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@grace_panetta @NYMag Isn’t that like… not bad?

for all the Lindy West discourse...."Adult Braces" has only sold about 3,000 copies, including 1,800 in its first week, per @NYMag's indispensable Book Gossip newsletter link.nymag.com/view/626c4ac18…

@rick_paulas @grace_panetta @NYMag Get your money king

@grace_panetta @NYMag compare that to MALINKO, a thriller about a newlywed couple on a Route 66 honeymoon who stumble onto a mysterious radio show, which has sold 333 copies (out of 1,000) with zero controversy or discourse 🦾

@IzumiYukaSmile @UsernameWords @davepl1968 Was thinking of doing a similar thing with a 2007-ish Mac. Internet disabled, (good version of) the iLife suite and whatever other CD software, word processor and printer

@Brooklydamus @UsernameWords @davepl1968 Offline, air gapped windows 7 installation is what id be running. Any games would be CD based or transferred over a swappable drive.

I taught the elementary kids' computer lab at the local elementary school for about ten years. By about fourth grade, the kids vary widely in PC ability. You'll have one kid porting Doom and one kid crying because CAPS LOCK is on and he can't log in. One kid trying to eat toner while another fixes the projector. A lot of that is comfort - you can tell some kids use a PC at home a great deal while others have seemingly no exposure. Does it matter? No idea! I understand limiting screen time and so on, but sometimes kids who genuinely have a knack for it are being held back by good intentions! When I sold my company, we donated all the extra PCs and monitors to the school... a couple of dozen Dell Dimension 4200s and so on. Absolutely required for any mid-2000s computer lab!

@vraiqx @dundereloise rodent studies rarely replicate in humans

@dundereloise i’m sure more research is needed so i won’t get too excited, but this seems like early evidence that humans might be able to drive too

I'm in this facebook group where they're teaching their rats to drive > Spark is picking up speed and confidence on the triple-barrier course! She’s still learning how to take each corner wide (as she accomplishes with the first two) rather than tight (like the last, which stumps her).

@souljagoyteller No, Ray Bradbury

Do I just start with Dune

@davepl1968 The tablet era is actually going to bring the average 4th grader's computer abilities down

@IzumiYukaSmile @UsernameWords @davepl1968 the "family computer" era was probably the healthiest relationship we'll ever have with this technology

@UsernameWords @davepl1968 Why buy a laptop when there are hundreds of surplus desktops that would be a perfect, stationary, controlled environment for teaching a kid proper PC usage? We're not buying top of the line here, we're getting something they can learn the fundamentals on.

@UsernameWords @IzumiYukaSmile @davepl1968 At this point any complexity in windows isn't from any kind of operational depth, it's just from it being a poor OS

@IzumiYukaSmile @davepl1968 Windows laptops are just bad value for money at the same price point

@CryptoCyberia That’s how the first iPods worked. You just dragged MP3’s in folders in there. You could drag your friend’s whole music collection off their iPod onto your computer. Everything used to work for you instead of against

MacOS is, and always has been, completely unplayable for me. >close button doesn't close an app >minimize button doesn't minimize >can't do basic shit all the time like move music to my phone via USB copy paste I really will NEVER get it.

@VesperAegis @glukianoff equaldex.com/equality-index The Nordic countries are almost as good as it gets afaict

Does it really sound like "common sense," though? There are plenty of academic papers that show reliably good improvements on mental health for those that undergo transition; I would argue the most reliable is the longitudinal Princeton study for young transitioners which shows an incredibly low <1% de-transition rate. I would tend to question outlier studies from Scandinavia where there seems to be a political bias against transitioning, and many studies of which contradict other studies in Europe.

