jeffmthomas.bsky.social
Senior software developer for nearly 40 years. RPG, board game, video game player. Janeway is my captain. Andor is the best SW. Steampunk is my jam. Making is my joy. Current addiction: Subnautica.
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I’d say go with something classic and classy yet surprisingly functional and affordable (in replica form) a Colt 1861 Navy
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It was a cool game but I really think if they’d updated “Feel Remorse” into a contextualized “emo” button it would have added more depth. Also I kept summoning Galdabrast when the Vectron 7 needed repair. Why couldn’t Galdabrast at least fix the Vectron 7 while he was just standing there??? 🤣
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How is this even being funded?
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Are they beinging them fully armed and with ammo, because then we aren't just having a parade.
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So, hopefully congress with find the spine to remove the president and the vp at some point, and will still have the power to do so.
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I’m in Paso Robles right now, the people we know say the wineries are hurting. The few we’ve been to are eerily quiet, it’s usually busy this time of year but we’ve been the only people at some popular spots. People aren’t spending money, foreign visitors aren’t coming, workers are going home.
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Hope you like almonds and grapes, that’s what most of the Central Valley is now.
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Which why the administration is giving 10s of billions of dollars in subsidies to farmers. Instead of money coming into the US from other countries we’re giving our own taxes to our farmers. Art of the deal!
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For them it’s win/win. If the people rise up, they declare martial law and win, if the people DON’T rise up they keep tightening the screws until Democracy is gone and they win.
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I’m wondering what you think would happen next. The state is already ignoring federal rulings, it’s ignoring SCOTUS. If we let it keep committing violence against the people what do you think will finally stop it?
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Even Pete wouldn’t go that low.
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Uh, doesn’t Medicaid, by definition, cover people who AREN’T covered by employee health care?
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Did you venture into one of Fry’s Electronics months before the end? I went to the one in Fremont, it once had a cool JacobS ladder. Acres of bare shelves dotted with small islands of stock, random stuff looted from the corpses of other, less fortunate stores. I felt part of my soul shrivel and die.
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“We finally think we found something we can trump up enough to charge him with that will retroactively justify our treatment of him.”
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Please provide a reliable source of information to support the claim that any Jan 6 defendants were held in prison for years without a chance to defend themselves in a court of law.
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I love quality entertainers fanning on each other, it’s a cool reminder that we’re all people.
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Talk about having embarrassing grandparents.
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Aw, are your two dads fighting, Jack? It’s rough when parents break up.
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Been getting a lot of use out of this meme recently
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Counter point: Musk realizes he’s on the “out” list in the administration so tries to rescue Tesla by publicly feuding with Trump.
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* The submarine file, many years ago on another platform we were in a Disneyland group and commiserating over the Submarine ride turning into Nemo I and I mentioned I had a Disneyland Forever audio of the ride, which I linked to you. Ok I’ll stop fanboying now 😊
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“Ok sir, I’ll transfer you to our President and he’ll be able to explain.” Which she did, then she looked at me wide eyed, “That was DeForest Kelly, he wanted to know who we were, why we’re sending him royalty checks and what the heck a screw-saver is!”
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A piece of trivia you’ll probably find entertaining. My wife worked the front desk at Berkeley Systems when we shipped Star Trek: The Screen Saver. I was talking to her when the phone rang, she answered and got a surprised look on her face. They had a short conversation then she said
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Thank you so much Wil! The feeling is mutual, I’ve loved your work since Stand By Me! With all you’ve done and all you’ve been through you being a real humanity and “not being a dick” vibe to nerd culture and fandom; it really means a lot. I hope you’ve enjoyed that submarine ride audio I linked.
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I got my fist paid programming job working on this product, 35 years later I’m still making a living at it! I still have a soft spot for the old screen savers.
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As an engineer who got his first paid programming job working on that project, which launched my 35 year career to date, thank you!
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Indeed, that non answer is a masterclass in lawyerly non answering. It boils down to, “I think they’re doing DEI still” which is in no way against federal law anyway (the implication being an EO is now federal law). Tossing in “the right to harm Jews” from left field was wild.
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And the leap from DEI to “the right to hurt the Jewish people” is just bizarre.
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Now that there is a lawyer all right. He started with a shaky premise (Harvard teaches oppressor/oppressed), illogically leaped to the faculty practicing that ideology, illogically used THAT to imply Harvard is using DEI in admissions, and implied THAT breaks federal law (which it doesn’t).
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Smiling smugly while spouting a BS party line he knows is BS. He’s laughing at the absurdity of it even as he says it.
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He’s not stupid, look at how he’s smiling as he says it. He’s parroting a BS line, and he knows it. Lying through his smug smile.
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Look at how he’s smiling, he knows he’s parroting a BS line, “make in America and no tariffs” and he doesn’t care. We can’t grow bananas in the quantities we consume. iPhones parts come from over 5 countries, building a plant just to assemble them would take 5-10 years. He knows this, and smiles.
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Or even how to cook and plate a man.
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The increasingly wrong Final Fantasy game series, aren’t they in the teens now?
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Reminds me of this ancient Penny Arcade comic www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/1...
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Journey was so amazing, I wrote a long screed about it on Facebook back in 2012. I can’t wait to check this out!
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Call it a “crusade” and they’ll do it themselves. We should probably pick an uninhabited island though, Greenland doesn’t deserve that.
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A years long dispute about what? Now mowing the lawn? Dogs barking? I think if it was something like that that’d tell us. But no outlet has mentioned what the dispute was, only the husband has spoken out, and I believe him.
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It’s been ruled “not a hate crime” by the police, and news outlets are saying Joss had arguments with neighbors up and down the street, but not ONE report is saying what those arguments were about. The only person who has said anything about motive is the husband, and I believe him.
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They aren’t saying what the motive WAS. They’re just saying “not a hate crime”. They have the perpetrator in custody, if the motive was anything but hate, they’d be able to tell us.
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Zen and Seagull were popular in my house growing up. I started reading Watershipdown as a tween at the recommendation of my English teacher and my dad mocked me for reading about “bunnies”. So I challenged him to read the first 5 chapters. The next day, “well, that was unexpected”. He finished it.
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“I’m incompetent” sounds better than “I’m intentionally selling my constituents down the river”.
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Fabulous!
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We must arm more toddlers to put an end to toddler crime!
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Tomorrow? That sound like a future self problem, and that guy is a rockstar. Not like my past self, that lazy bastard.
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Rescue a pug then, guaranteed pure bred freakiness 🤣