The Bob Cesca Podcast: I Smell The Cheeses That You Eat

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

I Smell The Cheeses That You Eat — Trump’s criminal fraud trial continues…now with farts! Judge Merchan weighs contempt charges. Trump attacked witness Michael Cohen. Rolling Stone says Trump is pissed about the press coverage. Mary Trump says he’s terrified. Jon Stewart’s reaction to the press coverage. Lawrence O’Donnell continues to troll Donald. The House Republican FART task force. Person 16 says Trump tried to bribe Walt Nauta. Troth Senchul continues to collapse. Trump flip-flopped on TikTok. With Buzz Burbank, music by Everyday Dolores, Freekbass, and more!

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179 comments
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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:03:18pm

Foreign aid package could pass the Senate late today or tomorrow.

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:04:19pm

Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social

Bill to arm teachers in Tennessee passes amid screams
State Troopers are clearing the gallery

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:04:59pm

Armed teachers unwelcome in the statehouse gallery.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:08:13pm

Tennessee passes bill allowing teachers to carry guns.

What could go wrong with that?

Well maybe if Mr. Smith the math teacher flunked Jimmy Jockstrap the star football player and Jimmy confronts Mr. Smith, gets the gun and shoots Mr. Smith…oh but that couldn’t happen now, could it????

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:09:25pm

I’ve seen folks theorize that Trump is deliberately flouting the gag order because he wants to be jailed, to turn himself into even more of a martyr.

I don’t think so. His narcissistic self-image is already cracked, but being jailed would be the last straw.

I think he simply cannot help himself.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-23T20:08:03.000Z

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:12:30pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

He lied about it after court today, saying he wasn’t allowed to speak at all. Whiny ass little baby.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:12:31pm

re: #2 jaunte

Are they paying to train these teachers in firearm safety?

Otherwise, what we have are a bunch of underpaid, stressed out people being handed deadly weapons.

Not a great combination.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:15:35pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

Are they paying to train these teachers in firearm safety?

Otherwise, what we have are a bunch of underpaid, stressed out people being handed deadly weapons.

Not a great combination.

The GOP is always going to double down on MOAR GUNZ!!! as the solution to gun violence.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:16:26pm

re: #8 No Malarkey!

The GOP is always going to double down on MOAR GUNZ!!! as the solution to gun violence.

If everyone shoots everyone else, it does solve a lot of problems.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:23:53pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

Are they paying to train these teachers in firearm safety?

Otherwise, what we have are a bunch of underpaid, stressed out people being handed deadly weapons.

Not a great combination.

I suspect the plan is that you then find people who are willing to handle a weapon and make them teachers, on the assumption that those people will be ideologically appropriate to control children. The end game here isn’t keeping kids safe from actual harm, but creating a new class of lethal enforcement where “the teacher” can kill as long as certain key pretexts are established.

Conservatives want schools to train children to be compliant, and integrating the inevitability of violence from authority as young as possible advances that goal. Yes, this will probably backfire in a variety of gross ways—death being just one option, with many more amounting to “I did what the teacher said because they had a gun”—but they’re willing to take that chance because that violence/coercion will not be applied equally, and their kid will of course be high-caste and thus subject to less scrutiny.

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dat_said  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:25:46pm

CBS News: FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to quit. Here’s what to know.

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 to approve the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take effect in 120 days. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. For all other employees, existing noncompetes are not enforceable.

Will likely be challenged in court but this should have happened decades ago.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:26:20pm

re: #1 No Malarkey!

Foreign aid package could pass the Senate late today or tomorrow.

1 Democracy - 0 MAGA/Nazism

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:27:06pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

Are they paying to train these teachers in firearm safety?

Surprisingly, it does include a requirement for training, but I don’t think the state pays for it.

But check out some of the other ‘“features” of this bill.

