Opening night for Star Trek: The Motion Picture at the El Con Theater in Tucson, maybe more for the excitement and anticipation while waiting in line for hours with hundreds of diehard Trekkies than the movie itself. Really made a shy nerd like me feel like I was part of a community.

The local TV weather broadcasters often use phrasing such as, "We will have 40% coverage of rain tomorrow", implying that the percentage means how much of the forecast area should expect rain. Is this misleading? TNX

I mean, I agree about walking down the middle of the gauge, but... we can only hope!

Finnish doesn't have gendered or neutral articles for that matter.

Our personal pronouns are gender-neutral. That's not something we did because it's woke. It's always been that way.

Thank goodness -

We got to skip that entire episode of culture wars.

"Props to the pilot" HUH?? It was a JET aircraft!!

Besides, if anyone got the props it was the bird.

I heard he tripped over a hassock right after Columbo turned and said, "Oh, just one more thing, sir... "

bsky.app/profile/robp...

It stopped me from looking at a photo of a shop dummy in a window! I assume the algorithm detected it as a naked human. I asked the poster what the image was that had been blocked for me which is how I know what it was. It's transparent though. Tells you something removed. Doesn't just disappear.

I use these services as augmentations to serve my needs, but rely on them as little as possible. Their tenuous nature makes it impossible to rely on them.

I would pay a princely sum to ANY stenographer who would simply challenge them by asking, "Prove it" knowing they would never risk access by doing their job.

Amusing how this result is how the web USED to work early 2000s! No nonsense webpages.

But the web has decayed badly with free sites monetizing ads and optimizing for SEO.

I have no illusions in another 5-10-15 years this approach (search via an LLM the web) could well decay

🎵 Well, the weather outside is frightful... 🎵

The Rs are running an invincible candidate named Jerry Mander in voting districts across this great nation of ours.

After the Nats played their 1924 throwback game against the Giants in 2012 everybody raved at how pleasant it was not to be assaulted by a constant barrage of noise.