I'm playing a sort of game where I'm trying to go as long as possible without finding out what [redacted] is. I can't tell you what [redacted] is, it's a two word phrase but if I told you what it is one of you would explain it to me so I won't. I'm good at this game
do you ever just think about how so many classical music terms are in french or italian bc the people in those communities were huge france/italy weebs
In the future, the only way to escape execution by the Microsoft killbots will be to legally change your name to be longer than 256 characters, thus rendering you invisible to their AI https://helvede.net/@jwcph/112485841825022134
god, i just realized my freezer is the worst of both worlds: door is oriented vertically, meaning its crazy energy inefficient when you open it, AND you have to pull out baskets to get to things, which means everything is a pain to organize and access
So I spent a big chunk of my life living next door to Louisiana (Houston) and now I live next door to Quebec (Toronto) and it just this moment occurred to me to check if Quebec has beignets. Like, I'd simply assumed if I ever went liking for beignets I'd find them. So I asked a Quebecoise friend, and
yayyy i have a new sharps container. now i just have to figure out wtf to do with the old one. the city waste disposal website is mostly geared towards companies dumping medical waste
i think the craziest part about the internet industry deciding to blow everything up is that i’ve been told half of modern programming is knowing how to google answers to issues you’re having
Re: The primary positive way in which people engage with the Star Wars prequels is by attempting to essentially write fanfic in hope of explaining apparent plot holes https://mastodon.social/@onelson/112384671651965851
@mcc i kinda wonder if this (and up thread from the linked post re:unbelievable scifi) happened bc these were one of the earliest movies to heavily use cgi for environments, which meant that there were fewer instances for someone to cut in and go “this doesn’t make sense” or “we need to establish this better”) the way you might with more ppl on set seeing the results
Pondering the parallels between the Christian myth of Adam and Eve approaching a tree with a snake in it and attaining knowledge of good and evil, with the snake and the gained knowledge seen as evil; and the Buddhist myth (new to me) of Mucalinda, meaning the Buddha also sat under a tree with a snake and there also attained enlightenment but here the knowledge so gained is good and the snake is seen as a protector
Could invent some really fun heresies by developing this line of thought further
When Christine and I started dating I loved Star Wars and she loved Star Trek and we were like, ha ha, classic star-crossed geek scenario, this will be a running source of friction won't it. And then all these new shows and movies came out and it was like, wow! I got to see what was good about Star Trek, and Christine got an appreciation for Star Wars! And then they just kept making stuff and now Christine is complaining about how bad new Trek is and I'm complaining about how bad new Starwars is
There is an interesting article titled "Please Don’t Share Our Links on Mastodon: Here’s Why!" about the startling load that Mastodon's mass-distributed link preview generation has on small independent webservers. But I cannot link it to you, because of a reason
@mcc i saw a lot of stuff in the comments to that article you didn't share where ppl said the person had misconfigured their site, but... if mastodon is the ONLY place where that is a problem it is probably still very much worth disabling i feel like?
Deeply unpleasant space opera setting where every species has just the one defining attribute and the defining attribute of humans is "the species with bones"
Just opened my ThinkPad and for the second time in three days the act of closing the laptop to sleep it, then opening it again had caused Ubuntu to hardlock. This time I got a very brief small printout about "amd ring 0 error", then it went back to a black screen and I had to hold down the power button again.
I thought getting a ThinkPad, getting AMD cpu/gpu and picking the Linux distro Lenovo lists as supported would mean I got a minimally functioning computer but I guess not.
idk i just think its kinda funny to hear a wikipedia admin talk about how hard they try to get new editors to wikipedia after, what, a decade of alienating trans ppl and their allies, aka the fastest growing group of fastidious nerds in the world rn
