weilawei

weilawei, 9 days ago to random

Place milkshake cups outside your home to ward off fascist politicians and corpos.

However, be careful to avoid McDonalds, because it's well known that the ice cream machines are frequently broken.

#LowQualityFacts

weilawei, 9 days ago to random

"Just" 93 bribes worth "only" $248,000...

that's what the less corrupt justices took, vs 103 bribes worth $2.4 million for the most corrupt justice.

weilawei, 9 days ago to random

It's a good thing those Russian foreign agents in Congress voted againt funding our Constitutionally-obliged committment to a treaty we made. /s

#HowWasIToKnowSheWasWithTheRussiansToo

weilawei, 14 days ago to random

I've been poking a little at a #HaikuOS VM on the side. I'd like to compile some code of my own, plus a couple dependencies. Normally, I'll generate a configure script and give it a prefix of /opt/local.

Does anyone with experience know what the Haiku equivalent of this is?

weilawei, 15 days ago to random

"Your compiler will generally not reformat your hard drive..."

#undefinedBehavior

weilawei, 16 days ago to random

"how to get AI to convert your questions into commands in the terminal"

I bet that'll go swell. 🤔

weilawei, 16 days ago to random

""And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that—"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts.""

#TerryPratchett

weilawei, 16 days ago to random

Wow so the FAA basically lets Boeing blame the employees?

"The plan includes several components to improve employee training, clarify instructions for assembly line employees, "

MF, these are safety culture concerns, and we're talking whistleblowers. Put the management in jail and the employees will get in line!

jrconlin, 16 days ago to random

weilawei, 16 days ago to random

"[A] new Louisiana law ... makes it a crime to approach within 25ft (7.6 meters) of a police officer"

"Under the law, anyone who is convicted of “knowingly or intentionally” approaching an officer who is “lawfully engaged in the execution of his official duties”, and after being ordered to “stop approaching or retreat”, faces a fine up to $500, as many as 60 days in jail or both."

Fascist. Gestapo. State.

h/t: https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112530230935234782

weilawei, 16 days ago to random

The reason I don't use Qt.

C++ is already juggling writing in C, C++, the template language for C++, and now you want me to use yet another meta-programming language? Nope.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/moc.html

LouisIngenthron, 26 days ago to random

I will never understand people who enjoy grinding in video games.

What, your day job isn't monotonous enough?

JapanProf, 26 days ago to China

They did the same thing to Japan in the 1980s. The US made sure that Japan would not become its rival in the Pacific. (Japan has been a very submissive ally with a huge US military presence including in the Tokyo area.) Had the US not weakened Japan, it would have been so much easier to contain China. #china

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/business/janet-yellen-europe-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk0.FkN2.hfUT5qxbi-Ia&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

weilawei, 26 days ago to random

We're going to need a new Turing test.

Since a willingness to fucking swear seems to be something authoritarians don't like, we could lean into that.

Assume AI unless proven otherwise by anti-billionaire behavior.

StillIRise1963, 26 days ago to random

I want American traitors charged with treason. They’re easy to find, they’re in the government.

weilawei, 26 days ago to random

One of my least favorite aspects of American nationalism is the part where it causes people to think that "rah rah my team!" is an actual strategy with respect to geopolitics and other, significantly larger countries.

I live here, so there's some bias, but pretending that everyone else is magically inferior because they're not on Team Murica is a shortsighted strategy.

China is kicking our ass in so many ways, and most of the American public seems stucks on stereotypes from decades ago.

weilawei, 26 days ago to random

Amazon might want to change its name to something less associated with wildfires. Maybe Sahara?

weilawei, 26 days ago to random

Less "productivity"; more "fuck you, pay me".