i would strongly advise any venezuelan nationals reading this to not identify themselves to the goddamn united states government

I don't get the debate on if audio books are reading or not. They aren't. That doesn't make them of lesser value. Sailing isn't walking, does that mean it lesser, or that walking is? Even when they get you to the same destination, it's not the same process.

It's always amusing to be told what you said, and someone be *SO* god damn wrong.

That's..... One hell of an interesting refusal.

don't mind me just thinking about the 7-5 hung jury i was on this very week because five people didn't care that there was zero evidence of the defendant's finger pulling the trigger

@aliceguthrie.bsky.social So... Teach me oh wise one. :)

Try navigating the health care system as anything other than a Billionaire Mark.

Huh, my link didn't linkify. fotd-games.com There we go.

So, i've just pushed out a playable build of my game. "Roguelike Academy. Freshman Year" fotd-games.com This is version 0.3.0, so, while it's playable, and beatable, and most of the features are there... bugs likely abound. All of the art, and music are placeholders. #Roguelike #solodev

My middle child just walked in and handed me a highball glass full of beef broth. I'm confused where it came from, i didn't think we had any highball glasses.

Oh man, i just finished the first (critical! heheh) bug free playthrough of what i'm intended to have in the demo of Roguelike Academy. Felt good to see the ending cutscene kick off without a hitch. Now, just waiting for some logo art...

I've built the worlds smallest randomizer. It's got a Sphere 0, a Sphere 1, and a Sphere 2. Proper logic is followed when laying out the items. Sphere 1 requires either the key or the ring of jumping, sphere 2 requires *both*. In theory, there's a sphere 3, ([key|ring] sword), but you can

The left has hated MTG for years. The right has hated MTG for a week. MTG has needed a security detail for a week. Somehow i don't think the left are the violent ones.

not picking up your towl before the bulldozer runs it over...

I wonder if Monica Lewinsky knew she had as much in common with Trump as she did with Hilary.

Even we can’t recalculate if no one’s driving. Go vote.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Will a day ever come when companies stop building Development environments as if they were Production environments? If i have to go to a bastion host to access my IDE, you've done something wrong. If i have to use that bastion host to access a second bastion host, to see my build... burn it down

Sometimes someone tells you something about the way they perceive the universe, and you're reminded that not everyone lives in reality and is capable of perceiving things external to their personal opinions.

Just realized, the cease fire Trump negotiated that was supposed to get him the Nobel, it lasted... .9 Scaramucci's. That's... funny in a rather dark way.

cry whimsy and inflate the frogs of war

There is a lot of hate being peddled at the moment. Our means of communicating are being attacked by the hateful. Whilst I still can I wanna say that I love you all for being in my life. Just the little comments, the memes, the jokes, the art, the reminders of humanity at its best. Be loved.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

I've been building a RAG with the transcript of every Charlie Kirk podcast in it. Just got to the point i can do useful searching against it, so i figured i'd give it a softball. Huh. I.. I don't know if my models are bad, or the data is bad, or the subject is bad.

This may be the most disappointing thing i've ever heard from NPR, and i was listening when Car Talk ended.

Etiquette question: If you want to commission a small piece of drawn art like a PFP or something, would an artist be upset by being provided an AI generated image as a way to visualize the pose and sort of composition, As long as you weren't also like saying "I want this style" i mean.

Free speech means calling this body of water whatever name you want: gulfof.mapquest.com

Unhappy about Disney/Nexstar/Sinclair decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel? These are publicly traded companies. They depend on customers. Customers can complain. Like @carmitage.bsky.social said about Congress, calls to corporate HQs work too: Disney 818-560-1000 Nexstar 972-373-8800 Sinclair 410-568-1500

I just had someone tell me "The first amendment doesn't cover conduct" in regards to Jimmy Kimmel and just... wut?

Ok... How did i not know about Banshee prior to this? This is like... "What if someone did the concept behind the show Preacher, but didn't try to tie it to an existing IP" I'm only a few episodes in, but dear lord is this a fun mindless romp.

wonder if anyone's thought to ask Alex Jones if Charlie was a crisis actor.

... I just had someone at the ER transfer me to themselves.

except, that's not true. plenty of people are being called illegal immigrants who aren't. If you can't detect the intent to dehumanize in "illegal alien", I can only tell you that in your case it worked.

you also apparently love to turn off comments when you're just flat wrong.

there exists one solution to age gating. It is to use more of big techs tools, and give them more money, and it won't work. Anyone telling you otherwise isn't bothering to think beyond the current step in the process.

Why is it that the only prescription my insurance ever fucks with me on is the one that gives me the patience to deal with people fucking with me?

Things like this are strange. Chat GPT literally is a tool. It's a mathmatical system that can be applied to data. It is a formal process of calculating and comparing weights. You could do what chat gpt does by hand if you really wanted to. Same as you could cut your grass by hand.

The increasingly online nature of porn, hook-ups & sex-buying have made it easier than ever before for men to cultivate secret lives. It’s occurred to me that these factors also make it easier for men’s secrets to be *discovered*. Often all it requires is access to their phones.

I knew i was getting overcharged on my insurance, i just hadn't made time to look into it, cause i figured it was a hundred, maybe two hundred a year. Turns out #Geico was overcharging me by close to 600% for home, and 700% for auto. Yes, those are percents. 5 figures for home insurance became 4.

I hadn't expected a new one of these anytime soon but... like... Yep.

This may be the most ferret coded thing i've seen without a ferret in it.

@delaneyking.bsky.social I came across this image, and wondered if you can id the mini he's painting? Not a deeply serious request. hehe. (I cannot find a source to credit, or i would, though checking convinced me its not ai)

Apparently, courtlistener is an AI slop site?

Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure To Save Democracy Watch the tech oligarchs who lined up behind Donald Trump at his inauguration, and you'll see the most important story of our time: the fascists are winning because they've built a direct pipeline from concentrated technological power to…

The gitched speedruns of this game are fantastic as well, if you haven't seen them.

No responsibility for actions when you're getting paid. And we wonder why the ethics in the legal profession is utterly fucked?