@ashwin @inthehands I have worked at a place — a household name even — where “grandfather the data” meant to “reprocess all the old data”, which is the *exact opposite* of what “grandfathering” something means

Call me suspicious, but all of you that are donating to Harris, know if you’re *actually* donating to the campaign, or just some weird PAC?

I can’t even find an official website right now, you all are just throwing money at any damn link that pops up on your feed.

@HistoPol @porkroll @luckytran so if the students hold a prayer, they magically become legitimate in your eyes?

Lick spittle

@darnell What does “illegally transcribed” mean? By that logic, I was breaking the law by repeatedly listening to songs and writing down the lyrics, or when I wrote down quotes from The Simpsons.

This is not how the law works, nor should it work.

@annika I bought a new printer because it was cheaper than buying its ink

@mcc @foone There definitely seems to be a large population of people that can’t conceive of an internet that isn’t one gigantic walled garden. Thus finding mastodon/activitypub confusing and intimidating.[*]

Mix in the mastodon old guard being quite insular, and frankly wrongheaded about a lot of things. It’s not really much of a surprise.

I like decentralization a lot, but man. The amount of Drama™ the masto community insists on is making me get a repetitive stress injury in my eyes from rolling them so much.

[*] I stand by the idea instances actually don’t matter beyond the ability to peace out and move when whatever instance admin gets drunk with power. Old masto folks putting an emphasis on choosing an instance adds needless anxiety.

@emilygorcenski Springsteen has no business hitting me in the feelz with a goddamn ode to a fucking football stadium.

@ct_bergstrom yeah, this is 100% an tax cut “ranch”

@schlojj @ct_bergstrom property taxes are reduced for agricultural use. It’s very common for the ultrawealthy to just buy a token amount of livestock and then call their palatial estates “ranches” or “farms” and get a big tax cut.

At no point are they viable agribusinesses.

@DotMaetrix

@annika After decades of typing my name, and getting it autocorrected into “Korea”, it feels good to see someone get Korea autocorrected into “Koren”.

@inthehands @trochee I love how The Verge described the company as being in “freefall”. Bro. It’s been *hours* wtf?

Someone was snickering about "pregnant person", and I as like. Dude. We use inclusive language all the time in math. There's literally an infinite number of positive numbers, and yet we still use "non-negatives", because we specifically want to include zero. It's the same fucking thing.

Watch to the end.😘👌

Attention people making VHS filters!

Stop putting image warps and lines of static through the image! No one watched tapes like that. We adjusted the tracking. The only way it looked that bad was if you popped the tape open and licked it.

You want a real distortion? Chromashift everything towards orange and blur it. I watched A LOT of videos like that, because I was cheap, and recorded everything in SLP.