I forgot I even did this but I’m coming up on 10 years in just a couple weeks.

I just thought it’s funny that AI can’t determine I’m talking about memes. It’s like, look, Gemino bro, all I use you for is making Garfield and Shrek comments

I actually googled that to try to pull a screenshot and the AI summary told me to go to a doctor

Giving me Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejected vibes, if you haven’t seen this it’s hilarious and is probably slightly older than Youtube. There’s irreverent, and then there’s this

Props to anyone who can laugh at themselves over something like this, although it might be the kind of attitude that got him in that pickle in the first place

lol, if you haven’t tried this game it’s definitely worth a shot because it’s more a finished product than a lot of AAA titles and it’s so faceted that there’s a bit of something for everyone to get hooked on. My three favorite games are Fallout 3, Diablo 2, and this, to give you an idea. I’m an avid fan of no-crop playthroughs (don’t even need to play it like a farming simulator at all to reach 100%).

I’m the guy who made the first catfish comment and I can assure you I’m not a bot. It’s my go-to strat early game and thought it was funny. Catfish, protein, muscles, that kind of thing. But then I checked my comment history and noticed it got downvoted all to hell in the past hour and came here to see what that was all about lol

Edit: for the actual strat, one of the first days is guaranteed rain, so down by Marlene’s, if you line up all the other stuff in the days prior (meeting townsfolk and all that), grind fishing levels beforehand, you can go down there and try to round up as many catfish as possible to bankroll

We evolved to have that response in a world in which hospitals didn’t exist and in which we faced predation by other animals, and ‘curl into a ball feeling like shit for a couple days’ was the most viable way for the body to handle even the most mundane of infections (all the other ideas didn’t make the cut and here we are). But now, 21st century, we’re like ‘oh it’s just the cold’ and actively attempt to mitigate it.

A slew of other things are still stuck in 20,000BC as well, like our bodies not being able to deal with copious amounts of sugar, or thinking we might have difficulties securing our next meal. Cut too many calories trying to lose some fat and your body legit thinks you’re dying and starts breaking down all sorts of soft tissue that isn’t fat. Or vasoconstriction when we’re out shoveling snow with a warm house 15ft away, all sorts of shit

My secret: catfish is high in protein

Weird thing for you to say to someone basically parroting the IPCC’s concerns.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-14/

Why would a corporate entity move PP&E to a different country in light of the promise of increasingly favorable tax rates and the threat of tariffs? There’s a reason why US and Ireland are havens. Those things are bolted down

What if a country that holds half the world’s data centers decides to walk out of every global climate accord and start powering those bad boys with fracking due to isolationist trade policies? Won’t amount to zero and in less than a month we find out how that ship is changing its heading

You don’t say.

Do you think the USA is incapable of a meaningful increase in global emissions? My original comment is implying the opposite

That’d be contingent on lots of things, such as random clowns not sabotaging the EPA and selling rights to Federal lands

It’s pretty disingenious of them to frame this in such a way as to tout the virtues of plastic. We can make rectangular glass bottles and that not only takes less energy to transport but is also more environmentally friendly than PET, but they didn’t explore that option or even suggest it to the reader for consideration

It probably won’t be affordable housing due to code, but the crux of the issue is that walkability is horrible, basically a checkerboard of one-ways for cars. Block E used to be an entertainment spot like 20 years ago but now all the fun spots aren’t in downtown, people go to the warehouse district, north loop, lyndale and lake because those are established.

Not much reason to do anything in downtown anymore and anyone opening a restaurant or whatever knows that, so it’s just a boring spot

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan is pushing hard for AI with everything — he’s long advocated sending “clones” to meetings.

These ‘return to office’ meeting-loving clowns are pieces of work. Imagine a meeting so important that you can literally walk out of the room

But you think it’s uplifting the American public is being lied to a month before the election with a promise that has 0% chance of coming true?

Fiscal Year 2025 started October 1st, Congress approved a stop gap so they can continue appropriations. You think a president shouldn’t announce anything or do anything in the months leading up to an election?

Also, it’s lead pipes. We don’t use them anymore. Every pipe replaced is a step forward. Biden just announced a deadline.

They’ve been consistently disbursing funds for this and this time is no different. Here’s last May’s news : https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-3-billion-lead-pipe-replacement-advance-safe

It’s pretty wild to think they took this long to prohibit using US-based software for such sensitive information

Sometimes a writer will use what they feel is a more recognizable but ‘technically incorrect’ word as a colloquialism for a less-used term that’s more accurate, and then go into more detail in the article, but it’s good and proper to wrap that colloquialism in apostrophes (‘air quotes’).

But in this specific case, it was ruled that Google has a monopoly on general website searches and that they have utilized a variety of anti-competitive practices to bolster their presence as such.

Not dissimilar to Microsoft’s antitrust case in the late 90s, specifically regarding Internet Explorer. It was a very small chunk of a much larger antitrust suit but they were found to have used Windows in order to stifle competition for web browsers and maintain their standing as the dominant browser (they also leveraged their market share for Windows and IE with OEMs and ISPs respectively but I’m digressing).

Microsoft was ordered to split, or spin off their browser business into a different entity, but they settled with DOJ on appeal (probably what we’ll see come of this - Google will probably make a big long list of things they will change or no longer engage in, and the government will feel as though all those changes will be sufficient remedy)