this made me actually laugh out loud, thank you!

🎶 It’s entropy, it’s not a human issue
Entropy, it’s matter of course
Entropy, energy at all levels
Entropy, from it you can not divorce

And your pathetic moans of suffrage tend to lose all significance 🎶

i love bad religion

dim sum is called dim sum though, you wouldn’t expect to get dim sum except at brunch/lunch time and if someone says they are going to get Chinese food it’d be a surprise to get dim sum. Even traditional Chinese restaurants that cater to Chinese people serve Americanized Chinese food. In the Seattle Chinatown there’s restaurants that have Chinese only menus that don’t have any of the same stuff as the English menu. I’ve been to them with Chinese speakers and it’s a totally different experience then going there with just my wife.

my original point is that “Chinese food” to most of the western world is the stuff that American Chinese immigrants invented. Real Chinese food isn’t called Chinese food because China is massive and they have so many food cultures that those cultures are what that style of food is called

Chinese food as we know, everywhere except China, is a purely American invention. It’s history is really interesting, especially how the restaurant owners of the 80s convinced everyone MSG was poison.

and turkey, they domesticated the turkey we eat…

the burnout is real, I oftened contemplate pushing a broom and cleaning toilets.

you should get your windshield fixed 😋

it’s a life changing event getting blacklisted from something like your career goal. I found a more rewarding career path but it still hurts that I was trying to make Microsoft a better company and I was outed for trying to argue that Linux wasn’t going away and Microsoft had to recognize it’s strengths

I worked at Microsoft in the early 2000 era. before Xbox. I did the top level os consumer support stuff. not for corporate but for the general public that uses the os support channel. one day I was in a discussion group and we talked about what you think about the future kinda thing. it was supposed to be a relaxed discussion but once I brought up Linux and older hardware, I felt the temperature changed. it was later explained that I was black listed for my argument because it expressed that flaws in Windows and the potential of Linux. Years later I joked with a friend who still had an MS job, that putting the Linux subsystem in Windows was admitting I was right back then… this new Xbox coming out in competition to the steam system just makes me feel so justified. Microsoft will always be a second best because they can’t break the internal mindset that they are the top

that’s hoarfrost, friend! Snowberries are like these

for sure! it can be garbage when overdosed but auto tune isn’t without its uses.

Discworld is my new obsession

Small Gods is so fucking good, I can’t express how amazing in so many ways that book spoke to me. It’s more biblical than anything else I have ever read

I’d forgotten about him and his wife… might be time to read that series again. It’s my all time favorite. I can’t even tell you how many times i have read it or listened or watched! It’s a story that came into my life at just the right time and I can honestly say it was a singular in helping me survive my childhood

one of my coworkers uses AI to generate his music from the lyrics he writes

it’s shit, i fucking hate it. it’s like auto tune but so much worse. I told him I’d give it a listen if he’s actually performing something and auto tuned it… hasn’t happened

well, they tried to warn humans but alas they were only able to make out

So long, and thanks for all the fish

so I’m currently playing Foundation, I played Civilization a bunch and Civ2 a bit but mostly avoided that kind of game in favor of 3rd Person Shooters and like.

I will give your demo a go soon

the pattern is pretty wonky, your slicer isn’t doing you any favors. try a different top and bottom pattern if the other suggestions don’t do anything

it’s not being adhesive, trying a 5+ degrees might help. try setting drawing the outside parameters first.

what is 4X strategy?

in other words, good times