Chiaki Matsuda

I want to preemptively apologize to everyone who followed me over the SpaceX debate, it's all ricecooker jokes from here on

@sanson_ganbaru @OTheologicum We commissioned multiple artists for different planefag-chan designs, too: x.com/SeptinoxArts/s…

@sanson_ganbaru @OTheologicum The eternal nemesis of planefag-chan: x.com/magicalgirlnoi…

数年間に渡って炊飯器をディスっているアメリカで最も面白い男を見つけたかもしれない

@OTheologicum @sanson_ganbaru Better yet, there's one for the rice cooker

@sanson_ganbaru @chiakipus No, but that exists too. There are drawings of him as a cute maid.

@ButlerofThanos @planefag I have literally forgotten my rice cooker for 8 hours before and the rice was fine, they're magical. If breakfast rice is your thing you can switch on your rice cooker, go to bed, and wake up to farm fluffy breakfast rice.

I generally agree that rice cookers are nothing but overly specialized crockpots, they do have one very specific advantage over simple stove top cooking for rice: you can utterly forget about them while they are doing their thing. No stirring, no having to remember to turn off the burner mid-steaming, just dump in the ingredients, give a quick swish with the paddle, close it up, and hit start. They free up stove top space if you are cooking a bunch of stuff *and* they make making a *lot* of rice way easier? (Have you ever even thought about what it'd be like trying to cook 4-6 whole cups of rice would entail? I don't even want to think of how easy it'd be to screw up on stove top (getting the water proportion right, timing when to turn the burner off, how long to leave it to steam by residual heat, etc...) So, all that to say: if only cooking 1 to 2 cups of rice, stove top is perfectly fine and not worth the expense and countertop space to devote to a real rice cooker.

SEE!? SEE!? I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE!

@Nessakins_ Tongue.

Fellas, how obvious does a flirt from a chick need to be for you to recognize it? 🤔

@sanson_ganbaru @OTheologicum シャワーナイフとメイドの物語

@sanson_ganbaru @OTheologicum 多分

@planefag @OTheologicum @sanson_ganbaru YES

@OTheologicum @sanson_ganbaru NO

@planefag >get buttmad about MICROSOFT GITHUB >think FOSS is the problem Son, go touch grass

I don't think many laypeople *are* touching git. I might've called myself that in the past but now "layperson" means "boomer struggling with a smartphone" so no, someone who's installed cygwin so they could run python scripts isn't a layperson. But that's how I know there *is* such a thing as a pseudonormie; someone who doesn't work with coder-oriented tools daily but is aware of them and confident/intelligent enough to seek out and use more difficult, technically-oriented software. If you want to know my feelings on FOSS, I use both Libreoffice and GIMP on the regular, so it's not like I don't have a fairly decent tolerance level for free software cruft. (To understand the gulf between pseudonormie and True Master some of my moots are actually *using Freecad* [thunder peal] [distant wolf how].) In short I'm just the kind of guy who will often be looking for FOSS software tools that are fairly popular and frequently used, but not so big-time that they necessarily have their own site hosting downloadable binaries. Even big projects are often maintained by just one or two heroes; not everyone feels like paying the hosting costs, and since so many of these tools are code-heavy but asset-light and have sizes in the hundreds of kb instead of mb; hosing off github is just fine. Guys like me exist; they go looking for binaries hosted on github, and for the guy who hasn't been doing it long enough to just default to appending "/releases" to the URL because their textual memory is better than their spatial one, hunting down the link to the "releases" tab is an exercise in a few minutes of frustration... assuming the dev even set up their page to *have* that link. I've seen github pages that *had* a releases page but didn't have the releases tab; if you didn't know the url thing you were SOL. And to be clear, the "pseudonormies" or "power users" or whatever you want to call them; they're a big chunk of the userbase for an awful lot of FOSS programs. The True Blue Coder doesn't need that, he'll bang out a python or java script for whatever task is at hand while wearing his faded, fraying, 17 year old "Go Away Or I Will Replace You WIth a Very Small Shell Script" t-shirt from ThinkGeek. If a dev bothers to code an actual program for it he's likely got users in mind; if he bothers to compile a binary, he definitely does. And those are the exact people who will likely be tripped up by the UI when looking for said binaries because they'll likely find the software via internet search, which will drop them on the main github page. So how mad am I? Fringe edge of the Rice Cooker spectrum. I've got a dog in this fight, albeit dachshund-sized. My followers and moots who use github frequently largely agree; yeah, improving that UI is pretty low-hanging fruit. Move a few buttons around, make them bigger to accommodate 90% of the page traffic that's looking to snag a binary or even a tarball. It's just serious enough for me that I sympathized with the redditor having a spergout. I don't mind most of the initial comments under the original tweet given I only said "He's right" without specifying which part, but given how many replies to it are now clearly addressing my later clarifications, there's clearly more than a few pseudonormies who fancy themselves Real Coder Mans™ who've mistaken being insufferable about it for a personality and I am absolutely petty enough to waste time kicking sand in their faces.

