Pre-COVID. I wonder what it’s like now. Anecdotes from people who work in education seem to say it was pretty devastating for child development, but it’s hard to tell if it’s above and beyond the perennial “this new generation is totally fucked” sentiment.

Just planting seeds… just planting seeds.

Firewatch. I liked the visual style but everyone raved about the writing specifically and I thought it wasn’t great. I don’t want to shit on them too hard because they did try, and you can’t control how other people hype your work, but I found the characters really flat.

Just change the sign and get back in there: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2025/10/21/spirit-christmas-opening-stores/86817296007/

Yeah, reading through some of the threads, seems like they didn’t support a flag, failed silently, and had no test coverage for that (they do now). Non-LTS version or no, having these tools “in production” seems premature on Canonical’s part.

They could have just pushed them into the ocean instead of changing a flat tire because it’s faster, or some shit. It’s like the Adeptus Administratum.

I think it’s possible that Robert Trump, Donald Trump’s younger brother, was an early victim of COVID. He died suddenly and was “very ill” but no specific cause was ever mentioned AFAIK. I think this was covered up because it was politically inconvenient for his brother.

I have nothing to really base it on except the timing and reaction was suspect.

According to Mr. Thornebrooke, reporters are not permitted to review final versions of articles before they are published, contrary to standard practice in most newsrooms. In many instances, he said, top-ranking editors “would suddenly be taking accurate information out of my stories and putting in false info.”

My guy, you work the Falun Fucking Gong newspaper.

The first Underworld from 2003 is like this, but it’s painfully early 2000s. It’s from that era when every action movie was ripping of The Matrix as hard as possible.

I don’t know, I have a hard time believing Trump would write, “enigmas never age.” I have an easy time believing that he, and many of the ultra rich, regularly engage in activities that would make the cenobites from Hellraiser say, “Dude, that’s fucked up.” But it’s too far fetched to imagine him writing anything even slightly poetic.

Maybe twenty years ago his brain was less deep fried but I kind of doubt that too. Maybe he has an assistant write this sort of thing. Or maybe this is some con that Maxwell is playing. I don’t know.

I’ve been getting annoying amdgpu crashes every now an then. I’ve tried all the various BIOS and kernel params but so far nothing has worked. Next step is rolling back a kernel version, at least that’s what I’ve gathered from all the threads about it. It’s bothersome but not frequent enough to be a real pain.

(This is an amd framework 13 with fedora 42 / wayland)

I don’t know if you’re opposed to herbicide, but triclopyr will kill it. You can get triclopyr salt (water based) and apply it to the freshly cut stump surface (within moments of cutting), or triclopyr ester (oil based) and apply it to the outside of the plant close to the base, no cutting required. Both of these will kill the root. Otherwise just keep cutting and eventually you will exhaust the root.

Not sure about elsewhere, but in the USA you can typically buy the water-based triclopyr salt in a small bottle with a brush attached to the cap. This is in pretty much any garden store. Even though you have to cut the plant first I think this is the best form for just a few plants.

I don’t know if it’s still a thing in the digital age, but having even just a few seconds of dead air back in the analogue broadcast days could mean that “silence detectors” all over the country would start going off and radio engineers everywhere would think there was some kind of problem with their station. So there had to be talking, music, something at pretty much all times.

If you wanted intentional silence you could play comfort noise in the background.

Alaska’s DUI law specifically mentions a motorized vehicle. So you probably couldn’t get a DUI on a horse, in a carriage, or with a dog sled, but if they were pulling your car with dogs then you might. The law doesn’t specify the motor be on, or functional, just that it be a “motor vehicle”.

I guess it would come down to the jury on that one.

A “carriage house”, in the backyard of some rich couple who were the landlords. I split it with a buddy. Open holes to the outside that we patched with duct tape. The entire thing listed to one side. It smelled like mold. Zero insulation or climate control of any kind. Landlord still stole food from our fridge when we were away.

Used it a ton in the art departments of vfx and game dev. Im talking about the tools that make assets, not the game engine or a runtime scripting language. More like the stuff launching and running in Maya, or Houdini, or Substance, etc.

Most of this is already highly OO, and there’s a lot of interaction with C++. Python is the perfect language for this. There’s a lot of rapid interation and gluing many different services and data together. Also you’re waiting on file IO or some massive scene graph update all the time so having the tools be slightly slower doesn’t matter. Also, at least in vfx, there’s mixed Linux/Windows/Mac and it’s great for that. ALSO art teams (unlike the programming team) have people who may not be super technical, and Python let’s them write tools and scripts more easily. They don’t even have to understand OO but you can say “copy this class template and implement these two methods” and they can write tools that “work” in the pipeline.

It’s honestly a godsend. Before the industry settled on Python, every program had its own proprietary scripting language and some were quite limited. Their C++ APIs are all different, of course. So now everyone just ships with a Python interpreter, you manage launching each app so you can control PYTHONPATH and you’re golden.

It’s new to me, but there’s a meme about every lesbian wanting a jeep, so maybe this is just metonymy for, “I’m a lesbian”?

The Threads logo looks like a parasitic whipworm.

Apparently its called “Innovis”. I tried to find a few articles but they all read like press releases or AI slop.

There is a blurb on Wikipedia fortunately:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau#Consumer_reporting_agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovis