I think also bans “coal-rolling” … If that wasn’t already illegal.

grossly overvalued

Just grossly? lol

• Dancing.
• Tattoos.
• Foreskins.
• Shrimp buffets.
• …

I’m guessing this is a “leopards ate my face” situation for a lot of people.

I don’t even know what the FAA counterpart for maritime is.

Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

Probably all crisis actors. /s

Maybe this more of a misheard lyrics thing, but for a long time I thought “noxious gas” had to do with nitrogen oxides (NOx), and then spread to other metaphorical applications like “noxious weeds” and so on.

Found Ismo’s fediverse account.

https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU?si=TC4rJJ7HqJMdPwsz

Just don’t make it weird.

I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent “normal” people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn’t it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?

It’s been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney’s mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?

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An EV engineer friend of mine said that this is specifically the Hertz Teslas because Tesla parts are expensive and sometimes hard to get. So when a Tesla breaks, they sell it rather than repair it.

I rented a Bolt EV from Hertz once. The car was fine, but the charging stations in the area were mostly broken, or they required downloading an app and giving personal information to charge.

I got the feeling the charging networks are all about collecting government incentives and the sale of private information from subscribers, and not at all about service.

My new preferred rental car is no rental car at all.

Ohm my god, right‽

What does “connected experiences” mean?

This guy got some footage of some people saving a lifeguard (about 1:36)

https://youtu.be/uj7vo3DIczA?si=lTeoJU2XKkvlFrx5

You think the culture wars over pronouns have been bad, wait until the machines start a war over prepositions!

I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to “drive engagement” that I don’t think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.

Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I’ve had on profit-driven social media sites.