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2024-09-19 18:16:32

The worst part of json is that there’s no clean way to add a comment, particularly for stuff in a list.
Sure it’s a convenient data exchange format, but for configuration, you kinda want comments.

2024-09-17 19:51:21

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Disco was basically the same thing, but they kept focusing on one character and then flipping the table over, in the dumbest ways possible.
Airiam will always be the personification of everything wrong with that show. I had no idea her name, or even what she was until she was two weeks from retirement.

2024-09-17 19:46:34

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I will go out on a limb and say the initial idea of Picard S1 of having the Federation turn insular and a future that is a depressing and profoundly disappointing feature from collective failure to rise to the occasion isn’t a bad place to start. It feels relevant given the real world today.
HOWEVER, Picard *very* poorly using that as starting place to show how compassion and logic, and the belief that people are fundamentally good can lead the characters through the darkness to a better world is disappointing.
Worse yet, the stories feel like the Futurama network execubots wrote the series. “Do you like the Borg? Here is the Borg. Do you like mature shows? Here is a torture scene. *rolls dice* FAN SERVICE!!”

2024-09-17 15:31:32

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I fucking called it. The TikTok ban law was because the kids hate genocide.
https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok

2024-09-13 06:54:16

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Thank you! I haven’t seen someone say this this obvious thing online since @npub180t…3agy penned this 20 years ago.
“I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people setting the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach.”
https://boingboing.net/2004/01/08/sterling-ill-believe.html

2024-09-09 18:16:33

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WHU?!?!?! I know I fell off of watching ATHF, but I had no idea.
Man, I need to catch up on ATHF, Venture Brothers, and Metalocolypse.

2024-09-09 17:05:02

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Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t want a third season. I think we got everything we needed. Let Stanley and Stanford sail on.

2024-09-07 22:41:39

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*Stares in “sums to unity”*

2024-09-03 05:42:52

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Springer books are like the math entries on Wikipedia. They’re both places where people are in a competition to make themselves as baroque and not just esoteric, but practically occult as possible.
Now excuse me, I have to finish replacing the word “one”with“unity”

2024-08-27 18:12:59

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We need to talk more about how Texas is explicitly aiming to ensure minority rule in perpetuity
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/25/texas-republican-party-convention-platform/

2024-08-17 19:17:58

#til there’s an rc car race track in Fremont. No idea who runs it though.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/112/978/968/075/422/839/original/850aee1d9ddd5700.jpeg

2024-06-29 18:42:52

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The war against New Deal and the Great Society will never end.

2024-05-19 21:55:31

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if only there was a quick and easy way for you to tell!

2024-05-18 20:09:17

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When I first heard about Birthright when I was in college, I thought it was a very weird program. Years later, I started to strongly suspect it wasn’t just a benign cultural exchange program.
This guy’s experience confirmed my suspicions, but I didn’t realize just how comically obvious (and oblivious) it was.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLp159xP/

2024-05-10 07:23:50

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I’ve been lurking on anarchist Twitter/masto so long, I read this and thought, “John Oliphant! I know that shitbag’s name!”
Seriously, I think he’s the only Portland cop’s name I could recognize. Says a lot about how above and beyond regular cop attitude he has.

2024-05-07 04:45:04

https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/romney-admits-censoring.html
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2024-04-15 04:06:43

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Not just a satellite, but almost exactly Von Braun's space station from 1952.
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/112/273/258/479/025/216/original/9d5775f12eddb9ae.png