This college doesn’t have the power to fix homelessness at the societal level, but they did have the power to do this. It’s a pretty awesome story.

He said he would end the war in a day.

He just didn’t say which day.

Yes. But they don’t seem to.

You broke your little sausage.

In addition to this I’m also deliberately fucking up the hand gesture: instead of using my two hands to weigh some invisible objects, I claw at the air like a cat. They lose their fucking minds.

I agree with you.

Is also think our VP is in poor taste to make jokes about how he’d like to fire off an exception to the 1st amendment. It’s just another example of total disrespect for our constitution and personal arrogance within the executive branch.

Yeah converting waste heat into useful energy sounds very very much like “making entropy go down.” We know we can make entropy go down in one spot by increasing it even more in others. But for them to do that here… they’d be turning high entropy into low entropy PLUS more high entropy, which sounds circularly self-fueling or essentially a perpetual motion machine.

Most of our electrical generation capabilities use heat at some point to boil water, but what makes that work is water’s phase change behavior, accessible temperature for that phase exchange, and water’s ubiquity. If he can find another water that does something equally useful but at lower temperatures, without exotic materials… I mean John Galt can fuck right off.

If they can pull this off: amazing. But it sounds very much like a quixotic adventure for a legendary inventor’s final days. Someone call me when they have something applicable.

Having really shitty bags is probably the best idea of all.

Anyone who has knowledge of or works in any areas adjacent to any of these could provide some kind of insight. Fuck me for wanting some grownup conversation about why businesses do the things they do, instead of a circle jerk of hating on mustache-twirling villains.

Funny as it may seem, that is actually standard equipment under ISO:8110 for animal trainers world wide. And I quote from the text of the standard:

Safety Equipment (503, section C):

Animals of size over 20kg shall require a neck restraint device with a rigid staff. Leashes and chains are unacceptable for their ineffectiveness to protect the animal’s handler. A specialized noose-rod or other neck restraint device with handle no less than 80cm shall be on site at all times, or if one is not available, a basketball hoop is an acceptable substitute.

As predicted, a one-dimensional answer.

Let’s say they want more money: they do have a healthy software subscriptions business. How can they get more by becoming the world’s tiniest streaming service? And won’t that cannibalize their subscriptions business as the experience gets shittier and shittier?

Some actual “whys” within this would be things like (made up, but for example)

1. the subscriptions business is dying - less than 1% of users ever buy a pass and efforts to increase that failed for (another reason here)

2. streaming services are dumping cash into viewer acquisition because a war is on for dominance in that space and Pled is capitalizing on that

3. Plex has high overlap with gamers and are making good money on midroll gaming ads during these streams

4. Plex has legal concerns about facilitating piracy - this is the real reason why sync is shit and they killed watch together. They are desperately trying to pivot out of their old business before they get sued - OR all this streaming nonsense gives them a kind of fig leaf over that somehow

See, issues can be complex and interesting. Just calling them greedy is neither. How is this the greedy play, even?

I hate headlines like this. I’d love to hear the REASONS WHY Plex are doing all of this. But no, it’s just “4 ways in which Plex now sucks” which we all know already.

Before someone says “the reason is money” we need to ask: do the developers of Jellyfin not use money? Why won’t the same thing just happen to them too?

Before someone says “enshittification,” we need to ask: does this mean Jellyfin will soon have the same problems?

We all seem to love Jellyfin so I think we need to understand the actual reason why, or this will just continue happening.

Because Reddit exists.

Reddit itself didn’t truly take off to massive scale until some other players were out of the way. It was the underdog for a long time.

Trump thinks the only problem with the War on Drugs is that it didn’t have enough collateral damage to be properly called a war.

I swear that man’s brain is permanently stuck in the 1980s with its war on drugs and panicked about heavily armed criminals. He’s still there, mentally, but now he has real power!

Someone should write a Reddit client that automatically hides the top two comments and all their children, because they’re inevitably stupid jokes that add nothing.

Oh right. No one can make new Reddit clients anymore.

At this point I’m just accepting that we’ll have to sit through 3 bad shows to get 1 good one. I guess I’m okay with that as long as they keep cranking them out.

This was my first and only comment here so there is no doubling of anything. I also didn’t say that, but I think it’s fairly hold of you to say that psychopaths aren’t dangerous, categorically. Please do go on…

Yeah brown stage makeup does not equal blackface. Blackface is a white person playing the role of a human of another race, and perpetuating a racial stereotype. MISSA GORIGHTRY!!!

There are some racial overtones to some of the Trek alien races though. They used to use white actors for Klingons in TOS but they would give them Fu Manchu mustaches and a yellowy orangey skin tone. They were sneaky and devious. Now they use black actors a lot for Klingons and they’re big brutes. The Romulans of TNG look more Asian now, and guess what! They’re sneaky and devious!

None of this is blackface and a lot of it is just me doing pattern recognition on weak signals. Nine of it is over the line.

Loss of contact with reality can be a great starting point for committing heinous, inhuman acts. Psychopathy spans a wide range of functional levels and characteristics.

I’ve managed entirely on Google Sheets for years now. And I was a really big fan of Excel. It was never viable for me to rely on Windows to be everywhere I need to be, and the functionality gap closed steadily over the years to the point where the benefits of it being on the web now overwhelm the feature gap. Being free helps too, especially as Excel has gone through various pricing and bundling contortions over the years. Someone might tell me here that it’s now completely free but can I really be blamed for tuning out Microsoft years ago?