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Plenty o plenty

We are losing the SNAP messaging fight. And part of that is because Republicans are saying that there is no way to fund it during a shutdown. And all the evidence that there should be no lapse in funding, has been removed from the USDA website. Good news, the wayback machine exists.
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IMO democracy becomes impossible in the absence of any social or political norms against lying.

PEPOLE WILL GET ADDICTED TO ANY OLD SHIT NOW , TRY SOMETHING THAT ACTUALALY INTERACTS WITH YOUR RECEPTORS DUMMASS , "IM ADDICTED TO GOONING" GROW UP AND TURN OFF SOME OF YOUR MONITORS!!! SORRY BUT GROW UP!!!! "IM ADDICTED TO CHAT GPT" OK WELL IM ADDICTED TO TALKING TO A LIBRARY BOOK THAT I CHECKED OUT , BECUASE IM FUCKIN STUPID,,, SOME TIME'S IN LIFE YA JUST GOTTA ACCEPT YOUR NOT THE CREAM OF THE CREAM, YOUR JUST A REGULAR PERSON WHO EAT'S FOOD THAT COMES IN A CARDBOARD BOX , ME TOO, BUT I DONT TALK TO MY COMPUTER , AND IM DUMB AS SHIT, ANYWAY THE TEXT "YHOUR ADDICTED TO CHATING WITH GPT, EVER HEARD OF DRINKING BEER" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

COME ON - dashare.zone ADMIN

Two explorers on a martian planet, obviously equipped for low-oxygen atmosphere.

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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Having two ghosts in my undead campaign (session zero one character considered an undead PC, everyone joined them), that DC 15 Athletics or Thievery check to interact with physical objects was a regular source of conflict and confusion, in a good way.

But it would make pilot of spacecraft tricky.

she's defrosting

“Mariners: ‘Well well well not so easy to find a playoff game shorter than 15 innings, huh?” Onion DeBlasio story but like, terribly done

Thanks! I was having difficulty finding it in the app! 🫡

A picture of the Manage Apps settings in Google Drive via mobile browser viewed in Desktop Mode showing the option to uncheck Gemini

For the fellow Android users, it's very conveniently hidden in the app so go to your drive on a browser and view in Desktop Mode if you're not able to do it via PC 💜

The Trump administration is also refusing to use the SNAP contingency reserves, set aside for this exact purpose.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Reminds me of this classic from a few years back:

"An unjust law is not a law (lex iniusta non est lex)" is not just about "we don't have to obey laws that are bad," but it's an ontological claim: it's not giving you license to disobey the law, but saying rather that the thing they are calling a law is just a collection of words with no effect.

post from mcc@mastodon.social: I used to use Macs, and then I looked at iOS 7 and Gatekeeper and thought "eventually, Apple will force something horrific onto my computer, and I won't be able to say no". So then I used Windows until I looked at Win11 and Copilot and thought "eventually MS will force something horrific on my computer, and I won't be able to say no". So now the mac users are miserable with Liquid Glass and the Windows users are miserable with Recall, and am I happy? No. I am using Linux. But I chose my miseries

this is exactly what's happening

My favourite Magic artist; Viacom.

Looking forward to a whole day of playing Dungeons & Dragons today. :-) See, I sometimes do non-Star Trek related activities with friends! ;-)

His admin was guilty of many grave sins, that's true.

oh, THAT'S updog

WHEN IN TIME DO WE NEED "ABANDONED MALL MUSIC" IF NOT NOW, WHEN DO WE NEED TO HEAR DA RUINS OF AMERICAN CULTURE FLOAT IN A CLOUD OF REVERB IF NOT NOW, WHEN SHOULD SLOWED DOWN MUSIC BE A BALM FOR DA EAR'S OF DA WORKING PERSON IF NOT NOW, AND DA TEXT : "I MISS VAPOR WAVE ,ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE OTHER MUSIC THATS SLOWED DOWN, ALL MUSIC SHOULD BE ABLOUT DOLPHINS AND STATUE'S, ALL MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE SHIT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

BRING IT BACK - dashare.zone ADMIN

Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"

This is my answer to my ravings on the state of academia.

Reagan fatally killed education in the US and put this country on the fast (in historical scales) track to destruction.

we have a way for guys like this to fund the military

it’s called “taxes” and clearly they should go up

It has Come to pass painting - showing a Russian revolution fighter standing in the throne room, looking up in awe

Today in #OVER/UNDER - A massive treaty between all major factions has seen the overthrow of the station's big corporation. After a raid on their HQ and the seizing of the board room, Stratemeyer Syndicate appears to be no more.

TTRPG thoughts:

Running a homebrew setting can really be such an intimate thing. You’re saying to your friends, here’s this world filled with my own imagination, I want to share it with you and if you’re feeling up to it, come join me and create it with me.