“The future ain’t what it used to be.”

-Yogi Berra

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • okay he can have the punisher for a phone background.

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    I mean its practically a punisher origin story. they are the one “good” cop on the force, and maybe not, maybe not perfectly so. misplaced sensibilities, class identity, etc. build them flawed. then its Uvalde. but this time its not some black or brown kid suffering as a consequence of the system you help prop up. its your wife and child, the actually good person in society, and a doe-eyed innocent child. and the cops around you, they won’t let you save her. they wont let you redeem yourself. they prevent you from being even the pretend hero society projects onto you. The shots are ringing out and you can hear their screams, and the system has you anchored to the ground to protect itself.

    the phone screen background isn’t who they are, its who they will become.
















  • Against. 20 years ago I would have been for.

    Highly centralized systems have always gone against my basically anarchist, emergent, bottom up approach I try to take to all things. At the same time, by the numbers, nuclear just makes more sense for the climate.

    Solar or wind or hydro with battery, especially with the more modern batteries, fits both my general philosophy and the overall approach for the climate far better. It requires less technical skill (anyone here could install basic solar plus battery), its more modular, it allows for emergent systems; everything about it makes more sense.

    If you believe we should make decisions collectively at the scale of a society, we shouldnt spend any money building nuclear at this point. And if you don’t believe we should make decisions collectively at the scale of a society, you probably already didn’t agree with the philosophy required to support nuclear.




  • They the reason the had injected all the additional regex to scrape for alts was because THEY were in the business of gaslighting the rest of us with alts…

    But so we don’t end up on witch hunts, all the histogram says is that they are likely in a similar time zone and on a similar schedule.

    Edit: on further inspection the first user seems to peak at about 16:00, whereas the second user has their peak usage at ~14:00, which, obviously, means they’re both dumping grumpies at around that time. Its very unlikely they are capable of dumping grumpies twice in a row, unless they’re on a medicinal amount of fiber.