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lightninhopkins

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DevOps, Kubernetes, Mariners, Vikings, lefty.

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Sheril, to random
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Guy at conference: Do you have kids?
Me: Yes.
Guy: Wow! So your husband is taking care of them?
Me: Yes. He’s their dad. 🤔

lightninhopkins,
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@Sheril No, hes not allowed after eating the first two.

gintoxicating, to random
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every time.

every. single. time.

lightninhopkins,
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@gintoxicating But at least you know now....oh that's who invented the can opener.

lanartri, (edited ) to random
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lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri I know that is dark, but I'm asking honestly.

lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri are they all dead or in prison now?

lightninhopkins,
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@lanartri Yeah, I know about it. The crackdown was brutal.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay...I just...there's just so much happening here...what the heck is going on?!

lightninhopkins,
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@RickiTarr I think some people are mad about the giant skeletons that people are leaving up after Halloween and putting Santa hats on them.

alexwild, to random
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Biology faculty at UT are meeting today to talk about a hiring plan. I really don't envy their job of trying to make a department located in Texas attractive.

We're in the middle of an ongoing purge of black staff, the adminstration just called in the state police to beat and jail students, and no one in their right mind would want to risk pregnancy to have a family here. It's bleak.

lightninhopkins,
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@shansterable @alexwild Yep, when the Big 10 starts pulling the players up north and out west panic will ensue in the SEC.

Silly that is what will be the catalyst for change, but its likely true.

girlonthenet, to random
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My friend just told me of a genius idea: her friend & partner have a secret signal for when they have guests. If one of them makes themselves a hot drink in a specific mug, that means ‘I grow weary of company, please help guests out of the door.’

lightninhopkins,
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@girlonthenet I just offer them money to leave.

robpike, to random
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I was watching the 30th anniversary chat between John Romero and John Carmack, and the moderator asked what they thought of being compared to Lennon and McCartney. Carmack's answer pointed out that the Beatles were an "overnight success" only after years of constantly composing and playing live. Similarly, Doom was an "overnight success" only after id Games had made 30 prior games - and like the Beatles, learned how to do it right.

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lightninhopkins,
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@robpike doom was fuckin awesome

britt, (edited ) to random
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STEAM KEY GIVEAWAY!

I have 15 Steam keys to giveaway before Jan 1st.

ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED! 🌟

  1. Tell me a story about your all time favourite video game.

AND

  1. list your TOP 3 preferred games from the list below.

———-
GAMES
———-

Arcade Spirits
Aces & Adventures
Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock x2
EARTHLOCK
Monster Prom
Patch Quest
Repella Fella
Spirit of the Island
Tinytopia
Toodee and Toodee
Train Valley 2
Turbo Golf Racing x2

Winners will be selected on Dec 30 @ 6PM PT

lightninhopkins,
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@britt 1. All time favorite is too hard for me. When I was at the mall and saw Kings Quest on a 386 I was blown away though. There were kids around the computer recommending things to try. "Check under the bridge" "Check in that tree". It was a turning point. Roberta Williams is awesome and should have a statue somewhere.

Mega Man
Red Dead Redemption 2
Baldurs Gate

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

lightninhopkins,
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@ZachWeinersmith Google and Facebook are also dying. They are both becoming useless.

gamingonlinux, to random
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It just keeps going. Google AI telling people to eat rocks 😂

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lightninhopkins,
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@gamingonlinux Yeah, it's kinda funny until you think about the other questions that get fucked up answers.

MissingThePt, to random
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Trump scoffs at the rosy picture painted by Biden in his State of the Union address, noting that crimes by former Presidents is at an all time high.

lightninhopkins,
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@MissingThePt Thanks Obama.

flexghost, to random
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We live in a timeline where Libertarians have more sense than the alt-left

Here’s Trump getting booed…

Trump being rotund asking for votes. This is the Same timeline as Libertarians having more sense than students getting their DoorDash sent to their hunger strike before receiving a degree in imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens

lightninhopkins,
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@flexghost I can't believe I am cheering for libertarians this morning. I need to make some eggs.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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It’s so bleak just sitting here waiting for all of this to collapse in on itself isn’t it

lightninhopkins,
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@ryanhoulihan meh, SSDD.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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When the prosecution rests in the Manhattan case, I plan to read the transcripts so far looking for evidence that supports the elements of particular crimes.

This is my thing: Reading trial transcripts. My job was reading trial transcripts looking for appealable errors.

Shall I tell you my favorite moment in a transcript?

The defendant (yes, my client) walked in to court with baggy pants. The judge (a woman) was offended and angry. She thought the defendant was disrespecting her.

1/

lightninhopkins,
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@artemesia @Teri_Kanefield I don't see the judges complaining when Trump comes in painted orange.

dangillmor, to random
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This looks like a case of using AI to do plagiarism. I hope the companies whose work is being lifted sue the site out of existence. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2023/a-financial-news-site-uses-ai-to-copy-competitors-wholesale

lightninhopkins,
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@dangillmor There needs to be a lot more of these cases brought. I enjoy using AI while coding, but it's being used to rip off the work of people in all areas.

maxleibman, to random
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AI didn’t ruin Google. Cynical content farmers ruined Google. SEO ruined Google. GOOGLE ruined Google.

lightninhopkins,
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@maxleibman I think you could replace "Google" with "The internet".

lightninhopkins, to random
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Pleas follow @shanselman so we can force him to post more. Awesome person. All kinds of cool stuff.

lightninhopkins, to random
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Look, sometimes I don't have much to say. I just wanna get high and listen to Ween on a Friday.

lightninhopkins, to guitar
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Can anyone recommend a guitar for a kid (plays intermediate) with a whammy bar that does decent at not taking the strings out of tune?

angelus_04, to retrogaming
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Mega Man Permafrost #2 - A Tad Nippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wIbLJriBJw&ab_channel=DoctorNovakaine

lightninhopkins,
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@angelus_04 wait, is this a new Mega Man game?

lightninhopkins,
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@angelus_04 why am I not playing this right now?

lightninhopkins, to random
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Argh!! I will never beat Slay the Spire.

nilsskirnir, to random
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Folks talk about what to do about houseless people and the lack of affordable housing. Here's a tip, tax the living hell out of the over-wealthy - they build mansions, as in the below case where some billionaire weenie bought 7 houses and destroyed them in order to build a mega mansion.
14 or more people gone, so one dickweed could have a lakeshore mansion. Probably pay less tax than the 7 too. Shameless shit.
Tax homes over a certain size, 3rd or more homes and homes over 500k at 50% value and like % each year. Bloody fucking leeches.
https://www.twincities.com/2023/12/16/duluth-park-point-kathy-cargill-north-shore-ls-homes-demolished/

lightninhopkins,
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@nilsskirnir Why do you even need a house that big? It won't be cozy and will contribute to being depressed as fuck.

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