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Itty53

@Itty53@mstdn.social

Father/Husband/Programmer in CA with a need to collect my thoughts on stuff. Politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, society, music, film, games, humor.

Header is just the color black.

Avatar is a Photoshop of Barack Obama in a classic suit, framed from the chest up, speaking at a podium. His face is in what appears to be a slight scowl. The image is monochrome black and white, and his face has been altered to add Locs style sunglasses and a black baseball cap reading "Compton".

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theusasingers, to random
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Actually, Jesus would support free health care, lodging, & sanctuary to all who seek it, you pathetic disgusting gaslighting hypocritical fake Christian quisling.

Itty53,
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@theusasingers

Jesus once was asked by a crowd, "this blind man has lived his whole life blind, was it his sin or his parents' sins that caused his blindness" and Jesus told them in so many words, neither, he was blind so that you could witness me heal him, then he healed him.

If you take him at his word, Jesus only cares about eternity. Not your mortal life.

I'm begging you: stop using Jesus to promote progressive ideas. It just reinforces his use by conservatives as a political football.

RickiTarr, to random
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Please Social Media Scientists, tell me why smacking booties is so fun?!

Itty53,
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@RickiTarr

The human hand makes a natural shape to the buttock. It's a lock and key scenario.

hampants, to random
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Some church people in town found out their pastor had been doing rap shows two counties over as MC ClamBam and now everyone is trying to find out if the lyrics were clean.

Itty53,
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@hampants

Who else but ClamBam?

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I'd like to add a bit more to what I said about this week's blog post:

https://mastodon.social/

Invented Narratives and the Outrage Industry

It took me several years to understand what I was seeing.

At first, I thought the problem was Twitter algorithms. I thought that was the explanation for why what I was calling rage-inducing simplifications spread like wildfire.

1/

Itty53,
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@Teri_Kanefield

Great tip I learned a long time ago on the Internet.

If it makes you angry or triggers an emotional response, go corroborate it with three other sources.

Worst case, you find out it was outright false. Best case, you get further context of the problem that affected you. But no matter what you're getting different takes to different ends, and your brain will thank you for that.

RickiTarr, to random
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Why do you think so many people are obsessed with murder?

Itty53,
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@RickiTarr

There's a lot of interesting thoughts here but I'm gonna throw a tangent out just to highlight how weird murder is to our brains: video games. They often engage in what's called ludonarrative dissonance - when the narrative is ludicrous but the viewer expects it. TV shows do it a lot too.

You'll have characters go on murderous rampages of countless nameless baddies but suddenly they have enough emotion for a cut scene where one of their loved ones is killed. And we expect it.

Itty53, to random
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That day of the year where you wake up and your oven's clock is the only thing left to tell you an hour was mercilessly ripped from your sleep.

nixCraft, to random
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😔 that is not nice. In, IT industry experience is becoming more a liability than an asset.

Itty53,
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@adelgado @nixCraft

In what company are there developers leaping straight to the C Suite?? I can think of at least four higher job titles before you're even considered for CTO.

Developers are like mechanics. I'm a senior dev, given the choice I'll take the older one every time.

GossiTheDog, to random
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lol, I just purchased an old game which has been released on Steam for the first time, which I know hasn't worked for some time due to a limit around not supporting multi core CPUs - I wanted to see how they got around it since the studio is closed.

How the publisher got around it - they use a cracked version of the game which has a fix added on, lol. I might write this up.

