I should say so.
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The disappearance of mass market paperbacks is a loss.
Je m'appelle Loki et voici ma baguette.
It’s so interesting reading some of the science fiction I read as a kid in the 1970s. Writers could imagine all kinds of amazing things - strange alien species, amazing feats of engineering, intelligent robots - but what they couldn’t imagine was women or non-white people being part of any of it.
It would be fun if instead of another dull iPhone release Apple did something truly unexpected, like the folding phone folds into a little origami like animal, or the pro models all had a shock of pink troll doll hair at the top, or honestly just *anything* surprising.
Why must logging im to everything be such a nightmare?
You know, it’s easy to understand Republicans if you just realize that they are all Ferengi
Coming soon, Richard Dawkins and his cassette player girlfriend.
Seriously how inept do you have to be to fuck up Canada/US relations?
We need to find a cure for economist brain rot, the condition that afflicts economists where they start to think economics is a study of natural laws rather than societal inventions. (See: Tragedy of the Commons)
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat every time someone’s not watching the road I’m a film I get stressed out.
So now I know who Clavicular is and I cannot say this knowledge has made life richer.
I drove past the Kennedy Center this morning. It made me sad.
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I think the Qobuz music app people have made a terrible marketing error - a name that no one is sure how to pronounce.
RE: @david@fouroclockfarms.club
Just before Trump announced that his war crimes were postponed a bunch of people started betting on a drop in the price of crude. It’s quite possible that this whole thing was designed to create a payout for Trump loyalists.
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@IanHill@infosec.exchange I’m sure this will work perfectly for people with neurological conditions that cause head or facial tics, etc. …
I was thinking about reading about a “celebutante” in NYC in Spy magazine in the 80s. She was famous for being famous. She went to clubs and got her picture taken. My friends and I thought this was funny and insane. Now it’s how the whole world works.
There is no reason for us to be having this particular problem other than a rising tide of willful ignorance.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-warns-measles-exposure-across-metro-dulles-airport
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@bretcarmichael@mastodon.social @corsairstw@mastodon.social they’re not alone. Remember when Target was differentiating themselves as the cool discount store? More recently they’ve been letting ICE use their parking lots at staging areas. Ultimately they all answer to shareholders. This would be less of a problem if Congress had the will to keep Trump operating within the law.
Do you suppose the Trumpists actually think a pissing match with the Pope will appeal to their followers?
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@schmod@xoxo.zone I’m not surprised. People who are passionate about driving tend to also think driving should be done well. I *love* driving and people driving like idiots irritates the shit out of me. (Having no option but to drive for everyday things, I do not love at all.)
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@schmod@xoxo.zone: anyway - i found that article quite refreshing! And not out of character for what I've read in Jalopnik in the past.
@scalzi shocking this might happen to a company whose product loses them more and more money the more it scales up.
Is it just me or is everything Microsoft makes a hundred times worse than it was a year or so ago? I mean, nothing fucking works right for more than half an hour.
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I found this super interesting. In the US we think of having transit, walkable neighborhoods, public places where people interact as frills or luxuries but they are actually determinants of health, both physical and mental.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-27/community-isolation-mental-health
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@GamingWithEars probably not unless everyone stops using Facebook, because unfortunately, most people use Facebook.
Noted.
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@Ombligoelemento@neopaquita.es @webjac@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu probably because they did a risk analysis and concluded that the EU would come after them if they released it. They are responding to the reality of the EU approach and don’t want a fight. Which is probably a sound business decision.
Whenever I see a news item about Spirit I think “People Express.”
I think at some future point Trump needs to be personally responsible for the costs of cleaning up the messes he’s creating around DC.
At work we use MS 365 and gotta say over the last year it seems to have become a giant bug filled mess. I’m talking routine stuff in the office apps - like, nothing seems to work right half the time.