Notices by klausfiend (klausfiend@dcerberus.com)

@baishen @rainynight65 @mekkaokereke From what I've read, goats are a great fire risk reduction strategy.

@molly0xfff The phrase "identify and target" should chill any reasonable person to the marrow.

@jwz there's the usual risk of on-disk corruption; more files offer the possibility of recoverability if the packing algorithm supports it.

@mekkaokereke Minor quibble: it's "post-punk Brit pop".

@mekkaokereke These things are a game changer. We're talking crepe batter fully mixed in 15 minutes or less with no manual labour. It's the only tool I need to make lemon bars that would blow your mind. There are attachments that make grinding sausage or rolling pasta a snap. We made almost 200 tamales with one this week and it didn't miss a beat. It's a callback to quality American industrial engineering (even though they probably haven't been made stateside in decades).

@mekkaokereke I do not recognize this phrase "leftover pie", what is "leftover pie"?

@mekkaokereke @bumblebeedc The wild thing is that the US is the global leader in both total number of people incarcerated AND highest per capita rate of incarceration. Number one, baby! USA! USA!

The fact that both electoral politics and private industry rely on keeping these numbers high is I'm sure just a coincidence.

@Alon @mekkaokereke @14mission Hyperloop has other major flaws, like that pressure differentials have (I think) a quadratic relationship to diameter (which is also why pneumatic systems in buildings don't go bigger than ~2" tubes), or how to evacuate a massive closed tunnel quickly in case of fire.

But Musk also tipped his hand early by making it clear that Hyperloop's whole purpose was to soak up revenue California had set aside for high-speed rail (which we're now building 10 years too late).

@mwl @mekkaokereke "Going abroad" is the easiest way to get an American to exercise.

Our first day in CDMX we walked 12 miles, but there was so much cool stuff to see we barely noticed (also, cerveza and carne asada).

@lauren In fairness to hundreds of thousands of folks ... Mastodon is not an easy transition. There are lots of folks here who are incredibly hostile to the insufficiently nerdy, and there is too much gatekeeping in the Fediverse.

@mekkaokereke It's too bad there aren't prizes for "Most Clued Out", because it's one of the few things Jesse would actually win on merit.

@mekkaokereke With all respect due, sometimes I really fucking hate it when you're right. 🙂

@Habigelo @mekkaokereke I've voted in both countries and honestly, voting in Canada is a breeze by comparison. My California ballot this year was six pages, both sides, and the downballot stuff was equally as important (like repudiating Prop 36). The rest of the ballot is generally subject to the most voter apathy.

@marc_w @MaierAmsden @justafrog @mekkaokereke Here's to John Brown, the guy who made slavery dangerous to slavers.

@kenwhite.bsky.social All of these Trumpist edgelords fancy themselves to be Lord Humungous when the social order breaks down but in reality they're the unnamed extras Mad Max watches get savaged from the bluff.

@mez @mekkaokereke We're also not gonna pretend that the Super Bowl is for anyone who doesn't live in the USA either ... right?

@inthehands This is of course why autocrats go after artists almost immediately after they've finished punishing the first tranche of their political adversaries.

@inthehands @jonobie @mdm @karabaic @mekkaokereke CA transitioned to fully supporting absentee balloting during the pandemic. It's fantastic. But if I've learned anything as a US voter, it's this: if your state is indifferent or hostile to mail-in voting, the reason is almost certainly "racism".

@dascandy @inthehands @jonobie @mdm @karabaic @mekkaokereke wait, what's the deal with butter pecan ice cream?!

@Jackiemauro @mekkaokereke Some of that is also structural. The American political system does not reward movements with broad support as readily as it does small but welll-focused hyper-partisan ones.