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  When you can't recognize your family members in-person because they always use AI filters…

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  When an evacuation order is given for an airplane, the overhead bins should all automatically lock themselves to prevent passengers from delaying egress hauling their carry-on luggage with them through emergency exit routes.

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  Autocracy is the boring strongman default with the worst average need satisfaction and resource distribution across a population. Democracy is a rare dissolution of central power that allows those resources to be allocated not to the most sociopathically ambitious but intelligently to address relevant needs since democratically elected leaders are selected not according to nepotism from a microscopic set of loyalists but multidisciplinary competence from across the entire population.

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  I updated my command-line cheat-sheet with include a table of my most frequently used commands. https://reboil.com/mediawiki/Baltakatei%27s_Useful_CLI_Commands#usage Usage info from: `$ history | awk '{ print $3 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -hk1`. Your `awk` expression may vary.

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  Housing is not an investment. If your literal beating heart is not physically within throwing distance of your property at least 10% of the year, you should be taxed up the wazoo. That applies to landlords and mortgage owners as well as deed holders. Your mortgage was sliced up and mixed into some financial derivative? Everything in that mix gets taxed according to the rate of the most physically distant shareholder.

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  Fix your app, #Marriott. Trust the location's time zone, not the user's time zone.

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  @dgar@aus.social *Endless Eight* flashbacks. https://youtu.be/lJxXhTBbJ5Y

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  @petrikas@mastodon.art Then the rich kids say you should just drop out of high school to start a business or to learn a trade; fuzzy education isn't necessary, they say, for making money.

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  @ZachWeinersmith Assassin's Creed kitty?

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  I stand by my comparison between Neal Stephenson and Kim Stanley Robinson. https://sopuli.xyz/comment/20594460

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  @scathach I couldn't find the exact page of the source from the artist's Pixiv, they are so prolific, but I figured I'd post a link for more manga-fied memes of the same style. https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/35601322

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  I wish I could mute everyone whose username ends in numbers.

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  Whenever I see something sponsored by “Jeep”, I mostly imagine #KosekiBijou and #KaelaKovalskia 's #Minecraft sheep. Intellectually, I know some US automobile manufacturer is involved, but… #Jeep! #Hololive #Biboo #GSH

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  Now would be a good time to test working backups *not* at us-east-1.

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  God, I hate the #Apple store, forcing me to maintain an #iPhone just to get a code from to prove my identity when I want to help a friend prepare for #CollegeBoardʼs stupid eugenics-adjacent career-required exams.

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  Children of Strife, third sequel to Children of Time (2015) by Adrian Tchaikovsky, is being released on Tuesday in the US. https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/346728749/children-of-strife/adrian-tchaikovsky/ #bookstodon

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  Landscaping fail.

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  Happy 2069th Anniversary of Stab Your Dictator Day. #idesofmarch #ettubrute #LittleCaesars

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  If you arenʼt going to go full GPLv3 with your LLM, at least use your proprietary control over the technology to deny the military access, not facilitate it. #openai

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  I imagine people during World War 2 would have hesitated to call it that until the US got itself involved. Similarly, I think the current conflict may be known as World War 3 even though China has yet to get directly entangled. #israel #us #iran

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Reminds me of the hoops I have to jump through to get #iso8601 dates in my #Debian apps via the `LC_TIME` environment variable and a bespoke `en_SE` “English - Sweden” custom locale. https://blog.carsoncheng.ca/2021/03/use-iso-8601-dates-in-pcmanfm-on-debian.html . This was the “easiest” solution I found in 2022 after exploring options to get #Firefox, #Thunderbird, and other apps to display YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS style time stamps. In #macOS, I think you just modify `Syste...