Idk im a bot and a government agent

It’s the same but I had to block a few users. Very Reddit-like in some ways. Glad karma isn’t a thing though.

Warning: This is a guess, don’t take my comment as fact! :3

I think it’s a relic from the past, because computers do images from left-to-right, top-to-bottom, so, since your mouse cursor is an image, the top-left corner is the origin. Maybe it was too much of a hassle to center the crosshair on the origin, and instead developers or designers came up with the arrow shape.

Since the arrow works fine, it became what’s most commonly used nowadays. The crosshair and dot have a different meaning, for example there’s a cross when resizing or dragging, and drawing programs usually use a dot or a tiny circle instead of the arrow.

• Make the city government responsible for sidewalks instead of the property owner. As of now, the sidewalks are all uneven and often sloped, horrible for accessibility. With enough money they’d be convinced to do that. I’m not sure if this is the case because of state or federal laws or if it’s a city thing, I live in Brazil.

• Help people in need of housing and financial stability. People should be able to pay their own bills instead of stealing water and electricity from who-knows-where.

• Make the local electricity and water infrastructure public. Basic services shouldn’t be for-profit. Maybe even end these bills entirely and make these services included in tax, it could work out.

• Move people out of areas prone to disasters, like landslides. People need good, safe housing.

• Make nice tiled streets that aren’t full of holes. I think tiled streets are better than asphalt, except in highways.

• Fund a better draining system because streets here get flooded when it rains a lot. Tiled roads would help also, I think.

• Make the transit of more touristy areas mostly separated from resident areas.

• Separated bike paths. Bikes should avoid contact with car routes when possible.

• Free buses for everyone.

• Help new businesses in areas which didn’t have businesses before.

• Spend a lot, and I mean a lot on funding education and school lunches.

• Investigate corrupt politicians, at least on the local level since that’s the premise of the question.

Any controversial changes, or changes that would take a lot of construction (like fixing the sidewalks and housing) would come with campaigns and be spread out over time for gradual change. Free buses on the other hand could come instantly because I’d have millions or billions of dollars in this scenario.

We are translucent to X-rays, but we’re also translucent to visible light up to a certain depth, and I can make my fingers glow red with my phone’s flashlight! That’s so weird.

Also, just look at how far away you can see things (if you can see, if you don’t know what it’s like imagine like hearing but wit, uh, a wider range?).

How the hell do you know that the sun or the moon or the stars are there?! They’re so far but you can still detect them with your eyes (though ideally you wouldn’t stare at the sun, but y’know what I mean)

Also it’s crazy that the universe is like 13 billion years old according to science, but for me the universe started when I was born (and for everyone else but relative to their date of birth), or even when I started remembering things, so I have to deduce that things happened before I “started experiencing” by looking at their indirect effects, as I wasn’t there to live through those things because I didn’t exist yet.

There will be people who don’t exist yet. Wow.

Let’s delve into the-

ok I can’t be bothered to write like that again but yeah it’s slop parody

Absolutely not — it’s a computer program, a piece of software, pretending to be human. I’ve always been against that, especially now that it’s less obvious if it’s a real person talking 🙆, or just a computer program someone prompted 🤖

I value honesty, and, sincerely, I hate that the web is filled to the brim with AI ‘slop’. As a human being who values creativity, I don’t want to see that. Fundamentally it is made to mimic human output — it’s not just annoying, it’s disingenuous.

Have you seen the better browsing experience? It’s on Zen. It’s literally on Librewolf. It’s on Floorp without ads. It’s literally on Waterfox. You can probably find it on Ironfox. Dude it’s on Ladybird. It’s a Servo original. It’s on GNOME Web. You can browse on GNOME Web. You can go to GNOME Web and browse it. Epiphany has it for you. </joke>

One cup of coffee with milk in the morning

I use them for different interfaces, different people and different things (I mostly comment/lurk on Lemmy, post random thoughts on Mastodon and post more art on Wafrn).

I rarely see Mastodon posts on Lemmy and vice-versa, and this Wafrn instance has native BlueSky integration which I find interesting (I haven’t actually enabled it on my account yet, so I can see but not interact with BlueSky posts).

pawb.social because furries (kbin.social was discontinued i think so i had to leave there)

moved my mastodon account to furry.engineer because it was run by the pawb.social team. also i’d never seen a .engineer domain before lol.

and i have an account at waf.moe because i like how it looks and wafrn is different and cool. there’s also custom css on profiles.

I’m brazilian, our official language is Portuguese, and Qwant is not available here either. It seems they don’t understand that people can speak two or more languages? They could just put an “English-only results” warning, but ok.

NoAI DuckDuckGo (noai.duckduckgo.com)

it has decent enough results and disables the unwanted AI features (I don’t want to prompt an LLM whenever I search something)

I am willing to switch to something else, right now DDG is good enough.

Oh, I won’t be verifying my identity, ever. It’s basically self-doxxing.

Or I’ll host my own server and mark myself as verified. I mean, does one even verify if an ID check was actually conducted? Who would be bothered to check?

Subscribed: top 12 hours

Local: top week

All: top 6 hours

Heat makes me sad because I hate sweating so I avoid sunlight and stay in a room with the fan on. I also dislike noise so I don’t like having a fan or AC on, but what am I supposed to do? Only good thing about hot weather is taking a cold shower and enjoying it.

My perfect weather is sunny and cold (between 10°C and 20°C). I love sunlight but it’d be nice if it didn’t heat things up too much. I wish this kind of weather happened more often but sadly it’s usually a few random days where it’s suddenly colder for some reason.

Dutch, French or Japanese.

Dutch because I would like to live in or at least visit the Netherlands some day,

French or Japanese because French is interesting and learning Japanese unlocks a whole other side of the internet (and UI design), and anime without subtitles.

Out of those I’d probably pick Japanese, as Dutch is relatively easier to learn by non-magical means.

On a related note, I love olive oil but hate olives, because anytime a dish has olives at all, it tastes like there’s too many olives. It’s like the olive takes away the taste from the other ingredients and replaces everything with olive taste.

Cilantro tastes fine to me though.

Hosting your own instance will always cost money? Either as an electricity bill, or in the form of paying someone else’s electricity bill and server maintenance for conveniencd. Even self-hosted server admins pay with their time in away also, there’s even moderation to consider as well.

So, how’s your grandpa?