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Husband to a gorgeous wife, father to two great kids, greying leatherfairy, infamous furry, and world-class software engineer. If you can read this, you're running code I wrote.
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My jaw dropped it that one. We were all queer kids. We all wanted better for the next generation of queer kids. Sully really is an old fart, retreating into the homocon position that children are the property of adults, and the suicides of a few queer kids every year is acceptable to alternatives.
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They give me a list of albums to check out. Good stuff, although it seriously did change my view of Chali.
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I do have a fond memory of the one time I was on a bus and there were three young black men in the back, and they were listening to a speaker at a fairly sedate volume. "Is that J5?" I asked.
"No. But it is Chali. You know about Chali Tuna?"
"Unabomb..."
"... will set the whole world on fire."
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In both cases, sheriffs were waiting for the perpetrators at the next stop. I'm quite sure both of them were unwell.
I mean, I've met lots of lovely people on public transit. And I've seen a lot of road rage when driving.
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Uh-oh. This Venusian princess may be on to something.
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Yep. My complaint is that these articles imply "too cheap" means "this isn't a viable technology because the interface between electrical production and our economy will never work," rather than, "... the interface needs to be re-thought and re-factored."
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The "human scale," "can be fixed without massive infrastructure" is a good idea, but then the idea of windblades just over your head traveling at those speeds sound intimidating. I wonder how loud it is, too.
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Complaining that solar makes electricity "too cheap" is like complaining that trees make air too cheap. Just because nobody will be billionaires over electricity production only means we have to defend solar & wind even more seriously.
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Compared to other forms of energy, oil is already looking like a dead end. Solar and wind are so cheap they're restructuring what it means to have an electrical industry.
www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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I can imagine Vim or Emacs being considered too complicated, but what about Nano or Pico? Both of those are descended from Edit, at least spiritually.
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Remember when conservatives freaked out about Michelle Obama's initiatives to get people to eat healthy and move more? Now their elected officials want to make it mandatory that you do those things, or a visit from a "government health specialist" will be in your future.
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I don't even know why farmers would consider biofuels anymore, given that installing solar panels on the same acre earns them 30 times as much money. Done well, it still leaves the land capable of growing partial-shade food crops.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-...
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The article predicted that Blue Sky would be a failure. It's utility to conservatives who want to "engage" with liberals is limited by the efficiency of its blocking mechanism, and it is conservatives who fund ad-driven sites with their free-spending ways.
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Liberals, it turns out, are less likely to fall for manipulative ads and aren't as likely to be moved by emotion-laden rhetoric and bland claims.
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Yeah, I remember that the last time I went through unemployment. That was no fun.
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www.fastcompany.com/91357558/car...
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I don't know if this is a good frame, though. It could backfire; it gives the NAR reason to claim that "if OUR holy gaming is causing violence, then Dungeons and Dragons must be as demonic as we've always claimed it is."
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Love the Tom Hanks picture there:
www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...