Imagine what a tiny increment in their profit margins this will produce, what an infinitesimal impact it will have on the wealth, and standard of living of a handful of individuals. And for this they will fuck up an irreplaceable natural heritage which is there for the whole world. It shows that the value such people place on our coexistence with the natural world is zero or less. Maybe they hate it because they can’t understand why normal people love it. Maybe it’s just that they will feel richer, in a relative sense, when they have made us all poorer.

It makes my fucking blood boil and I don’t even live in the USA. For all the problems your country has, the parks, the forestry, the public land and wild spaces are truly unique and precious assets, even looking at it in a global sense rather than a national one. Something worth defending tooth and nail. So of course Trump would want to destroy all of that, because if he didn’t, you could still make the case that he hadn’t really irredeemably and permanently ruined every single aspect of the country.

Blender.

10 years ago it was scarcely believable that a FOSS package for such a niche purpose could be so fucking good. And it got better in the meantime. If Blender had existed when I was a kid I would have probably spent every waking hour creating stuff with it. As an adult, I get limited time to do that, but I appreciate that it exists.

15 years ago was when I stopped using facebook. It had the potential to be a great way to organize and maintain social connections, but instead it was a toxic environment promoting the most annoying shit, particularly when posted by frequent users trying to broadcast their lives to the world. Simultaneously it did a great job of hiding anything I’d actually be interested to know. Fuck knows how bad it has become in the meantime. It was striking how much it seemed to bring out the worst in people, and equally remarkable how so many people just wanted to wallow in that.

I’m talking about a web page linked to by MoffKalast, see comments above

It could be, although it also seems that “opposing” representatives are usually of the left/green persuasion and the right wing is mostly “supporting”, which is not what I’d expect to see in that case. All I can say for sure is that it’s very confusing.

EDIT: thanks for that link 😁

It’s not the topic of the vote I’m trying to clarify but rather trying to make sense of that web page showing who is voting for what, and how, if at all that is connected to the European Parliament vote. That website suggests overwhelming support for the proposal at both state and representative level, I’m not sure what to make of that.

Green = “opposing”, red = “supporting”… “chat control extension”. I guess the greens are against the chat control proposal, though that’s hardly clear, and there seem to be more reds than greens so that suggests the chat control proposal was accepted, or is there some other layer to this? Also the stance of a state bears no relation to that of its representatives. Very confusing

“Try to keep up ‌Zolfaqari, we’re way past that stage. Negotiations are over, now we’re just hell bent on destroying ourselves”

That’s the problem with monotheism. At least with polytheism you’re allowed to acknowledge that the gods are assholes, you don’t have to pretend Zeus is the good guy and Prometheus is the bad guy.

Next frame… multiple missiles, the closest goes in the hole and hits the near side, so all the blast is deflected up and away. These guys should buy themselves a lottery ticket

Looks like it went into the pre-existing hole. Incredibly lucky indeed

You even get a free cremation. Saves time and money!

AI my ass, they just don’t want people to bypass the paywall

“I do believe I’ll be the honor of – have the honor of taking Cuba. That would be good. That’s a big honor,” said the president.

“Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah,” the president confirmed. “Taking Cuba.”

“I mean, whether I free it, or take it… I think I can do anything I want with it, to tell you the truth,” Trump said.

Wasn’t he trying to make people forget about the Epstein files? Because jfc that isn’t how you do it

You can play it when you’re 81 years older than you are now

My PC is 15 times faster than the one I had 10 years ago. It’s the same old PC but I got rid of Windows.

Yellow’s got a lot of potential

But do you need extra dressing when the whole kitchen staff have already hocked up their chunkiest loogies to hold up their end of the cultural exchange?

I expect the causality goes both ways, for example maybe you wouldn’t consider having a dog because your stressful job takes up too much of your time, or you don’t have the money to pay for dog food and vet bills, or you live in a tiny apartment in the city and it would be cruel to keep a dog there, or you don’t have the time or energy to take a dog on walks, or you just don’t like going on walks or you’re afraid to go outside, or you can’t cope with raising a dog because of some health issue, or you have terminal cancer. In which case it’s the dog-incompatible situation that’s the issue rather than lack of dog.