In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight. And usually, that is a sign that the true believers know, at some level, that they are on shaky ground. @hoovlet

@TheMindScourge I still think it was leaded gasoline

The great crime spike of the second half of the 20th century has been erased. We’ve come full circle back to 1950 Its existence conditioned the life patterns of entire generations. Very few predicted this vast upswing in public disorder. A rigorous explanation remains elusive. We have mostly theories The innovation of paint graffiti and its memetic spread is a useful telltale however. It signaled that something had changed deep within the socio-cultural environment

@ha3mhu @gabydvj Wasp failson angers his parents compilation

@gabydvj because if there are two things WASPs love, they’re catholic mass and and daydrinking with live jazz accompaniment

what does the P in WASP stand for?? quickly.

@like_poor_tuco @gabydvj @moorehn Gout platter for one

@gabydvj @moorehn "yeah I'll have the Schizophrenia Charcuterie thanks"

@gabydvj God damn papists think they can horn in on our thing

@souljagoyteller Me and the boys retvrning to 70s New York

Conservatives are RETVRN posting about NYC in the 1970s. You know, bankrupt, crime-raddled, “the Bronx is burning” NYC. The NYC Giuliani supposedly cleaned up. Amazing

@davepl1968 Access is the only missing piece of the main suite I think

Recently, I upgraded my wifes desktop to a Mac M4 Mini. Great machine, btw. She loves it. After the upgrade, she couldn't find Publisher. Neither could I. Then I started searching online, and I was pretty sure that Microsoft hadn't made Publisher for the Mac for like 15 years, but she was adamant. Worse, it was a key part of her workflow, or so she claimed. And she used to have a big P icon right on her desktop! And I had ruined everything. Ruiner! After an hour of flailing, we figured it out. She meant PowerPoint.

@taivotobreluts @NormFrancis @yarotrof @nspector4 Hooooly shit

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I must say I had to doublecheck this was real.

@danimae2000 @Tyras_Mikhail Haha I’ve just seen this friendship so many times and been in it

@Brooklydamus @Tyras_Mikhail this is an incredible explanation lol

>Be decent Guntuber >Be partnered with Ian McCollum, basically the most respected gun expert in the community >You're basically set for life >Brainstorm a rifle concept together and have Brownell's produce it >Brownell's also runs AR15dotcom, which since it's unmoderated and full of gun bros, is basically diet /k/, full of coalposting chuds >Can't leave it alone tho, how dare they talk bad about rainbow people! >Sperg out on the forums, also getting your fanbase involved >Brownell's drops their partnership with you, because you raided their forums, you fucking retard >Ian doesn't drop them >Immediately take that as Ian "backstabbing" you >Try to paint Ian as some sort of evil racist for daring to talk to people like Larry Vickers >Try to say that Ian "stole" your Midnight Brutality concept (the concept of shooting guns at night in certain conditions, you know, stuff that militaries have done in training since firearms have been invented) >Literally not even the most sperging leftists listen to you >Ian continues to be the most respected authority on firearms history, beloved by gunbros left, right or center >Struggle to get 20k views a video on your channel, your only schtick being that sometimes you post shit like "That Time Two Indian Kids Had A Gunfight With Police in Bumfuck, USA" >Only time you're ever relevant is when you ragebait about LARPing as a Satanist or that you hate whitey InRangeTV is the Chris Chan of the gun community.

@john_wilddog @jordieevan That is 100% the prompt

@jordieevan this is basically like telling chatgpt to explain something in rupauls voice

It’s actually worse than I was expecting

@BitGrateful @ProsecutorsPod Doesn’t seem fair if they don’t let you see the whole text

@ProsecutorsPod Philosophy was my major. It was pretty good prep for law. Dissecting obfuscated pithy texts.

When I was in law school, I took an undergrad philosophy class just so I could say I did. The professor was an atheist (no biggie), and he spent the whole class arguing that the three main theories of rationality all compelled the conclusion that God did not exist. So for my final paper, which accounted for 100 percent of my grade, I argued that, properly applied, the three main theories of rationality compelled the conclusion that God did exist. I did not receive an A.