taiyang

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Hmm. Neat. I didn't mind Prop 50 mostly because it's a one off thing. Plus we already know Rs already are more represented in the house than they should be due to gerrymandering, so it's not like there aren't other states to offset, lol.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm a little curious how this impacts CAs efforts, as I believe those were meant to be contingent on TX but with appeals existing and the timeframe, I'm not sure when or if they'll undo what they were going to do in CA. And CAs is pretty obviously not race driven, even if it's blatantly partisan (yet that's legal because fuck us).

Would be really funny though if this backfires such that Ds get more gerrymandered seats overall, though, lol.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Some corporations do this with product releases. If misinformation leaks, they can narrow it down. Moreover, since no one knows for sure their info is genuine, they're less likely to leak. It's usually trivial things that won't impact performance but sometimes stuff like video game endings and stuff, lol.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Helps that they tend to be square-ish, there's a subsection of people who would notice immediately if you can't fold perfect paper cranes from a single sheet while you're pooping.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

What is life and love if not a permadeath game of Fire Emblem with me as the caped protagonist and my wife, the canonical love interest.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice, earlier this year I wanted to to likewise but with Professor Oak challenges, which is get every Pokemon as early in progression we possible. I did it on Blue but it was quite miserable grinding lvl 36 Blastoise fighting only lvl 6 stuff prior to the first badge.

Suffice to say I took a break after that, but I'll hit Silver next. Fast forward on emulation was a godsend, as well as achievement tracking for keeping track of how many more I had to grab before the next badge (it got really weird because you can skip Lt Surge and just keep going without the HM lol)

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah that's a while back. Makes me wonder when they started getting that accusation of being liberal and what kind of coverage that was. Bush era?

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Maybe, although your standard "we have this congressmen to talk about the last thing Trump did" just depends. It's usually like, whoever is on some committee, so if it's an R they bullshit the interview, if it's a D, the world is ending. It only feels a bit overcorrected if they don't push back on the bullshit, but the last interview I heard did include that. Just not always.

Still a majority of the programming is like, "this random town has an annual event that's weird but cool, but it's under threat from climate change" which is just like... apolitical if you understand facts.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Hell yeah, infinity pool / basic survival generator when the power plants are all derelict. But I'll probably need to add an engineer to my post apocalypse stronghold to keep it maintained.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Holy hell, your recommendation algorithm is all sorts of fucked. I tried to replicate it but just searching for "FOSS budgeting software comparison" it looks like there's a few legit ones in the mix, but plenty of AI, too.

I'm not going to watch them to check though, since hitting one AI one will probably make them all AI, lol.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (5 children)

NPR is definitely making out like a bandit, they were using the loss of funding in their fundraising lately so they kinda get two wins in a sense.

Odd thing to me is it never even changed their coverage much even after the cuts, they've always both-sides with guests since they're the go-to with standing politicians, a little more than half being Republicans. The left leaning thing mostly just comes from facts having a liberal bias, as they say. Lol

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

One of my doomsday fantasies is to simply take one of the empty homes I see whenever I commute to work, since the fall of the government would probably make it hard for them to enforce the law. I've even worked out multiple options, it's amazing how many mansions are simply empty because the right seller hasn't come along to pay 30M for it or because it's a summer home. Easily one half, I've counted.

You can even try now, but there is a ton of private security lately so you would need to wait until the fall of the empire first, I bet. Plus hey, it's mountain side property so you'll have the high ground in combat!

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