Itty53, (edited )
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@GossiTheDog

The Saboteur? Or one of the C&C's?

failedLyndonLaRouchite, to mastodon

why I sometimes dislike and especially its take on and

To appeal the verdicts against him, Trump has to post bonds of ~ 80 million and 400 million in the Jean Carroll and Biz lawsuits in NY.

there must have been 10,000 toots about how TFG was broke and couldnt raise the money

I bet not one toot that notes that he has in fact raised money at least for the Carroll case

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/nyregion/trump-carroll-bond-defamation.html

Itty53,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/us/politics/trump-elon-musk.html

shawngoldwater, to movies
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Oliver Stone Was Linked to Planned Series of Pro-Dictator Docs

Russian producer Igor Lopatonok pitched financiers on multiple pro-autocrat projects, including on the leaders of Belarus, Turkey and Azerbaijan, who would be interviewed by the 'JFK' and 'Platoon' director on camera.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oliver-stone-igor-lopatonok-pro-dictator-documentaries-1235845241/

Itty53,
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@shawngoldwater

Oliver Stone has been in Russian pockets for DECADES.

Untold History of the United States was a giant Stalin dick-ride. The guy has zero credibility.

blogdiva, to random
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RANDOM REMINDER

1 billion = 100,000* x 1,000,000
because Americans make up their fucking maths as they see fit.

so fuck american billionaires and their imaginary numbers

billionaires have no right to exist. tax the shit out of them. RETROACTIVELY.

(*Americans consider that a billion while 1 million millions is what a billion used to be. fuck this gringo math.)

Itty53,
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@blogdiva

A billion is one thousand millions. Used to be that the English / UK word billion did mean "1 million millions". But that's largely not used in statistics anymore, just the American billion.

When we say billionaire we mean someone who has one thousand millions or more, not one million millions.

18+ jessica, to random
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Gotta get Dems tongues out of moderates’ assholes now; there will never be a chance again if they they win on the current trajectory.

They need to sweat. They need to reestablish trust now, not years from now. Too many marginalized groups suffer because Democrats think our lives too unpopular to win elections with.

Get rowdy.

Itty53,
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@jessica

"Marginalized groups suffer because of Democrats" is the hottest of hot takes.

Don't be so fucking stupid.

BonehouseWasps, to random
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We all knew this, of course but had nothing - no evidence of voter fraud whatsoever.

Yet harped on about them so much, ~40% of America to this day believes that there was voter fraud in the 2020 election.

We have internalised the maxim "there's no smoke without fire" and it's utter bollocks. I never want to hear that phrase again.

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-elections-true-vote-ballot-stuffing-199113b47bc2df79c63fdf007cd23115

Itty53,
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@BonehouseWasps

I still don't buy the "40% of Americans believe there was fraud" datum. Problem is their polling is awful and always has been. Why would this figure be accurate?

It isn't. Polling isn't for finding the beliefs of the many, it's for seeding them. Polls aren't about finding opinions, they're about manipulating them.

Patuleia, to movies
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Excitement to Disinterest in 30 Seconds

Itty53,
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@Patuleia

I didn't think he could do it but Leto's newest song brings him to a new low of embarrassment. It's just copying Post Malone. Like outright.

Don't get me wrong, I like Posty. But he's almost half Leto's age, and Leto is copying him. Can't wait for Leto to don a set of bedazzled teeth and get a few facial tattoos.

MissingThePt, to random
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Cybertruck, a/k/a “The Population Thinner,” is your complete, cabin-to-grave solution.

Itty53,
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@MissingThePt

It's funny (and telling) that he sets up his criticism on Twitter the same way people here set up criticism of left wing politics.

Had he not added his qualifier, Lord Elon might have banned him, and he knows that.

CaptAntagonist, to random
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Bro what

Itty53,
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@CaptAntagonist

Plot twist: owned by the same company.

Bet.

carnage4life, to random
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Self pay gas station pumps couldn’t accept payments in New Zealand yesterday because their code couldn’t handle February 29th, a leap day.

I feel like you have to go out of your way to have a bug like this in your system given standard date libraries.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/leap-year-glitch-broke-self-pay-pumps-across-new-zealand-for-over-10-hours/

Itty53,
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@carnage4life

It's an intermittent problem that resolves itself within 24 hours every four years. Which is longer than the tenure of most developers at any given company.

When described like that, it's really easy to see why that happens a lot: There's zero incentive for them to fix those issues.

