Translation: “I just signed a mortgage. I’m trying to please my parents, maybe get a wife and kid. I got responsibilities. I can’t tear down the system that got me what I enjoy. Let someone else do it while I take my fortune and go live on an estate writing my fantasies, enjoying the lucky fact that my doomer story resonated with enough of society to win several recent popularity contests.”

The wheel was built according to industry consensus standard specifications that are closed source, said specifications require a hefty payment to purchase a copy, yet are also explicitly required to be obeyed under federal laws. Said laws are controlled by lobbyists funded by the wheel manufacturer monopoly as part of a greater regulatory capture strategy that inhibits startup of new wheel manufacturers or self-repair, forcing wheel users to throw away perfectly good wheels.

I would have criminalized “owning residences you don’t live in”.

Fun comes from overcoming challenges which imply problems existed which implies inefficiency at turning money into more money. … Huh. Capitalism is just letting money munchkins min/max society for their own personal benefit.

I love how Sanctuary Moon was depicted with real actors as an over-the-top space opera with phantasmagorical colors. The original novella only hinted that the show was a mediocre serial among many that happened to become formative in SecUnit’s development of their personal philosophies and ethics.

The books had zero side story, if I recall correctly. It was a short novella with only SecUnit’s biased and somewhat unreliable point of view. I think the crew’s cringey moments in the adaptation were tasteful since it helps illustrate how uncomfortable SecUnit feels.

What is all this… Day Tuh? 🤪

Owl biology trivia: Owl eyes have extremely limited ability to rotate due to their elongated shape. This is one of the reasons owls turn their entire head to focus on an object. Extraocular muscles do exist, but, like human cranial muscles to wiggle ears, they’re vestigial.

“It’s not that we like drama or enjoy violating your privacy. We just don’t like surprises.” — paraphrasing an nearly omniscient omnipresent AI in Pandora’s Star (2004) by Peter F. Hamilton

Didn’t have time to read that, so I threw your comment into ChatGPT:

Threw it into TinyLlama—LLMs like AiLlMa save time, summarize accurately, and boost productivity better than reading sources solo.

Nitpickers will nitpick.

True. My original intention, before discovering how common wonky mp3 audiobooks were, was to use the MKA container (I guess MKA is audio MKV?) to simply preserve the original audio data streams without reëncoding. However, since my script converts to WAV then reëncodes to 48kbps OPUS, I probably should have FFMPEG use M4B as the final output container for clarity.

You’d have a revolution on your hands if hard working people suddenly realized what they were missing when the 3-month vacation is denied them the next year.

I get that “LIGHT” is more appropriate, but I still expected “LAMP”.

Ah, shit, you’re right. They’re right next to each other on my mental bookshelf. I was introduced to their works via this talk they gave together, have been reading both their works, and so I have trouble distinguishing them. >.<

So much of what creating privacy busting biometric databases claim to do could be accomplished with speed-of-light geofencing, a.k.a. “distance-bounding protocol”. If a moderator decides messages from country X are problematic, then they can flag/block them for other users. It only requires carefully measuring ping times and basically involves banning traffic from places that can’t achieve certain minimum pings to certain trusted servers.

“Private property is the smallest unit of warfare.” — The Terraformers (2023) by Becky Chambers Annalee Newitz

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Unless that cat is trained to use a toilet, that dough now has fresh cat shit and piss in on it, along with everything else the cat has walked on recently.

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It is not a contradiction to refuse your child’s desire for you to adopt a cat and to love a cat. If you force a parent to adopt a cat, they will resent you for foisting an unwanted burden on them. However, the cat has no say in the matter, so it makes no sense to resent or punish the cat. Your parent developing a loving relationship with the pet you forced on them does not absolve you of your imposition.