Hobbes_Dent

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Hobbes_Dent ,

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Hobbes_Dent ,

I used to play Mario Kart with that on repeat.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Looks like it was sent to arbitration and no strike per the just updates article.

And from reading my impression is that WestJet was playing the public a bit by cancelling shit early.

Hobbes_Dent ,

But they were right about Biff.

Hobbes_Dent ,

The internet.

In all seriousness though, the World Wide Web.

Ok for reals, there was a time where cool kids wore their pants backwards.

What's the story you would write if you were an author?

A lot of people worldbuild when they daydream and have the bones of a story kicking around in their brain, but have to pay the bills and raise the kids etc so they never flesh it out and write it down. What's your story's premise? Fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history, mystery, western, whatever genre.

Hobbes_Dent ,

That’s the hard part. If I had that, I’d be writing.

Hobbes_Dent ,

It’s not the Canadian consumers fault that the North American industry dropped the ball.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Drive people to the hospital.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Just my opinion here, but once the thrill of driving lights and sirens wears off (which is unfortunately quite soon) you realise that the benefit to risk ratio isn't what you thought. People are supposed to pull over (this varies by jurisdiction), but in reality people panic and do a lot of irrational and unexpected things. Which is why are probably a lot more choosy about it's use than people realise, at least here (heading to the hospital - heading to a call is based on the caller's description and dispatch, but we are allowed to nope for safety). It also doesn't save the time one thinks it does (but it's pretty slick for getting through lights - this is the time saver).

I don't blame drivers though. They're trying to do the right thing but everyone has a different idea of that even if it's to full-stop in place. There was no formal training for me as a driver on what to do when sirens approach, and if there was it was changed since and muddied by countless buddy tales. For example, here you are supposed to pull to the closest side, but used to be the right IIRC. Sirens are HARD to hear when driving and blaming drivers for loud music is kinda bullshit when sirens aren't actually that effective. Lights are ineffective in some environments. Other environments have multiple sirens going on.

Hobbes_Dent ,

I too am curious why one would trap them. But I don’t have them around here.

Hobbes_Dent ,

SUPPER!!!!!!!!

*under breath* will be ready when it’s good and fucking ready I swear I should have taken that roadie job.

Hobbes_Dent ,

People who hoo! in Black or White.

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Hobbes_Dent ,

“Sorry about throwing grenades into your cellar.”

What a great video.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Nah, that need dat water to cool the AI for the light.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Cake and eat it too. We hear from the industry itself how wary we should be but we shouldn’t act on it - except to invest of course.

The industry itself hyped its dangers. If it was to drum up business, well, suck it.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Bookmarked.

Me too.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Previously unknown images and videos are also to be scrutinised using “artificial intelligence” technology. If a user refuses the scanning, they would be blocked from sending or receiving images, photos, videos and links (Article 10). End-to-end encrypted services such as Whatsapp or Signal would have to implement the automated searches “prior to transmission” of a message (so-called client-side scanning, Article 10a).

How about no?

Hobbes_Dent ,

Erase takes the address off your mailbox and leaves the mail in it for the next resident to use. Secure erase opens it and scritches off all the words from your mail. Takes time though.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Alt cutline: guys wearing big-brimmed hats and assumedly horse riding boots inside venue talk about normal.

Hobbes_Dent ,

192.168.1.1/24. Got it.

- Everyone

Hobbes_Dent ,

Shout out to MAGA, The Republican Party, and all those internet warhawks who believe so much in their own Kool Aid while jerking over Russia’s so-called last-legs arsenal for two years.

Just kidding.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Drinking glasses. Not planned obsolescence but a way to remove klutzes like me from the pool.

Hobbes_Dent ,

But setting aside the fact that a descendant of colonizers has the caucasity to tell the descendants of the colonized that they should “leave” the land they rightfully pointed out was stolen from them…

Oh, that’s good.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Why does hooman make eyes hurt sometimes. Is love?

Hobbes_Dent ,

The Speznasz.

