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A woman recently went viral for holding up a window sign during a traffic stop, part of a growing trend of drivers using cards to assert their rights instead of speaking to police.

Music-X Music-X was the name of a popular Midi sequencer program that I created for the Commodore Amiga in 1988 and which was published by…

BTW, have you ever read this article about how Music-X was built? Goes into great detail on the Amiga's MIDI limitations, and is just a lovely story about a bygone era. One of my all-time favorite bits of writing on music tech dreamertalin.medium.com/music-x-b4ab...

You might try looking into the PiStorm accelerator, too. SD card access of course, but I also believe you can just transfer the files over the network if you want (and also really beef up your Amiga experience if actually working on the Amiga is something you want to do).

Do you have old Amiga floppies you need to use?

Re: the USB, can't remember if I ran into that issue, but it's at least worth a try. Unfamiliarity with OS was a big challenge initially - I found that going with a distro like @amikit.bsky.social really helped, top-notch support, friendly community.

If you're looking to dip your feet, there's some great Amiga emulators out there w/MIDI support. Music-X, Bars & Pipes, Octamed, et al led to an obsession that resulted in me owning an Amiga 500 & 2 1200s (plus numerous accelerators) One of the better rabbit holes I've gone down in recent memory.

Years ago during the blogging heyday, there was a great discussion on what the approval floor was for the crazies. The key sentence was:

"I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population."

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I think about this at least once a week.

Seems like Jeffries started off following the risk-averse, corporate-friendly messaging advised by the big loser consultants. At some point he saw the risk, now trying to course correct with mixed results. His big problem is, primary voters are highly-engaged, have longer memories. Not out of woods.

Speaking to your original point, the fact that some men don't seem to comprehend how "professional appearance" can contribute to the success or failure of a business transaction/relationship suggests either oppositional defiant disorder or immaturity, neither of which inspires confidence.

She actually didn't say that at all. She said that male clients who show up for meetings dressed in shorts involving commercial real estate are juvenile, which seems pretty specific.

Some friendly advice: working on your reading comprehension might also help with emotional self-regulation.

I posted elsewhere in Tom's thread on the subject, so my reply here is more addressing my confusion as to why people get hostile and personal -seemingly by default- on a platform that has no mechanisms that reward conflict.

As I WFH, I've worn Kuhl Free Rydr pants along with a t-shirt/hoody pretty much every day for the last 10+ years, but dress formally for job interviews and client meetings, not because I have to, but because I like the message of professionalism it communicates, chiefly to myself.

Did I miss something? How is someone stating an opinion "lecturing" you? Perhaps there was a deleted post that you're responding to?

All things considered I'd rather watch C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

Literally my in-laws

I get an endo boost at 5 tbh

OTOH, if I kinda/sorta know somebody and despite having never seen them make poor choices, but see them frequently ignoring their fren or frequently talking about sitters or kenneling etc my spidey-sense will start tingling. No new wisdom here, OFC, but a consistently sound method for sizing up folx

One of the most reliable benchmarks I have ever encountered for judging the character of someone has been: how they treat their furry frens. People can be consistent fuck ups in just about every other way, but if they take good care of their fren, I'm gonna think "jury still out on that person".

I dunno, if I got 21 likes on a post I'd feel validated

Normally I'm pretty receptive to stuff like this, but I dunno - guess it might depend on where you live. Here in Colorado, I'm still seeing lots of underground DIY stuff happening. Instagram as an (unfortunately) necessary tool of promotion predates the pandemic. We still rave in warehouses here FFS

Evergreen post, no matter the "conspiracy"

You've been in Singapore too long.

"See, the thing is, I get told to kill myself 500 times per post on X, which means I'm absolutely nailing my engagement metrics. Over on Bsky, I suspect I'm just being blocked or muted, and so when I only get the 50, I know I'm not getting the metrics, which just seems weird to me"

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

For future reference, here's how to answer your own questions of this nature:

1. What is Hakeem Jeffries' congressional district? CD8
2. Where is CD8? Brooklyn
3. How well did Zohran Mamdani do in Brooklyn? The NYTimes currently has him winning by 20+ % points

Jeffries is clearly at risk next year

Jurango ‘Taíno Gold’ out today on Livity Sound.
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Amazing to see people not understanding even the most basic levels of sarcasm in this statement.

Our daughter started a family Delta Green campaign, and it's fairly hilarious to see my boardgame-loving-but-new-to-RPGs (this will be her first RPG playthrough) queen try and familiarize herself with the "i cant believe you can roll dice online!" nerd tools of Discord, d20-dot-net etc. 🤣

You’re Being Lied to About Graham Platner We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.

Maine voters will have to decide for themselves whether or not they can think about this candidate more deeply than the phrase "Nazi tattoo", but this article seems to challenge the notion that Platner is trying to sell himself as something he's not.

It has to beat writing about Taylor Swift, though