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NM perspective: Border crossing at Anthony - immediate cattle feed lots, huge freeway, and then the pile of cookie-cutter houses that is El Paso.

North into Colorado: Seems pretty much like NM, but the food gets blander and more expensive as you enter Boebert’s district. Denver is ok, but it’s like Los Angeles at a little higher altitude. If Denver had a culture, it probably died in traffic.

East into Oklahoma/Texas: There’s like… nothing there. For miles. It’s really pretty, actually, but don’t get a flat tire.

West into Arizona from Gallup: It’s like a portal into the 1950s, all abandoned route 66 stuff and super offensive 1950s native american stuff.

Culturally, I’d say most of the 4 corners zone is pretty similar “southwest”, though Texas is really obsessed with big box stores and Arizona is a bit obsessed with unmarked police cars. Colorado culturally is as bland as their chiles :D

The biggest cultural shift is traveling through the res lands between NM/AZ where you can actually go to grocery stores with local language signage.

I did something similar, and it was a painful readjustment but so worth it.

Hmm. I think you mean ‘go from feeling like a teen/kid into feeling like a normal adult’? When I was in my first job out of uni, I was the youngest on my team, and definitely felt it. I slowly progressed over a few years into being one of the ones to do the documentation and training, and felt pretty ok.

When that healthcare company was taken over by a for-profit shitshow and I had to jump ship, I applied for a lot of junior roles at various places. I got several calls, but the company that hired me was the one that offered me the senior position/lead instead. That made me realize “Oh, I guess I do know what I’m doing”.

When I was heading up that group, I got a lot of management offers and when I finally departed to do consulting, it was because I had an appreciation for my professional worth. I did eventually leave that field because I just can’t handle doing defense shit anymore, and that’s really where the money is, but I still do ok.

My personal sense of ‘not feeling like a kid’ was probably when I started volunteering in my community, and doing a lot more to help the folks who needed it. When you develop strong friendships in the community that persist through things like illness and major life events, you have progressed beyond the whole ‘drinking buddy’ stage of friends.

Bandcamp, then I go to my favorite genres, and then look at the new stuff.

Webrings were one of the best ways to spend an evening. I loved getting lost in the Tolkien and Gardening ones.

I tried gemini protocol for a bit to see if it did a decent job addressing this, but it doesn’t. We do legit need a ‘smallweb’ non-commercial sort of thing, but I suspect retreating to a BBS model is probably what is required.

Netscape? I don’t think it worked out for them, if that was the case :D

I thought racial/class bias was due to lack of education and lack of access to information.

Holy cow was I wrong.

Well, this inspired me to swing my monthly wikipedia donation over to a world book sub instead. It’s bad enough that wikipedia was a very dubious source of info, but now this is just too much.

You mean the bubble of people who don’t want a factually incorrect, environmentally damaging shortcut to provide a summary that’s largely already being done by someone? You’re right.

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I’m subscribed to a number of ‘magazines’ and none of them have any politics at all. I peek into ‘all’ every now and again out of curiosity.

So, same as reddit - gtfo of all, and change your default feed to be what you want to see.

Only one who wrote about it was the one who went self-hosted, the rest didn’t talk about it. I would guess it ended up being the final straw, like “why direct people to X to back me instead of just promoting myself where they see me.” Especially if, as you say, the cut was so similar.

7 out of 9, yes, one went to self-hosted, another left in favor of youtube directly, the rest in favor of twitch. The last two I follow on Patreon (Techmoan and My Mate Vince) just sorta rolled past the whole thing.

Too little, too late. I only know 2 creators that I supported who stayed through all this. Most quit patreon when it was announced… this is hardly the worst of the fees they charge people.

I find it interesting that simply having been involved in litigation (I got sued once for an art piece) seems to be enough that I go home every time I’m called for jury duty. They really do want people with no idea.

I liked the drill attachment ones, I might get one next time. Thanks for checking them out, and the feedback :)

Oh for sure, I am doing them just for the fun of putting more out there. I’m a fan of the genre, I find repairing things to be very punk. Makes me happy to see something broken/useless/damaged/worn become useful and productive again.

Sure: https://dalek.zone/c/fix_it/videos

Such an awesome editor, I use it regularly to make little repair videos.

Yup, if it’s not food, rent, or essential utilities, I’m not buying it. I had several things I was saving up for this year, but nope.

What little spare I have I’m donating instead to my local food bank. Part of why I haven’t been very active in the record/cd collection forums lately, I just don’t see the opportunity right now.