blakestacey

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

"I was somewhere in the middle of your mother last night, Trebek!"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

Serious data might not be available for months. For comparison, the Pew Research Center didn't come out with their numbers for the 2020 election until June 2021. Who knows? The country might burn down before next summer.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 6 months ago

here's a matt yglesias article on the ordeal that i think is pretty even-handed

eat a dick

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not enough for the presidential race, sadly; perhaps enough to scrape by with a few Senate victories.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Those are the actors who played Duncan Idaho in the David Lynch adaptation and in the two Syfy miniseries. So, yeah, it's not wrong, just incomplete — though I have no idea why it only serves up those three. There's certainly no limitation to three images, as can be verified by searching for "Sherlock Holmes actor" or the like.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 6 months ago

Even the AI summary is quite good

insta-block

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 6 months ago

The level of fucked we are is too big for words

I wanted to say something darkly comedic about the AI bubble popping under the new regime, but my heart is too sick to make a joke

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

My sense growing up in Huntsville was that the airport ads for defense contractors were kind of like, e.g., Exxon sponsoring a pavilion at EPCOT. The intent wasn't to push any specific consumer towards buying any specific product, but to pump out a positive image for the company generally.

And a lot of those contractors' people fly through Huntsville on business. (For those not in the know: The airport is just down the highway from Redstone Arsenal, which is where we brought all them Nazis we recruited to help us beat the Commies to the Moon. The only reason Huntsville exists as more than a sleepy/dying cotton mill town is the space program and missile warfare.) There may well be deals along the lines of "advertise here and your people get the cushy lounge".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

"I have been unfailingly polite, and [your lemmy instance has] been nothing but rude."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 26 points 6 months ago (17 children)

eigenrobot:

almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of mandatory eugenic polygynous marriages in order to deal with the fertility crisis. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using generational insolvency as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

Ah, Huntsville. Where the downtown convention hall is the Werner von Braun Center.

🎶 the man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience 🎶

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Gauss–Jordan elimination, maybe?

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