System Tray Icon?!? What is this sourcery?

Sounds so futuristic. I mean I may be stuck in the 70s reading my electronic mail in pine on a pdp11, so that may influence my judgment.

No, you’re thinking of Mercedes, this is BMW so you have to buy the ‘fuck you’ subscription, just a monthly 15€, to get that amount of response from them.

That subscription is only available for customers who have bought the “car seat heat ON”, “car seat heat OFF”, “AC direction control with an optional AC temperature control upgrade”, AND the “rear mirror defrost” subscriptions … as well as having less than 20000km on the odometer, past 20k km the subscription is 20€ and requires the “advanced oil leak detection system” subscription (it’s just a light on the dash to remind you to casually look where you parked for oil spots)

Fuck BMW, let me have an Opel Kadett instead

Disclaimer: I haven’t read the article, my rant is entirely based on the title.

[a] Fork That Promises Better Features

Have they released anything yet? Or are we at the project stage, where they’re yelling at their CLI confused about git?

Promises are cheap, releases matter. I mean I could announce a project called Betterfox, promising to bring better features to a well-known browser. But in reality I’m by myself, overly ambitious, and going to leave the github page abandoned after the initial commit.

Classic DIY landlord story. Had a coworker who bought an all but derelict house, which he split into “apartments” and did all maintenance himself. For him, tenant turnover was pure profit - he’d grab the cheapest paint from the supermarket, slap it on everything (outlets included), give the floors a quick once-over, and pocket the full security deposit. Three months’ rent for a Saturday’s “work.”

His favorite scam? Convincing tenants to pay deposits in cash because it would be “easier to return” from his safe. Several times a year he’d pocket thousands in untaxed cash since there was “no paper trail.” Tenant turnover was his real income stream - much better than dealing with those pesky long-term renters always complaining about moldy walls, leaky faucets and unplowed snow.

Last I heard, he was trying to unload the place on Facebook Marketplace. Don’t know why, maybe the IRS (or tax daddy, as it’s colloquially known in Danish) got wind of his cash flow.

He should have gone to the Anne Frank museum

Wait, those games came on CD? I thought they came as ISOs with a nocd_patch.exe

There’s plenty of other things about Seagal to make fun of. Tom Segura has a whole bit about it.

*eat chili

Lesson I learned the hard way: if any study comes around on your satisfaction, don’t answer it. If management comes asking why you haven’t answered the study, apologize, you’ve been swamped, you’ll get get right on it, and you lie your ass off.

Nah, while all consumer oriented ink jet printer business models are scummy, they haven’t caused death, misery, and financial ruin. Put the CEOs on your list if you must, but I think we have bigger fish to fry.

Here’s a thought: instead of doubling the aid, let’s triple it.

No. He was not a “mass shooter”. Mass shooters shoot innocent civilians en masse. This guy was an assassin. One target, one goal.

While I obviously agree that it can’t be described accurately as a mass shooting, I still wonder:

Do the victims need to be innocent for it to be a mass shooting?

From a philosophical POV there’s a issue of defining what an innocent person is (I mean some Christian societies will say that nobody’s innocent). Is innocence to be judged through the eyes of the shooter or society?

Anyway, that wasn’t the point I set out to make, so let’s set that aside.

Suppose one was to go to a convention of child molesters, war criminals, and nazi death camp guards, and you start shooting indiscriminately. I hope we can agree that members of the categories listed should be classified as “not innocents” by any contemporary standard. Even if only people guilty of the previously mentioned things got hit, wouldn’t it still be a mass shooting once a certain number had been shot?

Well, if you stab some potatoes, circumcise a cauliflower, and proceed to nunchuck a bag of flour … Then it might just have been a grocery list and now you’re not allowed in the store anymore

I bet in 3 years they’ll require an AI accelerator.

You’re right, better get out now!

Way to make me feel old, I don’t know any of those games.

Where’s my late 90s early 2000s gamers at?

I’m going to nominate:

• Fallout (1997) for plot twists and introducing (to me at least) open world role playing.
• Fallout 2 (1998) for further plot twists
• Max Payne (2001) for stealing bullet time from the matrix and putting it in a game
• Mafia (2002) for being a kick ass game that would blow your mind, by making 6 hours of your night disappear, and not lifting the lid on that plot twist before you heard the birds start singing, and realize that you should probably hit the shower and get to school.

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic, but your comment is so true it hurts. When you first figure out how minesweeper works, your mind is blown away.

Have you tried sulfuric acid on organic matter? Found some H2SO4 when I was a kid and began pouring it on stuff. Plants and chicken shit were really good for an orange cloud… Don’t stand down wind

Don’t use an acid for mammalian necromass. I hear that NaOH should be a good degreaser…

That or pigs apparently. If you already have the body in parts, don’t put in the freezer for your mom locate. I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.

Actually, you could let the pigs it all, lock, stock, and barrels, and then use a healthy dose of lye (that’s the NaOH from before) to treat the pigs’ shit for any left over solids. I’m not much of a chemist, but I do reckon that you’re left with any identifiable pieces after that ordeal.

Let’s save the world by putting tariffs on magma, making an eruption economically infeasible.

[…] the percentage of trans people in the US between 1999 and now would’ve been on an upward trajectory […]

A larger fraction of the population in most western countries are certainly openly trans now, than were in 1999. But I don’t know about all trans people, I think the fraction has stayed the same, but coming out has become easier (I’m not saying that it’s easy, I’m saying that I believe that it’s easier than in 1999)

But let’s assume that you’re right, and fewer people used to be trans compared to the population size. That would mean fewer expected school shootings by trans people. Which could explain how the expected interval in my calculations is 2-7 shooters while we’ve only seen one. Once again confirming that trans people are just people.