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AndyHat

@AndyHat@anti-social.online

I am AndyHat.

I read, I play games and do crosswords, and I go to shows. I post about some of it.

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Andres4NY, to random
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Fuck. No.

AndyHat,
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@Andres4NY But you'll miss so much whining about congestion pricing!

jehiah, to random

Please hit that follow button if you want to catch all my posts on NY + NYC transportation legislation (good and bad). It will always be of substance, never with any character attacks.

(Federated posts turned on )

RE: https://www.threads.net/@jehiah/post/C5r2d_gOAZj

AndyHat,
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@Andres4NY @rbellinger @jehiah It's currently one-way, so replies don't make it back to Threads. Hopefully it'll
be fully two-way before too long.

jmac, to random
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Why do typing keyboards have the letters on the keys and musical keyboards don’t? You’d think that this thought-technology would have been backported to musical keyboards after typewriters caught on, but no no, we must have our little traditions.

Like, I didn’t know before I began lessons last year that every keyboard key has a single, lettered note permanently mapped to it. Why would I assume that? If they were static, the letters would be on em, because that’s table-stakes UI, right?! Phooey.

AndyHat,
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@jmac If you believe my old piano teacher, it's to discourage looking at the keys while playing. One can get by as a hunt-and-peck typist, but for musical keyboard, you need to get used to not looking at the keys as early as possible.

AndyHat, to gaming
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I am pleased to discover that Rise of the Ronin requires attempting snuggles with 100 cats.

Protagonist trying to hold an orange cat as it tried to leap away
Protagonist holding a striped cat and looking into each other's eyes

Andres4NY, to random
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LOL

On one hand I want to verify the date.. On the other hand, I DON'T WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TREND 😭

https://wandering.shop/@Johannab/112061747472214667

AndyHat,
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@Andres4NY A comic strip has the answer for you: https://mastodon.social/

lauren, to random
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Texas appears to possibly be gearing up to defy the Supreme Court ruling giving the Biden administration permission to remove Texas' deadly barbed wire so that federal officials can access immigrants -- word is that Texas is still putting up more wire.

If Texas does defy the Supreme Court, it will apparently be the first similar case since racists in Arkansas tried to defy the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation (Brown v. Board of Education - 1954). It didn't end well for Arkansas.

AndyHat,
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@lauren And they're using the Texas National Guard to do it? Can't Biden just order the NG to stop doing that? Or is the NG really answerable only to governors and not the President?

craiggrannell, to random
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There is another side to this. When I subscribe to eg Wired, I get that physical mag every other month. But it doesn’t include thousands of other mags. So there’s a trade-off between different types of plans. But like Jay says, these feel like entirely different things and could ideally do with different descriptive terms. If for nothing else than people so often conflate the two and are shocked when they lose access to digital content.

From: @jsit
https://social.coop/@jsit/111795366376165611

AndyHat,
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@craiggrannell @jsit Of course, even your Wired subscription bundles two parts that work differently. You get the print issues that you can keep forever, and you get online access to Wired's entire archive but that disappears if your subscription lapses, even for the issues that came out during the term of your subscription.

I hate that maintaining perpetual access to subscription content means either perpetual fees or having to store my own copies of the printed artifacts.

And I love, love, love the rare exceptions like weightlessbooks.com where my subscription issues remain available forever even if I decline to renew something.

AndyHat, to Cats
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Kitties know how to spend a Monday...

lauren, to random
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While I had hoped to avoid this, I've gotten so many queries regarding my opinions on Threads issues that I've finally gone ahead and created a profile there, so that I can at least survey the landscape and provide semi-reasonable responses to such queries. By avoiding use of apps for this (instead using the Web UI), the most intrusive aspects of the platform can probably be avoided. You can follow me there if you wish -- that will provide me with some interactions for testing and be appreciated. I won't at this point predict how long I'll keep that profile open. Thanks.

Threads Profile: laurenweinstein.1

AndyHat,
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@lauren Huh, didn't realize threads supported private profiles, so I learned something as I sent you a follow request.

lauren, to random
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Oh give me a break! - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella suggests that Sam Altman might return to OpenAI - https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-suggests-that-sam-altman-might-return-to-openai/

AndyHat,
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@lauren Kitty definitely has the right idea.

RickiTarr, to random
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One of my friends pointed out that Bible stories sound exactly like Florida Man Headlines!

Example:

Florida Man Starts Building Ark, Says God Is Going Flood The Whole Earth

PLEASE, add your own Florida Man Bible Headlines for everyone's amusement!

AndyHat,
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@RickiTarr Florida Man Purchases Royal Bride for One Hundred Foreskins

AndyHat, to nyc
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Got my special edition sticker!

GottaLaff, to random
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Yes, he does pay his fines, unlike how he treats his lawyers & employees.

Via Klasfeld:

's lawyer Alina submitted her client's gag order sanctions payment to court today.

In a letter, Habba said this doesn't waive any appellate rights over the penalty.

