The ultimate goal is for Amazon Retail to become infrastructure. Bezos and his minions don’t want people to think of Amazon Retail as a shop; they want people to think of Amazon Retail as The Thing You Use To Buy Physical Things On The Internet. As Steam is to PC games, so Amazon want to be to physical things.

“max shit level”

Because Grindr is aimed at men more likely to be into bummery.

Cannibal?

Strictly speaking they’re equal; a calorie is 4.184J by definition.

But a correct answer depends on bioavailability, which is subject to the noodle recipe, the potato variety, his they’re cooked, and the eater’s own physiology.

I feel like if your code is so generic a generator can make it, you could achieve tge same results faster, more reliably, and more energy-efficiently with a shell script or two.

Fair.

I just sent GOG a complaint about the banner and urged them to recant. I cited your post as evidence that they are driving people to Steam, so hopefully the money will persuade them if the moral arguments don’t.

Hey now, stealing is wrong.

I will give it to you as a gift.

I’m a line worker in a factory, and I recently managed to give a presentation on “AI” to a group of office workers (it went well!). One of the people there is in regular contact with the C_Os but fortunately is pretty reasonable. His attitude is “We have this problem; what tools do we have to fix it”, and so isn’t impressed by " AI" yet. The C_Os, alas, insist it’s the future. They keep hammering on at him to get everybody to integrate “AI” in their workflows, but they have no idea how to actually do that (let alone what the factory actually does), they just say “We have this tool, use it somehow”.

The reasonable manager asked me how I would respond if a C_O said we would get left behind if we don’t embrace " AI". I quipped that it’s fine to be left behind when everybody else is running towards a cliff. I was pretty proud of that one.

Bad news. There’s tons of AI slop on Steam. And also DRM.

I am also in favour of hippie chicks using Linux.

And also hippie dudes, to be clear. And hippie whatever the non binary version of dudes is.

Boss:Ugh, fine, are we talking tropical, sidereal, or anomalistic years?

And since they use ActivityPub, they make up one big meta-site!

I can definitely understand why he was driven to do this. Fire is much faster, more thorough, and has much less risk of ingesting toxic substances, but can easily get out of control and damage real art or people’s health. Teeth are the better tools here.

More recently, 3D printers. They absolutely overpromised and overhyped in the early days, but people found uses for them in day 1.

Samaritans still live in Palestine, around Mount Gezirim. They consider themselves to be the faithful heirs of Moses, and that Jews are doing it wrong. Israel considers Samaritans to be spicy Jews for demographic purposes (let’s them slightly inflate the number of Jews living in East Palestine), but requires a Samaritan who wishes to marry a Jew to formally convert.

Judaea was never a name for Israel. It was the Roman name for Judah, a kingdom which stopped existing around 70AD when the Romans marched in, smashed the Second Temple, and folded Judaea into direct Roman control.

Zionists insist on referring to the West Bank (eastern Palestine) as “Judaea and Samaria” to assert that it’s a land for Jews (and Samaritans), denying the very existence of Palestine.

But Gidley can’t even get that right.

Apparently X-ray fish actually exist, but don’t look like what the GPTs conjure.

The Panchen Lama is a puppet of the CCP.

I rsync my home folder across installs. These are my standard extra folders.

~/Books, with subfolders by topic.

~/Comics, with subfolders by publisher, then by title, possibly with an intermediate folder for author or franchise.

~/Programming, with subfolders by language, then project.

I like the term Markov chains in a Chinese room

It’s a little older than that, friend. Martin Luther himself proclaimed that the pop was the antichrist, and the Vatican was the whore of Babylon.