Dae

Dae

@daedalus.on.bike

I've never met a button I didn't press He/Him

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One of the things I need to write down my thoughts on at some point is how college in the US is set up to produce Werner von Brauns at an unfathomable scale. The brightest minds of several generations all working to make things Worse because that's where the interesting, profitable work is.

😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸@caulimovirus.bsky.social

every college degree has only two pathways for careers for example, if you get a degree in psychology, you can 1) help poor and underprivileged people: $30,000/year 2) research new ways to make people gamble even more: $700,000/year

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this is an insane way to frame this attempted murder. i hope that chud rots

Ryan Fonseca@ryan-fonseca.bsky.social

It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.

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told this story to the nurse who recognized my flipper zero while i was getting hooked up to the IV drip yesterday. he was like "haha yeah they probably should have had you leave it in your car" and then he also let me keep it

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social

i'm free

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The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

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Replying to @clofsnitville.bsky.social

It's possible to recognize that there are some things that are really difficult or even impossible to do *today* without a car in the world we've built and also want to build toward a world where those things are fewer and further between.

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Replying to @gulumunkus.bsky.social

Do you think the old Wendy’s social media manager feels like Oppenheimer rn

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"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social

i don't care if the danged chat bots are "thinking." that's not my problem. stop putting them in my computers

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Replying to @techconnectify.bsky.social

I don't really know how to navigate this tactfully because cars aren't great in general and EVs remain expensive, but through the power of paying attention, I've managed to notice that electricity costs are so much more stable than the cost of a fuel you buy constantly to set on fire.

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Replying to @caseyexplosion.bsky.social

There is every reason in the world to support trans people's human rights, but if you're an opportunistic politician, think for a god damn second how adopting the pet bigotry of billionaires everyone hates looks, you need to grasp just how badly this loser shit will drag you down.

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The Democrats that propose to add "only a few" restrictions to trans lives, or to ban "only some" trans care, are exactly as much my enemies as the Republican party under Trump. The main difference is, one group insists I owe them my support. Go to hell, and beg there. We owe you nothing.

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(in the family group chat): that wont matter. without radical change all of this is meaningless in fifteen years. we have no idea how dire things are (in the communist group chat): they should make a turn based final fantasy again with the two minute summon animations

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The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.

Every month Microsoft puts out another ad for Linux

Dead Man's Online@spadetheskeleton.bsky.social

Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default. Be sure to disable it :]

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I don't think it's fair to post the home address of the Flock CEO online. instead we should have a website that tracks the exact position of his car at all times.

Baddtraxx@baddtraxx.bsky.social

this is seriously the funniest shit I saw today

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You see a lot of glib analysts repeating the line that "Americans just don't want EVs" without taking into consideration that the US auto buying experience is dominated by a network of extremely ignorant, Republican car dealers dependent on the kind of maintenance that EVs don't need.

Jason Wright@astrowright.bsky.social

Having bought two EVs and a hybrid, I think a big part of America’s sloth in adopt adopting EVs is car dealerships’ management being heavily Republican, and having a business model that relies on repairs that EV‘s don’t need.

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"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"