I have a popcorn popping machine like what they have in theaters. I was going to sell it because it takes up way too much space and I need the money, but then I tested it out and it is one of my favorite things. When I have cravings, I flood it full of perfectly cooked, salted, and oiled popcorn within minutes, and fill an 8 qt Instant Pot pot because cylinder shapes hold more popcorn than bowl shapes can.

Sometimes the adult thing to do is have popcorn for dinner.

At least The 4400 was nice enough to continue in book form… which apparently also ends in a cliffhanger.

Torvalds had this kind of energy throughout the entire video.

I remember trying a Game Shark on a few games back in high school, and what I found is that it made the games boring really fast.

More recently I tried applying cheats in Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I still didn’t make it past the first level. 😭

Higher taxes on the rich don’t go far enough, because they can just leverage their assets to corrupt democracies and roll everything back.

Corporations need to be banned.

I love some classic Mario Kart 64, but a family member and his friends kind of ruined that one for me. It’s a game that has relatively little content and is best played in small doses to not get sick of it, but they didn’t do that. They went through a whole phase of playing it every day and gaining expert level skills in it. I was not aware of how deep the meta for MK64 is, because the last time I played against them, they were exploiting glitches in virtually every track and leaving everyone else in the dust.

Was always more of a Diddy Kong Racing fan anyway.

I have skepticisms about the accuracy of that claim. Measuring yield isn’t necessarily cut and dry in the first place.

Big picture, conventional agriculture is not sustainable, and moreover, we are always going to continue having these toxic pollutions occur so long as we continue to depend on conventional ag. The only way to stop the poison is to stop taking the poison.

Seeing as the free and open-source software movements have been a very effective, enduring, and successful method of liberating a lot of digital infrastructure, I think it provides a powerful model as an alternative to “seizing” the means of production.

One example already in practice is Open Source Ecology. FOSS industrial machine schematics have to be the basis. But the factory itself needs to be reinvented, from a linear process to a circular and, I think, general purpose one. Like a maker space scaled up enough to provide for the needs of one township.

And part of the reinvention needs to involve using a property trust framework to ensure the physical production property is in common ownership. We need to copyleft the means of production.

Secure from what? Security isn’t a dick measuring contest, it’s a living process and arms race. If someone is trying to tell me, “My stuff is the mostest of the biggest security because, hard!” - what I’m hearing is that their threat modeling is ill-defined, maybe not defined at all, and something misleading is going on. Especially when the lead dev of a platform appears to be screaming and shouting about everyone else with a dubious persecution complex.

So in the drama between the Graphene team vs every other privacy-focused Android dev - who should I trust?

I know prices can be prohibitive, but the more we can buy organic, the better. It’s the only alternative agricultural method that has gained enough commercial traction that, if it ever does become popular enough, has the possibility of making the pesticide-dependent model infeasible as a business model.

Lightsabers are overrated.

Also since no one else suggested it yet, tofu is always a great option for easy protein. And albeit unorthodox in instant noodles, I’ve found beans to be a perfectly fine addition.

Most straightforward path from a health standpoint is switching from refined forms of noodles to whole grain noodles. I’ve never been able to find whole grain pre-formulated instant noodle brands that I like, so I just get plain noodles and flavorings separately.

I want a controller with A-south, B-west, X-east, and Y-north.

Yeah, the original system had logic to it. The square also symbolized menus, and triangle was tertiary.

This.

Yup, functionally the cross is more like an A, and the PlayStation layout is effectively the same as the Xbox one in actual practice.

Which is incorrect in the first place. Circle was supposed to be the accept/enter button originally.

Have you ever looked into the details of their shelters?

If I could photosynthesize and fix my own atmospheric nitrogen, I happily would.