Under the legislation, the identities of school staffers who sign up to carry guns is known only to those who approve participants. That means parents would not be told whether their school opted into the program, whether anyone at their child’s campus is armed or whether their own child’s teacher has a gun in the classroom, lawmakers said. Parents also would not know whether their child’s teacher might leave the classroom to respond to a shooting during an attack.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:28:45pm

“And in Tennessee today, one teacher was killed and three other people were seriously wounded when an argument over test scores spiraled into violence…”

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:31:54pm

It’s $3,500, and the only thing it seems to be the best option for is 3D movies, so this does not surprise me. Even being as good as a pair of monitors isn’t good enough for work, if a desk and a pair of real 4K monitors are an option for you. My 27” made in China 4K monitors cost me $250 each.

Apple Cuts Vision Pro Shipments as Demand Falls ‘Sharply Beyond Expectations’

Apple has dropped the number of Vision Pro units that it plans to ship in 2024, going from an expected 700 to 800k units to just 400k to 450k units, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

Orders have been scaled back before the Vision Pro has launched in markets outside of the United States, which Kuo says is a sign that demand in the U.S. has “fallen sharply beyond expectations.” As a result, Apple is expected to take a “conservative view” of headset demand when the Vision Pro launches in additional countries.

Kuo previously said that Apple will introduce the Vision Pro in new markets before the June Worldwide Developers Conference, which suggests that we could see it available in additional areas in the next month or so.

Apple is expecting Vision Pro shipments to decline year-over-year in 2025 compared to 2024, and the company is said to be “reviewing and adjusting” its headset product roadmap. Kuo does not believe there will be a new Vision Pro model in 2025, an adjustment to a prior report suggesting a modified version of the Vision Pro would enter mass production late next year.

macrumors.com

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:35:29pm

America’s first high speed rail of course goes through empty desert to Sin City.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:35:55pm

re: #8 No Malarkey!

The GOP is always going to double down on MOAR GUNZ!!! as the solution to gun violence.

Just keep in mind that the GOP hasn’t figured out yet how to get guns only in the hands of people they like without it being obvious they’re building a multi-prejudice oligarchy where the armed are mostly pointing guns at unarmed untermenschen. If you look at how conservatives justify police shootings of black men—by arguing a kind of persistent intangible threat inherent to blackness—you can get a picture of how sincere they are about self-defense as a right. If they could figure out how to ban firearms for only brown folks and leftists they’d do it in a second.

All of their “threat is a vibe” laws like Stand Your Ground are attempts to codify a hierarchy—who can kill and who can be killed—without explicitly saying aloud that they’re trying to establish many categories of un-person that will be permitted no right to live, and an elect with a broad right to summarily kill others.

Basically, they’re articulating a right to lynch.

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gocart mozart  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:36:39pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:37:20pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s $3,500, and the only thing it seems to be the best option for is 3D movies, so this does not surprise me. Even being as good as a pair of monitors isn’t good enough for work, if a desk and a pair of real 4K monitors are an option for you. My 27” made in China 4K monitors cost me $250 each.

macrumors.com

My friend bought his girlfriend’s kids a VR headset that cost a couple hundred dollars. Kid likes it just fine. My friend is an Apple fanboi and he’s like, $4000? Nope.

Plus, it’s heavy and would be uncomfortable for wearing any length of time. This bad boy ain’t done cooking yet.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:37:59pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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It’s just a shame that he’s not in shackles.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:39:35pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

Good. Cry more, bitch.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:39:43pm

re: #19 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My friend bought his girlfriend’s kids a VR headset that cost a couple hundred dollars. Kid likes it just fine. My friend is an Apple fanboi and he’s like, $4000? Nope.

Plus, it’s heavy and would be uncomfortable for wearing any length of time. This bad boy ain’t done cooking yet.

It’s already pushed Meta to make software improvements on Quest, with more to come, so I’m happy that Apple made this expensive headset.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:40:37pm

re: #22 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s already pushed Meta to make software improvements on Quest, with more to come, so I’m happy that Apple made this expensive headset.

I’ll look at it in probably two years.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:42:03pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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I was trying to get a screengrab of his crazy eyes and caught this beauty by luck….

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garzooma  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:42:44pm

re: #16 No Malarkey!

America’s first high speed rail of course goes through empty desert to Sin City.

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Empty desert simplifies acquiring rights of way.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:43:22pm

re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Good. Cry more, bitch.

He’s not crying he’s speaking to his audience of reactionaries that are willing to accept that the entire process is illegitimate and act accordingly.

