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Oh hey code is law so nothing to see here.

I’d like to see more non-plastic toothbrushes, personally!

I’m curious, what kind of battery circuitry has a cellular radio in it?

If this really is lossless, it is incredible. I’m skeptical until I see it in action though.

Yeah.

I don’t understand. Why would he leave the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism?

I’m not sure patriotism is the right word, but nationalism in an autocracy? For sure.

Snitches get stitches.

Prioritizing-profits-over-people style unfettered capitalism is a system that is highly favourable to psychopaths, narcissists, and those of that ilk.

Shout out to LINE, which embeds its own browser and opens links from messages in it. Fuck you.

For what I assume is an old movie, that outfit has held up amazingly well.

The solution is applying vaseline to your eyes. This will result in a kind of physical screen space blur, thus eliminating the artifacts.

(Edit: please don’t do this.)

Really like Chopin’s nocturnes.

So what does it mean in the context of Japan, where employees cannot be fired except under exceptional circumstances?

The phrase “quiet quitting” really grinds my gears. Are you fulfilling the terms of your employment contract? Yes? Then you’re working, and haven’t quit.

There is absolutely nothing to forgive, I was trying to suggest that the sound I make is the sound of vomitting without explicitly using the word.

I’ve not found anything that lessens its severity, once it happens there’s little I can do but lie down. In my case lying face down makes me feels better, but I still won’t be able to do anything for a while. Not riding vehicles on an empty stomach sometimes reduces the chances of it happening but if it happens it’s as bad as always.

Brrr isn’t the sound I make when I get motion sickness, but I echo the general sentiment. It also lasts a long time for me so I’m useless for about an hour or two.

AI doesn’t work without the availability of highly scalable compute, such as AWS or Azure. “Means of production” is a questionable concept when applied to digital things, since there isn’t scarcity, and “goods” can be infinitely copied once produced. If anything, encouraging usage of AI in its current form increases our dependence on large corporations and the infrastructure that only they can build and subsidize.

I thought that point was rather questionably argued.

That’s a really reductionist take, I can pay taxes with the currency of my country of residence.