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@nebula.tv your bio should really have an en dash instead of an em dash. This post was brought to you by my useless pedantry

@jltgonmyphone.bsky.social you should have sold merch at the theater where people could have picked a side. Okay, maybe that would have been logistically impossible.

Why do I keep expecting Siri to do basic things like do a time zone conversion, or activate a shortcut without deciding to call someone.

I’ve been reading the witch hat atelier mangas. Crazy choice to make color blindness plot significant in black and white.

Sometimes a finale to a season of dimension 20 leaves you in tears because of overwhelming emotion. Sometimes it’s from laughter at the pure absurdity of just a lot of bullshit happening.

We’ve been watching these birds all day. It’s been lovely.

Do you think you could get a significant discount if you get married on 9/11

Premium WiFi at hotels is a scam. I’m convinced it’s not different.

I realized this was a prequel episode and was disappointed. I should have had more faith, cus this slapped.

The power of @gamechanger.dropout.tv, introducing people to culture they should know about.

Look at this democrats. You can be successful without selling out trans people because “they’ll vote for you anyway”. Almost like people like a person with values. Happy pride month Mr mayor

Organic maps on iOS is ugly as sin and it’s slightly unintuitive. However, it’s open source and easily allows me to download offline maps of the entire country. It’s come in clutch a good handful of times. I don’t know why Apple and Google have such weird offline map support let me download it all

The urge to send my D&D players random lore things that might be interesting or relevant. No I must resist. It’s how you get a player insulting the oldest nation in this fictional ass world.

As an American science person I have a better sense of meters per second than kilometers per hour

Tesla added a “streak” to their FSD suite. I am in favor of adas systems, up to and including full autonomy. Tesla’s system is admittedly one of the best, but the messaging and peripheral experience has always been an issue. We should never put in a system that discourages a driver from taking over.

Well. The “The Wizard the Witch and the Wild One” soundtrack is out. Time to let this wash over me. @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social @taylordotbiz.bsky.social

I’ve seen people starting to make cofefe jokes again. Why? For the love of god why?

Gay Froga (an Alex jones remix) hits way harder now that the onion owns info wars.

There’s a road near to me that has two things that feel like they should contradict: a 75 mph speed limit and traffic lights.

It is so amusing to me that prohibition was a whole ass constitutional amendment. Feels a bit over the top to me.

Make the 4th amendment stronger please.

I’m re listening to epic the musical. Did they change the last two sagas? Feels like it has more juice than I remember. #epic

Fuck yeah, astronomy time.

“Earth, air, fire, and water” is out. “Light, gravity, electromagnetism” is in. This is about elemental magic systems. Yes I know light is electromagnetic waves. This is for whimsy. Also three is a more magical number than four. Taking suggestions for better words for electromagnetic.

Made up an ending for the book I’m reading in a dream. I was so annoyed by it that I woke myself up. Took me like a minute or two to realize it wasn’t real. I think it was the detail that a character was shape shifting into the cafeteria without knowing it that tipped me off.

They say reading a book in your target language helps you learn. I optimistically bought dune in Spanish

Just saw a gas car bragging about its range in an ad. That feels weird. Like. That’s not a major consideration with those. Efficiency seems more vital, but that’s just me.

If you’re going to use ai. Please choose something other than ChatGPT (that doesn’t mean grok). Do research. There is a genuine difference in things like power usage, corporate ethics, and CEOs who are known sexual predators.

Had to drive though a border checkpoint the other day. Firstly, never felt my white privilege so profoundly than being waved through with no fuss. There was an add saying border patrol was hiring. Yeah, no. Fuck that shit.

There is something so beautifully strange and human about the fact that we know billions of digits of pi. There is no practical use of that. 39 digits is enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe with an error less than the diameter of a proton. And we know billions.

I’ve never understood why ai generates fake animation directly. Like. Blender can be used almost entirely with code. Teach the ai to use that. It feels way less resource intensive. Not that I want ai to be generating animation, but like. Why are they brute forcing it like that

Crazy that people want to be president. Becoming president is a literal recurring nightmare of mine. Especially these days when there’s so many terrible things I would have to unravel. Like. How does one effectively pull out of a war? Do I send Iran a gift basket with “sorry about that” on the card?

We need a way to test the quality of driver assistance programs / autonomy. A way to actually say which systems are better, and at what.

When Artemis lands humans on the moon again what will the moon lander deniers say. Will they concede this time is real, or will they say we’re faking it again.

If America goes metric we should make our speed limits in meters per second. That way we can be metric, but still be weird.

I love watching a long show that goes off the rails quickly. At what point did the writers come up with this convoluted “truth” that was being kept from our protagonist for 8 seasons. It is quite convoluted.

I think that the character of the hive in pluribus is super interesting. An example: They seemingly cannot create art. They tell Carol that they are very excited to read something new she wrote because they haven't had anything new. This new art would bring them joy, still. They try to convert her

There's hardly a meaningful distinction between ICE and the Gestapo at this point and we might as well confront that. No reforming an institution which became the gestapo. It must be destroyed.

Mobile style puzzle games should let you start at the harder levels.

Drugs might be fun, but have you ever held a cat that really wants to be held?

I just got an ad in Reddit reminding me that I left something in my cart. Thanks, I hate it.

shout out to my political science professor who said the reason (seemingly the only reason) incest was bad was that it would bring families too close together. There would be no need for families to collaborate with one another and society wouldn't work because of it, he thought. What a man.

Banks should make fancy holiday checks. That way you can give people money in a fun way without the needless limitations of gift cards. (I actually have complicated gift card opinions but that’s not the point)

My weirdest insecurity is my blood type. It’s O+. It’s a basic bitch blood type

Why do companies make it so difficult to call support??

Pluribus is a good show, but I keep yelling questions I would ask at my computer. “Do you dream?” “What happens if we put one of you in a faraday cage?” And many more

Why is the default messaging platform WhatsApp (or even worse iMessage). At least they are encrypted I guess, but they’re not great