Don’t let schadenfreude overrun the fact that this is an incredibly dangerous person who’s one skill is manipulating people.

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Jay C  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:43:39pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

No one has ever looked more alone than trump does in that video

Great, isn’t it?

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:44:49pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I think Apple is really missing Jony Ive right now

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:46:42pm

re: #53 A Cranky One

Our society still has a hard time publicly admitting “sex worker”.

Trump used a sex worker and then illegally used campaign money to cover it.

But again, much of American society just refuses to say “sex worker”.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:46:56pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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Trump: “Having to do with the schools, and the closings, that’s all Biden’s fault….”

WTF is he talking about?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:47:30pm

I can think of way better things to do with $3500 than buying an Apple VR headset.

They probably thought everyone was going to flock to it because “oooh! Shiny new Apple thing!” but VR headsets are still (IMO) a niche product and won’t gain wide adoption for a while yet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:49:10pm

re: #30 Dr. Matt

Trump: “Having to do with the schools, and the closings, that’s all Biden’s fault….”

WTF is he talking about?

Columbia and the Palestinian protests.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:49:42pm

re: #30 Dr. Matt

Trump: “Having to do with the schools, and the closings, that’s all Biden’s fault….”

WTF is he talking about?

Columbia, with a side of NYU.

Let me help, I speak Asshole.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:50:14pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Any helmet-esque device is always going to be turned down by the masses.

re: #28 Lancelot Link Returns!

I think Apple is really missing Jony Ive right now

Ive, I and others will argue, had his down sides too.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:57:18pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Any helmet-esque device is always going to be turned down by the masses.

Ive, I and others will argue, had his down sides too.

They’re not helmet like at all, though some people who speak another primary language call it a “helmet” when posting in English, and about once a month some kid posts to a VR sub about their great new idea to insert a VR system into a helmet, and has to be told it’s a terrible idea due to trapping heat.

It’s older people who won’t wear a headset. Kids are wearing them, and would continue to use them as adults, so we don’t even need the form to get smaller, but it will.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:57:49pm

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

I can think of way better things to do with $3500 than buying an Apple VR headset.

They probably thought everyone was going to flock to it because “oooh! Shiny new Apple thing!” but VR headsets are still (IMO) a niche product and won’t gain wide adoption for a while yet.

The real problem with the Vision Pro is that it should have cost twenty times as much and been marketed to the DOD as a situational awareness helmet system for tank commanders, integrating with cameras around the vehicle letting the commander spot and designate targets by simply turning their head and seeing virtually “through” the tank. Apple is absolutely the wrong company to market that but I’m guessing we’ll see something very similar playing that role soon.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:00:15pm

I love it when they announce in advance that they are going to keep moving the goalposts.

— Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) 2024-04-21T18:34:11.618Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:03:01pm

re: #36 goddamnedfrank

The real problem with the Vision Pro is that it should have cost twenty times as much and been marketed to the DOD as a situational awareness helmet system for tank commanders, integrating with cameras around the vehicle letting the commander spot and designate targets by simply turning their head and seeing virtually “through” the tank. Apple is absolutely the wrong company to market that but I’m guessing we’ll see something very similar playing that role soon.

The military might reject it due to the smearing on the microOLED screen. Microsoft went that route, but the military rejected Hololens because the image displayed could not be seen clearly in the field.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:03:15pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

Surprisingly, it does include a requirement for training, but I don’t think the state pays for it.

Lesson # 1

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This one is for bad guys
This one is for fun

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:14:24pm

re: #35 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

They’re not helmet like at all, though some people who speak another primary language call it a “helmet” when posting in English, and about once a month some kid posts to a VR sub about their great new idea to insert a VR system into a helmet, and has to be told it’s a terrible idea due to trapping heat.

It’s older people who won’t wear a headset. Kids are wearing them, and would continue to use them as adults, so we don’t even need the form to get smaller, but it will.

mom-in-law has macular degeneration
she’s 95, lives ‘unassisted’ in a senior community
she tried this Irisvision VR headset

merely wearing this was problematic

i dont know how they’ve been able to sell them.
the programming is not really ready for consumer use.
the remote was inconsistent as were the voice commands.
simply turning it on/off or recharging was a major battle for mrsdm herself

$3k and it’s not an Apple level company…

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:15:49pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

Emotional Support Printouts.

