The Phantom Menace.

Groups of highschool kids flooded into the local computer store to watch the Quicktime .mov load 1 frame at a time over the ISDN line in 1999. And of course the first 20 seconds of the trailer was literally fog, keeping us on the edge of our seats.

Thanks for the pod-recommend. Never heard of this one.

This blackberry cobbler has a light and fluffy cake-like topping instead of the traditional biscuit-style. My fiancé said this blackberry cobbler was the best she’s ever had. Serve warm with heavy or whipped cream.

Something something mankind hell in a cell.

Something something lorem ipsum.

Something.

Is this real life?

There’s a really interesting relationship between people who call for the Epstein files to be released, and those who condemn facism and nazism.

There’s an inferred relationship between people who call for the files to remain sealed, being facists and nazis.

2024 numbers for Brazil’s exports to the USA. https://tradingeconomics.com/brazil/exports/united-states

$2B in coffee

$1.25B in vegetables and fruit

$1B in meat.

40% of $4,250,000,000 is $1,300,000,000

Check your math.

The Beaverton has a weekly talk radio podcast about the news in Ontario.

What does an AI generated image of a chalkboard provide? It provides nothing except to be a “picture of science” for the completely science illiterate.

In fact, The actual purpose of the AI images is to provide content-breakup that can facilitate ad insertion. Confusing content with advertising is part of the goal.

I would like to know the demographics of the people who still watch the Simpsons. They are out there. There are many of them.

Canadians still don’t pay the tarrifs.

You’mean there could be a universe where Tuvix is still alive?

Dozens, Hundreds. It’s impossible to tell.

The East Wing historically was used as an art gallery and offices for the First Lady and her staff.

The Ballroom will likely be used as an art gallery, and offices for the first lady and her staff.

I intentionally installed the Xbox Game Bar a few years ago. After doing so, it associated my Xbox login with my Windows PC, and linked the 2, switching my Windows10 user to my Xbox login.

Hard pass.

My response was to switch to Linux.

Your use of the word “dense” there is a little misleading. At the default view the scale of each satelite pixel looks roughly 20km wide.

I guess we’ll find out when the Big Short 2 comes out.

It actually is a ghost town. There’s so little engagement, and even the upvote-counts seemingly aren’t obfuscated, and are super low.

There’s also already a lot of conservative trolls who will flame for “MUH SPEECH” if you suggest that they’re an annoying conservative. “Hey man, I’m just asking the questions”. In a ghost town, they appear louder.

My theory is that people just don’t want to comment anymore. We all learned our lesson. If we comment, we just feed the AI beast. I’m not offering my insights and opinions so that you can scrape them.

Canada should fast track nuclear armament.

We have the tech, we have zero reason not to.

At this point any other leader would be better

Yo, stop with the monkey paw shit. Check out what happened to Alberta, Canada when they ousted their rightwing nutjob premiere, and he was replaced with a righter wing nuttier nutjob.

It can get worse.

Terrorism is meant to strike terror into the hearts of civilians.

I don’t think crashing a car into an FBI building is putting any fear into the average citizen. And I belive Governments are SUPPOSED to be afraid of their population.

Feb 29, 1980

While this is true, it’s funny to watch them wrestle with the exact same problems right now. Literally on the front page of new Digg right now is converstions about fragmenting the user-base with blocks/bans, and how to establish friend groups.