Snapping turtles are friends, not foes. youtu.be/zO6hVE7tOzM?...

Spat” lol @ the framing of this considering Riley Gaines is confirmed to be *deeply* anti-trans btw and this apparently happened because Gaines was being a bully Anyways, thats the only article on the entire subject shown above. I’ve made my point thoroughly. I’m done now. 🙃

I didnt really expect anything here. TBH I never expected anything at all. Didnt even do this to foment commentary! I just wanted to see because I was genuinely curious… and I was not surprised is all. You cant and shouldn’t be surprised when you expect nothing to start with.

his wealth grows

Bigger antenna = better reception. The NOAA radio doesn't seem to mind having a shorter antenna, but the AM/FM radio greatly benefits from a longer antenna.

UUIDv4 is kinda like IPv4 in that later versions exist but most people pretend they don't exist

this whole login queue thing for Skate is a real bummer lol

I should mention that the texture here is still in my working resolution (2048), it will be halved when I import and some of the very fine detail (like on the seats) will become a bit more blurry and authentic looking. This model is intended as a hero asset for a cutscene for a game im working on.

Made a PS2/6th gen style car

BIG MUM

They’re doing the Pokemon trainer “I’m only about one thing and I’ve made it my entire personality” thing but for street racing, and it’s so charming

there he is that's ray lagoon

you have to play racing lagoon

truly no one does it like Genki

its even better when you realize this is a sequel and the long running teams like the Rolling Guys have lore that goes back to TXR 1 on the dreamcast

They posted in a news release it will steamcommunity.com/games/263495...

I found the gameplay loop to be extremely fun, not wanting to end the in game days and instead challenging vehicle after vehicle on the highways. You can challenge any random traffic vehicle, not just the rivals. Which serves as great practice for while you’re still getting good at the game.

tokyo xtreme racer rips because you're constantly running into rivals called IMMORTAL CLOWN or ALBATROSS OF THE DARK KNIGHT and it's like, some guy in a Daihatsu Move

abbey motel sign, north attleboro, massachusetts, 1978

the hate tastes so good

Ever since I heard @the-floppunist.bsky.social call it "homophobic chicken," I've never called it anything else.

And after Katrina, Louisiana was supposed to have all kinds of redundancies, especially for communications.

That bit about redundancy? This is what I keep harping about locally. It's illegal in our state to piggyback regular use on dedicated emergency-services backbones, but they do it, because when ours goes out, guess who else's does, too? And no redundancy for either one.

TGI Flyday

Nah, this is a monopolistic telco. Hanlon's razor absolutely applies in a situation like this

Make that two neighboring states: also down in parts of Alabama and Louisiana as well.

Service has been restored

More sparkleberry picked. Always end up accidentally picking unripe ones, but this is what I have collected so far this year. Not sure if it's enough to make anything with.

That’s absolutely horrendously irresponsible…

It happens all the time. Often it's people looking for copper they can sell and not being able to tell the difference until too late. Other times it's people not calling digsafe.

@governorferguson.bsky.social you might want to check up on things and make sure there is redundancy and that it works..... And so should California and Oregon make sure their systems are redundant. For the safety sake of everybody. This is getting out of hand.

Yeah fuck that place. Sadly some are still unaware or just don't care that they're giving money to these shitty companies with crazy CEOs. Hobby Lobby is another example of a company like that.

mhm, I think there was a test video on youtube years ago of someone demonstrating that shitty knockoff laptop chargers caused so much radio interference that the radio signal just became a huge mess of static and ear piercing buzzing when those things were plugged in

Oh man that's such an easy lawsuit

Did they not have any redundancy? It's almost suspicious.

Apparently, a single fiber line being cut can take down an entire site's 911 system + part of a neighboring state's 911 system.

Probably some yahoo went digging where they shouldn't have without getting prior checks done because "there's too much government in my business & I don't need to follow regulations I don't agree with". 🙄 I wonder how many people were permanently injured or died bc of their "mistake"? 🤔😡

A single cut to a fiber line shouldn't cause two states to be without 911 service. That means there's literally no redundancy. Emergency systems are supposed to have loads of redundancy. This should be a wakeup call to the states.

IMPORTANT: 911 service has gone dark statewide in Mississippi. @nickjudin.bsky.social is compiling a list of backup emergency numbers for cities across the state in the story (updating as he goes). www.mississippifreepress.org/911-emergenc...

"But PRF, how could Entergy.....?" you may be asking if you don't have to deal with the nation's worst electrical company. But yes, they could fuck this up. They can fuck ANYTHING up.

So what are we thinking for the cause of the Mississippi/Louisiana 911 outage? Ranked choice voting style, from me: 1: Ransomware 2: Federal fuckup 3: ENTERGY

How does this even happen

lousey infastructure and a light dizzling of rain

Thanks AT&T

Outage map

Statewide 911 outage in Mississippi

Louisiana is currently having a state-wide 911 outage…

Bet they won't be punished for this

I think the FCC being a lot more lax with their regulations in recent years has also resulted in the enshittification of electronics build quality, I don't think very many devices have proper rf shielding in them anymore, even most power bricks don't seem to be shielded anymore