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Jay C  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:16:07pm

Via Balloon Juice:

In case it hasn’t been noted, the Senate has voted this afternoon to limit debate on the foreign-aid (Ukraine) supplemental, so it will be going up for a final vote possibly as early as this evening (dependent on how much posturing-time will be allocated)- and then off to President Biden’s desk ASAP.

Though they do note that the Senate Minority Leader (old McTurtle) did use some of his floor time to blame Joe Biden for the invasion of Ukraine - something about Afghanistan - but never mind….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:17:21pm

I messed around with an Oculus Quest awhile back.

It was neat and some of the apps raised some interesting possibilities, but I also found it disorienting and mildly claustrophobic.

VR headsets have to be one of the most antisocial products out there.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:18:35pm

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

Eagerly awaiting the first of many reports of Tennessee teachers accidentally leaving their firearms on their desk while stepping out of the classroom.

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sagehen  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:19:01pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

Are they paying to train these teachers in firearm safety?

Otherwise, what we have are a bunch of underpaid, stressed out people being handed deadly weapons..

People who can’t be trusted to choose library books.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:19:09pm

re: #40 Dangerman

That’s not a VR headset.
It’s IrisVision’s super-clunky low-vision headset.

This one is better looking, but still extremely clunky.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:20:33pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I messed around with an Oculus Quest awhile back.

It was neat and some of the apps raised some interesting possibilities, but I also found it disorienting and mildly claustrophobic.

VR headsets have to be one of the most antisocial products out there.

That’s the perception from people who do not understand VR at all. Social VR is huge. It’s too freaky for me, but it’s very popular.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:27:18pm

re: #46 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

That’s not a VR headset.
It’s IrisVision’s super-clunky low-vision headset.

This one is better looking, but still extremely clunky.

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yes i know
i was responding mostly to older people will have a hard time wearing anything like it

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:31:03pm
Said McConnell: “The demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he should have been all along, which is interviewing Vladimir Putin. And so he had an enormous audience, which convinced a lot of rank and file Republicans that maybe this was a mistake.”

He added: “I think the former president had sort of mixed views… which requires you to deal with Democrats, and then a number of our members thought it wasn’t good enough. And then our nominee for president didn’t seem to want us to do anything at all. That took months to work our way through it

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gocart mozart  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:36:33pm
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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:37:02pm

re: #48 Dangerman

yes i know
i was responding mostly to older people will have a hard time wearing anything like it

Something that straps to your head has the advantage of not resting on your nose. The nicer-looking low-vision headset may be much less comfortable than the clunky one is.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:41:37pm

Capitalists when a beloved family business closes: “it sucks but you just gotta let the free market speak!”

Capitalists when the expensive AI device that was gonna “change everything” sucks: “noooo don’t give my special product a bad review I’m an innovator I deserve special treatment!”

— Padishah Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 (@kennedytcooper.bsky.social) 2024-04-18T14:21:50.830Z

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:45:06pm

re: #50 gocart mozart

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She was killed by a black lady while wearing blackface in 1981.

Without more details, I’d think she looked for trouble and found it, but it was a drunk driving incident.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:46:16pm

re: #52 The Ghost of a Flea

Has 2024 been an absolutely dogshit year for consumer tech? No, it’s the harsh reviewers who are wrong.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:51:20pm

2 of Charlie Jerk’s stooges admit to assaulting LGBT professor

(I wince at the headline at the UK Guardian)

theguardian.com

Turning Point USA’s Kalen D’Almeida and Braden Ellis accosted the Arizona State University (ASU) professor David Boyles last October, hounding him about his sexuality and the classes he teaches. Boyles is an English instructor and the co-founder of Drag Story Hour Arizona.

At one point, D’Almeida pushed Boyles to the ground, bloodying his face. Boyles posted an image of his injuries online at the time, saying his physical injuries were “relatively minor” but that he felt “angry, violated, embarrassed and despairing at the fact that we have come to normalize this kind of harassment and violence” against the LGBTQ+ community.

