I don't understand why you'd rather vote for a politician that spends more of their time schmoozing with the rich outside your state than spending time talking to the rest of us.

Pretty sure I had a tick embedded. Never saw it, but there's a small red spot with what looks like a bite in the center. I was also massively lethargic yesterday, which can happen while a tick is embedded. no bullseye rash yet. Waiting to hear from the doctor if I should start meds now or wait.

Kevtris just dropped some hardware breakdown notes on the failed Amico console project and it is absolutely hilarious how little they had a full year after their intended launch date. Pat and Ian over on #cupodcast will be covering this shit till they're 80. forums.atariage.com/topic/337619...

bees were cross combing near the entrance. The comb was still small so I just cut them vs trying to correct them. Unfortunately, it was the start of their honey stores, so there was some half-way honey in the comb. Fortunately, it was still delicious.

Quite a few coward game devs setting their posts to only followers can reply cause they know when they bitch about people who dislike early access, they will receive a large number of replies saying they're the ones who are wrong, vs their sycophants agreeing with them.

So yea...DIY has been fully taken over by LLM bullshit. So many sites labeled DIY and then it's 10 projects that are impossible to make because the entire page was LLM generated with photos that are obviously fake with builds that cannot function in the real physical world. Fuck this shit....

Took two steps outside. Swarm of black flies so thick I could not see. Lawn can wait to be mowed, I guess.

Me: Separate this into four images with transparency. ChatGPT: Here's one image with four version in it. Me: No, four separate files. ChatGPT: Here's one file! Me: No...four files, four images. ChatGPT: He's one file with four images. Also, I removed the transparency layer you asked for!

I swear my blood is toxic to ticks. Someday I might try testing the hypothesis someday, but every tick that's bit me that I know of has died within minutes.

My bees are going through a pint of sugar water every two days right now. Cracked open the hive yesterday to replace their feeding jar, and took a look at the main chamber. One bar nearly full of comb with food stores started and several more with partial combs. Once I see brood I'll be happy.

No game should be in Early Access for longer than a year. If it's taking you *that* long to finish a game, it wasn't ready to sell in the first place.

So I hit the first slowdown in Dicero. Map 12 is a gamut of mini-bosses that just decimate your health while also having 10k+ of their own. Defeating them usually gets you most your health back. But the boss is just asinine with health and attack. And the rewards are middling at best,

The blackflies are hungry this year. even 100% DEET didn't keep them away. Going to have welts everywhere in the morning.

Reminder: ChatGPT is not intelligent. It is a program designed to give a response regardless it's capability. I asked for a meal plan that did not include any fish for dietary purposes. Every meal plan it came up with had salmon as dinner at least once. This is because it is programmed to never

And it's gotten cool enough for the black flies to be out en masse. Oh well, I think I got a lot outside stuff done.

Diecero. Mobile game. I nabbed it because it had no ingame ads and I figured I could ignore the store. It shoves the store in your face more times than Diablo:I and I've no idea how that's possible.

Well apparently I have developed a very strong localized allergic reaction to bee stings. Never had this issue in the past. One got me on the ankle, and over the next few hours it proceeded to swell up to the size of a softball. Bit o' antihistamine took it right down, though.

Ah, it's "complain about the weather" o'clock again. Every...fucking...day. Sunny? "Well, it's suppose to rain." Raining? "I wish it were sunny". Warm? "I'm going to have to water more, it should rain." Cold? "I wish it were warm." My coworker just cannot be happy with the weather ever....

The more I hear about Nolan's The Odyssey the less I actually want to watch it. Dunno why...he usually never falters...but I see so much praise for "time period accuracy" and then they flash those helmets and armor on the screen and I cringe just a bit. #movies

I have installed a bee package into my freshly made topbar hive. Now, the langstroth hive community will love to diss on topbars, but I've found they do just fine in my climate and often times I get higher honey yields than the box hives do. First time at my new place so we'll see how it goes.

they built him a golden statue....you cannot...should not...make this shit up....but they did it for reals

Dyson Sphere Program. I found a Type O to build around but seeing how even a portion of a portion of the frame done supplies more power than my 100+ nuclear plants leaves me thinking I should have, even at the loss, built a frame around my home star, too. Might need to divert resources a bit.

The older I get the less I like fandoms. Or maybe fandoms have gotten a bit more vitriolic over the years? Tower of God is doing the Urek backstory and there's the folks who enjoy it and the folks who are making fun of the people who enjoy it without explaining why they don't.

Found some cheaper than cheap workshirts. Twenty bucks for like a dozen. Shipping was $200. Fuel is a lot but not *that* a lot. Absolutely asinine how companies are rooking folks like this and using Trump's stupid war as an excuse.

