Last time I got pretty deep in, but it became impossible when the chess notation rule required Cs and Ds, making it impossible to stay below the roman numberal sum limit.

Was that the first one that had M Bison as a playable character?

Yeah. I’ve noticed the new generation coming into the workplace can’t do shit on a computer.

They’ve grown up on apps that have simple interfaces and limited options. Give them the freedom and power of a workstation and you’ll find they never learned to learn real software.

He shot a Republican donor lawyer.

It was the second time a sitting Vice President shot an attorney.

RFK just won an ruling that kept absentee ballots from getting sent out in North Carolina because his name is on the ballots, so now the voting can’t start until the courts get everything worked out and all the ballots get reprinted if he wins the appeal.

People are literally being kept from voting right now because of him, and that benefits Trump.

If he wants to flee the country I’ll buy him a 1-way ticket right now.

To help fight bot disinformation, I think there needs to be an international treaty that requires all AI models/bots to disclose themselves as AI when prompted using a set keyphrase in every language, and that API access to the model be contingent on paying regain tests of the phrase (to keep bad actors from simply filtering out that phrase in their requests to the API).

It wouldn’t stop the nation-state level bad actors, but it would help prevent people without access to their own private LLMs from being able to use them as effectively for disinformation.

I wish I could remember the name of an extension I had on my old computer.

It hid all ads, but also clicked them all in the background. It accomplished 4 goals:

1. I didn’t see the ads
2. The websites I visited made more money through the clicks
3. It cost the advertisers money
4. It made the cost/benefit worse for advertisers since they were paying for clicks without anyone being influenced by the ads

People don’t see to understand what happened here.

The Open Library was a great tool designed specifically to let anyone access books without violating copyright. It was an elegant solution that allowed ohysical books that weren’t being used to be checked out digitally, and digital licenses to be loaned out from partner libraries, but kept track of the licenses so that it kept the 1:book/person limit.

During Covid, they intentionally disabled the systems that prevented multiple concurrent copies of a single license being used, and the publishers went along with it because national emergency, and because physical libraries were closed, so there were millions of unused books that were unavailable.

After the lockdown ended, the publishers asked the Internet Archive to return to the old system, and they refused to do it until they were sued.

They intentionally disabled the protections that kept everything legal, and when asked to stop doing illegal shit they refused. It’s absolutely their own fault.

School Massacre are nothing new in the US.

The deadliest school-killing in American history was in 1927, killing 38 children and 6 adults and wounded about 60 more. The killer was the school board treasurer and had spent the previous few months buying and stealing dynamite around his farm and the school as well as his truck.

The difference since Columbine is the celebration of mass shootings. The media makes celebrities out of the killers and make graphics breaking down the planning, supplies, tactics, and more. They’re essentially helping the next maniac plan a “better” killing.

There’s no requirement for a federal judge to be a licensed attorney. She could be disbarred and keep her position.

It’s not suppression of speech. It’s the consequence of refusal to even acknowledge the legitimacy of the Courts by refusing to appoint council.

Because cruise ships are the only thing not on the mainland. Certainly no cargo ships, research vessels, island nations, or anything else.

“You commie liberals better keep your government hands off my Medicare!”

The trans community and it’s supporters know they’re being attacked by the right and needs to vote Dem, so they’ve got that locked in. What political advantage is there in making it a campaign issue for the Dems when the GOP has done all the work already?

I had an Italian greyhound who was by far the smartest dog I ever owned.

And she was 100% untrainable. She was a genius, but she was also the most stubborn creature in the planet.

She also loved to cuddle, but only if it was her demanding it of you. If you saw her coming to the couch to hop up fornsxritches and invited her up, she’d walk away because she was NOT going to obey.

France and Spain banned short-haul flights of all kinds. I’m all for that.

It’s low-hanging fruit.

We can cut nearly a percent from asking 1:1,000 people not to use their private jets.

In 4 hours a private jet introduces as much CO2 as the average person does from all sources in a year.

By banning private air travel we can reduce carbon emissions dramatically with virtually no social cost.

It’s worked for him so far.

Fuck that.

Let’s look at minimum wage at the time he was imprisoned: $3.35/hour. Make that his wage the entire time he was in prison. After the first 40 hours a week he’d get OT, so it comes out to about $3,300/month. Since he wasn’t able to spend that money, let’s put a monthly payment into the market, with an average return of 7%…

That would put him at $6,587,619.39 at the end of 37 years if we value his freedom at the 1987 minimum wage.

That should be the opening bid from he state.