Both D’Almeida and Ellis signed diversion agreements with prosecutors that acknowledge they committed the offenses and enter them into an educational program to avoid convictions, Phoenix TV station 12News reported.

D’Almeida, who was charged with misdemeanors for assault, harassment and disorderly conduct, and Ellis, charged with misdemeanor harassment, had previously pleaded not guilty and, in the immediate aftermath of the incident, the organization said Ellis, who works as its cameraman, would pursue charges against Boyles.

Boyles told the Guardian he was “disappointed but not surprised” that the county attorney pursued “the lightest possible slap on the wrist” for the Turning Point employees, but that he was gratified to see that “the two hateful losers who stalked, harassed, and assaulted me at my place of work last October have admitted their guilt”.

“I hope this incident has made people aware that Turning Point USA does not care about free speech or serious debate but instead trades in hateful and bigoted rhetoric solely to ‘create content’ for their endless tedious podcasts and to stoke fear and violence in the real world,” Boyles said in a statement. “And I hope administrators at Arizona State and other universities will work to protect their LGBTQ+ students, staff, and faculty by no longer indulging and coddling organizations like TPUSA.”

Turning Point USA said in a statement that it was “uninvolved in this matter, and the decision on the correct legal course had been left entirely to our reporters and their counsel”.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:52:05pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:53:46pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:56:34pm

The rants will continue until a vein explodes.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:56:34pm

re: #57 No Malarkey!

MAGAts are by-and-large scared of the big cities.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:58:02pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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There is zero chance he thinks that strategically. Or at least he would never want to take it that far.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:02:03pm

re: #56 The Ghost of a Flea

We Can, and We Must, Clown on the Humane AI Pin Forever

The visible part of that article isn’t even about the humane AI pin.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:02:16pm

re: #37 The Ghost of a Flea

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Shorter answer: Fuck your feelings.

Alternative answer: We know you think that your mental health and emotional well-being have improved, but we know better.

Oh, and homeopathy and transitioning/gender affirming care are totes the same!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:03:50pm

re: #61 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Whoops.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:09:24pm
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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:09:44pm

Quick two cents on the Apple headset conversation:

You can pretty much substitute “Macintosh” for “Apple Vision Pro” in every complaint/criticism/mockery you’re seeing right now, and you basically have every dig leveled at the original 128K Mac from 1984.

It took a while but PCs in general and Macs in particular eventually found their footing. People shit all over the watch for the first year or two as well, until they were able to fine tune their message on it.

And, yeah, I know: look at the Newton. Pobody’s nerfect, LOL.

I’m a three decade Apple customer, and have no intention of getting this thing: too expensive and doesn’t solve any immediate problems. That said, I wouldn’t count Apple out on this. It’s entirely possible we’ll be wearing smart glasses that are direct descendants of what Apple’s doing now.

Or this could be the thing that destroys them. There: all bases covered.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:09:48pm

re: #62 Mike Lamb

Shorter answer: Fuck your feelings.

Alternative answer: We know you think that your mental health and emotional well-being have improved, but we know better.

Oh, and homeopathy and transitioning/gender affirming care are totes the same!

“Well, sweety, that’s nice but have you considered that your body is not your own?”

The Cass Report is wretched, but the unqualified commentators that have accepted it because it confirms their position of “I have questions and I refuse to accept answer that involve trans people being able to make their own decisions” are exactly the same shit weasels you’d expect, because they’ve done the same paternalism gig for everything they comment on.

I feel like our public spaces are governed by narcissists, because those are the only people that imagine they constantly have good ideas.

I’d never write a daily column; I can visualize my personal obsessions as a 5x5 bingo card and that stymies me.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:10:50pm

Scientists have detected the Nazi base on the moon.

Scientists discover gigantic ‘structure’ under the surface of the Moon

The Moon has been a subject of awe and fascination for millennia, with its shape-shifting powers and enigmatic dark side.

And though it’s the one celestial body on which man has taken (small) steps, we still have big leaps to go in understanding its potential and uncovering its secrets.

However, one hidden feature of the Moon has been unearthed by scientists and it’s very, very big, and very, very heavy.