Coworker summed it up yesterday: every leap day problem ends the same way the following day, "dev: can't reproduce".

Itty53,
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@coder4hire @carnage4life

For some industries it's imperative, sure, but a POS gas pump? Video game crashing? No one's gonna complain too hard, they'll just go somewhere else.

Vulnerabilities are built on this kind of laziness though, you're right. But the same rule applies to attackers. Why spend all your energy on a vuln that's only open 24 hours every four years? Target, timing, capacity for things to change in four years etc makes it unreasonable.

Itty53, to random
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An eclectic mix for the theme ...

Propagandhi - Back to the Motor League
https://youtu.be/q0Ka_HHXASw

Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
https://youtu.be/uB1D9wWxd2w

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - (Back to the) Old Iron Hills
https://youtu.be/THeDLu7tUBE

Carole King - Back to California
https://youtu.be/7eSK7P0eoqo

Juvenile - Back That Azz Up
https://youtu.be/WCArqRUPf1E

tess, to random
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To all the people who thought Lorentz "won" the interview with Raichik: No.

Lorentz got dirty and the pig enjoyed it.

Itty53,
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@ironchamber @tess

"And look at all my new subscribers, the number keeps going up!"

kellogh, to Metal
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listening to the new like, "damn, who stole your lunch money?"

Itty53,
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@kellogh

I saw you post about them yesterday and coincidentally a friend had just mentioned them, specifically laughing about the "knock loose motherfucker" line. I'd forgotten to check them out and then yesterday saw your post and thought "oh yeah, huh".

They're dope. And thank you for the reminder.

flexghost, to random
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I love Jelly Bellies

I love mixing them for the combinations you get

Cherry+butter popcorn = cherry pie. Etc.

Apparently this works with people, too. Traitor+Sex Predator = Identity Thief

Itty53,
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@flexghost

Sounds like that boy got ahold of a Flipper and a couple YouTube videos. Wonder if he's gonna be treated like a super hacker because of it. Normal kids are.

<old man face> Teenagers these days with their fancy gadgets! Back in my day we had to steal the keys or hot wire a car to go on a criminal joyride!

kv, to random
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If your non-dominant hand was a doughnut and would regenerate after you slept. Would you eat it?

Itty53,
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@kv

Hundred percent yes. Calorie-free donut every night.

SirTapTap, to random
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A weird artifact of anti-gamergate rhetoric that I hope eventually dies is "it's only censorship if it's from the government" which seems to a be a misunderstanding of "freedom of speech only applies to the federal government" which even still is a misunderstanding of the first amendment only applies to the government

It's very weird because censored/censorship has been used correctly, very publicly, for many decades

Itty53,
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@SirTapTap

Lights in the car at night indicate distracted driving, which IS illegal. The lights aren't.

Swimming and cramps is a real thing too. Just predates the normalcy of swimming pools where you just put your feet down if you're tired. Ever seen a floating swim dock? Usually about a quarter mile from shore. I've rescued swimmers myself off those things.

And CRTs literally emit x-rays, so yes, don't sit with your face right up to them.

Nifflas, to random
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I've mentioned this on the other platform, but here are two games I'd really like to exist. They're sorta opposites. Both are for two players.

A: A competitive Tango dancing game, where both dancing partners are assassins trying to kill each other during the dance

B: A cooperative pro wrestling game, where neither player are trying to actually defeat the other, but just trying to put on a really good show for the audience, building suspense & creating payoffs

Itty53,
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@Nifflas

Here's a thought for the tango game. Make it four players. Two on the floor who have to create a coordinated dance, scoring points from the crowd for their show, and two in the crowd the dancers can't easily distinguish who are trying to set up killing one of the dancers without getting caught.

If the dancers survive the time of the song, they earn points. If they don't the killers earn whatever the dancers had, less penalties for getting caught or seen. Then teams reverse. 4 rounds.

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