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RufusJCooter

@RufusJCooter@mstdn.social

Mastodon, eh?
Middle-aged, cis-het white guy; my experience has been that the more we amplify the voices of those who don't fall neatly into those categories, the better. So that's what I try to do.
FYI: if I see you scolding someone for mastodonning wrong (i.e., "We don't do threads on Mastodon!" "You need to tag your b/w photos as colorless!" "This discussion of racism needs to be hidden behind a content warning!") I will block you.
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stux, to random
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Sooo.. the reason you start out in underwear is because you wake up on an abandoned and alien attacked space station from hibernation and will collect your first set of armor on the station

From there you'll be able to go to different planets etc!

**don't mind the not-fitting icons, i know :blobcatgiggle:

Unreal Engine 5 space game project where the player can now equip armor from the inventory The armor are items from a data table with stats per item and a mesh

RufusJCooter,
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@stux ...and here I was, thinking it was all the set-up for a pickle joke

GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW ๐Ÿงตstarts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/... Erica Orden:

Trump returned to courtroom accompanied by Eric, Lara Trump, + rest of entourage.

McB:

Back in overflow, the rules are as strict as everโ€”even Chris Hayes
gets ID'd.

"Press credentials?" a court officer demands, as another reporter gives a good natured, "You sure you're a member of the press, Chris?"

RufusJCooter,
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@GottaLaff @ClassyT Last time I moved back in '08, I didn't have any choice but PODS (there was a 3 month gap between moving out of the old place & into the new); worked out brilliantly. It was a really good solution for me to move/temporarily store my stuff until the new place was ready!

RufusJCooter, to random
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kilometers, miles, leagues... kinda bugs me how this guy keeps changing units of measurement

GrimmReality, to random
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As it is the greatest tv show ever made, we all have our favorite Futurama moments, but the one that may resonate most with me is when the Robot Devil says "This opera is as lousy as it is brilliant" because it reminds me of some of my favorite people's social medium jokes.

RufusJCooter,
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@GrimmReality Not that you asked us to name our favorite Futurama moments... but here's mine:

https://youtu.be/O7tiIWIm8Ys

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@msbellows @GrimmReality To be certain: I will never say a bad word about Bryan Cranston or Jane Kaczmeryk! But! They did a lot of, uh, heavy lifting, let's say, to turn some, uh, questionable work by their child co-stars into something watchable?

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@msbellows @GrimmReality Don't get me wrong! There's a lot to like about MITM! It's a top 10 example of the "Live-Action Cartoon" genre! Loved it when it was airing new episodes!

...But! Upon rewatches, it hasn't aged all that great?

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@msbellows @GrimmReality (apologies for stepping away - apparently there's a coronal mass ejection shortly to turn my sky all pretty)

flockofnazguls, to random
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    RufusJCooter,
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    @flockofnazguls You're not wrong! But I think the most pressing need right now is prophylactic antishittification.

    atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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    Listen, if youโ€™re a white person, and you think youโ€™ve had Szechuan food, you probably havenโ€™t.

    Most of the Szechuan restaurants in the USA lack a basic component: spiciness.

    I say this because a friend from out of town just went to a Szechuan restaurant in Vancouver, thought it was going to be business as usual, and now heโ€™s doubled over because the spice is too much for him.

    He tells me, itโ€™s so bad, that he feels the spice eking out of his pores. ๐Ÿคฃ

    RufusJCooter,
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    @adnan @atomicpoet Well, the thing is, it's not just that different spices are different.

    It's that spices get processed by your system in the context of the other things that it's concurrently processing.

    You're (probably?) not eating raw green chilies on their own, w/o any other spices or ingredients alongside? Like, chicken, or rice, or [whatever]?

    Listen: Mexican hot is different from Szechuan hot is different from Thai hot is different from NOLA hot is different from [etc.]

    mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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    Again, "Trump is worse!" Then blocked๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/112402055418029413

    Gotta respect the doubling down! Replying to me posting some dude saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me, with saying "Trump is worse!" then blocking me too! The commitment to the bit is impressive!

