Notices by Professor Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)

The pilots should have said "no."

My dad was a Navy pilot. A no-foolin', honest-to-God test pilot, even. He told me once that the mark of the true professional is that, when told to do something that isn't safe enough, a pilot says "no."

These guys should have been professionals like my dad.

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-blue-angels-military-flyovers-safety-c2601ce50f433996c919464f1de7985c

This puts Vance in a vice, doesn't it? Someone is sure to ask him if he, as president upon Trump's death, would issue the order to retaliate. If he does, he's committing himself to further aggression in a war he opposed (and putting a target on his own back today). If not, he pisses off Trump and the MAGA base he needs.

Feel the squeeze, JD?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-threats-dead-mans-switch-vance-9f2fd9085fac9a0d67629ee9424d1fa4

More bad press for Boeing.

https://apnews.com/article/greece-germany-ryanair-passenger-457c424f541152af1becdb387c90cfdd

So now our friends in other nations we don't always get along with so well have direct surveillance of our president.

This kind of thing must be an easy winning point for the next other-party candidate who runs in 2028.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-air-force-one-qatar-5d6997dba287d70749b736067c8a337

So we are giving them $300,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars on condition they terminate the nuclear program Trump said had been obliterated last year until it was the reason for the war he started and is now ending with a promise to pay for terminating it.

Makes perfect sense.

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-war-oil-deal-june-17-2026-19652f4611b704c0a991bf1f5bc9a4b9

@Alice

Tip is 15%. It has always been 15%. During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, a lot of us added more, to help businesses that were suffering. But that is not true today and tip is not 20%, was not 20%, has never been 20%.

Tip is 15%.

@Alice

Or that I am over 50.

The only thing more petulant than putting your name on someone else's memorial is covering their name when you have to take yours off.

@tomstafford

I had to reconstruct the text from memory, but this was the picture and I think the text is pretty close.

Now THIS is a game console.

@steter @mmiasma

Cool! Where do you live? Those time-of-day billing schedules are highly localized here in the USA.

Oh.

My.

God.

@mmiasma

I know. Whole thing has me wanting to install a continuous battery backup system so all they read is me charging that. I can use it like an energy sponge and run my appliances and computers without them seeing any short term current changes.

I mean... FFS, y'know?

@aral

That still looks cool.

Easter candy.

@aral @georgetakei

He'd get volunteers, if he asked.

This has gone on for some time. Do you think a group letter, like, on actual paper with a lot of signatures, would get him to do it? I suspect he's not personally aware this criticism is coming up.

Well, I feel stupid. Went for my 3km run. Middle of the last lap, I tripped over an uneven bit of sidewalk and landed on my chin. It's still bleeding. Some scrapes on my hands, too. Could be worse.

But I sure do feel dumb.

These vicious creeps are trying to suggest that a school is a fair target when it is integrated into a military installation.

If so, they are saying I was a fair target of North Viet Nam in 1967 when I went to school in a building inside the fence at NAS Alameda.

I was nine years old.

I was not a fair target.

Neither were the children Trump just murdered.

https://archive.is/20260311231920/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/11/us-strike-iran-elementary-school-ai-target-list/

It's starting to look as though, where this man's horse walks, grass never grows there again.

Trump's left a wake of bankruptcies, disbarred lawyers, and indicted partners behind him. This guy ruins everything he touches.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-closing-renovations-c6dba4a46e71b0d0e48d46501195366c

@aral

I guessed wrong but, when I cheated, I couldn't get #2 to run.