Buried beneath its South Pole-Aitken basin - one of the largest preserved craters in the Solar System - is a structure which weighs at least 2.18 billion kilogrammes and measures more than 300km (186 miles) in depth and 2,000km (1,243 miles) in length.

indy100.com

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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:12:19pm

via

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:14:46pm

re: #67 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Scientists have detected the Nazi base on the moon.

indy100.com

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Nah, that’s the Tsarist base. The Tungunska Event was actually the launch of Russian Imperial Space Fleet and it’s colony ship.

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:16:05pm

re: #67 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

“…Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” said lead author Peter B. James, Ph.D., assistant professor of planetary geophysics in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences.”
news.web.baylor.edu

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:17:35pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Apparenrly George Santos is on Cameo & you can pay him to pretty much say anything. | TizzyEnt on TikTok

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:18:33pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Apparenrly George Santos is on Cameo & you can pay him to pretty much say anything. | TizzyEnt on TikTok

Will he sing “Word Up”?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:20:26pm

re: #68 jeffreyw

mmm pop-tarts

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:22:57pm

re: #72 Joe Bacon ✅

For $250 one can find out.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:23:12pm

re: #49 Dangerman

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retired cynic  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:27:53pm

Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the environment
wapo.st (gift link)

Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the world has experienced profound ecological changes. Wildlife populations have decreased by 69 percent, the result of habitat loss caused by rapid industrialization and changing temperatures. 2023 was the hottest year on record.
Certain ancient practices could mitigate the deleterious effects of global warming. From building seaside gardens to water management in desert terrain, these time-honored practices work with the natural world’s rhythms. Some might even hold the key to a more resilient future and a means of building security for both Indigenous communities and other groups disproportionately impacted by climate change.

This article fascinates me. We may all be doing variations on these things in the future.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:28:57pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:32:49pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:33:38pm

re: #1 No Malarkey!

Foreign aid package could pass the Senate late today or tomorrow.

Suck it, Moscow Marge!! She must be seething somewhere. 😂 😂

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:34:54pm
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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:35:08pm

re: #78 Dangerman

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steve_davis  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:39:38pm

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

Tennessee passes bill allowing teachers to carry guns.

What could go wrong with that?

Well maybe if Mr. Smith the math teacher flunked Jimmy Jockstrap the star football player and Jimmy confronts Mr. Smith, gets the gun and shoots Mr. Smith…oh but that couldn’t happen now, could it????

or more likely, some teacher goes postal at some point and kills an entire classroom of third graders…..

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:39:59pm

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

So nice not to have to hear his voice or read his screeds. I pray it will stay that way indefinitely. Although I will watch when he gets dragged away after a guilty verdict. 😊

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:41:06pm

re: #81 Dangerman

I’m an American person and I’m only outraged that other American persons vote for idiots like Moscow Marge and Gym Jordan.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:42:30pm

re: #81 Dangerman

I mean, she’s being honest about how Republicans view American-ness: most people in the country don’t count.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:43:56pm

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

I’m an American person and I’m only outraged that other American persons vote for idiots like Moscow Marge and Gym Jordan.

I’ve caught myself accidentally capitalizing the word “gym” inappropriately after typing and reading “Gym” in reference to Jordan so many times.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:45:42pm

re: #81 Dangerman

Big, muscular Americans with tears in their eyes, right Marge?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:45:52pm

Mastodon

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coin operated  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:48:37pm

re: #4 Joe Bacon ✅

Tennessee passes bill allowing teachers to carry guns.

What could go wrong with that?

Well maybe if Mr. Smith the math teacher flunked Jimmy Jockstrap the star football player and Jimmy confronts Mr. Smith, gets the gun and shoots Mr. Smith…oh but that couldn’t happen now, could it????

Or, a variation on Jim Jeffreys 2A rant. Students relentlessly heckle a substitute teacher to the point of tears. “Let’s give that **** a gun and see what happens”

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:49:17pm

re: #69 The Ghost of a Flea

Nah, that’s the Tsarist base. The Tungunska Event was actually the launch of Russian Imperial Space Fleet and it’s colony ship.

If anyone would actually build a ship with a Project Orion drive, and use it in atmosphere, devastating the launch zone, it’s the Russians.