    Listen, you can get as mad as you want. You can call Black folk criticizing Biden "Bitching" if you want. We're still going to do it.

    The CDC under Biden dropped the Covid isolation period from "5 days" to "vibes days." Not Trump.

    RufusJCooter,
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    @mekkaokereke It really is amazing, and disappointing, but not surprising, how many people don't realize that they could just... not?

    RufusJCooter, to random
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    OK, @pluralistic 's The Bezzle finally bubbled up to the top of my to-read stack, and hot damn! Such a great read, in turns hilarious and infuriating and heart breaking.

    And I had a thought about why I find his writing so compelling - he's something of a 21st century Dickens; his daily threads show you the pieces of the puzzle, much as Dickens' serializations of his work doled out a story in bite-sized chunks. Then, you sit down and read the whole, and it you see the whole, and... damn.

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    I told y'all, cops don't do what you think they do.๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ

    Black folk know this from lived experience. Some white folk only learn this when they go to report a theft or sexual assault and find out that the $11B/year NYPD are not equipped to handle that.

    15K NYC bikes stolen a year!

    https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/

    1/n

    RufusJCooter,
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    @mekkaokereke (And, since we're on about it, thanks to the "creative" bookkeeping that goes into funding "national security" efforts, $11B is likely /just/ the $ that we're allowed to know about.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh-money-helps-pay-for-nypd-muslim-surveillance/

    Fun fact: the NYPD has an office in Israel, because it's a totally normal, not at all totalitarian, thing for a municipal law enforcement agency to have an office on the other side of the planet.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/nypd-opens-local-branch-in-kfar-saba/)

    amyfou, to random
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    RufusJCooter,
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    @amyfou (Also, "Diana Prince / aka Wonder Woman" actress Lynda Carter spells her first name w/ a "y")

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Carter

    Teri_Kanefield, to random
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    Hi, Fediverse Peeps,

    I have my weekend blog post ready.

    https://terikanefield.com/trumps-first-criminal-trial-theories-of-the-case/

    Because my sanity requires a bit of a break from social media, my thoughts are all going into my weekend blog posts.

    The comments are off, but please feel free to let me know here if I made an error. I don't hire a proofreader (duh, right?)

    (If you get the error message wait a minute and try again. If you have an idea for how to fix it other than using a cache plug in, which didn't work, let me know.)

    RufusJCooter,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Thx, Teri, great read as always!

    A (slightly off-topic) ? for you: did you follow jury selection this past week, and if so, what did you make of it?

    (I ask because I was struck by how much Team Trump focused on jurors feelings re: T, and how little on how receptive they might be to T's theory of the case...)

    RufusJCooter,
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    @Teri_Kanefield Certainly!

    On the other hand, I think that it's also possible for one to hate Trump, /and/ think that it's unseemly for the state to prosecute pols once they're out of power, or think that NY state law is so byzantine & convoluted that everyone has technically broken it at least once, so this is "selective prosecution, or (etc.)

    I don't think those things, mind! But if I were Team Trump, I'd have used voir dire to float some alt theories, not just ask people how they feel re:T

    clive, to random
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    omg I forgot how much I hate restringing a bigsby tremolo

    these devices can rot in hell

    with their dread maker

    RufusJCooter,
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    @clive one string at a time, man

    it's the only way

    RickiTarr, to random
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    When you read Librarian Erotica and think it's real life:

    RufusJCooter,
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    @msbellows @RickiTarr Madame Librarian!

    (I debated adding an NSFW tag to this...)

    a gif from The Music Man song, Marian the Librarian, in which Robert Preston uses subterfuge get Shirley Jones to stamp his hand instead of the Due Date card found in old-timey library books. He acts as though it hurts, but is clearly into it; she is scandalized.

