Ohhhh that makes sense. I mean, I hate it but it makes sense.

I worked in the airline industry for years and learned a GUI overlay for one system and another entirely green screen system called SHARES (see if you can guess the airline). Honestly I kind of enjoyed working with those systems; there’s some refreshing “back to basics” feeling kind of like driving a manual transmission.

In my current job I’ve been using another legacy system. Well, my job was to create a relatively modern service for the legacy system to call, but none of the remaining developers knew how to use the extensions of that system that does SOAP calls. So I had to learn just enough of that legacy system to hold their hands through the parts that call my service. Kind of fun, to be honest!

At 6 years old, you hardly understand how the world works. People generally realize that and act accordingly.

If anyone is getting divorced from something a 6-year-old did, either your parents don’t understand that (not your fault) or there was something much bigger going on already (not your fault) and whatever you did was the straw that broke the camel’s back (still not your fault, given the grace needed with a SIX-YEAR-OLD!)

If someone else said to you what you were saying to us, would you agree that “yeah, you must have been ‘born bad’* - that sucks”? And hold them to that same standard? Probably not. Don’t do it to yourself

* that’s not a thing, by the way

Huh?

At first I thought it was Instacart with fewer things available. After reading the press release “news article” it looks like it’s a way for people to buy things (no doubt at inflated gig economy app prices) for a party they aren’t necessarily hosting. Basically chipping in however many dollars but with a thing “attached” to it.

Yeah, if I’m hosting a party I’m not making people use that.

I’m not Canadian, but I’ve previously known that in the US you only have to live in the same state as the district you’re representing. An argument in favor of that concept (that I admittedly just made up) is that congressional boundaries get rewritten every decade. In theory, this could be used to push a rep out of Congress if someone really wanted to, if they were required to live in district. State boundaries are much more stable so this is pretty good immunity to that.

Basic geography could go a long ways, if people believe you. At this point people were exploring the world trying to find the spice Islands, but didn’t know WTF they were doing. Magellan navigating the strait that would be named after him was impressive at its time, but now we know the best way from Europe to Asia (and spices and stuff) by sea without any modern canals is by going around Africa. Like, it still sucks and it’s a long trip but it’s doable compared to going to damn near Antarctica.

This assumes I don’t die, can communicate, and am not in the then-unpopulated (and quite landlocked) current location of Denver, Colorado.

Edit: bonus fact: if a sailor managed to smuggle a knapsack full of cloves back, it was worth about as much a house

Totally with you there (probably a big selection bias on Lemmy, of course). Especially the draft. It’s… Announcements of people getting job offers. Yay?

That said, look up some of Jon Bois’s videos on YouTube if you have some time. I only learned about him because he’s a delight on Bluesky, and he has a kind of interesting/entertaining way to tell stories about sports. At least, the couple videos I just started watching have been!

That said, it may not be the best for current events.

The original is blocked in the US, but I found this and it seems to work: https://youtu.be/tDYjZ36IGfE

Definitely a pretty good representation! You know, as good as you can get when your instrument is grooved asphalt and rubber

It’s a different song that I don’t recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it’s trying to be, if that makes sense

Congratulations. You did a great job ignoring the rest of what I had to say.

If he were capable of embarrassment that might do it, but apparently that’s not happening here

And tying it to the Bluesky system? Not sure the cost of that (I swear I saw it was a potential monetization they were looking into) but also the time to figure it out isn’t practical for everyone.

Because the headline is kinda shit: they’re no longer doing international shipments direct to consumer worth more than $1000, because US customs is making things so screwy.

Must be 4/20 somewhere…

That’s great for an organization like NPR which may have the resources to tie its own domain name into Bluesky. For some freelance reporter or otherwise verifiable person, I’m not sure it’s quite so practical.

If they are, and there isn’t anything to display it, how are we to know what’s been vetted and what’s slipped through the cracks? Especially on a new account?

In my broken mind, it has been for years!

Sometimes I think about changing out my 13-year-old 1080p TV for something with 4k. Then I see crap like this and hope it never dies.

And better Call Saul. Mostly because they’re so short it’s over by the time you find the remote.