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What’s really cool is that if you look at any of the landmark decisions of this court, you will find olympic level mental gymnastics to justify those decisions. Like, sure, you can be a regular person and look at the decisions and go “well that’s unjust” but what’s really rad is that when you look at the “logic” they used to arrive at those decisions, it’ll just piss you off more! Strict Scrutiny podcast does a great job of highlighting just how this court does not give a fuck about a century or two of history.

On kbin, if you hover over the user name, you can easily block them forever. Super cool! 👍

The right/bigots is always talking about the gay agenda. We don’t have one.

Okay, but you can tell me what the gay agenda really is. Is it like the Jew agenda? Seems like that one came up a lot before people switched to talking about the gay agenda.

Absolutely have to love all of the people on mastodon especially being like “but this makes the fediverse bigger what can go wrong” takes.

I do this on the weekend, in fact, just did very similar today. I can give two tips:

If you microwave potatoes first (poke holes) to par-cook them, then you just need to get them crispy. I usually don’t, and just start with potatoes at medium in before the oil has really heated , stirring every 5 minutes for the first 20 or so, then more often when they get to crisping. The best is definitely using leftover baked potatoes or roasted potatoes from the night before.

Second, if you have an air fryer, that’s increasingly my go to. We have a basket style, I coat in a little oil or use veg spray, and roast around 350 for 10-15, and then turn it up to 400 once the potatoes are tender for color.

Neither of these are weekdays for me, but I can throw this together on weekends where I mostly don’t have to do anything.

Discord seems to be sort of adapting to that? In the /r/iosbeta discord, they have topics that sort of act like reddit posts. But yeah, so far, I’m just all over the place. A couple of lemmy instances, Kbin primarily, and a lot of mastodon, with discord filling in when I’m bored. Although discord is very bad as a replacement for reddit/twitter, the nostalgia and it feeling very IRC is kinda nice.

It really doesn’t matter if they have anyone left that knows anything about anything. All reports thus far is that anyone not giving the ol’ “aye captain” any time Elon says anything gets shitcanned. I’m sure there is someone there that probably went “but, sir…” before immediately getting shut down.

Now if you had to guess how often I remember that there is a keyboard shortcut that does this, but don’t remember what it is, and do remember that I can just press up 30-70 times…

Ocarina of Time.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, I don’t think the largest wave of users leaving has hit yet. Once the big apps shut down today, I think there is going to be another wave that actually leaves, and then it’s just going to trickle out for months probably as reddit gets less relevant since the people actually making the content are likely to be the ones to move.

This may be apocryphal, but rumor was that Jackson said he based his performance in Django on Clarence.

Well, I have good news and I have bad news.

Bad news first - I think a lot of the reason this doesn’t exist on federated services is largely because those services are in their infancy and principled people or at least people with slightly more than lukewarm IQs are more likely to seek them out.

Good news - the capitalist nature of corporate social media means that at scale you have to tolerate a certain number of nazis and bigots. See also: the recall scene from Fight Club. The fediverse largely doesn’t have that problem. We don’t have to say “we have to keep this account on the network because they’re boosting the ad numbers” we can just fucking ban them.

In the short term for the fediverse, it’s a little security by obscurity. In the longer term, it’s really more of a moderation problem, but even there I’m optimistic. Over on reddit, there were/are a few subs where if you blocked every user subscribed, you’d lose no value even in other subs. instances are going to be similar, I bet.

I use DDG as my primary, and my general feeling is that I don’t mind some advertising to make money, but Google is objectively bad these days. At the time I started using DDG, Google was still probably the better choice in terms of search results. These days, DDG is competitive, but more importantly, I don’t have to scroll past half a page of ads masquerading as results.

Exactly. Lots of house rules at this table.

This, pretty much. Pretty hard to be 100% game accurate and make a good movie. Appreciated where they took license, and where they stuck to some (often, obscure) lore.

Got tired of trying to figure out what service to watch a show on this week. Back to sailing the 7 seas…

No spoilers: it’s a 5-6/10. I generally don’t like Ezra’s or the writer’s take on Barry, but that almost gets out of the way. The CGI ranges from bad to really bad, but the movie does actually do a decent job of acknowledging the DC universe, and the dialogue/plot mostly make sense. There is some great fan service that probably carried the movie for me. It’s one of the better entries in the DCU, which means it’s a good popcorn flick that no one is going to be talking about in a few weeks.

Oh, one other thing I’ll toss in with tiny spoilers if you haven’t even watched a trailer - it’s a multiverse movie, and had this come out 2-3 years ago might have significantly changed how I think about it. That said, especially after No Way Home and Across the Spider-Verse, it’s hard not to compare to those and they’re both way, way better movies. Watching it a week after AtSV especially, it really doesn’t fair favorably.

I’ll also toss out that if you privacy and non-annoyance are your goals with an out of the box voice assistant, the only real option these days is a HomePod. I built my smart home with combination of Echos throughout the house, and I pretty much regret it now. I wasn’t as worried about privacy, but these things are so fucking annoying these days. “Start a timer for 5 minutes.” “Okay, do you want to play some bullshit trivia game while you’re timer is going?” No, never. Ever. I mean, at least she’ll still turn the lights on without spouting back something dumb, but that’s just about it. Probably what I’ll be doing now is still using the Alexholes as a speaker target with the mute button on all of the time (better spotify integration) and start replacing with siri balls.

They took a 250m funding round and used it to build an nft site. reddit’s problems are 100% self created. Think about how ama’s used to be and how they managed to kill that. They could have had several revenue streams just based on ama’s.

I think this whole thread/post is over-thinking it. If all reddit wanted was to break-even or make some profit off of the api, they wouldn’t have priced it this way. They would have had changed the api to a key system and then created a two tier pricing system: third party apps like RIF and Apollo, and a large commercial license for LLM training and such.

This is fuck you pricing. As in, if you don’t want to take a job, you tell them the price is 8x your normal hourly rate. You either get that bag or more likely, they don’t offer the job. Although I say this with less certainty than I would have a month ago seeing exactly how stupid reddit is about all of this, I can’t believe that anyone at reddit is so out of touch they actually thought any of the third party app devs could afford this pricing, and if they did and it wasn’t just to kill apps, they would changed the pricing structure and not triple/quadrupled down.

This is just Huffman going after the IPO so he can get his golden parachute and peace out. I would absolutely put money on him being out less than a year after IPO, with the small asterisk that as bad as he’s fumbling right now the board might kick him before that.