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cowvin

@cowvin@retro.pizza

I'm a professional game developer but I mostly come on Mastodon to talk about non-work stuff

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cowvin, to random
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On reason #housing prices are so high is that hedge funds and the like are buying up single family homes.

#Democrats are working on a bill to ban this.

#Vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TOGxDJ0TE

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧡

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

cowvin,
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@GottaLaff NFL I guess she's now openly preventing Trump from having a trial. Cannon needs to be removed from her position. Our system should not allow judges to be immune from consequences.

rbreich, to random
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You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee gets a bonus of $176,500. Hello?

cowvin,
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@rbreich What's more important to society: guiding our next generation of people or moving money around?

Tax the rich, fund education.

cowvin, to random
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I'm grateful that more are speaking out about supporting over . Here's an opinion piece from Geoff Duncan:

https://www.ajc.com/opinion/geoff-duncan-why-im-voting-for-biden-and-other-republicans-should-too/LFLE5YWCBBA6VDGJAJKMNPCDKQ/

laneybk, to random
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If I lose this account, please find me at @NyakoKitty with the same name My Cat Sighs α“šα˜α—’β€¦new account there!

cowvin,
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@laneybk @NyakoKitty Why not migrate your account there so this one redirects there?

cowvin, to random
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's revenue proposal for 2025 is actually fantastic for those of us who want the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes.

It raises the top tax brackets, yes, but importantly, it also ends the step-up in basis tax loophole that allows the wealthy to never pay any capital gains. Instead, their gains will be realized on death.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanations-FY2025.pdf

cowvin, to movies
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Okay, I had no idea this was coming, but "Deadpool & Wolverine" looks really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cen0rBKLuYE

textfiles, to random
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This meme is making the rounds. Naturally people are going "this isn't real". Well, I can't attest how much Musk was inspired by the original, but Internet Archive lets you play the PC and Apple versions in browser:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_shareware_fb_CARBUILD (PC Version)
https://archive.org/details/CarBuilder4amCrack (Apple II Version)

cowvin,
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@textfiles Oh man, thanks for the dose of nostalgia. I remember playing Car Builder when I was a kid but I kind of forgot about it until now.

GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧡STARTS HERE
I CANNOT READ REPLIES. "NFL" (NotForLaffy) appreciated

1/...McBrien:

At 2:35 p.m. we have audio again, but still no video, and we hear Merchan say "Thank you, please be seated."

Merchan welcomes the jurors and starts by apologizing for how chilly it is in the courtroom.

Video is back on, and both sides are seated in the same seats as this morning

Merchan proceeds to read the boilerplate instructions for voir dire. Reminder: 30 mins per side

cowvin,
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@GottaLaff It would actually be kind of fun to be in court reading out loud social media posts about Trump to his face.

msbellows, to random
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Help, please: In one of the semi-recent presidential campaigns, one of the candidates paused his campaign because his opponent was sick or something. Maybe 2008 (Obama-McCain)? Does anyone remember? Thanks.

cowvin,
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@msbellows This is actually a great example of when ChatGPT can be useful. I asked it and it mentioned these examples:

During Trump vs Hillary, some people called for Trump to suspend his campaign when Hillary was sick. He did not.

During Obama vs McCain, they agreed to suspend their campaigns during the financial crisis.

However it was unable to find an example of both candidates suspending their campaigns due to illness.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter

cowvin,
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@JoshuaHolland It will be fascinating to see what happens when this ruling is used against gatherings.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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Almost as if the right is consumed by an endless number of stupid conspiracy theories and suspects that every protest on their side is a trap by the feds.

cowvin,
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@JoshuaHolland It's almost as if they're a small vocal minority.... LOL

cowvin, to prochoice
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Did you know that were until around 1979?

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/

cowvin, to random
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If there was any doubt before, yes, is running to help beat

https://newrepublic.com/post/180579/robert-f-kennedy-jr-far-right-ties-worse

cowvin, to random
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I really like it when actual speak out against . This Reagan appointed conservative judge came out and openly criticized the folks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1az9-cBPirM

lolgop, to random
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What I need everyone to get today that no matter what Trump says, his MAGA allies have a bureaucratic plan to effectively ban abortion in all 50 states immediately. And they will settle for nothing less.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1775510167414595817.html

cowvin,
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@lolgop My wife used to confidently tell me that Republicans wouldn't overturn Roe v. Wade. A lot of people underestimate the threat to our freedoms and rights.

rbreich, to random
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Trump's team weirdly keeps asking: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

March 2024: 303,000 new jobs added
March 2020: 701,000 jobs lost

Remember, Trump's mishandling of the pandemic made both the number of lives lost and the economic toll far worse.

cowvin,
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@rbreich Hell yes, we are! 4 years ago was miserable.

cowvin, to Texas
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Right-wing extremists are taking even more radical positions. Apparently this group in is calling for executions of women who receive or even

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/texas-republicans-call-for-execution-of-women-who-receive-abortions-ivf-in-horrifying-video

QuirkyFilms, to random
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(1994)
In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.

πŸ“½οΈ 🎬

video/mp4

cowvin,
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@QuirkyFilms Oh man, this is one of Jet Li's best! Nice to see it here.

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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It’s not hard to avoid weasel-words and say what’s happening. These aren’t ’racially tinged’ attacks or whatever.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/31/baltimore-bridge-collapse-mayor/

cowvin,
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@JoshuaHolland You have to be pretty stupid to believe that a person's skin color affects the strength of a bridge.

GottaLaff, to random
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Joyce Vance: β€œThis is a five-alarm fire. We know what the reaction would be if Joe tweeted a photo of a bound and gagged Donald in the trunk of an electric car. Why does Donald Trump get more leeway, especially with his past history? He only continues to get it because our institutionsβ€”the courts, the Republican partyβ€”let him take it.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/we-need-to-talk-about-this?r=br61&utm_medium=ios

cowvin,
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@GottaLaff When I was a kid, I heard that making threats against the POTUS was a serious crime. But apparently now it's just a daily thing in the era of Trump.

arstechnica, to random
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Russia is looking into making its own video game console

How hard could it be?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/russia-is-looking-into-making-its-own-video-game-console/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cowvin,
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@arstechnica LOL I wish them luck with that. They refuse to cooperate with other countries about intellectual property. They will be unable to sell their console and games elsewhere.

infobeautiful, to random
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If you are aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. (by Neil Kaye)

cowvin,
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@infobeautiful Don't forget that if you're 15, over 30% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime. The acceleration is crazy!

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cowvin,
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@jeffowski We need a wealth tax on billionaires. Why not force them to realize like 1% of their capital gains each year or something?

JoshuaHolland, to random
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Took some figuring out, but I bought my first put option on Donnie's meme stock, which is trading at $74 a share, which means its valuation is approaching Xitter's.

cowvin,
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@JoshuaHolland @msbellows @downriver Yeah, I checked out the price of put options on DJT and they are expensive, meaning that people are already expecting the value to drop to the teens by September or so.

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