TrudeauCastroson [he/him] @ TrudeauCastroson @hexbear.net

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Jack Black would rather still be in kung-fu panda 27, instead of being tethered to a guy who pulled a kathy lee griffin by going in too hard on trump for civility-minded people.

Maybe I'm in denial, but depending on how many you drink it's probably fine?

One energy drink has around the same caffeine as a cup of coffee. One time I did drink so much knock-off redbull that my pee was fluorescent (It's never been that colour before or since), but other than that it's probably fine.

I assume the FBI will eventually release a full recreation of the events with the trajectory of the bullet. That'll be the most reliable source.

I can't believe I fell for fake news again

Yes, but you can just buy a papery fake wasp nest at the dollar store for cheap. I got one of those and no wasps since.

You don't need to learn to crochet, but you can if you want I guess.

TIL geese can look like that. I thought geese were just ducks with attitude.

They have hawk beaks, would they fuck you up like a hawk? Or is it just talons that fuck you up?

Everything uses the documents folder because everything on windows is a backwards-compatible pile of spaghetti.

Games even use the "Documents" folder instead of the "My Games" folder, or .../%appdata/local. There is soft-guidance from Microsoft, but it's not really enforced, and idk what the APIs are like for saving stuff.

Mitt Romney and Biden pulling out their binders full of women and blacks like they're about to trade Pokemon cards

last two phones I bought were $250 off of aliexpress.

Before that I got used phones from relatives who upgraded, but that was at the time when a newer model was actually a big improvement generation-to-generation. Then everyone started to use their phone until it became completely useless so I had to buy new.

Aliexpress xiaomi/poco phones used to be better value, the next time I buy I phone I'll probably get a previous generation or 2 flagship from a mainstream company because waterproofing would be nice.

They should get anti-trust lawsuit against them for that.

Not fair to integrate cloud storage in your OS and not have it be open. Even less fair to push it on people like that.

Kamala is as bad as anyone else the DNC would pick, but I like her personality the most out of all those options. She's basically Veep.

If she was president they'd probably make her stop talking about venn diagrams and coconut trees, like they stopped Biden from going on rambling old man stories about Cornpop, and turned him into a smooth-faced marionette.

I read your post, and idk where exactly these things come from still. If people are afraid of seeming gay, I don't understand how that explains covering shirtless men in white goop while they cooperate to climb something phallic.

I'll comment on you linked post.

What's with groups of bro-y straight guys being incredibly gay?

Locker room talk got very homo-erotic when I was in high-school gym, but if anyone was actually gay it would've gotten very awkward.

I heard rumours about sports-team initiations where they ::: spoiler (nsfw or whatever) stick a pickle in their ass and someone eats it, or the one where they cum on a cracker and last one eats it. :::

Did any feminist writers write about this stuff?

The debate is clipping Biden out of context at bad moments, it's just a cold/stutter. Now watch how this 24 second clip of Biden greeting people at a waffle house proves he's not senile"

If the cornpop story is even slightly true (which I believe it is because the leg hair thing was too weird to be made up by a speech writer), then Biden has talked to black people before while he was young, and I guess retained being personable in old age.

Considering he was friends with Strom Thurmond, this clip could've gone a lot worse. Or maybe they cut out the part with the old-timey slurs he probably doesn't remember being offensive.

I don't really need the locally trained AI to recognize general handwriting, only my own.

I could provide a few pages of my own training data (maybe write out a few pages of "quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and other stuff like that), and then ideally it flags stuff it's unsure about and I clarify some more. Maybe find garbled nonsensical sentences, realize it's probably a mistake, and try and fix it.

I assumed the leaps in AI would have taken care of this by now, since detecting handwritten letters from touch pen-strokes existed in the 90s. But I guess handing it a chunk of text is too different of a problem, instead of feeding it stroke by stroke?

Now that I read that thread I get what you're saying. I thought they were making the point that you don't know how things would go down if you did succeed in killing Hitler, it might do nothing, is fair.

But the counter to that just being

They simplified killing Hitler to the trolley problem and decided to definitely not ever pull the lever, and instead just hope the lever pulls itself.

Lib on the reason why the assassination wouldn't work (fear, martyr, blah blah blah), but there's a not-bad point buried somewhere in there.

It avoids great man of history-ing Hitler, since killing him wouldn't change the material conditions of Germany that lead to Hitler. The Holocaust is probably the worst-case scenario for what could happen (idk if Hitler 2 does the super Holocaust), and idk enough about intra-party politics of the Nazis other than the purges they did.

Maybe the second in command of the party wouldn't be as effective of a leader and fizzle the nazi party out and we instead get the moderate nazi party, and who knows how that would end up. Communism was spreading at that time, and fascism was going to pop-up regardless in response to this, but the exact shape of what happens would be slightly different and maybe the genocide wouldn't be as bad.

Also why imply someone with a time machine couldn't make it look like an accident. They could just drop a piano or anvil on his head and everyone would see it as a common hazard and think nothing of it.

This is actually a bigger deal than the headline suggests if the claims are to be believed. Hopefully the licensing isn't too expensive for it to be widely adopted if manufacturing at scale is easy.

They don't say how it degrades in water, but if it can degrade in ~2months outdoors then that's actually pretty good.

Most biodegradable eco-plastic is a scam because it's either only partially degradable, or only degradable in industrial facilities. If I can throw this packaging in my own compost bin then that would be a huge way to get rid of single-use plastic.

That's very dubious, since where I live they have to honour the shelf price even if it's wrong.

What happens when they raise the price while I'm on the way to the register? How can I possibly counter this?

I actually had something similar happen to me. I grabbed something, I was mischarged, I told the cashier who told the manager who checked, and the manager changed the price while I was standing at the checkout and claimed it was always that price. I usually check the UPC when something is on clearance so I know I'm buying the right thing. I didn't buy the item.

Now I always walk with them to the aisle to see the price so they don't pull that on me.

If you're a convenience store but pallets of Coca Cola, then they kind-of can. They can just blacklist you from buying Coca Cola in the foreign country.

It's also different because they're selling you continuous access one month at a time instead of a physical good you drink and they can't take away from you. I've been to places where service costs are lower for locals than for tourists, and this is told to you outright. Stuff like museums, taxis, etc. It's a similar idea YouTube has.

Prices are also almost never based on cost, they're based on what people will pay.

I live in Canada, and cars are more expensive here than in the USA. US dealerships near the border refuse to sell new cars to Canadians, even though it's legal for everyone as long as you make sure to pay duties on the way back. I'm guessing each brand has some rule against it.

Ultimately VPN users aren't a protected class so it's legal to discriminate.