Notices by The Duke of Fall :d12: (valthonis@dice.camp)

Every Boomer I heard say "we should just run the government like a business" when I was a teen is getting exactly what they ordered... and they have no inkling that it's exactly what they ordered.

@blogdiva Imagine how much less problematic they'd be if we actually taxed churches so these amoral freaks wouldn't see it as a handy loophole to bootstrap their christo-fascism into society like an Apple product launch.

If more folks actually learned history, we wouldn't spend so much time doing reenactments-as-review.

30 years on, my biggest takeaway from taking an AP US History course in high school in the 1990s is that *way fuckin' more of us* should have taken AP US History in the 1990s because it shows.

To me, the funniest thing about "truck-kun" being the vehicle that sends people off on their isekai adventures is the fact that .jp trucks are so sensibly sized and lower mass than NA trucks that you are *way* more likely to survive an impact where an F-150 would just turn you to salsa.

No one prepared me for the number of times I'd ask myself, as an adult, "do you actually want this, or do you want it just because you can *have* it now and couldn't when you were young?"

Every gold rush makes more poor miners than rich ones.

This is a post about AI.

Since some folks seem to need the point made razor-fine: Making a copy-pasta collage in MS Paint using pictures you found in Google Image Search is more artistic and honest than anything you ask a generative model to construct on your behalf.

Friends, do not visit the United States unless you absolutely must, and even then consider alternatives.

This is not a safe nation.

RE: https://c.im/@BBC/115572827999114987

Tell me the judge is a Meta shareholder without telling me the judge is a Meta shareholder.

For all the Mouse's deep flaws, the mass transit system at Walt Disney World is sterling proof of just how good our cities could be if we stopped worrying about keeping the nice services away from the brown people.

The parks are super walkable, and getting anywhere across the southern part of the property (Epcot/Animal Kingdom/Hollywood Studios) Just Works™ in a way that most municipalities could easily replicate if they didn't have to fight property owners for every cent of taxes.

If corporations are people, then can we all agree that private equity are the folks who go around carving out people's kidneys to sell on the organ black market?

Long form video.

Watch more of it.

Long form writing.

Read more of it.

Stop treating length as pain.

Rebuild your focus.

Learn something that wasn't shoved at you by an algorithm.

Happy Pride to everyone...

except buses. They know what they fuckin' did.

#Pride #pridemonth 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💖

@blogdiva "Someone has to stop him," says the people who wrote the checks that let him buy his way into power.

The almost hostile lack of comprehensive docs for some F/OSS projects is sad and tragic, 'cause it plays a huge rule in otherwise worthwhile projects languishing in obscurity.

Austerity's only purpose is to solidify the primacy of the rich at times when they feel most threatened.

That's it. That's the entire shtick.

Y'all MFers gleefully wheeled the horse inside the walls while patting yourself on the back for spiting everyone who told you it would end badly for Troy.

Apple News seems very convinced that I am a conservative white man over 55 years of age and for some reason obsessed with my muscle mass.

Wrong on all counts. Personalized ads are kinda crap when your categorization is that bad.

Tabletop game conventions are great, but they're always also a disheartening reminder of just how much of a monolithic D&D monoculture there is in our hobby.