The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Related: my 3yo is currently obsessed with Star Wars but gave up half way through Episode II (watching in release order)

another fun thing that can happen: 1. a motion not to make an endorsement in a race is made. 2. the motion not to endorse fails. 3. additional motions to endorse specific candidates are made and voted on. if all motions fail, you end up in a logically impossible but procedurally possible state!

at 36th LD Dems membership meeting tonight, discussion of whether a tabling motion is an interrupting motion that can be considered before the motion on the floor has me feeling like we're playing Magic the Gathering instead of voting on primary endorsements

Everyone knows a "taco" is a hard corn shell containing exactly ground beef (with taco seasoning), iceberg lettuce, diced tomato and onion, sour cream, and shredded cheese which is both yellow and white.

Anyone know a person with strong frontend web dev and product design skills who's looking for work? Row Zero is hiring.

Last time I went in for flu shot the nurse entered defensive crouch as soon as I asked one clarifying question. When I had scheduled the shot, I had asked for flu and COVID. Scheduler warned me they couldn't promise they'd have COVID vaccine available.

TIL the guy with the eye-patch in The Phantom Menace is named Captain Typo

I kind of want to open like a cafe that sells mantou and baozi but is mostly a place for neighborhood folks to hang out and also a mini library.

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

The parenthetical is doing a lot of work here.

Congress should pass a law stipulating that defense contractors must not espouse principles explicitly opposed to pluralistic democracy.

Since I posted this, uh, 13h ago, there have been at least two more news items that have made me want to repost it.

On vacation. I am once again struck by how critical a component it is of any popular vacation destination (that isn't just a city) that cars are not permitted there.

Holding DOGE and Trump accountable is both morally correct and necessary to save the country. But that's probably not sufficient to persuade our elected leaders. So we should consider also:

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

We should switch to a base-12 number system.

In other words, Star Wars is for kids, and that's fine, until you realize you're living it and not Star Trek.

I've come to appreciate Star Wars even as I've lost my childhood love for it. When the prequels came out, my first reaction was intense disappointment. I wanted Anakin Skywalker to be an interesting, tragic character, not a stupid, angsty teen who never matured because he had too much power.

If we allowed billionaires to exist, but capped their wealth at $10B, confiscating anything additional for the public good, would this in any conceivable way harm them? It seems at least possible it would do them good, by forcing them to find better ways to distinguish themselves in the "endgame".

Considering doing April fools by shipping a commit that makes the > relation intransitive for "Excel parity".

At this point in her life, my daughter's only experience of Google and Amazon is of interacting with basically non-functional software (Google Maps voice interface and Amazon Music, both in the car). Whenever she hears "Google", she says, "Try again!!"

It's certainly not the only thing. But in college, during the Dominion war, my friends and I were like, "We better not have missed that space battle because they blew the effects budget on making Odo ooze into the founder lady."

Twitter has a lot of sins to answer for. But right up there is the post that's just a screenshot of text.

Honestly shocked that this hasn't already caused Schumer and Jeffries to give Trump unlimited funding for ICE and illegal wars

a mind-blowing thing is that humans developed pretty accurate maps of Earth's coastlines and rivers and such BEFORE we were able to take pictures from the sky

I will never in my life say that something is "based" without following it with a preposition. I know that is a function of my age. Which is less than 54.

it is done. i am now an arch linux guy

I should really stop walking home along the bus route and hoping maybe a bus will pick me up before the steep hill.

I am just a guy with no particular claim to being a knower of politics. But both this and Stancil's analysis somewhat resonate with me.

Surprising fact about Excel #1035: the format strings you supply to the TEXT builtin, e.g., =TEXT(A1, "yyyy-mm-dd"), need to be localized. So if you're using Excel on a computer where the OS region is de-DE, the preceding example will eval to an error, and you need to supply "JJJJ-MM-TT" instead.

I've seen multiple people on bluesky proclaim "JSTOR now lets you read 100 articles per month, free!" Finally tried this out today and it just isn't straightforwardly true. Every article I attempted to read has displayed this banner. idk maybe non-philosophy disciplines are more available?

Perspective: the only vegetarian in a group about to order pizza. "You like cheese pizza, right?" "Of course! Everybody likes cheese pizza."

Of all the verbal tics the kids these days have adopted, the one that annoys me most is "hear me out", especially before a bare assertion offered without justification.

3yo old coined "yesbody" last night at bedtime. So proud!

Row Zero is also now a Snowflake partner!

It's been great seeing how AWS uses Row Zero for data analytics. rowzero.com/case-studies...

happy to explain to 3yo that the Patriots are the bad guys

There's an even simpler explanation than "people stopped reading Harry Potter because the author is a bigot". What if people stopped reading Harry Potter because it's not actually that good and the zeitgeist moment/marketing campaign has passed?

This is true! Many of the engineers who designed and led the rewrite of the S3 filesystem are now at rowzero.com

tfw you thought of something to post but the Trump regime has just murdered another Minnesotan

You're on a bus that's not going to DC. The bus company does nothing but shout into phones and promise to pick you up in another bus whenever the driver finishes doing whatever he's doing.

hypothesis: the difference between interesting people and non- is that the former, when someone says a thing, wonder, "hmm, is that true?" and have some idea how they might find out. the latter just add it to their ledger of "things I have heard people say" that they use to decide what to believe.

27 Million Fewer Car Trips could also be the title of the autobiography of any American who moved to the city for the first time after college.* *offer void in Texas

Diminish a band They Probably Aren't Giants

"and a loose community of hyper-intellectually curious posters on X" what a polite way to say "likely marks"

At a certain point the whole construct of a lie breaks down because they don't understand the truth enough to misrepresent it.

I have a different reading of this. Miller is implicitly — in a way that's hard to see without the benefit of hindsight — saying "Trump will only invade countries in the western hemisphere, abandoning the rest of the world to Russia and China" and everyone just read it as "We're anti-war".

hacker news is consistently awful on politics. in today's thread on Venezuela, really striking how "America bad because imperialism" is wielded both as a reason to vote against Dems and as exculpatory for Trump when he does "the same".

Seems like a good time to repost the Trumpiest Baby Names gregat.es/baby-names-t...

Moorean Trump