Michael Gemar

https://mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar

Toronto. Geek. Space. TTRPGs. Injury prevention. IT. Italian greyhounds. He/him.

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2024-08-21 02:28:19

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Is See Emily Play a Pink Floyd cover band?

2024-08-20 18:57:18

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On the plus side, it’s definitely composting…

2024-08-19 17:45:00

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His staff must be incredibly lazy. How did they think this wouldn’t get caught?

2024-08-19 14:29:41

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I refuse to believe the place names on that map are real.

2024-08-18 22:59:01

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It will never cease to boggle me that Thiel himself is gay, yet supports these people.

2024-08-18 16:05:37

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M&emonic

2024-08-13 02:50:05

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Why bother with bread?

2024-08-12 22:38:07

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Hah!
That said, I would think this is *really* a group they wouldn’t want to alienate. It’s like a hotel that’s hosting a biker convention insisting on checking that everyone’s license and insurance is up-to-date.

2024-08-12 22:31:15

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I know, but what do their non-hacker staff expect to find? “OMG, the code on this laptop could penetrate the hotel firewall and put a trojan on our SQL-based visitor database!”
I’m dubious most staff would recognize a thumb drive.

2024-08-12 22:20:06

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What do they think they’re going to find?

2024-08-12 16:49:50

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I’m dubious of 4, as Trump has *never* liked paying for things, even things that would benefit him in the long term.

2024-08-10 16:54:31

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Is that like thinking about the Roman Empire?

2024-08-10 16:09:15

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So super masculine manly men are worried about tampon cooties?!

2024-08-07 16:33:23

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Fair enough. (It’s all meant with the best of intentions. I kid because I love…)

2024-08-07 16:25:25

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Aw, I wanted Ben to sweat a bit more…

2024-08-07 16:15:17

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Wait til you hear about the real meaning of Toad the Wet Sprocket…

2024-08-07 16:02:13

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau_Prison

2024-08-07 15:56:14

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(Apart from Joy Division and Spandau Ballet, are there other ‘80s band names with Nazi allusions? Apart from metal, of course…)

2024-08-07 15:54:00

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I was certain you weren’t…which was why your response was so horrifyingly funny.

2024-08-07 15:51:26

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Uh, Ben…:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_camp_brothels_in_World_War_II

2024-08-07 15:49:53

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Maybe I was mistaken about Ben…

2024-08-07 15:22:13

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God I hope so…

2024-08-07 04:27:27

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Well yeah, but “Groovy Kind of Love” versus “Shock the Monkey”? “Easy Lover” versus “Sledgehammer”? I feel like even at his most popular Gabriel was still making more interesting and challenging music compared to Collins, although I admit that some music snobbery on my part. Of course, all this is pretty ancient history at this point.

2024-08-07 04:12:56

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Are there people who hate the Peter Gabriel era? I thought that Gabriel was the cool one and Collins the commercial sell-out (at least that’s how I recall it at the time).

2024-08-06 19:59:57

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Even “hallucination” seems like the wrong term, as it implies an LLM is conscious.

2024-08-05 14:42:55

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The majority of the US voted for a black man for president, twice. And, lest we forget, THE MAJORITY OF THE US VOTED FOR A WOMAN, to the tune of 3 MILLION more votes (it was the weirdness of the US electoral system that denied the majority their candidate).
Will the majority of the US vote for a woman for president? THEY ALREADY DID.

2024-08-05 13:10:05

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If they’ve lost $845m over the past 6 years, *and* have taken on a similar magnitude of debt, how were they a viable business even before this? And how can they possibly survive the massive lawsuits to come (even if they will the legal bills will be huge)?

2024-08-03 19:14:29

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They *should*!
(And they’ve used a bosun’s whistle at various times.)

2024-08-03 19:11:11

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I presume that’s to give it a more nautical feel. The US uses “ahead one-third” and “ahead two-third”, and the UK uses “half ahead” as terms for ship speeds.

2024-07-31 17:00:55

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It was meant with love…and quite a bit of concern…

2024-07-31 16:52:10

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Yeah, that tracks with my impression…

2024-07-31 16:34:24

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Apocalypse Now: “The fediverse…the fediverse…”

2024-07-30 23:22:35

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That’s a really impressive coffee maker…

2024-07-18 16:01:39

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Something something black hole.

2024-07-08 18:52:27

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I really don't get how people like her are capable of driving a car, using a phone, or balancing the bank account.

2024-07-06 14:59:57

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I am *not* a morning person. I generally don’t sleep well, and when I do get it up it will take me an hour or more (and a big mug of tea) to feel at all sociable. I don’t understand folks like my spouse who can roll out of bed with a song in their heart and bluebirds flying around their head like a Disney cartoon.
On a weekend the earliest I will commit to is 10am. I may wake up sooner, but I won’t be fit for the company of others (including my spouse) before then.

2024-07-05 16:20:59

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My point is that if you’re saying the name of the Dem nominee doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter.

2024-07-05 16:18:37

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Right, so why dump Biden?

2024-07-05 16:15:33

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Doesn’t that argument cut both ways?

2024-07-04 18:13:24

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Polling data? Do you trust it?
It may very well be that, all things being equal, Harris would do better than Biden. But at this stage, all things are not equal, and getting Harris on the ballot in all 50 states (some GOP controlled) and funded would be a *huge* challenge, and give the GOP opportunities to sow legal chaos.
And, while MAGA is taking about this, they’re avoiding talking about the felon.

2024-07-04 18:01:07

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Is it data, or is it psyops? Are they genuine, or are they playing the media and Dems?

2024-07-04 16:59:02

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So why should we then be concerned what MAGAworld thinks? If Harris would be a better opponent and pick up those anti-Trumpists, it doesn’t matter what the Trump campaign might think of the move. Don’t trust your enemy to tell you what your best weapon is.

2024-07-04 16:53:09

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I’m dubious that a significant number of those currently leaning Trump would switch their vote to the liberal woman of colour.

2024-07-03 16:56:37

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Mixing water in taps was literally prohibited?! Why?

2024-07-03 16:31:34

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I’m too fond of spicy food and antibiotics.

2024-07-03 16:11:11

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Replacing Biden at this stage is a fantasy, one that would produce all sorts of chaos even if the GOP *weren’t* trying to screw things up further.

2024-07-03 02:58:24

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So *that’s* why E.E. Smith is called “Doc”! (Although including one’s degree in a byline seems gauche.)

2024-07-01 23:26:08

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In the midst of all this horror, I have a technical question — while this decision may apply to the president, does it apply to those who carry out any illegal actions he orders? In others words, if he orders a political opponent to be be sent to Gitmo, do those who do the arrest and imprisonment have any immunity for *their* actions? Or could *they* be prosecuted?

2024-07-01 14:46:14

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It’s a way to keep Trump’s election case mired in further legal arguments and delays.

2024-07-01 03:44:25

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I’d probably go with clawless lobster or shrimp, judging by that tail and the big bumpy chitinous plate at the head.

2024-06-29 16:32:18

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We really need to compile lists of their scrapers’ IP addresses, and then configure all our web servers to serve up nonsense when they visit to poison their models and algorithms.

2024-06-27 17:20:54

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That sounds terrific!

2024-06-23 21:37:48

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How did they think they would get away with this? And how stupid does one have to be to commit such petty corruption?