rob_t_firefly

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[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In 2024 Texas' general results in the Presidential election were:

  • Donald Trump - 6,393,597 - 56.2%
  • Kamala Harris - 4,835,250 - 42.5%

Kerr County, the place this article is about, swung proportionally harder:

  • Donald Trump - 21,615 - 76.8%
  • Kamala Harris - 6,315 - 22.4%

Source

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Right now I'm really hooked on Lucky Tower Ultimate. I've never been this into anything like it before, roguelites mostly bore me, but this game has such a goofy charm and - for an Early Access game - surprisingly deep explorability. It's my go-to game for picking up my Steam Deck and screwing around for 20 minutes or an hour. I'm still having a ton of fun with it.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”

Groucho Marx

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you've just invented Bitcoin.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I'm sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.

One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

The question is about the worst food you've ever eaten. Are you Steve?

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Excellent point!

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail's account recovery process.)

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He has friends?

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

My version of this would have the smiley face in every square.

It's good to be alive!

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The full post by linked source Taylor Lorenz about this appears here on her Patreon (openly readable, not locked as of now).

She still writes on Substack, though, which ultimately works in support of This Sort of Thing.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Lemmy's federated structure makes it easy to block the instances which don't moderate the nazis or tankies or anything else away to your satisfaction, while Substack is a centralized platform which has chosen to not only allow, but actively encourage and reward its nazis.

So, any such problem on Lemmy is "better" because we can all (as individual users, and/or collectively as instances) deal with it as we like instead of bowing to Substack's decision to be a nazi bar for all its users.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
 

Want to get away with murder? Hit them with a car. You might get away with claiming it was an accident, but, even if convicted, the sentence will be a fraction of that you'd get if you used ANY other weapon.

Source: anon_opin@Mastodon.social

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

By Nigel Auchterlounie. source link

 

Me to a bookstore clerk: There's this book I'm looking for about "Star Trek: Enterprise."

Clerk: ISBN?

Me: A LONG ROOOAD getting from there to here...

 

Excerpt:

I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.

 
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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 

Because at that moment, there will be 20 2024 hours to go.

 

Photo of a US passport and a passport cover custom-printed with the cover art from the original US edition of the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Said art features a hand giving the universal thumb gesture for hitching a ride while a green planet makes a silly face against a backdrop of space. (Douglas Adams and many fans dislike this version of the cover, but it was on the first copy of the story I had as a kid and I'll always have great fondness for it.) The passport in its Hitchhiker's Guide cover.

I got a new passport and learned you can get any image you want printed onto a passport holder, and this had to happen.

I briefly considered making some original cover art based on how the Guide itself is described in the story, but I then thought about all the reasons not to pull out something that says "DON'T PANIC" in large, friendly letters in view of some jittery border guard who may not get the literary reference.

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