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices. And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works. Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse. This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster. The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit. Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.

@planefag Touch grass

@chiakipus My point exactly; it goes past an abortion of logic to a complete denial of it so blunt that only "outright witting liar with malice aforethought" or "psychopath utterly lost in their own delusions" can possibly explain it. And these people have run the world for 50 years.

Of late the professional left's essays have grown concise by dint of skipping straight to the seething umbrage that actually motivates their screeds, and this one's a fine specimen. The freewheeling accusation that "Trump has no plan" [for Iran] is presented, as they would say, "without evidence," aside from the fact they haven't been included in the administration's discussions. @anneapplebaum bemoans the failure of fifty years of administrations to contend with the ideological root cause of Iranian belligerence, then invokes the usual State-department soft-power propaganda campaigns wherein her entire professional class make their high-status careers. She even links her own 2009 essay containing the astonishing line "a sustained and well-funded human rights campaign must be a terrifying prospect [for the regime.]" Contemplate for a moment the kind of mind that can still assay this argument not a month after said regime machine-gunned thirty-THOUSAND protesters to death in the streets. Comprehend, if you can, the kind of person who thinks their noble class of email-job havers are needed to woo the populace to Democracy™ when said populace is already being massacred en-masse in the streets for expressing those sympathies. Marvel at the mind that can seethe about will and Tomahawk missiles doing more in a single night to liberate Iran than all the wordcel spellcraft of her professional class. If there's one emotion that defines my experience of modern politics, it's confusion – for they can only be utterly shameless, bald-faced liars, or functional schizophrenics utterly lost in their own delusions. But she couldn't be such without being run out of her cubicle on a rail lest the majority of her professional class was similar; the class that's exerted immense influence and control over the American government since WWII. Yet that's a conclusion so mind-rendingly monstrous it summons the screaming shades of Sagan and Hume. And yet the extraordinary evidence lies before us, innumerable regurgitations rendering them explicable only by miracle. What doubt remains Occam's razor exsanguinates and Sherlock's maxim buries. Then there's no avoiding the conclusion that decades of American foreign policy have been influenced if not outright controlled by people who should be making lattes in a Starbucks. That until they are scourged from the halls of power and scorned out of literate society immense human suffering that needn't exist will continue to wrack not just America, but the entire world. And worst of all, that it was grievous flaws in our own civil society, perhaps even the basic human condition, that allowed this to happen – flaws we may not be able to patch, much less fix. Breaches that can only be stemmed by constant, and ultimately unsustainable, vigilance. But we have no choice but to try.

@planefag Never mind the hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties taken by protesters over the past 20 years or so. What's the plan of the professional left?

@planefag The current regime murdered (sorry, executed) more random civilians to fortify its position in the aftermath of the revolution than the Shah's killed during the revolution, why would they just sit there and go "haha, you got us, well played" if a western campaign tried the same?

Jill Stingray.

1970s: This ARPANET thing is really useful for sharing research papers! 2026: You can easily get any piece of information on the internet, unless it's a research paper, because they're the most paywalled things in the universe.

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get yourself a weather satellite that looks at you like this

my New Year's resolution is to stress out less unfortunately, y'alls resolution is to pet a bobcat so I will not be meeting my goal