AndyHat,
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@GottaLaff Huh, "Other revenues include interest, subrogation receipts, and sanctions imposed on lawyers for frivolous conduct in the course of litigation" (quote from http://www.newyorklegalethics.com/qa-about-new-york-lawyers-fund-for-client-protection/ )

Seemed like a weird place to direct the payment, but I guess "frivolous conduct" covers it.

Andres4NY, to random
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lol sob
https://gothamist.com/news/mtas-gleaming-new-subway-cars-taken-out-of-service-for-faulty-gearboxes-flat-wheels

AndyHat,
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@Andres4NY And it'd be good if they could spin, too!

briankrebs, to random

I wish just once I could play one of the games I bought without first having to download a 40 gb file just to update a few game elements. Nobody and I mean nobody in the gaming world cares about people for whom that is like 2 days worth of data allowance.

AndyHat,
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@phaysis @briankrebs Steam has mostly solved this, which leads to sometimes downloading a meg or two and then waiting for it to rewrite 40 or 50 gigs of pack files...

It's surprising the consoles haven't figured out something similar.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Meidas Touch:

's mental state is rapidly deteriorating. He is severely unwell. He doesn't seem to know where he is or what he is talking about. He is angry and lashing out at our allies and attacking the USA. His family should step in and get him the help he needs.

Biden-Harris HQ:

Trump once again confuses who is currently President, forcing Kilmeade to correct him

[Trump railed against "Obama"]

AndyHat,
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@GottaLaff Isn't there some crazy right-wing conspiracy now that Obama is actually running the Biden White House? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/111205721626200196

GossiTheDog, to random
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    AndyHat,
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    @GossiTheDog You just have to stick to positive business-speak. Bing's happy to tel you about Microsoft's "tax minimization strategies."

    lauren, to random
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    As much as I despise cigarettes, the British proposal to increase the legal age for smoking year by year in an attempt to eventually ban them is inane. It will simply create a black market and cause far more damage in the end. This kind of prohibition never works and is beneath stupidity.

    AndyHat,
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    @lauren The closest I can think of is the thing with US Social Security where for people born between 1954 and 1960, each year younger adds two months to the age for full benefits eligibility. Which is also ridiculously unfair...

    thomasfuchs, to random
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    Unity keeps on digging and is now blaming their customers and users, definitely what you should do if you already get bad press

    AndyHat,
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    @thomasfuchs Did all their PR people give up and quit and leave the twitter account to a disgruntled unpaid intern?

    lauren, to random
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    He tried to claim that this is why some people think the economy is bad. But reportedly most of his tab was booze. - New York Times Columnist Mocked For $78 Burger Tweet - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-brooks-78-burger-tweet_n_650cafcee4b0adc2891391b9#:~:text=On%20Wednesday%20evening%2C%20Brooks%20tweeted,is%20terrible%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20wrote

    AndyHat,
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    @lauren The restaurant seems to be enjoying the publicity: https://www.facebook.com/100063580360247/posts/pfbid0SvW2RZCfWdgxVAVAZ17tQ8uebnTzLeiRpQDkC4FMHphog2XaR6tjc8avZf6hmaaxl/

    Andres4NY, to nyc
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    So apparently Hudson Yards lacks bike parking, because . 🙄

    (There's folks hosting climate change mitigation meetings over there.)

    AndyHat,
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    @Andres4NY The one that blows my mind is the UN, which performatively bans single-use plastic bottles, but only offers parking for cars...

    https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/06/02/despite-lofty-climate-goals-united-nations-bans-cyclists-on-its-campus

    GossiTheDog, to Starfield
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    AndyHat,
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    @GossiTheDog I guess it's a good thing you can get married in game (though you might have to compromise and do a few main plot missions first)

    GottaLaff, to random
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    ⚠️ “ advisory panel declared an ingredient in widely used oral doesn’t work, setting the stage for dozens of products to be removed from U.S. store shelves.

    At issue is phenylephrine, an almost-century-old ingredient in versions of Benadryl, Mucinex, Tylenol and other over-the-counter pills, syrups and liquids to clear up congested noses.”

    AndyHat,
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    @GottaLaff LOL. I've always found all those products to be completely useless, and I guess that explains why.

    Now maybe we can get rid of some of the restrictions on pseudoephedrine so it's not such a pain to get the stuff that does work?

    AndyHat, to nyc
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    This evening's thunderstorms made for a beautiful rainbow.

    Rainbow spanning the space between buildings on a cross street
    Half of a double rainbow above buildings

    craiggrannell, to InitialD
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    190: Tapper (1983)

    The bars in this game were rough. Failure to serve someone in time would find the bartender dragged across a bartop and hurled into a wall. So you had to carefully balance sliding drinks along the bartop, grabbing empties, and collecting tips to kick off a show that would distract rowdy drinkers. Quality stuff in the arcades – but also check out the surprisingly excellent port.

    Play it on:

    Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u17mTefrodo

    AndyHat,
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    @craiggrannell That game convinced me I would never be qualified to be a bartender.

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