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I think we live in very different media environments. I have no idea what Kill Tony is, have always thought SNL and most late night was dull, and have a steady stream of good stand-up comedians who aren't any sort of ist or phobic in my timelines.

And I have no idea when

>> "Unapologetically promiscuous leading men, women on screen purely as sex props and not in some two bit low production value shoot em up. I mean high art like countless examples in the recent past."

would have been the norm. Even the worst of the Hays Code era had plenty of strong leading women. Before that, tons of lecherous women, queer women, etc.

You could already use Node through M4L. I'm not clear on what this adds that wasn't already possible.

I can only match your level of specificity. What do you mean? You gestured vaguely in the direction of something. What do you consider "made for men" that isn't represented now?

That's such a bleak view of men. I think they're more open to variety in their media than you give them credit for.

In 1984, high ranking members of the party could turn off their telescreens for 30 minutes without suspicion.

State, don't insinuate.

Many classic scenes like the P90 demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjlCVW_ouL8

Or Carter's literal first scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi4lt-17OxE

And so on

There's plenty of room for that, all the planned datacenters that will never be finished or started, and enough solar panels to power it in a small fraction of the space used for ethanol corn.

Most corn is not for eating.

C++ is still among the top languages.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular...

I want to see KDE still improving and keeping up in another 30 years. To me it's no different from a telethon for PBS or a poster for Friends of the Library. Intrusive? From a certain point of view, but it pays the bills.

The master of ceremonies is a proper creature: https://floss.social/@kde/116673618808097094

edit: I appreciate the quality of discussion below, so far.

You sure about that?

>> "All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/continuing-anxi...

They're short a few trillion.

Maybe related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322887

That's a purpose of a photo, not the purpose. As an art form, there's a lot more to it, and much of it happens after the shutter closes.

Also on Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-t-barnum/the-art-of-mone...

There are ways: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

AI detectors are notoriously unreliable. They constantly flag stuff I wrote as AI while letting actual AI-generated stuff pass when I've tested them.

We get popup thunderstorms here and those often mean zero visibility conditions even without a flood. It's just part of life in the spring and summer with all that chaotic moisture coming off the Gulf. We might get a few minutes warning. If your robot can't handle that then you're going to have a bad time.

Statutory damages require registration.

Is this something that can be made explainable to someone without any of the relevant background, or is this one of those things where all that background is needed to understand it? Because I have no idea what's going on here, but would like to.

Say OpenAI IPO 5 times fast

It's the old "meet society where it is" vs "push society forward by supporting the thing" debate. His proposed granular approach didn't work for gay rights, and it hasn't for trans rights. It took things like ACT UP's more blunt approach to shift public opinion on gay equality.

The US tends to be conservative, so real change only comes when large numbers of people are forced to rethink their views. The Democratic party taking credit for big changes but never really pushing for them, or actively standing in the way, is one of the main criticisms of the party.

It's unfortunate he used his final days to reiterate his long-standing belief that trans rights, now an issue with 60%+ popular support, is a losing issue. That will always be a "but..." in any conversation about his legacy.

What resource isn't interdependent with at least one other resource?

Finally, directed energy weapons for trans people.

LANDR and Amuse dropped their free options.

They're aware of it.

https://bsky.app/profile/bnewbold.net/post/3miufj3cfhs2i

That's become my answer to all "why not ActivityPub?" questions.

AP isn't completely stagnant but there's a reason AT is still holding on to and accelerating that early developer excitement AP had. Maybe it's marketing, maybe it's money, maybe it's some technical thing. Maybe it's the community. Whatever it is, people seem to enjoy developing in the Atmosphere in a way I never saw on AP.