red nose energy

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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • Okay, so I tried a couple of accessoriea and for me the holder on the belt did it.

    An illustration of a somehow different product:

    a phone holder to strap on the belt

    My holder has a little loop for a carabine (to put it onto a neck strip?) as well as vertical and horizontal loops that can secure it onto your belt either way. Unlike legs and hands, my ass doesn’t move that much, so if a phone fits the holder, you won’t feel it moving by itself.

    Of vertical and horizontal placements I’ve chosen horizontal on my side. I pick my phone with my hand going from my side to my crotch. It proved to be more natural than lifting it up, and unlike vertical placed phone it doesn’t hit your legs and stomack and also wobble even less.

    Downsides are that it can look like you are taking up a gun if you are in the US and also you’d need to wear a t-shirt tucked under your belt for it not to get into your way. A jacket can go over such holder with no problem, but everything tight should go behind it.
















  • As it happens, it organically goes down to who owns the platform. In our conversation if it could’ve happened IRL, there could be two parties of equal rights (to just leave?). In a context of, say, a D&D party or a small gathering\chat, roles are equal with some privilege to the one who collected people together. In the case of some public space on the internet, like a US-based Facebook (as per the article about eating cats), we have Meta’s oversight, then government’s oversight, then community’s admins oversight, then users’ own shit filter. And in the later case, it gets a bit more complicated because it’s established that we let that state use our agency for our own good, then we let a corporation take our agency in their own hands to dictate what it should be by registering on that platform, and then we participate in some community with it’s own rules and mods, and only then other people who can report one’s post to one of these previous ones. That’s how the delegation of opinion to other parties usually works.

    But your question is not about how it is, but how it should be. And for that I’d prefer to go down to the second level, when a club and it’s admins set up rules for communication of individuals on their platform, like a Lemmy instance, and users have a saying about how they see the future of their instance and a liberty to quit it. If that doesn’t fit you, you skip town and join another one, or create one yourself. That level of agency has it’s flaws, probably, but it’s better because less parties with different privileges are involved there, and you communicate with only admins and other users without that becoming too complicated.

    On the side note though, I need to note, that I as a foreigner from an absurdly conservative country started to refuse myself from using the f@g90t slur that is set deep inside my language to describe a lot of bad things casually. That is because I want to communicate with people and communities that don’t want it there, and as I don’t see any value in this particular slur, therefore I just adapt. I find that a couple of guys I work with wouldn’t like that either, because they are called that by people I despise and don’t want to be associated with. I don’t feel like researching the cases when I or them can call someone a f@g9ot, I just dropmit because people I personally care about find it uncomfrotable. And our language, just like a snake, keeps cliding on top of a dune changing it’s direction whenever most people of it’s users gets some new catchy word or retire an old word as unacceptable.