came out today, that i played on stream after being sent a key

it's taking the old flash game BLOXORZ and pushing it impossible limits. has the Extremely Good Puzzle Game feeling of "wait this is HOW big? it's doing WHAT with it's puzzles???"

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3249900/Bloxpath/

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If your password requirements include a 'special character' please list which characters you consider 'special'.

I just tried to make an account on a thing and it didn't agree with me that an underscore is a special character. I tried a semicolon and that came back with 'unknown error'. Presumably it made their database fart.

chat I'm so insufferable the (probably) discord scammer blocked me

-carrie

Cleaning sand. Hermit crabs are omnivorous scavengers; the sea floor's janitorial service. Here, a Grainy-Hand hermit holds a grain of sand in her maxillipeds, brushing off edible algae and diatoms. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit