@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al
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Legit_Spaghetti

@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al

SoCal neolib who likes board games, videogames (in moderation), and being a dad. Writing person at [REDACTED], decent with words.

Watch your back. Conserve ammo. And never, EVER, make a deal with a dragon.

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Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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I kinda don't want us to find life anywhere else in the solar system, mostly because we, uhhh, don't have a great track record when it comes to preserving precious things.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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I have some business travel coming up, and our booking system doesn't include train travel as an option. Needless to say, I am deflated. I was hoping to ride to my destination in style and comfort, but instead I am forced to complete this journey in a flying tin can, packed like sardines.

Also, I'm somewhat sure air travel has a higher carbon footprint than train travel. Hmmm... Waaaait... What if I used that angle to get them to spring for train tickets next time?

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@timesandseasons Yeah, it'd take about 36 hours by train, meaning I'd lose two extra days versus flying. But if we packed enough people on the train, we could have meetings en route!

(I'm being facetious here, except I really would much rather travel by train than plane)

RickiTarr, to random
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Forget Chekhov's Gun, it should be Chekhov's Parrot. If a Parrot is introduced in the first act, it will absolutely give away an important secret in the third.

Legit_Spaghetti,
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CHEKOV'S PARROT: "Squawk! There's a gun under the table! Squawk!"

@RickiTarr

ai6yr, to H5N1

LA Times: Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@ai6yr If you squint REALLY hard, you can sort of trace the lineage of this particular dumb idea.

The word "vaccination" originally traces back to milkmaids who'd catch cow pox, which is a mild disease in humans (relatively speaking), and develop immunity to smallpox, which is a deadly disease. "Variolae Vaccinae" is Latin for "cow pustules," hence "vaccination."

However, cases where humans have contracted H5N1 have thus far been anything but mild, so I think these folks are playing with fire.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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Just throwing this out there, but if enough people chipped in we could probably buy the New York Times and make them post equal amounts cat pics and articles about how Trump is worse than putting on a pair of boots that the night before somebody took a drunken shit in.

Just sayin'.

timesandseasons, to random
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Trains are gay

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@timesandseasons You were saying?

Legit_Spaghetti, to gamedev
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Oh god I just had a really funny idea and I need to write it down before I forget it.

An adventure game where in the very beginning you find a ray gun that's out of batteries with a charge counter and UI for shooting and everything, and there's no ammo for it in the entire god damn game. So you waste a precious inventory slot on a completely useless item.

For added vexation, you find it on the body of crewman Chekov.

soller, to random
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I freaking hate politics right now. There is no place for views that aren't hard-left or hard-right. There is no desire for dialog. Most people in reality are not perfect ideological stereotypes. But in spite of that, I see more and more of my online acquaintances falling into line with these sterotypes. Being part of the left leaning FOSS community, usually this means presenting as far left revolutionaries. It is resulting in the split of communities and ejection of good faith participants.

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@soller Become a filthy neoliberal! We've got policies backed by data, we're pro-labor and pro-union, we want to fight climate change, we think reproductive rights are paramount, as are the rights protecting LGBTQIA+ people, we're against war while acknowledging that democracy must be able to defend itself, we're for open borders and free movement of people, we want to end the housing crisis by building more housing (and by taxing land), and finally, we demand a taco truck on every corner!

CitizenWald, to Israel
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Historian here.

This sort of thing--increasingly common--is not helpful to your cause. The more so as we mark V-E Day and the defeat of .

Jewish students had put forward a motion stating that they deserved full rights in the ANU--and supporting a two-state solution

tiny.cc/3fz0yz

@histodons @worldwarshistory

student in hoodie puts index finger below nose to imitate Hitler's mustache
student saying Hamas deserves our unconditional support
student refusing to condemn Hamas, and saying support for it must be unconditional

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@CitizenWald @histodons @worldwarshistory It should take less than 5 seconds of introspection to realize what a fucked up and intentionally hateful, bigoted gesture this is. The fact that these protesters couldn't even muster that much effort speaks volumes about how rotten parts of this movement are.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Everything is so off. Instead of climate change being all that’s talked about, we’re talking about a gross asshole having sex with a young woman and trying to cover it up to steal an election.

