@pikesley @solderandchaos it’s a good thing they had all this archive footage, the flag bearer forgetting to leave until everyone else had made it to the finish could have been really embarrassing.
I’m bored of flat buying now. Relentless back and forth over trivialities where I’m pretty sure they only flag as an issue in a fraction of a percent of sales. I’m so tempted to tell my solicitor to just dump everything that’s left on the list of enquiries and crack on with things.
“We’re checking if all keys are accounted for” is a beauty on a long term rental property. There’s absolutely no way of knowing no previous tenant made a copy, the lock is getting changed regardless.
@carbonated_estrogen @lzg it’s one lecture where the professor just screams GET OUT for an hour.
I can just imagine the conversations in the writer’s room, where they needed to work out how to involve the rest of the cast. “It’s cool, one of them can twig the ship’s capsized and then the gang can steal an LAFD helicopter to go looking for them”.
During this episode the crew’s motto was established, which I shit you not is “who cares”.
I’m currently obsessed with 9-1–1, a drama about LA firefighters which jumped the shark in season 2 or so, and here in season 7 is launching them into the sky and doing flybys in fighter jets.
I’ve just howled with laughter through a three episode special in which two lead characters went on a cruise, where naturally the ship was attacked, had a hole blown in the side, and capsized in the middle of a hurricane. The script writers are clearly having the time of their lives.
US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.
We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.
@misty there’s a few different chipsets but generally yes, they’ll all just show up as a serial port. Be aware of fake FTDI chips if you’re on Windows as the official driver will refuse to use them last I heard.
@alex @internetsdairy I feel compelled to say “nice hat” whenever I see anything with a hat more extravagant than a baseball cap.
@fesshole the throws it away bit enrages me. If you’re that rich hire someone to put everything back in the right bag, then donate it to a children’s hospital or something.
@dave going to go with them being helium filled and bouncing around the place, causing signal to bounce around erratically.
@jonty @gsuberland $300. I think they’ve seen the damage they’re going to and will ride it out from here.
@jonty I honestly think this is going to end with “it was an isolated error, processes have been put in place, etc etc” and then everyone carries on like nothing happened because the alternative is actually staffing security teams.
This is fitting. The top topic on Xitter right now is of course the global Crowdstrike/Windows clusterfuck. But the AI summary of the discussion is hilarious, b/c it summarizes a bunch of sarcastic posts and makes it sound like a positive (or at least can-do) story.
There's a certain irony in a cyber security company accidentally deploying the most effective cyber attack we've seen in recent memory.
How am I meant to work when this level of shit posting is going on?
The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct. The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice. The satellites that are still left, their orbits slowly decaying over millennia, dutifully relay the message. The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.
Somewhere in what used to be called Ohio, a pack of roombas, their local wind turbines giving out and creaking to a halt, begin searching for the next functional docking station. A washing machine in Argentina tweets: "anyone need to do a load 😏" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time. The replies are filled with AI thirstposters and their hypebots.
In North America, raccoons have quietly entered the bronze age, while baboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia. Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion. A weather balloon bobs and sways in the upper atmosphere, now almost entirely clear of lingering chloroflourocarbons, reporting conditions to weather stations long since destroyed in World War Five.
The Crab Nation are mostly hermits, but come out to greet their prophet every ten years on the 6th full moon of the year. A lone, curious octopus decides to observe this year's event, peering out at the festivities from her safe haven - the submerged, rusting hulk of an ancient Cybertruck. Then he appears: the hologram of Shia Lebouf powered by MetaAI. He beckons the octopus to follow. The crabs all start chittering excitedly. The time has come to invade Amazon HQ. The crows gather in huge numbers. They need more storage space for their Steam collections.
@herdingdata I’ve been on a short games with something to say kick lately and loving it. Feels like we’re in a golden age of games being about more than clicking on enemy’s heads.