Things that pop out to me:

1. The Internet was made for porn, both in users and less defederating.
2. The main blocks really are mostly the Triad (grad, hexbear and ml) which I get. I personally don’t mind tankies despite the instance I’m on, but they can sometimes echo Russian propaganda that’s demonstrably false. Communism as a concept is ok, though.

The Beehaw thing predates me, I heard they’re nice people, though. I also agree with the sentiment that more fringe groups and random porn might scare away newbies, so I get why things are the way they are.

All while the war continues and would continue anyway because Iran would have to sign off on ending the war. It’s all so very stupid.

At this point, what would even happen if Congress said “no, this war isn’t legal” given you can’t just be like “sorry, Iran, the president overstepped his authority” after murdering school children?

The whole 60 day thing is already ridiculous for that reason, but we’re already well beyond that. So even in a situation where Congress worked (lol) it seems like this wouldn’t matter.

When I stopped doing things from bed, I was able to sleep a lot easier. If the bed equals sleep, the body gets it.

But I also only sleep when I’m sleepy, I never try to force myself to sleep early even if I have early morning responsibilities.

God that ending to the world cup would have been amazing. Too bad, but I like the way you think.

Sometimes I like teaching, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s usually a net positive, but since ChatGPT became a thing it’s becoming a bit of a burden. Either I’m worried about them cheating or I’m noticing each semester the students get worse at thinking for themselves, or both.

It’s a fairly open enrollment university so there’s a pretty low bar for base knowledge and scholarly ability but like… this is something else. I have successfully taught statistics to a 6th grade drop out single mom from Mexico through motivation and patience, but now a 19 year old fresh out of American high school fails the basic logic required of the course and argues when I give them an F over it. Something is very wrong lately and I’m hating it lately.

So I guess the answer is I used to love it and now loathe it? We’ll see next month…

DNC did this to MAGA candidates and it backfired dramatically. Happy to see GOP falling for the same faulty logic.

Unrelated, but when I play Wario games I talk like him got the entire playtime. It’s very satisfying. I played the Wii Wario Land game recently and it’s a gem.

Oh no. I even read the “Those are my ladybugs” in his soft, accented voice. But in not really disgusted by the image, more just how much of a hypocrite LadyG was.

Technically only a HIPAA violation of the doctor uploads stuff. Uploading your is stuff is just violating your own privacy, which at this point might just be a boomer national pass time.

Yeah, I think that’s well established but what was interesting was the way concrete walls funneled hot air certain ways but not others. But it’s been a while since I heard the interview, the main discussion was on the heat of a conflagration vs a normal fire.

I know the recent-ish Palisades fire near me was an issue of both fast fires and limited exits, but even then most of it was property damage. What worked was early warnings of evacuation that people took seriously.

The part that struck me was they started calling it a conflagration because the structure fires were so much hotter than the bush fires that things were straight up melting, causing cars to stop working and so on. If you were still there when the houses were full burning, you were likely toast.

The best way to avoid deaths, therefore, is early evacuation and careful neighborhood design. There were some houses that survived the blaze because of factors like walls and gaps that helped reduce the spread, although I’m not sure if they cracked the code on that yet.

Still holds up as one of the best handhelds. I’ve still got my PSP-2000 and as a teen I played so many various things on it (many pirated as a teen, but it got me into franchises like Monster Hunter and they’ve made more than enough money back lol).

I’d like it more than my steam deck due to less weight and bulk, except I still need the modern hardware for modern things.

Thank you for posting it, I wasn’t going to go to Truth social to find out. That said. Meh. What an uncreative slop image befitting of the current administration.

Honestly, an airplane decked out in real graffiti art would look sick as fuck.

I don’t think the truth is going to factor in, but my father has been outsourcing his thinking to Gemini lately and in that case it’s fairly straightforward: they have a profile on him as a moderate Democrat, so it suggests anyone with that tag. It likely isn’t going to fact check that tags, though.

But back to truth: it will pull top search results which very much can be gamed, just like pre-LLM days. That means a false story pushed on a candidate is popular, it’ll default to that and could mislead a voter. That, and of course whatever weights the owner of that LLM sets (although, that is much more subtle than other commenters let on; a weight generally isn’t absolutely, it simply tips things so like, Democratic Socialists won’t magically get recommended MAGA but conservative independents will based on higher values set to conservative tags like immigration views).

I still have DDR2s somewhere… pray we do not need it.

Same. We’re just projecting into the headline. I’m quite ambivalent today.

I appreciate the 23% willing to just admit they don’t know, and the 8% are kind of close. That 3% who things pilgrims are why can fuck off, though.

I mean, my mom found a Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo which featured black face and racist illustrations and whatnot. She took it but left it up to me but even that I didn’t really want to burn it for the reason you said.

Buuuut it did disappear from our place at some point and I don’t know who may have thrown it out. But like, I get it in this case.

I haven’t ever seen vandalism of these types of things, but I imagine it might be drug addicts or mentally unwell. It’s easy to imagine angry teens or greedy people, but given many unhoused people having schizophrenia or drug abuse, delusions could definitely lead to destruction of these public spaces. Although I only ever saw that with a store front, not a free service thing.

Still infuriating though, people need treatment and society does its best to ignore that or even discourage it.