specialseaweed
@specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
Fire Emblem: Three Houses. My kid and I assigned video games to each other for the summer and that’s what I got assigned. They’re playing Persona 5 Golden.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
i think your edginess is really cool
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
If one had a fetish for masochistic torture of nuance, then yea, you hit the nail on the head.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 week ago:
I think it’s important to remember that Biden was, perhaps more than any president in my lifetime (and I’m an old man), an institutionalist. He was a senator for just about forever, then the VP for 8 years. He was 78 years old when he became president. He is an old school liberal Catholic, a very nearly extinct person in the Catholic and Christian spheres.
I think he saw his presidency as a repudiation of right wing reactionary politics. His election, in his mind, was in large part a call to what he saw as the original intent and purpose of the executive branch. To put it plainly, he saw himself as elected because America rejected the politicization of government under Trump. Included under that umbrella of beliefs about the purpose of the executive was the unalienable requirement that the executive not direct the FBI to investigate the opposing political party. Remember, Joe Biden was a senator when Nixon resigned. He was there when Nixon was using the executive branch to attack Democrats.
Biden appointed Garland to the DOJ. Garland’s record was perfectly fine and appeared well suited to the role, but his biggest strengths (in Biden’s mind) was his nonpartisanship and his conservative view of government. By conservative I mean staying within the lines of what the DOJ should be doing, a cautious view of the use of DOJ power. Again, this was done in reaction to Trump and his… let’s call it “expansive” view of government power. In Biden’s mind, he was righting the ship.
And Garland was exactly as advertised, to a maddening degree. He was cautious to the point of being timid. He refused to throw the weight of the DOJ into investigations with political implications without reaching an imaginary bar of fairness that just isn’t realistic. You saw it in the Jan 6th investigations. You saw it in the Kushner deals (and all of the Trump family deals which are obviously dirty). You saw it in Garland’s unwillingness to take on wildly politicized federal prosecutor offices because doing so would be political interference (in his mind). You saw it when Robert Hur took unprofessionalism and partisanship to the absolute extreme when attacking Biden under the guise of a special counsel appointment and Garland did nothing because instiutionalism in his mind meant not interfering with the process.
And you saw it in the Epstein case.
Garland did everything by the book to an absurd degree that ended up paralyzing justice. Biden didn’t touch Garland or any of it because he believes doing so was itself an injustice, even if Garland was wrong to handle it the way he did.
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 3 weeks ago:
My first thought was Wells Fargo but they’d burn down a rainforest for an extra tenth of a percent.
- Comment on Steam summer sale going on... This is my haul (from GOG) 3 weeks ago:
Nice call on Jade Empire.
- Comment on Steam summer sale going on... This is my haul (from GOG) 3 weeks ago:
Exactly the same here. Loved one. Two was not great.
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 3 weeks ago:
Who is WF?
- Comment on To land Meta’s massive $10 billion data center, Louisiana pulled out all the stops. Will it be worth it? 3 weeks ago:
I knew a very large company that was offered a billion dollars if they would build their factory in Louisiana. They didn’t do it because the workforce could not support the factory. Not enough engineers and higher education workers, but plenty of line workers.
Mets is going to take the money and run. They’ll meet minimum requirements then hollow it out.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 3 weeks ago:
My 13 and 15 year olds are PC first gamers, then consoles, then mobile. I raised them that way on purpose because I wanted to avoid tablet and phone screens. I could control access better that way.
And yea, also because I’m a pc and console gamer and wanted to play my favorite games with them.
The older one has started playing mobile games more often and yea, it’s Genshin and Honkai. That kid was always in love with Fire Emblem, so Honkai makes sense to me. The stories are all kind of the same.
A friend stayed with us for a few days and they have a 12 and 10 year old. I have every console imaginable, PCs on big screens, and they never left their tablets.
I think once kids get on the tablet/phone/mobile games, they don’t really leave. I don’t know that I would have either.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 4 weeks ago:
Joust. Easily understood game for little ones, and you can discourage player killing.
- Comment on This vast 1.3 GW Indiana solar farm will power 200,000 homes 2 months ago:
I’ve got a 9.9kwh install on my roof in Seattle and it was mostly cloudy today and I produced 55.7kwh today, which far exceeds my daily usage.
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 2 months ago:
Man I loved my tiny flip phone I got in Korea in 2000. It was killer. I wish tiny phones made a comeback.
- Comment on Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes 2 months ago:
Aside from this being false, it’s kinda crazy that Steam has had no significant public leaks.
- Comment on Has anyone tested yunohost? 2 months ago:
I had the same experience as many here. Great place to start out and if you don’t need or want more control then it’s perfect. I ended up on unraid and mostly use docker for apps.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
Yes, that’s why I said my explanation was quick and dirty.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
No. The far more likely way to handle it is with flocculation/coagulation since plants are already set up to support this.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
Just moved my Win10 machine to Pop OS. No issues at all. Haven’t tried Steam VR on it yet.
- Comment on I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it? 3 months ago:
The same way you grew up in a world where horrible shit had happened 20 years before you were born. You just sort of internalize it over time. Or not.
- Comment on Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence. 4 months ago:
Hey siri what month is it
Jesus Christ fellas
- Comment on Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? 4 months ago:
I upvoted your comment but man I wouldn’t even take a freebie from Oracle. Just an absolutely rotten company and Larry Ellison is one of the worst humans on the planet.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 5 months ago:
Rc Pro Am was pretty great.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread 5 months ago:
I’m 3 time zones away from my server and it hasn’t crashed yet. I’m very proud of it.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 5 months ago:
An acquaintance helped close a deal for a stadium naming rights. It had been a multi year process, the negotiations were crazy, the company deliberated forever trying to decide if this was the best way increase brand recognition.
So like a shit head that thinks he’s funny I started calling the stadium by its sponsor like 3 sponsors ago when I was around them. You could see the anxiety spike when I did it.
Your comment made me think of that. It’s hilarious. They would have had a fucking breakdown if they had heard someone say that out loud.
- Comment on Audiblez v4.0 is out: Generate Audiobooks from Ebooks 5 months ago:
Anyone tried it?
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 5 months ago:
It looks great but man I hate subscriptions and $80 for a lifetime license is absurd.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 8 months ago:
I just sent em $10. Thanks for posting the link.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 8 months ago:
SSL Certs were so god awful before certbot that it’s hard to explain now that it’s so easy and free.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 8 months ago:
I love you both very much.
I still play SSX3 GameCube version on my Wii.
- Comment on The ability to be spontaneous in life is directly proportion to the size of your bank account 9 months ago:
I don’t know what that means and it’s giving me anxiety.