Joe's Classic Videogames is great and fun nostalgia about the insides of the classic arcade cabinets and pinball machines of yore.
Lots of insider information on how these things worked and what goes wrong with them, and satisfying play on the machines after they've been fixed!
If they haven't been brushing their teeth and there's visible calculus on them, you could use a metal pick and scrape it off like a dentist doing teeth cleaning, to show them how thick it is.
So they're textualists until it applies to them…
"Engaged in insurrection" means exactly that.
It doesn't mean they succeeded, it doesn't mean they just thought about it, it certainly doesn't say anything about an act of Congress.
He assembled the mob, and literally gave them their marching orders that January 6th.
If that isn't worth at least a participation trophy, then I don't know what is.
I disagree somewhat.
A lot of high tech development comes with a greed motive, e.g. IPO, or getting bought out by a large company seeking to enter the space, e.g. Google buying Android, or Facebook buying Instagram and Oculus.
And conversely, a lot of open source software are copies of commercially successful products, albeit they only become widely adopted after the originals have entered the enshittified phase of their life.
Is there a Lemmy without Reddit? Is there a Mastodon without Twitter? Is there LibreOffice without Microsoft Office and decades of commercial word processors and spreadsheets before that? Or OpenOffice becoming enshittified for that matter? Is there qBittorrent without uTorrent enshittified? Is there postgreSQL without IBM's DB2?
The exception that I can see is social media and networked services that require active network and server resources, like Facebook YouTube, or even Dropbox and Evernote.
Okay, The WELL is still around and is arguably the granddaddy of all online services, and has avoided enshittification, but it isn't really open source.
Depends on what exactly each poll is asking or saying.
If you go by popular vote, Biden could be well ahead in that demographic.
But 1) Not all young people vote, andas a whole they lag far behind compared to other age groups, particularly ages 45+
And 2) The popular vote is greatly negated by the electoral college.
So If you want to become President, one way is to appeal to what old people in Red states can be persuaded to believe.
The Internet version of QVC or Home Shopping Network that previous generations used to watch.
Was part of a team that was sent to Boston for a project. While we were there, the company announced they were changing the meal expense policy from reimbursement for submitted bills to a fixed stipend.
But that policy change was a couple of days away, so the whole team went to this fancy expensive restaurant for dinner, and we ordered expensive food and wines as one last hurrah.
I don’t even remember where or what I ate or drank.
I just remember it was a good time.
Slogging through Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron
Usually I love Spinrad, but this is just so dated: The idea that a TV talk show host with a massive audience is holding the rich and powerful accountable, as opposed to pandering to them…
p.s. You gotta know where the late night eateries are.
Here’s a decent list https://sf.eater.com/maps/best-late-night-food-drinks-restaurants-san-francisco
It’s not just San Francisco.
Vancouver BC and nearby towns have a similar problem, and are working towards their own empty storefront tax.
Calling a male a “nephew” in Chinese 契弟 kai dai is calling them a male prostitute.
Usually it doesn’t mean target male has actually been used sexually, but commonly used for general belittlement.
This term comes from ancient times: Traveling businessmen who would take a young boy with them for sexual use, but if anyone on the road or destination asked who the boy was, the business man would euphemistically explain “He’s my nephew”
契弟 kai dai is commonly translated as “nephew” but it means “adopted brother”
In Chinese we say “your mouth/breath smells”
That’s why San Francisco implemented a vacant storefront tax.
But getting commercial landlords to comply has been a struggle.
It’s true that crypto is commonly used in online drug transactions, but there are other justifiable uses, such as moving money out of countries with repressive regimes like China and Russia.
Also paying for certain genres of porn that major credit card banks like Visa and MasterCard have somewhat arbitrarily designated as unacceptable, such as certain types of BDSM e.g. consensual nonconsensual, anything that shows blood, kinky hypnosis and mind control, vampires, etc.
Of course obvious child porn and bestiality should be banned period, so some regulation is needed. But I’m not sure that the government delegating responsibility for regulation to the credit card banks is the best way to do it. The rules and enforcement are completely arbitrary and cannot be appealed.
Crypto as an investment, and NFT for digital art, sure it’s a scam.
Crypto as an extralegal means of moving money is totally useful.
We don’t hear about them anymore, therefore the aliens have given up on researching or invading or infiltrating the hooooman planet.
Or is it social expectations to wear pants that were developed by subtle marketing by the pants corporations?
E.g. All the marketing you have ever seen shows models wearing pants. Therefore you believe everyone, including yourself, must wear pants all the time, because you believe this the norm.
Toothpaste.
You only need to squeeze out an amount the size of a pea on to the bristles of your toothbrush.
The image of squeezing along the entire length of the brush bristles was concocted by an ad agency, a la Mad Men, to make consumers use their toothpaste faster, hence buy more product.
That used to be true, and I keep Chrome and Edge installed just in case, but honestly I haven’t had to use a different browser in years.
Any web page problems that I found turned out not to be Firefox related.
But if you like Chrome, there’s nothing wrong with that either.
The prisoner, Dotson, was “found dead” so who knows how many hours the body was lying there.
That pretty much precludes any use of the heart for transplant.
His relatives said they received the body in a decomposed state, but that could have been poor storage by the coroner before or after the autopsy, or the body might have been well hidden inside the prison so it was a long time before someone found it.
The article isn’t very clear on the condition of the body at each stage of handling.
What’s in the article is probably all the information that the reporter could get out of the prison authority, the state Department of Forensic Sciences, and the University.