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I believe two of these are goldfinches! The yellow one and the mostly brown and kinda yellow one are a male and female goldfinch, respectively.

The red one is a house finch, and I think it’s a male. So 2m 1f.

Source: I have both at my house too! Their colors get more saturated in the spring and summer.

I really liked Rocko’s Modern Life!

All of the “reviewers” are AI avatars and certainly don’t sound like real people.

The real reason they cite is also quite interesting. Twice as many leased electric vehicles are coming to market.

Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.

This reminds me of Coyote Linux, a firewall distribution that I also used to run on a 386 from a floppy disk!

In my experience, the fans of the Dune book series are pretty much always cultish.

More than any other book series, people think they’re special if they like Dune.

He was literally heavily medicated.

On Wednesday, Mr. Phillips wrote on Truth Social, President Trump’s social media platform, that the incident took place while he was heavily medicated as part of a cancer treatment. But he also described it as a miracle performed by God.

Such a cute photo! Thanks for sharing

I actually forgot that the Penguins drafted their goalie Marc-Andre Fleury as their #1 pick in 2003 too! He was instrumental to their four final appearances (they won three).

So the Penguins picked Fleury as #1 in 2003, Malkin as #2 in 2004, and Crosby as #1 in 2005.

I also forgot that the Blackhawks had success in a similar way! Jonathan Toews was #3 in 2006 and Patrick Kane was #1 in 2007. They won three cups in 2010, 2013, and 2015 after decades of not winning.

This is pedantic, but there is no byline on this article, which is kind of alarming in itself. The “byline” is who wrote the article.

What you’re referencing is more of a subheadline or subtitle. But you’re still right, to me it shows how far the drama has evolved.

people claiming affinity to Antifa have been involved in armed attacks in the US.

This is really funny. When they realize “antifa” isn’t a group you claim affinity to, it’s just a general position. Anti-fascist.

This whole thing sounds a lot like the satanic panic in the 1980s. There were massive education campaigns around satanic cults that literally didn’t exist.

Police departments hired “experts” on things that were all made up.

You know, I’ve always heard of Borscht but I never knew what it was! Thanks for posting.

I mean, for good reason.

If I had to deal with shushtain I’d quit too.

You’re welcome! I think this kind of pattern-matching is especially interesting.

For an older example of a similar pattern, both the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins come to mind. The Penguins were terrible in the late 90s and early 2000s, to the point where they owed their best-ever player Mario Lemieux so much money that he literally just took over the team instead.

The Penguins selected Evgeni Malkin as the #2 pick in 2004; right behind Alex Ovechkin, who was the #1 pick for the Washington Capitals. In 2005, the Penguins selected Sidney Crosby as the #1 pick.

Malkin and Crosby won three Stanley Cups together but it took a few years to jell as a team.

Similarly, it took several years to get a team around Alex Ovechkin that could win a cup.

It’s actually been really interesting to see the previously-mentioned Oilers see success, with their three top-three picks!

It’s actually even dumber than that. He was literally on prescription drugs.

On Wednesday, Mr. Phillips wrote on Truth Social, President Trump’s social media platform, that the incident took place while he was heavily medicated as part of a cancer treatment. But he also described it as a miracle performed by God.

This is how you know someone is truly stupid. He was literally on drugs and he still fully believes his delusions.

Decades ago he would have been put into a home.

Interestingly, there appears to have been a limited-run Blu-Ray sold directly by Clive Barker.

Edit: in 2013 or so, according to this fan site, which also has what seems like a decent run-down of all the different cuts of the movie.

I definitely do not blame you. It’s so full of “inside baseball” I wasn’t sure if it was a joke either! Ha

It’s probably a lot of things, but in short: their best players are maturing, therefore so is the team.

They got good draft picks and they actually committed to their strategy long-term. The Edmonton Oilers have had success doing the same thing; keeping the same players together helps build rapport, and a lot of them are extremely young when they get drafted.

Because Buffalo is a small-market team that doesn’t often win (therefore they don’t have much money), they tend to be in the middle or toward the bottom of the standings every season. Since they’re always toward the bottom, they have a higher chance of “winning” the draft lottery… but they didn’t get the #1 draft pick between 1987 and 2017.

When they did finally get a high draft pick, #1 pick Rasmus Dahlen in 2018, they improved immediately. He’s a defenseman, though, so they didn’t improve much and were last place again in 2020-2021. They won another #1 draft pick and chose another defenseman, Owen Power. Which makes sense, given Buffalo’s preference for being a defensive team.

Dahlen and Power were both 18 when they were drafted, so I imagine it takes some time to grow into roles on the team.

Fast forward to 2026: Power and Dahlen are still on the team, and Dahlen is the captain. So they actually built a long-term team around two really good players.

This happened recently with the Edmonton Oilers too, where they were terrible for years, finally got several high draft picks, and actually kept and built the players they drafted. The Oilers drafted Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (#1 in 2011), Leon Draisaitl (#3 in 2014), and Connor McDavid (#1 in 2015). They’ve kept all three players and went to the Stanley Cup finals the past two years.

Definitely seems to be, especially this part about insisting everyone run a recent version of windows because of the AI-assisted toolchain… to develop MAME. Lol

Going forward, MAME’s primary development target is a PC running a recent version of Windows, equipped with a GPU compliant with at minimum DirectX 11 (SM5), OpenGL 4.3, or Vulkan. This requirement is not arbitrary. The AI-assisted toolchain that underpins both code review and regression testing requires local model inference capabilities, and we believe it is reasonable to ask that contributors have access to hardware capable of running those tools.

Reviews too! Steam has a frequently used and frequently useful user-submitted reviewing feature.

Reviews are a “community” feature, and it’s remarkably hard to build a review feature people want to use that is actually valuable.