I am happy to hear that people say please and thank you. When Siri/Alexa came out, we taught the kids to always say please and thank you when addressing them. If you can be polite to an AI, then you can be polite to a human.

Why did Ohio state accept that invitation?

It is a lack of empathy and personal responsibility. They aren’t happy with their life so they must either 1) blame it on someone else 2) hurt someone else so they feel they are doing better (everything is relative).

They literally cannot fathom that helping someone else doesn’t make you worse off, even if that person is now doing better.

They post them to you tube after they air but they are region locked. Just find a vpn in South America and you can watch it (or download it)

Turns on VPN for Brazil. yt-dlp the weekly episode. Place on Jellyfin media server. Rejoice.

I expect in a patch release that nothing has changed and I can blindly update getting minor bug fixes and security fixes. In a minor release I expect to review the changes for configuration changes or any minor UI changes. For a major release I expect to read docs on how to upgrade and prepare backups and downtime.

Evolution does.

But it isn’t that hard to create a signal account with the name of someone high in the US ranks and send a request to these people. They are too dumb to actually validate the key of the person.

Encryption can’t handle when the encrypt with a foe’s key and send that for the message.

I was going to mention tofu scramble. While I don’t typically eat them plain, they can be a great substitute for quiche and other egg based dishes.

And if the legislative branch was doing their job, he’d be impeached and removed. But the executive branch can now ignore the judicial branch with zero repercussions.

This is all part of the push to eliminate public education and replace it with private education funded by tax payer money but without all the oversight and regulation. Expect what has happened with charter schools but 10x.

It would be one thing if we were debating different ways to solve health care, education, incarceration, mental health, homelessness, wealth inequality, or something else.

While I personally think the right is wrong in their solutions I’d be happy to debate them.

But the right isn’t talking about these issues or solutions for them. You can’t have a debate when you’re talking about two completely different things.

It means GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Green peace should use a play from capitalists’ playbook.

Dissolve greenpeace and pay nothing. Then create a new greenpeace organization.

Fuck this oil company and the judge that sided with them.

This is great!

The board needs to remove Elon today.

Well…it’s actually an hour early…

Like many remasters, they just sound wrong if you are really familiar with the originals.

I’m not against remasters. I just think it is important to have a choice and it surprises me how many people who “love music” yet use a streaming service don’t seemed bothered by this.

It’s a lot more work, but if you love music I highly recommend hosting your own with your own collection. Navidrome is a fantastic open source server with lots of great compatible clients.

When I talk to some friends who are music lovers, I often ask them about control. Control over what is available and control over what versions are available.

I initially loved streaming. Having a bigger collection than I’ve ever had available anywhere! But two things really started to frustrate me.

1. every once in a while an album would disappear.
2. you have no control over which version is available. Is it the original version you grew up with, a remastered, or a re-recording?

One of my favorite artists is Blind Guardian and at some point they released remasters of all of their early albums. I strongly detest the remasters, but that is often your only choice on streaming services.

I love having my own collection, organized how I want, with versions that I want that won’t randomly change or disappear.

I’m not going to lie, it takes work and is not necessarily cheaper (especially when acquiring albums legitimately) but the payoff and satisfaction is worth it.

Everything I knew about hantavirus before this was from the X files episode: X-Cops