Judge slams Quebec youth protection after Inuk teen placed in 64 different foster homes ( www.cbc.ca )

A Quebec court judge has issued a scathing decision identifying major long-standing problems in youth protection services for Inuit children in Quebec's North, in a case where a teenage girl was sent to 64 different foster homes in less than 10 years....

Hobbes_Dent ,

Less slam more court ordered systemic change would be good.

Hobbes_Dent ,

It stars Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery.

Edit: one more hint: shub

Hobbes_Dent ,

Got any grapes?

Hobbes_Dent ,

Ally my ass.

Hobbes_Dent ,

It’s dark money because a lot of their light goes to illuminate the names on the arenas.

Edit: meant to post under the Canada comment, but I think it can stand alone.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Microsoft argues that its AI automation will remove the boring bits of jobs instead of replacing jobs entirely.

Simple question: does the Microsoft HR department agree?

Hobbes_Dent ,

Big tech has failed us after we made them rich.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Firstly, abide. Secondly, this is why the entwives left.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Rico

Hobbes_Dent ,

I would argue that modern medicine prevents non-selective deaths. We try and keep everyone alive, not just the idiots.

Hobbes_Dent ,

“You’re using coconuts!”

“Yes.”

Hobbes_Dent ,

Granite

Hobbes_Dent ,

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Hobbes_Dent ,

As a former print graphics guy, I figure it’s 50/50 fully intentional or publisher/editor just didn’t listen.

“C’mon, nobody’s gonna think that but a few kids.”

“Everyone is going to think that. It’s 1999.”

But in reality it was probably a communal “hehehehe send it”.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Yeah, but the fold isn’t a mystery, it’s kinda in print 101 territory. Anyone involved in a product like that book would be aware from the start.

Not saying some “has the final say” kinda guy didn’t sign off on a pdf and act surprised, but in reality that book probably got signed off on a physical copy.

In reality it’s probably just plain intentional for design reasons and has a bonus side effect that someone LOLed about after.

Hobbes_Dent ,

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Don’t worry, whoever made the template misused the bear/woods formula.

Hobbes_Dent ,

No. With the exception of small shriveled black olives on pizza or nachos.

Whole, wet, green, black, pitted, or unpitted all the rest can get bent.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Should be the enshittification yacht (Nestle logos NASCAR style). Runs on water.

Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China ( www.abc.net.au )

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....

Hobbes_Dent ,

Can't speak for Australians, but as a Canadian who expects that the same could happen here - why the fuck are our governments so apathetic about this shit?.

Stand up for the people trusting you. Be MAD. Stop doing it if you're also doing it.

First case of highly pathogenic avian influenza transmitted from cow to human confirmed ( www.sciencedaily.com )

In March a farm worker who reported no contact with sick or dead birds, but who was in contact with dairy cattle, began showing symptoms in the eye and samples were collected by the regional health department to test for potential influenza A. Experts have now confirmed the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza...

Hobbes_Dent ,

"It's a huge thing that the virus has jumped from birds to mammals, dairy cows in this case, and then to humans," Presley said.

I just don’t get why transmission to humans is considered a question. Transmissions to mammals is happening. We are mammals. We aren’t special. We need to stop acting like we’re something different so leopards don’t eat our stupid faces.

I don’t question that the quoted person knows what they are talking about, but that quote perpetuates the idea that H5N1 is a long shot when we already have people playing freedom about milk.

Hobbes_Dent ,

Of course it’s a big deal. But H5N1 has transmitted already between multiple mammals (https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/mammals , but you already know that stuff I think).

The phrasing in the quote, in my opinion, gives countless people the wrong idea of human uniqueness in this situation.

I Just Don’t See Trans Women As Women

I just can’t wrap my head around it. They want to be called and seen woman, but they have to get bottom surgery. Take hormone pills, all these excessive stuff to be a woman. They don’t have menstrual cycles nor can they carry a child. Why can’t they just be happy being a male and just wear feminine clothes? Like a femboy...

Hobbes_Dent ,

Why do people think that bodies are immutable and descriptive of who you are but brains and identity can be changed by thought?

Just like telling people with mental health issues to get over it and stop.

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