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(I may or may not have broken down Ghostbusters' characters and development in college, why do you ask? 🤣)

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All of the 3 original Ghostbusters are *supposed* to be weird. You get an intro to that super fast (Venkman's a creep, Egon tried to drill a hole in his head, Ray let Venkman take out a horrible mortgage and got suckered into buying a rustbucket). Winston's there to stress "these guys are weird"

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That movie had *TWO* cultural touchstones! First is the song (obviously) and the second is popularizing the phrase "X is toast" which mostly *did not exist* prior to Bill Murray ad libbing it.

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I mean, you're literally supposed to hate Venkman at the start of the first two movies. He's an utter creep in the first and a total fraud in the second. And then you slowly get invested in this creep guy becoming not one. note Winston (the everyman) never does anything remotely iffy in either

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But! That's a bull$#!+ number, because generally, the writing part of a person's day is low calorie usage, which means for a typical US diet, they're *carbon negative* for that portion.

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"that's the total energy to keep a human ALIVE" More than alive. It aggregates everything they're doing *including using ChatGPT*. Actual energy cost to keep a human alive is absurdly tiny (order 100W) - so 0.1 kWh, or ~20 grams CO2e.

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I'm constantly astounded at how any adult American can be so ignorant of what *fascism* is!

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what he's neglecting to mention is that fascism is historically successful at stopping __everything__

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me, naively: "creating an embedded Linux distro can't be too hard" me, shortly after: "wtf is a phandle? bbappend? why are you constantly downloading things? where is this reference coming from??"

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my job also involves lots of computer I *do* understand the computer. that guy's *easy* ... it's all the weirdo coder types and their bizarro ideas I don't understand

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I mean if you apply the standard 10x multiplier for Musk in the correct direction, it's still insane but not like, wacko insane

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of course if people don't realize that Musk just makes up numbers constantly left and right, that's an *additional* problem. Dude has never met a deadline or estimate he couldn't just blow right past

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The building on fire (Fort Rapids) is a pretty darn visible building to anyone who drives through central Ohio on I-70 : it's right off the first exit heading west after the 270 split. It's also this huge TikTok thing - if you've seen stuff like "America's Largest Abandoned Waterpark" - that's it.

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Seriously, how doesn't Jeff Oh Kern have a Wiki page. Bought stuff at auction cheap, refused to sell/upkeep them - his asking prices were absurd and was almost impossible to contact. Sentenced to jail time (avoided, I think?) multiple times, has multiple warrants out Whines to court every time

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Hotel at Fort Rapids Waterpark suffers massive fire days after approved sale

The history behind this thing is insane. It closed in 2016 due to code violations. Bought at auction in 2017 by Jeff Kern, Ohio Slumlord Kern refuses to sell stuff despite abandoning them Kern's legal troubles blew up in past few years Declared a public nuisance Suddenly sold Massive fire 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Three days after the sale was approved to turn a former indoor waterpark building into affordable workforce housing, the Columbus Division of Fire responded to a massive fir…

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Patrick Allison @dbarawn.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Achievement unlocked: throwing sparks in the driveway and thinking "miiight want to bring that fire extinguisher closer." Angle grinders are just big-boy Dremels.

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Patrick Allison @dbarawn.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

It mattered that he couldn't lead his party. In the modern US, that's almost all that matters of a President (sigh).

Patrick Allison @dbarawn.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

narrator: they have not, in fact, tried wearing deodorant

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This is literally the only way democracy works!

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And another Saturday with a kid having S-tier anxiety attacks and refusing to accept they're anxiety attacks. Mental health is just utterly crippling, and the stigma that still exists has destroyed so much.

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Yeah. Seriously could be a massive turning point in space exploration, and I was just shocked when I saw NASA funding opportunities open with insane rapid timescales. I was like, holy cow, it's happening. Now I realize it's a pissing contest and I'm ethically unsure about being involved.

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I seriously have no idea why NASA/Artemis politics seem to actually matter to these mega billionaires - I mean, it's friggin chump change - but I'm finding it harder and harder to deny that it isn't driving them.

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The answer to "how it interacts with the code" is usually "in as confusing a way as possible"

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oh god I've spent more of my life explaining async issues to people than I ever wanted to Once you do understand it you tend to be overly paranoid and freak out about everything, but the reverse is so so worse and usually makes people think I'm the problem 😠

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he... he's campaigning with *Trump* and saying that the FDA suppresses *exercise* while standing beside a person who literally thinks ** exercise will kill you **

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My God, RFK, the only person who aggressively suppresses *exercise* is the dude you're supporting for President.

waitwaitwait, I missed *exercise* 🤔🤔🤔🤔

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"hyperbaric therapies" lol, he even included one that the FDA literally supports and has a page on. apparently his only issue is that the FDA has the gall to say it won't give you superpowers or make you live forever

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I may have crossed the line in terms of my snark amount in software/firmware god, corporate coding would kill me

"This is the shittiest garbage I've ever written"

"uh whatever"
"we'll figure this shit out later"

OH MY DEAR GOD SOMEONE EFFED UP AND MISSPELLED THE INVERSE SINC FILTER AND THEY JUST LEFT IT

Anyone who thinks you can preserve modern software within the DMCA is nuts. There are really good efforts to preserve games made before cryptographic lockdowns out there (the Zelda N64 reverse engineering project, f.ex.). Those don't work. You just lose everything with 1201. It's just gone.

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this is not intending to forgive any of those 9/11 decisions, they need to go away, but I don't think things necessarily would have been any different with someone else is what I'm saying This is ludicrously not true with Trump

I actually have a lot of understanding for GWB, who I protested (more protesting the Court). 9/11 was an extreme situation, it's not fair to judge in hindsight. WTF are they reacting to now?? Oh, government imposed all these lockdowns, that made us mad, let's elect a fascist??? How does that work??

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