Simon Sarris
@simonsarris
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🕯 In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. 🕯 Alchemist, sacred things, making things 🕯 The map is mostly water. 🌜 I make GoJS: https://t.co/7yYIMFfAtd
Amherst, NH
Joined August 2009
Making a website to be found at meetinghouse .cc For the first day I think this has been a success. There hasn't been a single hiccup and lots more people placed a pin than I expected.
I'm currently making a kind of dating?/meetup? site which I just deployed. It's to help people find people. Right now, if you pay $12 you can place a pin on the map. A little later you can write a bio and have a link to your site. Don't put your pin at your house!
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30 agents. Cameras ordered off. @erictrump recounts the moment the raid began.
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Here are examples of that same woman, same period (maybe the same day) shot in the more 1800s fashion. You can see how she looks more 1800s-ish. But she's still 'older' than we expect 21yo to look today. Poor nutrition and hydration age you faster. We age slower, now.
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Julia Jackson was known as a great beauty, here she is aged 21 in 1867. Modern pose and hair, realistic face. She's not ugly but when we think of great beauty we are so much more strict today so to speak
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You start to see truly modern faces esp among women around 1930 and 1940 starting in America, where modern prosperity, especially sanitation/disease control and nutrition, really took off. Like this Toni Frissel photo from 1940 could have been taken today.
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You see glimpses of near-modern nutrition. Compare these sailors to territorial defense troops, both 1918. Sailors look modern and quite boyish (youthful) for their age. Superior nutrition makes you look younger longer. It's not "sunscreen", they had more sun!
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Post WW1 Italy (1917/18 here) you find both of these types. The first is not "thin". But note the sunken faces. There are a lot of diets of deficiencies, like today, but it's different, they do look different. Also clean water hard to come by, so hydration was worse.
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re: "We're fatter now", its true, but there's an assumption that everyone used to be *rail* thin and that is absolutely not true. Corpulent body types were in fact very common (male and fem). E. J. Bellocq from 1912 [1], famous actresses from the 1880s [2,3]
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I have viewed over ~200K photos pre-1900s and more early 1900s and this isn't true. We do look quite different. I think it comes down to 4 things: Less parasite/disease, less pollution, superior nutrition starting slowly circa 1880, and and superior hydration
I’m going to die on the hill that, beyond people getting fatter, we look the same as we did in the last few hundred years. The “differences” you think you see are clothing or hair, but MOST IMPORTANTLY CAMERA QUALITY differences, and candid vs non-candid (almost all pictures you
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a naive disbelief in the existence of steak tartare born out of retaining one's childlike wonder (and some Balkanness) is the only thing that could redeem this and yet, he has it all is forgiven and the app store reopens at midnight
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I think if you door dash steak tartare the entire app store should close to you. Like an ancient tomb sealing itself forever at the wrong password. You are not prepared for the mysteries of technology.
I deadass thought this was an AI image and the egg + meat would come prepared Um… what the actual?
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I don't actually have an answer myself yet. The more interesting it is, the more it justifies a wider audience in my mind. But the more niche it is, the more special it feels. It's not at all clear what to do.
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I guess there's a fundamental question: Should I concern myself with growth, or should I try to make meetinghouse as cool as possible for the small number of people that may enjoy it? https://t.co/OXNcM4FWd1
@simonsarris … the orange site? you’re listening to opinions from there?
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after all, if it were a complex site, I would have never started with just one auth that became your username. But the elegance of that option was so attractive and pure. No sending emails or verifying, no uploading images, asking very little of the user.
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beacuse it means /monsieuryams and /x/monsieuryams will be two different people. will that happen often? Should I care? Maybe I am overthinking this for a fundamentally simple site.
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everyone signed up already will get their x name as their username so they are fine. But imagine MonsieurYams signs up by email, and then twitter user (different person by coincidence) MonsieurYams signs up. That's unfortunate for the latter. Oh well.
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so then, usernames? meetinghouse .cc/x/user1 <- will always work if you have twitter meetinghouse .cc/user1 <- name you have to pick. Shorter, can be different than twitter name
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