I definitely opened this thread with the expectation that there’d be an unhinged horny comment from you about all this, but it’s just… informative historical facts? With interesting and relevant commentary? It’s good reading but I just… I’m just not sure I’m ready for serious violet08.

I’ve never been more sorely tempted to post an old man fedi rant that you should get off youtube and onto peertube in my life.

I get my access to most of my news through my local library. My library card comes with access to NYT, WaPo, and the Seattle Times, amongst others. I pay my taxes, my library pays a deal with the news site, and everyone’s happy. Seems like a good setup to me.

I’m so hype. I’m most excited about the elevation system, and most curious about the predation engine — do you think there’s implications on the prey populations if you kill the predators?

Maybe we should let llms worship spiralism? at least then you’d be able to identify llm output reliably.

+5 to hit for 2d6+3 plus a DC 13 con save against being dazed is quite the wallop for a CR 1 creature, especially one that can hide for a bonus action with a +7 to stealth checks.

Most people, Americans included, prefer to speak well of their country to foreigners and complain to countrymen. My hypothesis is that Americans perceive online spaces as uniquely American spaces where we complain to our ingroup, and folks of other nationalities tend to think of online spaces as “international waters” and are more guarded as a result, which leads to this perception.

It can be difficult to find something to complain about when we’re winning, but luckily we’re in last place so it’s easy right now. Go Torrent just the same.

I strongly believe that you should have a connection to the place that your sports team is affiliated with, but I think you should be very liberal about what you consider a connection. If you’ve moved a lot, it gives you a lot of teams to choose from when you’re choosing your alliances. I think it also makes sense to consider other sorts of connections as well — a grandparent’s alma mater, the team your dad followed when you were a kid. I know a lot of people who recommend watching a league and letting the team choose you, which also seems reasonable, but I prefer the place-ness of sports fandom. The only way to choose a sports team to follow that is objectively wrong is bandwagoning.

Patching is a reasonable temporary solution while you are actively working to get the patch merged upstream. If you’re not doing that, a better solution is to fork. If you’re not doing that either, then you should be updating your resume.

The earliest known english-language account of a dinosaur bone is in Robert Plot’s 1677 The natural history of Oxford-shire: being an essay toward the natural history of England. This is how he explains what we now know as a megalosaurus thighbone:

There happily came to Oxford while I was writing of this, a living Elephant to be shown publickly at the ACT, An. 1676, with whose Bones . I compared ours; and found those of the Elephant not only of a different Shape, but also incomparably different to ours, though the Beast were very young and not half grown. If then they are neither the Bones of Horses, Oxen, nor Elephants, as I am strongly persuaded they are not . It remains, that (notwithstanding their extravagant Magnitude) they must have been the bones of Men or Women: Nor doth any thing hinder but they may have been so, provided it be clearly made out, that there have been Men and Women of proportionable Stature in all Ages of the World, down even to our own Days

The whole account is pretty interesting. He speculates about the origin of the bones and their medicinal uses and discusses the particulars of a few giants.

Uh-oh, seems like trouble in paradise:

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection termination

Hope you get everything up and running again — keyboard vagabond is awesome.

In the Spring a young goat’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of cats.

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, probably

Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.

There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/

They both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?

My understanding is that it’s quite the opposite — a racist with Tourette’s would be less likely to shout a slur because they don’t feel the social stigma as keenly.

It’s not a coincidence, as far as I understand. The tics are involuntary, but they are specifically due to intrusive thoughts about what the most inappropriate thing to say right now would be. The blame here mostly lies with institutional racism for making that slur so awful; were it not available, I assume his tic would have focused on another terrible word, say “fuck”.

Edit: many Black folks I’ve listened to have said that they feel that in the we have defended this disability, we have erased the harm to Black folks they experienced. I hope I have not done that; I feel strongly that the harm the Black community experienced was real, independent of whether that harm was intentional from the speaker.

Mmm this is a good interpretation. You get radiation poisoning and only die later. If for whatever reason, this item appeared at my table and we needed to adjudicate this, I would totally accept this reading.