engard.me
Writer and web developer. Rochester, NY. Of late: WordPress, TTRPGs, the open web, and our long national nightmare.
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Dammit Paul.
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If she refused to go on, it would have been a headline for a day. This is something to see and hear and remember.
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I have had lengthy staring contests and tense conversations with objects that I dropped and/or broke.
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The LCARS paradigm seems to treat piloting (along with everything else) as a highly abstracted operation. Even in scenes with tiny shuttles doing evasive maneuvers and stuff, they consistently show the pilot tapping sequences of buttons rather than any remotely intuitive, reflex-friendly controls.
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My pleasure, sounds good!
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On it!
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I enjoyed that fact way more than the others and lost 20 points.
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Trump: does a shitload of illegal, unconstitutional, and downright evil stuff every day
Media: some commentators have begun to suggest that we’re beginning to creep closer to possibly seeing the opening of a constitutional crisis if this continues.
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Before he was in power: wow, Project 2025 is scary (but it’s cool he promised not to do it)
After: Trump has a muscular view of executive power that his predecessors haven’t embraced
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Even more fundamentally: I'm a developer. I spend a lot of time digging into my clients' databases to understand how they work.
If all I have is a big table of socials with a column called "Death" and true/false values, I can conclude: nothing. That data is utterly meaningless without context.
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Seeing a lot of “But they don’t deserve…” And no, of course they don’t. What the fuck does that have to do with anything? The house is on fire. Pass a bucket to whoever wants to put it out. You can remind them what an ass they’ve been later.
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It is incredibly hard and you need a lot of money.
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I want to hear less about polling or what you can't do without a majority and more about what the oath they swore to "support and defend the constitution against enemies foreign and domestic" means to them.
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You swore an oath.
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We don't need airline safety because air travel is safe. We don't need measles vaccines because no one gets measles. We don't need nuclear regulation because no one uses nukes. We don't need a federal reserve because our currency is stable. We don't need
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We don't need airline safety because air travel is safe. We don't need measles vaccines because no one gets measles. We don't need nuclear regulation because no one uses nukes. We don't need a federal reserve because our currency is stable. We don't need
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An executive who was genuinely unconstrained by the rule of law wouldn’t have any incentive to make even temporary concessions to court orders.
I think you’re underestimating how much even authoritarian regimes need legislative and judicial institutions to confer legitimacy.
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You are the @dieworkwear.bsky.social of legal threads.
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It’s beside every point but I’m also just irrationally enraged by how tacky his Oval Office is. Cluttered, awful wallpaper, gold shit everywhere, no eye, no style. It’s such a metaphor.
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Look, the only way this can work is if you announce it, rescind it in response to a court order, and then keep doing it anyway.
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jesus christ peter our souls are immortal and will outlive the world while the elves are bound to it and will die with the last notes of eru’s song did you EVEN pay attention during Finrod and Andreth
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I guess we’ll find out!
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But Harry Potter is first and foremost a mystery plot. Every episode, wherever else it meanders, has to make at least one meaningful step toward solving the mystery. And on top of that, modern audiences raised on serial epics expect even the side stuff to feed back into the main thesis.
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There would be a better case here for a 20th-century-style episodic series. If you’re Star Trek DS9 or Buffy, you can burn the main plot real slow and reach 7, maybe 8 years without completely exhausting your writers and audiences alike.
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The obvious comparison here is Star Wars. That obsessive interest in the nooks and crannies of the setting drove a strong side economy of novels, games and other tie-ins.
But it’s different for the flagship. It needs that gravity and forward energy, and it can afford only so many distractions.
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On occasion, when we’re cooking and our hands are occupied, it’s handy to call out and ask Siri to set a timer.
That’s genuinely about it.
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I continue to believe one of our biggest problems as an (erstwhile) democracy is the way we approach voting as a full endorsement of everything one side says, does and stands for. We won’t vote for a candidate who can’t clear that bar, and then we treat others who make a functional choice as craven.
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Oh, I fully believe that they would have been *taught* to use GitHub...
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I frequently work with professional engineers at agencies and associations. I am pleasantly surprised when any of them shows more than a passing awareness that version control exists. It's bad out here.
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Latest commit 59eac67fa added medicare_payments.lua +1258/-0
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The buried lede is that these wunderkinds weren’t using GitHub or cloud sync or *any* backup or version control, years-deep into their engineering degrees.
Like a gifted biologist who keeps the live smallpox sample in a ziplock baggie in the office fridge. Skill is a distant secondary priority.