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- Comment on Thilk 1 day ago:
Link to instructions?
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 4 days ago:
Child marriage and rape (within marriage) are legal in far too many US States.
Slavery is allowed in far too many US States.
Brutalizing women (if you consider things like revocation of bodily autonomy or incarceration for miscarriages) is legal in far too many US States. If you consider unpunished crimes against women, though illegal, it is far too common in many US States.
Many landlords forbid having pets and there’s little to no recourse for pets killed by the state.
- Comment on Texas Republican Primary having a normal one 4 days ago:
- Texas keeps trying to force Christianity into public schools
- Texas has a bounty system for women who lose a child in childbirth
- Texas continues to use the 13th loophole to compel labor without pay for prisoners
- In Texas, emancipated minors and teens with parental permission can be married over the age of 16
- Texas actually bans FGM, but they do allow male genital mutilation
- Texas police do also shoot dogs.
- Comment on Nothing good ever happens in a ravine. 6 days ago:
Nice hikes and you can play in the water!
- Comment on Wicked hangover 1 week ago:
M&Ms oughtn’t be measured in units of kg.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, definitely. The wiring needs for an industrial space or event venue are different than a domicile, but I don’t think anyone’s buying audiophile snake oil for those. They really seem to market that kinda crap to the fool and their money crowd.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
I fucking love audio and have an extensive collection of equipment. The last thing in the chain before your ears (so headphones and speakers) will absolutely make a difference and the thing that provides power to that can make a difference. But the cables? The fucking cables?! Absolutely no impact once you’re above like $10. Turns out, electrons are electrons and they behave like electrons. Shockingly that doesn’t change in copper, gold plated copper, pure silver, or mud. Doubly so for the non analog part of the chain. Hell I’ve even seen “audiophile grade” ethernet cables.
The other part of the equation is if the differences made by the things that do make a difference actually matter to the listener. They do to me, but my dad is more than happy to just use the speakers on his Dell monitors.
- Comment on Wicked hangover 1 week ago:
M&Ms oughtn’t be measured in units of pounds.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 week ago:
In the case of what wound up on Roman Numeral Ten (formerly twitter) that’s correct, but given the actual PDF dump from the gov, if they just slapped an annotation on top of the image it’ll be possible to remove it and reveal what’s underneath.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 week ago:
It was simpler than that. You can just copy the black highlighter text and paste it anywhere.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
It’s a fine format for what it’s intended for, exact preservation of content, format, and layout. Once you start looking at a the immutable archivist/distribution format and start thinking to yourself “I’d rather like to edit that” Than you’ve messed up.
- Comment on GOG has already started working on Linux gaming as it says they're "a big fan" of the OS 2 weeks ago:
Why is the cover art a MBP running MacOs?
- Comment on archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog 3 weeks ago:
The gyrovague.gay thing as a threat is just so … out there. Like why would anyone care that there’s a vibe coded pro gay app that is obviously not your blog.
FWIW: 1000008823
- Comment on Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation? 3 weeks ago:
You can’t just remove an entire hypothetical that the example was predicated upon and expect to get the same meaning.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe try a heat gun before applying the weight?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Another balmy day of approximately 0 degrees out.
- Comment on saturday wisdom 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Student Parking 4 weeks ago:
Mine withheld transcripts and diplomas if their were open tickets and absolutely would have given tickets out during finals.
- Comment on Student Parking 4 weeks ago:
My uni charged a parking fee to every student.
You still couldn’t park unless you also bought a parking pass.
- Comment on The apostrophe in it's is writing out only the dot over an i. 5 weeks ago:
You’re jotting a tittle!
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 5 weeks ago:
Jeorgia on my mind.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1 month ago:
I hate both fascists and the tools of fascist empires.
It is troubling that you are encouraging people to ignore those opposed to fascism though.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 1 month ago:
Al doesn’t steal jobs. Al operators do.
But your main post is begging people to become AI operators.
- Comment on Help is needed 1 month ago:
- Churches
- Paris
- TV
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 1 month ago:
Check Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Letgo–just general classifieds. Can generally find decent deals on 1 to 2 generation old PCs, especially if you’re near a US Military installation or college.
- Comment on Today in “Google Broke Email” 1 month ago:
Here are some things that people will suggest that are unacceptable:
Have the dnalounge.com MX record point to some Google thing and let them take over 100% of my company’s email. Fuck no. Also it wouldn’t integrate with our internal systems, store, transactional emails, bounce processing, etc.
Why is that unacceptable? “Fuck no” is not a reason for it being unacceptable, and having to build out integrations when things change is part of the job.
You want business email? Well you host it yourself, pay someone to manage it in house, or pay someone to manage it externally. Using loopholes to get free end-user emails was bound to stop working eventually; just pay for Google workspaces, keep the same familiarity for your employees and now have heightened control over how Google uses your data.
- Comment on Delicious rocks 1 month ago:
Trona
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I can’t wait for hardware companies to let go of their designers prematurely in the pursuit of AI everything only for there to be a bug in a major board and no one available to troubleshoot thereby stranding customers with a broken board, no revision on the horizon, and no recourse.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 months ago:
Here’s a video from the gig. I think it would have been more clear they were targeting anti-zionism if they had used that combined symbol on the flag and just stuck with swastikas over the eyes. In context it does seem like they’re being critical of Israel here while using symbolism pulled from the Israeli flag though.
If only there was something Israel could do to stop the comparisons of Israelis to genocidal Nazis.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 months ago:
News’ job is to report facts. If one person says it’s raining and another says it’s not the journalist should go outside and check, not just report “he said, she said” bullshit.
