Dan

part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"

Amy and I have consistently held that the true make or break for suburbs is sidewalks. If you can get somewhere without a car, suburbia can be liveable.

There aren’t really legitimate concerns but empathy for the illegitimate concerns of voters—insofar as that empathy enables politicians to make people feel heard without conceding on actual policy, which Pete did not do—is a legitimate function of politics.

Surprised so few get this middle ground.

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

I don't understand how parents can support harm to *anyone's* children, ever. How that does not become an absolute, uncrossable line the second you hold a child in your arms and recognize that vulnerability and dire responsibility (if not before). How you don't generalize that protectiveness.

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this is one of my faves, if you haven't played it you should give it a shot!

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When people support Andrew Cuomo, what they’re saying implicitly is that they don’t care about the women he’s already sexually harassed and retaliated against and they won’t care if he does it again. It’s a political stance that enables discrimination against women in government

what, are they out of couches on twitter?

feeling like one of those tesla owners who got their car before elon went trump doge nazi crazy

Lotta people need to get past the assumption that any violence enacted by the state must surely be justified

8 panel comic Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?” Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer” Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes. Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow. Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat. Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

Didya know that just pressing the Start Button now in Windows 11 causes a noticeable CPU spike because it’s running a React Native application now every time you click it versus having a built-in file browser?

“Can’t a brother drop in to see his kid sister?"

If Andrew Tate & his ilk were right about ANYTHING they’d have no audience.

Guys would listen briefly, apply advice, & be too busy with their new gfs, side-pieces, & high income hustles

It’s the Tinder principle: if you’re happy, they lose a customer

Their business model is your unending misery.

This is a still frame from an episode of Star Trek: the next generation where Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship enterprise is stranded on a planet, with a leader of a people whose language is based in metaphor entirely. Eventually, Picard figures out how to communicate by referencing famous historical leaders from the people‘s history. But initially, it’s very confusing. This is thussly a joke on obscure references. The image has some fake subtitles that suggest Picard is saying “Miette, her body KICKED like the football”which is a much beloved, deep cut tweet where Patricia Lockwood was explaining that her cat was mad that she had slightly moved her aside with her foot.

client: hey, were you able to make those style changes I asked for?
me: CSS's haunted.
client: what?
me: *loading a shotgun with `!important` bullets* CSS's haunted

Everyone who does a Section 31 episode should be required to pass a test to the effect of “do you understand that these guys suck and are wrong in their assertions or the whole of Star Trek collapses?” Before they’re allowed to touch it.

When it came out, I felt The Force Awakens cut world-building corners to repeat A New Hope, but 10 years on, its depiction of a world where embittered fanboys lean into totalitarianism and extremely recent history has been forgotten (if not repressed) seems prescient. My bad, JJ Abrams.

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3

one of my favorite things about Farscape is how trying to describe the plot of any episode of Farscape makes it sound like you have fully detached from reality. not in a "I'm describing a work of science fiction" way, but in a "I mixed pot gummies and Robitussen" way.

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I used www.sky-follower-bridge.dev, but I think it requires twitter to be working.

I'm so sad that I understand this

Yahso. Happy New Shoresy Day to all who celebrate.

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

You know what really bugs me? If we manage to turn the car around and avoid becoming a failed state, the Average Voter will get Y2K amnesia and say "see? It wasn't that bad" and use it as an excuse to keep voting for billionaire failsons with pseudoephedrine addictions

Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace.

If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

"smart" features are never to be trusted,

even new dumb features should be given a wary eye.