DaveO
@daveon.bsky.social
Tech, SF, APIs, coffee and beer and the chocolate biscuits.
Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies.
I write SF, buy my books :)
Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez
Caution may contain opinions. Quality of opinions varies.
I write SF, buy my books :)
Trunk Line - the series - https://amzn.to/4lAURez
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DaveO
@daveon.bsky.social
· Aug 19
Clueless: Trunk Line Book Three - Tales of the Orion Spur (Trunk Line - tales of the Orion spur 3)
Amazon.com: Clueless: Trunk Line Book Three - Tales of the Orion Spur (Trunk Line - tales of the Orion spur 3) eBook : O'Neill, Dave: Kindle Store
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One man, one summit, a bunch of AIs and a LOT of delegates who don't like each other - what could possibly go wrong!
Clueless is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
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Clueless is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
amzn.to/3HH1nT6
Picking an example of a non Geneva signatory - the Imperial Japanese Army - it is noticeable to me that being utterly ruthless didn’t deter anybody from taking them on.
“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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It’s almost as if there were signs!
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November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Picking an example of a non Geneva signatory - the Imperial Japanese Army - it is noticeable to me that being utterly ruthless didn’t deter anybody from taking them on.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
- elephant
- lion
- orca
- grey whale
- fox
- elephant
- lion
- orca
- grey whale
- fox
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
- Puffin
- Orca
- Brown Bear
- Turkey
- Moose
- Puffin
- Orca
- Brown Bear
- Turkey
- Moose
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
- Orca (Orcinus orca)
- Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
- dogfish shark (Squalus acanthias)
- Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)
- Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
- Orca (Orcinus orca)
- Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
- dogfish shark (Squalus acanthias)
- Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus)
- Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
- elephant
- lion
- orca
- grey whale
- fox
- elephant
- lion
- orca
- grey whale
- fox
You know you live in Seattle when the scene involving an incredibly expensive meal shows a price that would be for a fairly normal restaurant here 😳
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
You know you live in Seattle when the scene involving an incredibly expensive meal shows a price that would be for a fairly normal restaurant here 😳
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Is don't say Usians going to go into rotation with Europoors, British food is bland, Europeans don't have dishwashers (or whatever it is)?
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Is don't say Usians going to go into rotation with Europoors, British food is bland, Europeans don't have dishwashers (or whatever it is)?
Mute and move on. Mute and move on.
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Mute and move on. Mute and move on.
It’s the first interspecies summit in millennia and the bodies won’t stop dropping.
It’s up the the least able diplomat in human history to figure it out.
www.amazon.com/Clueless-Tru...
It’s up the the least able diplomat in human history to figure it out.
www.amazon.com/Clueless-Tru...
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s the first interspecies summit in millennia and the bodies won’t stop dropping.
It’s up the the least able diplomat in human history to figure it out.
www.amazon.com/Clueless-Tru...
It’s up the the least able diplomat in human history to figure it out.
www.amazon.com/Clueless-Tru...
I have not had Covid since April 2020 but I have a suspicion I might have it now. Testing tomorrow I think.
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I have not had Covid since April 2020 but I have a suspicion I might have it now. Testing tomorrow I think.
The problem with percentages. Percentages lead you to missing large numbers.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The problem with percentages. Percentages lead you to missing large numbers.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
You see this in global warming deniers a lot.
“But it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere!”
Yes. True but in the tables I used as a baby engineer in the 80s it was 0.03%… that’s a huge change in 40 years.
There's also a problem here that while these locations are 'only' 20-25% of the entire US economy, there are companies in these areas which drive wider economic activity across the nation. Seattle/WA is only ~3% of GDP but MS, Amazon, Starbucks, Boeing, CostCo drive GDP nationwide.
Conditions in places that make up a disproportionate share of the national economy *are* in fact more important. That’s where people are much more likely to want to move!
Conditions in NYC, Boston, and SF may feel more important to you than Cincinnati and Chicago and Oklahoma City and Houston, but rather than finding a way to rationalize this instinct, I’d encourage you to recognize that it is a your perception of the country being distorted by social relationships.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There's also a problem here that while these locations are 'only' 20-25% of the entire US economy, there are companies in these areas which drive wider economic activity across the nation. Seattle/WA is only ~3% of GDP but MS, Amazon, Starbucks, Boeing, CostCo drive GDP nationwide.
