Santa Barbara Fire PIO: "Vehicle Into Building: 7300 Blk Calle Real, Goleta. Sedan w/two adult males drove through store causing major damage. Driver transported to Goleta Valley ER w/minor injuries. No injuries to customers. Fire personnel assisting with cleanup. Store closed. CT 3:35pm"
All too often I see techies (and clearly I qualify as a techie) who don't seem to give a damn about non-techie users of these systems. So long as there's some techie workaround for privacy-invasive systems ("oh yeah, do this to the URL -- run this extension, do this and that") they don't seem to be concerned at all that the vast majority of people just use systems in their default states and are burned every day by these systems. I've seen this attitude by so many techies my entire career, and if anything it's worse now. This is, by the way, where the term "lusers" for users (commonly heard in the tech community) came from. I find this attitude by this segment of techies to be disgraceful.
@lauren I've heard something like, "if it's just me or a small group of super techies working around this, it's not worth it to BigCorp to kill the workaround. If I make it easy for everyone, I'll loose it for myself."
This is actually quite sensible. There was a zoning agreement that the strip mall would exclude fast food but sandwich shops were ok. The court said, tacos and burritos meet the definition of how sandwich shops were described. Particularly like this:
"the original Written Commitment does not restrict potential restaurants to only American cuisine-style sandwiches”
In March of 1997 WIRED Magazine published their cover story on how browsers might soon disappear as everyone would prefer stuff pushed to them instead of discovered via following links.
It was widely panned and browsers are still very much alive today but I have to say when I look at Instagram and TikTok, those are all-Push content apps and maybe WIRED got it a little bit correct?
@Alice Did you try looking through the phone on your camera? We stepped outside and didn't see much of anything at first, then it popped out through the camera.
Do yourself a favor and try it with a camera if you haven't.
So, when I was growing up, students at my high school described the devil horns hand gesture—i.e. 🤟or 🤘, sometimes 🤙—using the word “boggs.” It was used essentially the entire time I was in school by most of the male student body, and I have no idea why they described it with this word. I have never heard it beyond my high school days.
Does anyone know why “boggs” was associated with this symbol?
I’ve spent the past few days driving across the country. The natural beauty of Arkansas and of Oklahoma surprised me. The aggressive, creepy white Christian evangelical vibe of western Tennessee did not surprise but it disturbed me. The Texas panhandle was as nuts as I anticipated. Some billboard messages from Texas follow. 1/
Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?
@JuliusGoat Also, the cops are supposed to be trained professionals and are allowed to slip up and accidentally murder people every now and then, but emotional kids with no actual power are not allowed to even once use hyperbole.
Whenever I see a news article that discusses "unindicted co-conspirators" my immediate reaction is: "If they're co-conspirators, and not cooperating with the prosecution, why the hell weren't they indicted?"
@dangillmor Because you only indict people if you can prove it in court. You might get more evidence to indict them later, but if you take a shot and miss there's no going back.