I doubt I’m the first one to think of this, but for some reason as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking about the horrible AI “pop” music that a lot of content farms use in their videos and my brain spat out the phrase Bubblegum Slop. Feel free to use it as you ses fit (or don’t, I ain’t your dad).

Are you not counting “Revolution 9” as a “song”? Understandable.

I cannot post the picture for obvious reasons, but the CEO of [Company My Friend Works For] has a fancy pair of AI sunglasses he keeps wearing to Teams meetings. Friend got a screenshot of it and the guy looks like, as they say in France, “a total fucking douchebag.”

You’re probably right

(“mad dental science”: Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)

Reinforcing my belief that you can find someone who holds any opinion it’s possible to hold, no matter how dumb it is

Honest to God, I thought a “Librephone” was something that already existed. I think I was thinking of the PinePhone or smth.

My late cat (the one in my pic) REALLY wanted my grocery-store sushi one time, but I didn’t give her any, so she decided to lick a big ol’ glob of the wasabi.

She didn’t like it.

I believe that guideline is only for perishable food like cooked foods, meat, etc. For shelf-stable things like bread and most fruits/veggies, it’s basically “do they look OK?”

Omnivore, southeast USA.

When I worked in food service, I was taught that it takes four hours at room temperature for bacteria to reach dangerous levels in food, so that’s what I go with. I assume there’s other factors at play, but four hours is easy to remember and apply and I don’t like to take chances with that stuff.

…well, I was gonna say porn but I actually like your idea better.

I block pretty freely, on all social media. Being both trans and religious means that people on any part of the political spectrum might think I’m subhuman, and I don’t see the point of engaging when that’s the case.

Them’s pants

Phone in right front, keys in left front, wallet in back right. If there’s only two pockets, keys and wallet go together in left pocket. If I have a bag I might toss my keys in it but I probably won’t. If I’m wearing a jacket or coat then the keys and phone will probably end up in the left and right pockets, respectively, but I will still reflexively try to find them in my pants pockets and then go “oh wait, right.”

Free blocklist in the comments!

There’s a promising treatment for Huntington’s disease in the works, and we might have vaccines for allergies and/or asthma at some point!

Yarvin doesn’t think Trump has the guts to pull off a full fascist nightmare.

It physically pains me to say this, but I think Yarvin is correct here. What IS getting done is bad enough, but he’s right that you can’t really half-ass a hostile takeover, which is what Trump et al seem to be doing. Yes, they’re fucking the US systems up, badly, but they’re leaving the structures too intact. They’re still bothering with things like court cases and gerrymandering. You don’t bother with gerrymandering if you’re not planning on still having elections, yknow?

I also think Yarvin is correct that Trump and crew will ultimately fail because of it. That’s probably cold comfort to the people who have already lost loved ones, or who are dying or going to die because of this administration (and as a trans person myself, I may well be among that number), but it’s not nothing.

Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

Gaia Online still exists??

I use SpiralLinux (basically Debian with some tweaks). I like it a lot! If you want to stay in the Debian/*buntu lineage, consider it.

So basically, trying to figure out whether someone is actually being altruistic is just the poisoned chalice bit from The Princess Bride, forever