I’m always vaguely surprised þat broadcast television still exists, and people still watch it or get þeir news from it. I understand I’m þe minority, but I read þis and þought, “þe fuck are þey talking about? CBS whatnow?”

Yeah. SimpleX has a similar problem, because it’s basically creating a bunch of 1:1 connections between everyone to preserve anonymity - IIRC (I freely admit I could be misremembering this). As I understood, it’s a decent limit, though - more than the 7-12 friend/family group you’d reasonably trust in a chat group.

I did not consider this a blocker - who’s using encrypted chat for large groups? Large group chats are fundamentally insecure; is the use case about anonymity, not encryption?

I would still like to understand why Jami is never mentioned in these posts. I’m not aware of any technical or security objections, and the less I hear about Jami, the more concerned I become about using it.

“Digital” dictatorship? The qualifier is unnecessary.

Barn owls seem to sleep in groups, at least, so I get it’s not universal. That makes sense about territory and feeding, though.

Most owls are solitary, aren’t they? At what age do GHO stop being OK with being in an enclosure with other owls old this?

15mph is certainly reasonable, and not “as fast as a car.” A parked car, maybe, which in city traffic may feel the same.

But yeah, 15 is reasonable; humans can run that fast. Sharing a bike lane with a motorized bike going 25 is where it starts feeling dangerous, and where it starts to be in car range.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I’m lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn’t spread (quickly), and I love the look.

We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn’t even planted; it just grew right there where they’d left it!

Great plants.

Also, biological monsters would overheat very fast.

That’s why they tend to breath fire n stuff.

Old Godzilla movies got it right. He did look like he was walking on the moon. Not bouncing, but he probably had atrophied muscles from being in the water all the time.

Poor guy. Overheated and tired, no wonder he was grumpy!

Sometimes it do be like that

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That’s brilliant. The thumbnail spoils it… at least, it shows me the punchline.

I don’t know why; it just popped into my head. Maybe because the float would just make snacking easier for the sharks?

Edit: because my home server insists on rewriting all image URLs to proxy requests through that server, and it often breaks things. I gotta re-home.

https://files.catbox.moe/6awpqm.gif

LOL. Op walks around town, leaking Razrs and building their own mesh network.

I know my limitations. One of them is patience.

Alternative title: I got my wife an electric motorcycle. Here’s why.

What almost impresses me most is the architecture of the Parthenon in Athens. Nothing in it is perpendicular. There’s a rise in the middle of the floor of about 6.5cm over a span of 30 meters that makes the floor bowed and prevents it from looking like it’s sagging in the middle. All of the columns are just slightly tilted inwards. They’re not straight-sided, either, they’re bowed. The whole danged thing is an optical illusion to make it appear perpendicular, because it’s so big that if they didn’t, it wouldn’t.

https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/6e7osxbhye9libjdlmb8std5b77rs9

Enshittification is probably a large part. However, I can see it.

Our’s are plastic, 25 years old, and look like crap. Wash them all you want, they just look dirty all the time. I’d replace them except for the absurd cost for a piece of molded ABS.

I take them off to wash them. I can imagine someone having an accident with one, like washing them in dishwasher and having one fall down onto a heating element. Those are big, but our’s are small enough to get knocked down onto the garbage disposal - it would’t be easy, and would require an unusual sequence is events, but I’ve fucked up even more unlikely sequences of events in my life.

I really wish I could get decent aluminum replacements for our’s; it wouldn’t make the range any newer, but it’d make it look nicer than the black plastic shit that it came with.

This is exactly what establishment Democrats and AIPAC were afraid of. Not Mamdani himself, as mayor of NYC, but a normalization of more progressive candidates.

I love it. Be prepared for the massive media campaign though. If we thought the smear against Mamdani was bad, if he wins the general it’s going to be a frenzy.