ReallyActuallyFrankenstein @ ReallyActuallyFrankenstein @lemmynsfw.com

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It's strange, because to certain groups of people, "botox and cheek filler face" is the standard of beauty. To me, I can only see it as someone intentionally putting their face into an uncanny valley.

I spent months tweaking a retropie image and basically learning all the Linux config file issues and arcane knowledge to adapt retropie's outdated Emulationstation fork.

... And then I built the next system with Batocera and wow, night and day. Save state UX and configs that work right out of the box, clean interface theme options, customization galore without needing a keyboard. I just wish Ruckage's SNES Classic theme worked on it.

I was thinking that too. It'd be nice. But ultimately the big things like vaccine insurance coverage needs the imprimatur of the government.

Still, would be real good to have a turnkey panel for the next administration (in theory) to swap back in.

They did do the same thing. New York's Democrat-friendly maps were struck down by the state courts, and were redrawn, losing about 3-4 Democratic House seats. That alone could move us in theory from 212-220, to 216-216 right now.

Which means, for all intents and purposes, what they're doing is de-facto legal.

Your post is right on everything, but I'll note that what it means is we live in a de-facto lawless state.

The article says an iOS app was released to testers.

I agree, except using Tulsi Gabbard and "trustworthy" in the same sentence should be a crime.

Ok, yes - I'm off to jail.

I mean, I know it's a meme, so what. But before getting the pitchforks out: does anyone have a link to Henry Cavill saying this? Just curious.

I searched and it's all memes and reaction videos. Maybe true, maybe true but sarcastic, or maybe false. My guess is it has all the making of a quote that nobody fact checks because it's too good for engagement.

I had the same thought and am glad to see you're already here with 44 upvotes. Trump is just here for the attention, cruelty and grift, but he's not a thinker.

This is a manifesto. And apart from the consistent spelling and grammar, the capitalized words aren't as random as Trump - way too many and too consistent. It's certainly a mimicked style by someone who thinks they know how Trump writes.

Stephen Miller is the architect of the ICE policy and the one whipping the horses - it's gotta be him.

There was an initial one by his staff that was typical political platitudes condemning violence. Then as soon as Trump opened his mouth, he blamed Walz and showed zero empathy.

So the options are:

1. His feelings got hurt that nobody attended his taxpayer-funded birthday party and instead protested him across the country, so he's going to make himself feel better by more abject cruelty;
2. Los Angeles' predominantly peaceful protests didn't give him a proper pretext to declare martial law and complete domestic deployment of the military, so he's going to keep trying until there's a suitably violent confrontation;
3. Both 1 and 2.

Yes, but I'd view it through the limited lens of empathy-lacking Republicans.

I'd like to propose a new adage: Let's call it Trump's Razor: Where Republicans are concerned, never attribute to principles what can more easily be explained by corruption.

Most likely the raids are starting to affect someone in the in-group, be it a hotel magnate or factory-farming donor. They complained and it's stopping. I don't expect this is the result of philosophical reflection.

While the contempt language is gone in the Senate bill, there is new and arguably more problematic language in its place. This bill would require that anyone seeking a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction against the federal government first post a bond that covers the costs and damages that would be sustained to the federal government, in the event it loses the case. We’re talking millions if not billions of dollars being required upfront, effectively shutting off people’s ability to sue the Trump administration.

The Senate GOP is managing optics and that's all - the effect of this provision is the same. The bond requirement would make it effectively impossible to even seek to enjoin a clearly unconstitutional executive order before a full litigation and trial.

Superficially, they could proceed through the case without, but it would mean Trump can executive order whatever he wants and it would be years before the court would even issue an order to stop him. His powers would effectively be unchecked.

It's also blatantly undemocratic and unconstitutional because it would limit the ability to seek redress for anyone who wasn't a multi-millionaire or billionaire.

And if you need any other evidence they don't want you to pay attention to this and it's the real ball game: oh look, it's Friday night.

Crazy, right? You look at his picture and that word just selects itself.

My Trump translator just interprets this as, "Waaagh, I want it!" Just a baby having a tantrum.

But what else is new.

Guess I'm an outlier. For me, games were the way to disconnect from the stress of relationships. I've been an introvert since the beginning, and so games' positive associations for me are a safe place away from social pressures.

I also imagine every "retro" generation thinks its games are the best. Like, there was a meme post about joy at finding a PS2 torrent recently with strong implied nostalgia, and that's ok. People usually experience video games at an age where the games teach them archetypical feelings of intellectual pleasure, the first time they experienced joy at solving complex problems for example. That becomes a core association through life.

So I think we'll all have strong feelings linking the systems we played at our formative years. And again, that's ok. That we can form such strong associations is an expression of the basic human value of video games, as an art and modern cultural necessity.

It's dumbfounding. But my expectations for people are low - they can be, and are, manipulated. Full stop. I'd love to fix that, but for the moment, this is a media problem. Clicks, views, engagement - all are supercharged by creating a perception of violence.

I'm sure many of these reporters are trying their best, but as you note, the simple recurring editorial adjectival choice of "violent" instead of "peaceful" can move the needle significantly. We're walking on a razor's edge and the smallest breeze is all it takes to lose the country - if only the mass media understood this.

Yup, the entire culture of Google has nearly changed. It used to be coder- and innovation-driven, and open-source was a natural thing to support. Make more money by growing the pie, creating markets with new tech.

Now it seems it's middle managers and MBAs calling the shots, and their strategy is generic business zero-sum mindset - lock down, restrict, extract. They still see the PR value in open-source, but that's it.

Just becoming 1990s Microsoft or 1980s IBM.

The reason I found the article interesting is because there were multiple quotes - anecdotes, not statistic, sure, but first-hand - of kids using LLMs and lacking critical thinking to even understand how to check it. You need to have a model in your mind of how things should be to check it - this seems like it may be replacing the model in kids' minds.

So I really do wonder if there will be a generational divide, with analytical and compositional skills dropping precipitously. I don't know, but thought it interesting enough to post.

Speaking at an anti-vaccine rally in 2022, Malone spread dangerous falsehoods about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines: "These genetic vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system and their ability to have children in the future. Many of these damages cannot be repaired."

Malone aligned with the anti-vaccine crowd during the pandemic and has become a mainstay in conspiratorial circles and an ally to Kennedy. He has claimed that vaccines cause a "form of AIDS," amid other nonsense. He has also meddled with responses to the measles outbreak that erupted in West Texas in January. In April, Malone was the first to publicize news that a second child had died from the highly infectious and serious infection, but he did so to falsely claim that measles wasn't the cause and spread other dangerous misinformation.

In a newsletter post earlier this week, Malone proclaimed: "Some people still believe that the term anti-vaxxer is a pejorative. I do not—I view it as high praise."

The phrase "the lunatics have taken over the asylum" never seemed more apt. I know, we've lived in an asylum for awhile. We had a lunatic fringe, but even if we had to interact with them at least sane adults were in charge. Those halcyon days are over.

I just think COVID and social media have allowed people's historical "well-rounded" selves - the crazy bits getting sanded off by friction with sane people, which they've steadily now removed from their lives - to slowly disfigure until so many in the country have become grotesqueries. Superficially well-rounded people but when you turn them a bit, you see bizarre outgrowths of insane propaganda-fed mutation. And all of those people coalesced this election around Trump.

My neighbor is a nice, friendly person, but was talking about moving out of state during COVID because she didn't want her daughter to have to get the vaccine. I'm sure she is cheering this move. And goddamn, it's depressing.

Edit: A word.