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i have spent probably a good few hours by now reading through (some of) your site; absolutely love your writing style. i was not expecting the muji essay to be as fascinating as it was, but that might've been my favorite one. & this is definitely one of my fave sites i've encountered on here
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saltedslug
8 months ago
This one made me cackle uncontrollably... also the timeline of products on their company website is absolutely batshit -- https://www.ryohin-keikaku.jp/eng/about-muji/history/ -- I LOVE 2010's product: the right angle sock
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suboptimalism
8 months ago
oh yes the right angle sock, it's kind of a big deal, there's a big display and poster promoting it in the store. the 2020 product on the product timeline is the "cricket cracker", which appears to be exactly what it says on the tin...
for some reason all of my profile activity was deleted and while searching for an answer i came across your "some undocumented neocities mechanics" page and this info is so great!
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photohomo
10 months ago
even if this site glitch doesnt get resolved for me, i think finding your site is worth it haha
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suboptimalism
10 months ago
it wouldn't really be "suboptimalism" if it wasn't hosted on a platform with occasional glitches...
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red-white
4 months ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the scoring stuff, though it seems like you missed that it applies to all filter options except Newest (which is a hard 100 view minimum) and more recently the non-tag search. I miss being able to find low viewcount sites man
Thank you for sharing your Neocities mechanics findings! I learned a lot and now feel less crazy about some less-than-consistent behavior I've witnessed over the past couple years. I will definitely be referring back to this in the future! :) I also loved your writing about passenger rail! I share the exact same sentiments as you outlined in that first bit of the page
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saltedslug
11 months ago
Also I cackled at your "buffaloaded" article. As a native who works for a tribe that has many casinos, you really nailed our whole thing.. haha
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suboptimalism
11 months ago
it's a cutthroat industry too... recently read an article about a tribe trying to open an off-reservation casino near a populated area, and every other tribe that already had a casino in the area tried to block it to protect their business, though they did kind of have a point that the prospective location was very far away from that tribe's historic lands
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saltedslug
11 months ago
I'm pretty sure you're referring to my tribe, no joke we did that within the last year or three.. haha
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suboptimalism
10 months ago
i found the original article i read: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-09/oregon-tribe-casino-bid-sparks-furor-over-ancestral-homeland ... but while looking for it i stumbled upon another similar one: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-07-23/the-fight-over-a-mega-casino-sparks-a-debate-about-tribal-sovereignty
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saltedslug
8 months ago
Good reads; unfortunately, this is a common issue. The state of Oklahoma especially loves to infringe upon tribal sovereignty!
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thanks, i put way too much effort into writing on here... i hope that with enough practice i'll one day be able to write somewhere more prestigious, like at a substack or in "nonstop life", the allegiant airlines inflight magazine
I've actually always thought that your writing was vaguely Substackesque
it's the place for long-form independent writing on the internet now... and i do go there a lot... according to a "substack summer" graphic they emailed me i read 792k words in 345 posts there this summer...
but unfortunately they do not support sidenotes