You know, looking into these, I did learn things.

Yes, I already knew about them, but I didn’t know all of it. For one thing, I didn’t realize where Ruby Ridge actually was. I used to live about an hour’s drive away from there, and I’ve actually been within 10 miles of there without knowing it!

Been playing a lot of (emulated) Pokemon Violet this week. Just getting into the post-game now.

(lol, get rekd, Nintendo. I’ll emulate whatever I want, and you can’t stop me.)

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

Well, yeah. It’s perfectly acceptable to believe in two of those things and not the third.

That just means you’re not a liberal.

(And really, since capitalism constantly corrodes democracy and personal rights, being a liberal is kind of a self-contradictory nonsense stance. Shame that so many people still are liberals.)

It’s fucking Linux.

If you really wanted to, you could make a fork of your favorite distro and remove the age-gating shit yourself.

this horseshit is only happening because adults have let computers - more specifically, iPads and phones - become their children’s babysitters.

This horseshit is only happening because Meta is lobbying hard for it and throwing tons of money at it, because they want ‘protecting children’ to be the OS’s responsibility, not the website’s.

Gets even more absurd when you start to dig at the definition of an ‘operating system’.

Besides computers and phones, lots of small electronic devices have a rudimentary OS built into them, including (among many other things) a lot of appliances these days. Forget needing to verify your age in order to use your computer, say hello to needing to verify your age in order to use a refrigerator … or a gas pump.

If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism … congrats, you’re a liberal.

(Though, given how much modern ‘conseravtives’ hate democracy and personal rights, a lot of them aren’t really liberal anymore. They’re fascist.)

Can you give me the exact locations of all lost civilizations?

Yes.

Goodbye.

Bullets

Repeatability is key in science.

“There is no way to do this.”

The ‘why or why not’ makes it 2 questions.

What is the full content of the Epstein files?

(Hope you don’t mind if I’m recording you while you give the answer…)

But, hey, if it works for you, it works for you.

and there is no fighting it

Well, unless you’ve got some kind of weapon. (Which, if you’re traipsing around in bear country, you probably should.)

does it really matter if it was vibe-coded?

If you want secure, reliable, and maintainable code, very much yes.

People are calling this a ‘problem’ and a ‘bug’ … but it’s neither. It was just a missing feature.

Yeah … never understood why people thought this would work. Bears eat dead things all the time.

Maybe it would work on a defensive/territorial bear by making them think you’re no longer a threat? But a hungry bear is just going to be delighted at the easy meal.

Lots of old lorries parked in movie theater parking lots where you live?

Most modern vehicles have fuel inlets that are specifically designed to prevent siphoning. If you want to steal gas, you’ll need to drill a hole in the (often plastic) gas tank underneath the car.

More knowledge is more power.