bscranton.bsky.social
I work in tech and share my life with a couple of cats. Proud member of the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement.
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Mango Mussolini is my favorite, but mostly because of how that namesake's particular story ended.
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In 1793 France he'd be a headless, mouldering corpse in a mass grave. Or at least sucking up real hard to Robespierre to avoid that eventuality.
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Sure, as long as you stay hydrated.
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If Hitler were as gauche as Trump he probably would have preferred "Big Beautiful Bill" over "The Enabling Act" also.
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I see you're asking about Bluesky's potential plans to deploy it's own AI. I don't have any more information on that but did you know that on this day in 1631 the Catholic League sacked the city of Magdeburg and killed approximately 25,000 of its inhabitants and defenders?
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I had made plans a few weeks ago to come back to STL this weekend. Disappointing to have to reschedule but everything I wanted to do was around Forest Park or over on Euclid and I didn't want to end up being in the way.
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Let's be real though, a Sith Lord would make the debates more entertaining.
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These tree puns really sapped my will to keep doomscrolling.
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one who read that to the tune of that Dylan song.
🎶They'll bomb you and say that it's the end
They'll bomb you and then they'll come back again 🎶
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One of my favorite books ever. My grandfather would bring Lonesome Dove along on our annual summer vacations in Galveston. I still reread at least part of it almost every summer. Gus was doing sourdough way before it was cool.
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I came to point out that on the back end it's probably capped at MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (9007199254740991). Front-end validation strikes again! Take that, handsome men who don't do corruption.
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This right here. Federal judges have ruled that biometrics like fingerprints are not private and law enforcement can use them to unlock your phone or other devices. You cannot be compelled to reveal a password. Also, that's definitely not your phone and you never even knew the password.
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Pretty sure it's normal for terrorists to wear masks while they're terroristing. Wouldn't want your parents, your neighbors or your future employers to find out you're actually a nazi.
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And now we're going to have to figure out how to afford all those nazis due process. Too bad there isn't precedent for ignoring constitutional rights and just shipping people we don't like directly to concentration camps in foreign countries.
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But they've already done the secret clone storyline! Disappointing.
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Personally, I prefer my friends to hallucinate because they're doing psychedelics rather than because of floating point rounding errors in their artificial neural networks.
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I keep waiting for that one person to stand up for St. Louis' faux-pizza atrocity. I'm sure they're out there somewhere.
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Milk and Cereal: A single Honey-Nut Cheerio delicately balanced atop a flash-frozen droplet of skim milk. $42
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I always wanted a holiday in Cambodia, but I figured it would involve, you know, going to Cambodia.
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They don't want you to be anything like them. They want you to be subservient to their whims. They want you to work as a virtual slave making iPhones with American flags on them while they tell you how goddamn lucky you are to have the scraps they feed you.
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I'm pretty sure a bunch of them went to Oklahoma. I think they've done that a couple of times actually, but I lived in Austin in 2003 so that's the one I remember.
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I was there when the Republicans in the state lege ordered the Texas Rangers to round up Democrats and deliver them to the capitol to they'd have a quorum to force through some heinous whatever.
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Naw, Gus would talk Call into doing it and thinking it was his own idea.
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I've tried for years to get my friends to play Apocalypse World with me. They cling mighty tight to their elves and their D20s.
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I take delivery of a whole bushel of popcorn every time GW even tangentially mentions the Sisters of Battle.
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I'm not sure that France in 1789 was much about truth or empathy. I'm still down with it. Let the guillo-times roll.
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But I thought forgiveness was one of the seven woke sins, like charity and humility. Am I reading a different book?
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As a person who spent several months of my relative youth mounting TVs professionally, I can tell you that it comes down to geometry an awful lot.
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You don't see it as much anymore because those people weren't vim enjoyers and tried to play Hades with a keyboard anyway. Casuals.
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My mom, dying of stage 4 lung cancer in the middle of COVID, made my brother take her to a polling place in Austin just to register a vote for Biden before she died. She passed away on election day, 2020.
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But Animal Farm is so much more entertaining. ...
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Have you considered rewriting your driver in rust? I hear that fixes everything. 😎
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See, this is why I work in a Microsoft shop. Job security. ðŸ˜