Thanks for keeping the Thanksgiving tradition alive.

I know he’s said a lot of idiotic shit lately but… seriously? He actually said this? Jesus Christ. He truly has reverted into a lonely 4Chan teen.

And guess what? It won’t break like your over-complex Arch desktop because it doesn’t need to be.

Also, with large vehicles more generally, there’s this awful snowball effect where people go “I get to sit up high and it’s bigger, so I feel safer! Besides, when I’m in a regular car I feel like I’m going to get crushed like a beer can.”

This of course ignores that:

1. Pedestrians are fucked
2. With everyone buying bigger, heavier vehicles, the energy involved in most collisions is significantly greater and I doubt anyone’s much safer for it. People in smaller cars just get screwed.

Uh… the whole article is discussing how “the western left’s” sympathy for Palestine and criticism of Israel is being criticized?

Good article, I’ve been wondering why people are calling it populism…

Is this not all kinda well-known information?

…Ah yes, the most grift-y place in the world, the Boston Museum of Science.

Que people arguing about GNU’s importance / self-inflated importance or whatever

God the religion vs. faith thing, I’m glad to see someone articulate it. It’s bizarre to me how many people are seemingly super hardcore into their religion as a social club, but if you observe them closely they come across like “believing it” is just a game they play for the sake of staying in.

…I mean, it’s more like the web browser makes it easy to use the Tor network. The network is the slow part. Your requests are getting ping-ponged all over the world intentionally taking the long way around.

I mean, I’ve used it. It works. But I don’t get why you would bother most of the time. It’s slow as hell and while I’m generally fairly concerned about my privacy there is a point where I can’t be bothered.

I remember a video some dude put out where he discussed how he’s pretty sure he discovered that those hats were just some other article of clothing rolled up which is why they’re a little silly… I’d need to look for the video again. He’d made something, I forget what, and realized that it folded up into that hat exactly.

Counterpoint, sleeves.

The thing that comes up at the bottom has two buttons: Accept and customize. If you click customize you can choose what to accept and what to reject, and it defaults to rejecting everything.

Allowing you to reject it all is bad site design?!? Literally two button presses. This is the web being forced to actually respect your privacy.

Leprous’ Live at Rockefeller Music Hall. The whole thing is great but it’s mostly because they did this as the last song of the concert, somehow. The swansong of a very different, darker, more brutal era for the band. The guy doing the harsh vocals here, Ishan, he isn’t even part of the band, really. But here he is. I’m not even a fan of black metal with vocals this harsh, usually, but godDAMN the energy is infectious. Better than the studio recording because the showmanship of doing it right at the end like this is so damn impressive.

Nichijou. Still love it. I wasn’t super into anime tonally, so a show that absolutely takes the piss and comes across like the anime equivalent of Flying Circus? …Yeah I could watch that.

At some point I realized that the solution to this little problem is Emacs org-mode. It’s just sitting there waiting for people to use it.

As much as I love obsidian, I’ve been moving on to Emacs org-mode! I like that Obsidian notes are just text files but with org-mode I get that and it’s Emacs which is open-source, thirty years old and literally never going to die. I can export org-mode files to PDFs or even turn them into HTML pages.