    MatWright, to Taiwan
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    Eyes on Taiwan, lots of earthquake damage especially in Hualien City on the east coast, constant aftershocks, tsunami warning as far as Guam and the Philippines

    RufusJCooter,
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    @MatWright @StillIRise1963 Say it with me, everybody: government regulations save lives

    atomicpoet, to random
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    I canโ€™t stand when Europeans get uppity about the USAโ€™s culture being imported there.

    My dudes, youโ€™ve been importing your culture to the USA for 400 years.

    What dominant language do Americans speak? Where do burgers, pizza, and beer come from? You think Americans just came up with that stuff on their own?

    Actually, since 1492, you Europeans have been colonizing the whole world. You werenโ€™t just importing your cultures, you were making it downright mandatory.

    RufusJCooter,
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    @mxtthxw @atomicpoet True, but it's not like the CIA travels the globe forcing people to listen to Bon Jovi, or the RCMP go to Portugal and force people to listen to Nickelback at gunpoint

    European settlers came to the "New World", and forced the people who were already here to talk like them, dress like them, listen to their music, and like it, on pain of death

    mattblaze, to random
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    Since moving off Twitter/X/whatever to (mostly) here, I have about 1/3 the followers, but roughly the same level of engagement. Also, twice the scolding. But roughly 0% of the Nazis. That last bit is what keeps me here.

    RufusJCooter,
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    @mattblaze It is kinda wild that that some FOSS enthusiasts came up with a UX that's at least competitive with, if not superior to, those on offer by BigSocial, and all it took was "No Nazis" and "edit button"

    TonyStark, to random
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    Yeah, this is the last guy Iโ€™ll be listening to on who to vote for, thanks. Gotta love how NYT just runs with this as a headline, though. Gotta love it.

    Trump Says Jews Who Support Democrats โ€˜Hate Israelโ€™ and โ€˜Their Religionโ€™ -
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/us/politics/trump-israel-jewish-voters.html

    RufusJCooter,
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    @TonyStark OK, honest ? for the chuds who think that Jewish people who criticize the state of Israel are "self-hating Jews", or whatever:

    Y'all ever read the Bible? or the Torah or the Talmud & associated commentary? Any of it?

    'Cause, there's like a sizable percentage that's all about Jewish people criticizing their political leaders, because G-d told them to.

    Start with the Book(s) of Kings, if you want to find out more!

    RufusJCooter,
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    @TonyStark Oh, I could believe that Trump's opened a bible, but that he also closed it immediately, throwing it at the wall, or his butler, shouting "what is this gibberish! All the words are upside down! Walt, pull up my playlist of Hitler speeches as read by Jon Voight! IN ENGLISH, this time, PLEASE!"

    RufusJCooter, to random
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    OK, I've got questions:
    if the godmonster was a mutant sheep, why did snarl, like a dog, instead of bleat?
    What sort of threat did they think the mutant herbivore posed to the community?

    jonny, to monsterdon
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    No way in hell am i watching #monsterdon with ads. importing the tubi version to @monsterdon rn, should be ready in time

    RufusJCooter,
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    @jonny all of this, and also: if you've got a mutant sheep that's the 8th Wonder of the World, why are you unveiling it at the town dump?

    mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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    Happy !

    I'm still not onto Black history. I'm still on white US history.

    Q: Why were Black folk so happy when OJ was acquitted? To be honest, it feels disgusting. Why does it seem like you're happy he got away with murder?

    A: Racism. Black folk did not like OJ that much. In fact, many Black people think he did it. Black folk didn't "celebrate OJ." Black folk celebrated the hope that a brutally unjust, evil, and racist system, could be defeated at all.

    RufusJCooter,
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    @pomCountyIrregs @mekkaokereke Yep.

    A while back PBS Frontline had a doc on the anniversary of the verdict; towards the end, they get "regular people" commentary - one bit that stuck with me was from a barbershop in downtown LA:

    "[N]one of the customers believes that O.J. Simpson was innocent. But they agree on the fact that the police behaved as they've come to expect. "They framed a guilty man -- that's all it was," says the barber."

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/view/#rest

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