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@StillIRise1963 Well, that gross asshole leads a party which quite literally wants to watch the world burn if they regain the White House, so I'd say this is at least tangential.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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The data increasingly show that younger Americans are the winners of the strong economic recovery coming out of the pandemic, experiencing low unemployment rates and rapid wage growth. These labor market gains have also helped drive historic wealth growth for younger Americans.

Wait, are you telling me the people constantly whining about the economy being "very bad, actually," are a small but vocal minority trying to dominate the discourse with their bullshit anecdata?

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/wealth-of-younger-americans-is-historically-high/

carnage4life, to random
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2024 in a nutshell

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@carnage4life Layoffs are a leadership failure.

No, really. I've survived an uncomfortable number of layoffs over the years, and most of them only happened because leadership fucked up/didn't want to do the hard work of restructuring.

That kills morale, and it depletes the company's accrued experience and expertise.

Anytime a company does layoffs, you should interpret that as "Wow, their C-suite really don't know how the fuck to run a successful business."

danielfuzztone, to random
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NO PORN FOR OLD MEN. Hidden in plain sight on page 5 of the plan is a thinly veiled reference to banning porn and imprisoning those who create and/or distribute it — if is elected. Considering porn consumption crosses partisan lines with both sides indulging, it's a curious concession to the worst offenders of all — . And so-called ? This should be a non-starter for a Trump vote.

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@danielfuzztone It's not about adult material, not really. The part about "educators and public librarians" gives away what this is really about: broad censorship. ANYTHING that portrays LGBTQ+ in a positive light? Obscene. Banned. Any teacher who tries to open their students' minds will be jailed.

It's classic fascist book burning by any other name.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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Ewwwww, the Daily Show platformed that Haidt idiot/asshat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcr0yg7Mvg8

Why you can safely chuck everything he says into the trash:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9Cp-eYgjM

@rebeccawatson

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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Man, that Stormy Daniels testimony... it's so fucking sad. She testified that she wasn't coerced or threatened, she wasn't drugged, she wasn't impaired by alcohol or drugs, and yet she still let a man fuck her who she clearly, CLEARLY did not want to touch. Because of the power dynamic between them.

Men have this idea that it isn't sexual predation if there's no violence or threats of violence. This is a crystal-clear illustration of why that idea is complete and utter bullshit.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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I think there's several different flavors of wealth in the world.

Poverty: People who can barely support themselves.

Stability: People who are self-supporting, but no long-term savings.

Affluence: People who are financially secure well into retirement.

Generational wealth: People who can boost their children/grandchildren into affluence.

Dynastic wealth: People whose descendants will never have to worry about money no matter how much they spend.

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@Neblib Yeah, that's fair.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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I wish all Russian occupiers a very HIMARS Easter.

Legit_Spaghetti, to H5N1
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So, how are YOU preparing for the lockdowns?

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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Younger GenX/Elder Millennials and I think much of the Zoomer cohort have natural defenses against this kind of mind pathogen thanks to growing up when the internet was still kinda clunky. Younger kids, though? They're fucking toast.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/4/24144763/ai-chatbot-friends-character-teens

mcc, to random
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Writing some code that has to represent 90 degree rotations and what I really WANT is for 0 to be 12:00, 1 to be 3:00, 2 to be 6:00 and 3 to be 9:00 but I just KNOW if I do this at SOME point this code is going to intersect with code that does rotations with sin() and then I'll horribly regret not doing 0=3:00, 1=12:00, 2=9:00, 3=6:00

But the trig rotations system just feels so unnatural! :(

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@mcc SOLUTION: Throw caution to the wind. Overengineer that shit. Use quaternions.

jenbanim, to random
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Fell asleep making spaghetti 😭💀

Legit_Spaghetti,
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@jenbanim @Slyence Speaking as somewhat of an authority on the subject, that looks a little bit overcooked.

Legit_Spaghetti, to random
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I've now successfully trained two neural networks to use the bathroom, wipe their butts, and wash their hands.

Where's my god damn venture capital funding?!

Legit_Spaghetti, to ai
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Listen, all I'm saying is there's a greater than zero chance that somebody is gonna mount a flame thrower on Sparkles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4PPkCyJig

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