On today's episode of "fuck AI", asking ChatGPT for a link to a site, receiving every link except the one asked for, and discovering it attaches its tracking url on the end which requires six separate requests to remove it before getting a list of clean urls. For science.

Managed to drive to pick up some pain killers. The rain stopped on the way, the temp jumped 20 degrees, and it got humid. Me and hot humidity do not do well together. But downed a few pills and by the time I got home the headache had lessened. But man....haven't had one of those in awhile.

Brain is on fire...been raining for two days..suppose to stop in about an hour and the temp is going to jump about fifteen degrees....hate being a human barometer.

Dear folks pulling the EV guilt trip: I cannot afford to buy even a used one. Yes, gas is expensive, doesn't stop the fact that I do not physically have the money right now. Stop fucking posting this shit. You're just as bad as the fucking "stop eating avacado toast" right wing morons.

Spent twenty minutes listening to a fucking AI callbot not be able to understand shit only to be put on hold for another half hour waiting for a rep only to be put in a call back queue. Give me a goddamn fucking cancel button online and this whole waste of time could have been prevented.

People who cannot visualize 3-dimensionally in their head should never be in charge of construction projects.

So I just finished watching episode 5 of Witch Hat Atelier and....my god....the entire episode is stunning. Yes THAT scene is incredible, but the animation, the music, the sound design...I was worried what they might do to the manga but holy shit they did it well. #anime #witchhatatelier

Finally got the person to respond....and they gave me a day and time but no location. I'm remembering why I stopped using Facebook in the firstplace.

the patch MSQ is all of a single quest and straight into the first dungeon. With zero breathing room. I've not done the dungeon yet. I know there's a trial at some point after it. I'm hoping this patch is longer than an hour or two, but so far it's looking to be super short. #ffxiv

Trash guys emptied my bin, but did not pick up the bags aside it. Thought that was odd. Driving to work, I noted this was a common occurrence today. So a whole town's worth of people gonna be a bit in a pissy mood for a week with extra trash bags to deal with.

So you spend most of an expansion ignoring poor Krile, start to actually integrate her into the story again, only to sideline her YET AGAIN. What on earth do you have against her, YoshiP? #FFXIV

G'raha: Tataru's always away on business! Us: She's been standing in one spot for two years..... #ffxiv

Facebook sellers are all super eager to sell right up until its time to set a pickup time and suddenly they go silent. Me: Anytime, you pick. I can be there whenever. Tonight even. Them: let me know by Friday. Me: I just....okay Saturday at 2. Where? Them:

Why yes, Dyson Sphere Program, I do want to lose track of ten hours of my life. Thanks for asking.

My peanut tin: PROUD AMERICAN COMPANY Peanuts from Mexico and Argentina.

Honestly, though, the MOST telling thing is my very very very VERY hard right coworkers aren't saying fuck all about it. If even THEY won't comment on it, then it must REALLY look bad.

I'll never get over how journalism has collectively decided to bend over and position themselves for this administration. Just let him ram them lubeless over and over again, then ask for seconds. It's like watching an abusive relationship from the outside. You just wanna scream "GET OUT!"

I wonder why iced coffee needs about twice the sugar to taste decent as hot coffee....I'm sure there's a scientific reason behind it....but I'm too busy enjoying homemade iced coffee to care.

What I find hilarious about the situation, and sad, is they are purposefully making it vague as fuck and letting everyone fill in the blanks.

All I'm gonna say is its interestimg how everytime his polling numbers are in the toilet this seems to happen.

Whelp...just gonna remove TADC from my feed. I'm estimating about 90% of that community needs to start socializing offline a whole fuck load more so they can learn how to contextualize things better.

I suppose the first indication that fan community as a whole is a raging cesspit is the inordinate amount of fanart showing the various characters with the sickeningly huge inflated asses. Like, you see it from time to time in other fandoms, but this one it's every other piece of fanart.....

If you see "free water test kit" at home depot, it's a scam. The local company they are in cahoots with will claim you have very hard water and need their special deluxe softener system immediately. They also do not know how to follow instructions: email only, do not phone. Guess which they did.

Someday people will not take seven year old jokes out of context in order to pretend to be angry about something. But it is not this day.

Whelp. Weather Channel is now forcing my browser to request location with every page I go to, regardless my settings. No, it doesn't need to know my exact location at all times, it can make do with the zip code I give it. So WC can kiss my ass and I'll head over to literally anything else.

The moment you remember the old i3+ clone printer has to be manually leveled while it starts laying down layer 1, and you scramble to try and adjust the leveling knobs while its printing so you don't have to wait for it to heat up again. I use it for TPU as nothing new wins against it. #3dprinting