Poker is what?
Lmaooo dude deal with the fact that the only truly right-coded things are pedophilia, racism, misogyny, and stupidity and not necessarily in that order
what?
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Poker is what?
As I said in the thread - if you had to find a way to survive in San Diego on $130k WITH current housing costs it isn't going to be a lot of fun and could eat up 55-60% of your take home pay.
Right the dynamic here in San Diego is that you can live a perfectly normal middle-class life on $100k/year here... if you bought your house 15 years ago or otherwise have some sort of housing hookup like a subsidized BMR unit.
Other option is to live an hour+ away from where the jobs are
Other option is to live an hour+ away from where the jobs are
Even in San Diego, a family making 136k a year isn’t exactly working class, much less living in poverty! There are many, many people making much less than that
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As I said in the thread - if you had to find a way to survive in San Diego on $130k WITH current housing costs it isn't going to be a lot of fun and could eat up 55-60% of your take home pay.
No. Really? Shocking 🙄
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
No. Really? Shocking 🙄
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
I suppose my to back in the days I was on the hellsite of asking after the weather in St Petersburg was the right reaction.
And yet countries which prioritize rehabilitation over punishment seem to have better outcomes. Kinda weird that.
Not surprised to see Elon Musk supporting Cruel and unusual punishment.
Pretty sure this was the place innocent people were sent for life earlier this year
Wasn’t it viral for also being a suspected death camp, blood/bodies in Google earth?
Pretty sure this was the place innocent people were sent for life earlier this year
Wasn’t it viral for also being a suspected death camp, blood/bodies in Google earth?
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
And yet countries which prioritize rehabilitation over punishment seem to have better outcomes. Kinda weird that.
I remember having lounge access for an airline and standing looking at the lounge but finding out from the part of CDG I had found myself in that was essentially all I could do without doing some kind of mythic ring quest to retrace my steps to work out where I went wrong.
Truly insane that there’s nowhere to get a drink behind security at Charles de Gaulle. I demand that Interpol investigate
It's shocking that the nation that insists on having a bar next to every playground (good) doesn't have anything in their major airport.
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I remember having lounge access for an airline and standing looking at the lounge but finding out from the part of CDG I had found myself in that was essentially all I could do without doing some kind of mythic ring quest to retrace my steps to work out where I went wrong.
I have never seen a rugby match like that and fervently hope never to again.
IREvRSA
IREvRSA
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I have never seen a rugby match like that and fervently hope never to again.
IREvRSA
IREvRSA
It is the inevitability of some Boer here coming up to discuss the game with me after the match that has the acid reflux kicking in.
November 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It is the inevitability of some Boer here coming up to discuss the game with me after the match that has the acid reflux kicking in.
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Speaking as a ref, I think this is poor game management from Carley. If this is such an issue then speak to the captain. Irelands discipline is piss poor but Carley is taking the absolute piss
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Speaking as a ref, I think this is poor game management from Carley. If this is such an issue then speak to the captain. Irelands discipline is piss poor but Carley is taking the absolute piss
When did they bring in time limited red cards in rugby.
November 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
When did they bring in time limited red cards in rugby.
Ryan you bloody idiot. You didn’t need to do that.
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Ryan you bloody idiot. You didn’t need to do that.
This is going to be a long morning.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is going to be a long morning.
I have been talked into watching the Ireland game at the home of South African rugby in Seattle.
This could be depressing.
This could be depressing.
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I have been talked into watching the Ireland game at the home of South African rugby in Seattle.
This could be depressing.
This could be depressing.
Roofman is a very odd movie with an exceptional cast and, seems to, track closely to the true story it’s based on.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Roofman is a very odd movie with an exceptional cast and, seems to, track closely to the true story it’s based on.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
Unlike Play Date I think it’s probably 20 minutes longer than it needs to be.
I do not wish to damn with faint praise because it is genuinely a better movie than that, but Play Date is wayyyyyy better than it should be and a great deal of fun that does not overstay its welcome.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I do not wish to damn with faint praise because it is genuinely a better movie than that, but Play Date is wayyyyyy better than it should be and a great deal of fun that does not overstay its welcome.
Roofman.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Roofman.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.
Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Peter Dinkledge.
The movie is pedestrian but it’s pretty much entirely true and tracks closely to the true and very very very bizarre story.