Seeing as how you can run a diesel engine on the oil component, yes. Very.

I’ll give it a shot, but I must be able to use my laptop to vibe-interview.

This is specifically a Dethklok track list. Some of these are kinda brutal.

Producer: Okay, but… “Teeth?”

Band: ::complaints and groans of disbelief::

Nathan: They’re like… bone knives. In your face. And kids lose their first set with blood and agony, and then you get even more. It’s so f—ing brutal. So we made a song about it.

Toki: Plus it’s important to teach the kids about brushing.

Swissgar: Yous don’t want to be losings your bone face knives.

Yup. It’s easy to spot when “news” fits these criteria:

1. Evokes emotional response
2. Too dangerous to ignore
3. Devoid of any proof of something that is actually happening or going to happen
4. Plausible

The key here is that it’s noise designed to wear you out by provoking hypothetical scenarios in your head. This is intended to saturate the minds of the most dangerous opposition of all: The smart and educated. It’ll go flying right over the heads of everyone else, but they have other tactics for that.

The problem is more with the perception of disrupting the “correct” social hierarchy. Conservatives have no trouble taking money from, or being served by their “lessers” in society. This includes sex workers. It’s when the underclass elevate themselves or exceed their “betters” do they have a problem.

In this case: driving a big showy pickup truck - a coveted symbol of buying power - that shouldn’t be obtainable.

One starts to get the impression that they should just have the archeologists dig the tunnel in the first place, and budget the project like one big find.

Ah yes, C64 floppy drive “headbanging”.

IIRC this is because rather than ship a design with a limit switch or any position sensing at all, the drive software just rapidly slaps the read head home a bunch of times to ensure it’s properly aligned with track zero. I have a hard time believing this was to reduce part count, because the drive itself is a whole-ass 6502 computer; the sale price also reflected that. Instead, I think it’s a software fix for a “sometimes an issue” hardware problem.

What i love about the jump-humping thing is I’ve heard it involves a third party to move the bed for you, making it just the weirdest threesome.

Since “all dogs go to heaven” isn’t mentioned in the bible but is generally accepted christian doctrine, it’s actually dogma, which is way funnier.

I would argue that season 1 was so well crafted because it follows in the footsteps of the original feature film. From the start it had a clear destination, with the real story being “how in the world did we get here?” Constraints make good art and all that.

I just wish there was a way for new fans to experience the related ARG and fan-forums in chronological order alongside a watch. A huge part of the experience of this show was all the stuff happening in the fandom, during the week in-between episodes.

It’s just so damn good. It’s been a while, so maybe it’s time for a rewatch.

I had high hopes for 1899, but clearly Netflix had other ideas.

You’re not alone. My preference is shopping at places like that “off hours” if possible. Sunday morning (while a lot of people are in church) is a must-do for me.

I miss 24hr and late-night grocery stores. 10PM shopping used to be incredible.

I meticulously read labels on everything. I kind of have to since I can’t just eat anything off the shelf - it’s complicated.

But one thing I do is to be aware of how much room the cart/trolley/whatever is taking up. I much prefer to use a hand-basket or smaller cart if available. I’ll also park the damn thing outside the aisle if there’s room nearby, or next to my person parallel to the flow of traffic. Why gack up the whole lane?

At the same time, I also appreciate that a typical supermarket is an assault on the senses where even the neuro-normative struggle. It’s not hard to find people that are clearly stuggling, doubling-back-and-forth through the whole market to complete their shopping list (just peek in the basket then consider where you are in the store). The frequency of this happening is kind of staggering.

Yes, but don’t use a public service for this. Use a local LLM and maintain distinct profiles, one for each online account.

/me casually plugs controller into port #2

Edit: also, read what the EFF has to say: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/sunsetting-section-230-will-hurt-internet-users-not-big-tech They’re saying that legal liability would result in less moderation, which is counter-intuitive. While I agree, I still think that site operators will likely reach for the ban-hammer before relying on lawyers, especially if they don’t have deep pockets.

FAck. They were floating this during Trump’s first term too. I’m thankful it didn’t get far from Barr’s desk, but I knew it was always going to be in the crosshairs going forward.

I think the impact of this would be way bigger than people realize. Basically, it would kill if not cripple the Fediverse.

The problem is that without Section 230, site admins would need to aggressively censor and remove material that would get anyone in hot water. Anyone can come along and basically torpedo whatever forum site they want. The answer to that starts to look an awful lot like lots of AI, lots of paid site moderators, and eliminating anonymity to deter that kind of behavior. So, all this photo-id-age-validation going on out there? IMO, that’s companies aligning themselves to cover their collective asses before this goes through. If a site operator is on the hook for finding stuff like CSAM, cooperating with the government by handing over the real identity of the perpetrator would go a long way to get them off your back.

Also, all of those things are very hard to do for small site operators. It all costs real money to accomplish at even a modest scale. While the loss of Section 230 would be a huge step towards furthering mass online surveillance, it also “pulls the ladder up”, further entrenching large social media services and forums.

Hrm… People do act strangely when I drone on for long enough. You might be on to something there.

Wait, you guys are getting eldrich powers? All I got were dodgy knees and a moving hairline.

Yuuuuuuup.

Invite also shows up in your inbox an hour or less before meeting time, and is completely irregular from your normal schedule.

Protip: BACK EVERYTHING UP NOW if this happens. There’s a chance that IT hasn’t shut down your access to systems yet.