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today I learned that in british english, the word beta is pronounced /bitə/ instead of /betə/

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assistance request, discussion of shitty living situations 

So, uh, we desperately need help. There's a lot of stuff going on and I figure I'll go over it:

First, @pillowcat and I are currently living in a *shit* situation. It's a house that got like 1/10th of the way through a remodel and then abandoned, the toilet barely works, the hot water barely works, the floors are nasty. We can barely afford to eat b/c I'm disabled and haven't managed to get on disability yet, and Tess is having trouble job hunting. And it's REALLY hard for me to get medical supplies down here. We really, really want to get out of this situation and out of this state but we need enough money to eat and on top of it some padding to allow Tess to go job hunt in the area we want to move to.

Secondly, my GFs, @Tryn and @Siruco are currently in the process of getting kicked out of their house. They have nowhere to go besides to a similarly shitty situation that'd put them well away from all of their support systems and any chance of getting back out. So we want to get them in with us in a better situation, but first Tess and I have to be in a good enough situation to help that happen. Please, please help. paypal.me/nautilee every lil bit helps, and please please boost this around. We're all pretty desperate.

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whatchamacallit levels are 61% and rising

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privileged things (+?) 

Talked to our dad about wanting to get a hybrid or electric vehicle (we've mentioned this desire several times before) and asked for advice on how to save up money for one and his response was "why don't you go to local dealers and look at used ones, I'll help you buy one if it's something you feel strongly about"

so uh, probably going to go to a carmax today and ask to see some cars

this is kind of sudden and not what I was expecting to happen

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unicode, chaos magick, possible time travel, long, rollercoaster of a post 

Today in "things that are extremely fucking weird in Unicode": ⍼

U+237C, aka RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW, aka "something that makes no sense mathematically or in a graph".

Until you find out it's very, very nearly the exact form of the "ellis sigil", or the "linking sigil", commonly used in occult or chaos magick, as seen here.

This is the only thing that looks at all similar to U+237C, and U+237C doesn't look anything like anything I've ever seen in any actual tech usage or math, which is interesting as it purports to be a "math symbol".

This would be at least mystery solved as to how it could've happened, albeit weirdly: someone snuck in a chaos magick symbol and said it was from math.

Except the ellis sigil was created in 2003.

Unicode 3.2, released in 2002, contained this nonsense symbol.

I have no answers for why.

social ???? 

someone in a discord room apparently decided that I was getting defensive and offended because I used an exclamation mark when I said "oh, I'm just curious!"

I am completely baffled at this and don't understand why they're all bristly at me now

krytron, ignitron, sprytron, gyrotron, audion, selectron, dekatron

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why do electron tubes all seem to have Extremely Good Names

just tell me the names "thyratron", "klystron", and "magnetron" don't sound cool

fun fact: the entire reason that vacuum tubes like the 6N8 exist is because germany decided they would tax electronics based on the number of tube sockets in them... so tube manufacturers started making multiple tubes in a single glass envelope, that fit together into a single socket

it's interesting to realize that I have the power to completely change someone's mood just by putting words in this box... I hope I tend to change moods for the better!

@monorail I take back what I said about them being mostly better than mm2wood

mm2intro is awful

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@monorail after you showed us that mm2wood.mid youtube recommended us this and it turns out there's a whole set of bad midis of mm2

though mm2wood seems to be the worst of the bunch by a fair margin

youtube.com/watch?v=LyntvWgsEY

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so uh, apparently people think dragon quest builders 2 is really good

was the first one also good? i feel like we might have missed out on a good game and kind of want to go try it now. we can't really afford it now but when we can, what system would be best to get it on?

re: ph -, mh -, plural 

ph-wise it feels like we need food but also like we're full? maybe we had something yesterday that had gone bad or something >.<

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ph -, mh -, plural 

ugh, stomachache
also feeling like we need to switch but can't right now because we're waiting on a phone call and I'm the one who can do phones

okay and then we got four emails in rapid succession that say, in order,
-"Hello, Status of following WO has been changed" (followed by the work order number and some minor details)
-a completely blank email with no subject
-"Work order has been placed on hold" in the subject line, with body text "Hello," and nothing else
-"Hello, a maintenance member will contact you shortly"

I think something is wrong with the ticketing system

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