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:49:59pm

re: #43 Eclectic Cyborg

I messed around with an Oculus Quest awhile back.

It was neat and some of the apps raised some interesting possibilities, but I also found it disorienting and mildly claustrophobic.

VR headsets have to be one of the most antisocial products out there.

Get a group around you with a VR set and they will laugh over and over. Get one and stay by yourself and you can connect to people all across the world, like my brother does when playing the guests where you are game where you get dropped in a 3D location with others.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:50:53pm

re: #88 Backwoods Sleuth

Why is it hard for so many people to protest Israeli military actions without devolving into antisemitism? I’ve traveled to several countries and never been subjected to hate based on America’s military excursions (many of which I didn’t support). It’s easy not to generalize.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:09:02pm

re: #24 Dr. Matt

I was trying to get a screengrab of his crazy eyes and caught this beauty by luck….

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:09:55pm

re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Our society still has a hard time publicly admitting “sex worker”.

Trump used a sex worker and then illegally used campaign money to cover it.

But again, much of American society just refuses to say “sex worker”.

Because “whore” is much more acceptable.
/

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:12:36pm

re: #78 Dangerman

Why vote when it’s rigged anyway?!

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:15:05pm

re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus

Why vote when it’s rigged anyway?!

Your votes will be changed by Soros, Republicans. Just sit this election in November out, okay?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:15:06pm

Mastodon

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silverdolphin  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:15:13pm

re: #65 Mattand

Quick two cents on the Apple headset conversation:

You can pretty much substitute “Macintosh” for “Apple Vision Pro” in every complaint/criticism/mockery you’re seeing right now, and you basically have every dig leveled at the original 128K Mac from 1984.

It took a while but PCs in general and Macs in particular eventually found their footing. People shit all over the watch for the first year or two as well, until they were able to fine tune their message on it.

And, yeah, I know: look at the Newton. Pobody’s nerfect, LOL.

I’m a three decade Apple customer, and have no intention of getting this thing: too expensive and doesn’t solve any immediate problems. That said, I wouldn’t count Apple out on this. It’s entirely possible we’ll be wearing smart glasses that are direct descendants of what Apple’s doing now.

Or this could be the thing that destroys them. There: all bases covered.

TL:DR I own an AVP and it is awesome for reasons I had not anticipated. It is an historic device, like the 128K Mac.

___________________

I actually own an Apple Vision Pro and, just turning 68, I think I also fit into the old people demographic. You have to really use one for a period of time to get it I think. And some may never (just like the CLI vs GUI views with the original 128K Mac) If you are a visual learner, the AVP willastound you.

I think it is the Mac of an entirely new way to interact with a computer. Like the original 128K, it is expensive, with seemingly little to recommend it. But I bought the original after I saw a demo where they simply selected part of a picture and moved it. Astounding. I knew computers would never be the same.

Let me give some personal insights:

1. Proper fit is everything. Many people think they have to tighten the hell out of it, when simply moving the back strap up or down until pressure is equalized makes all the difference. I have worn the AVP sitting in my chair for more than 4 hours with no discomfort, either on my head or neck.

1a: I have inserts to correct my vision. On my eyes, this corrects near vision but things far away are a little blurry. But since almost everything is close, this is not bothersome. It is totally unotieable on videos which are just amazingly crisp. BUt I can see how anyone with a complex Prescription could be hampered.

2. Post-processed 3D movies are not really worth it. They obviously split the 3d dimension into planes, so that most everything moves left-right, up-down wth little comnig to or away from you. Pre-processed 3D movies, on the other hand, are amazing. It almost allows me to watch Avatar and ignore all the colonialism because it is so immersive. Apple’s own Immersive viseos are the same and I am looking forward to more coming from Apple. The short soccer highlights they dropped were amazing and I hope that someday they could put together a live event (my guess is that this will only work for people with big streaming pipes)

3. But watching regular movies is more amazing than I ever expected. I can watch the movie in an immersive theater on a wide screen (HBO lets me watch it in the Game of Thrones throne room while Disney+ gives me even more choices) that extends across my entire field of view, where I can change my location from front to middle to back of the floor or balcony. My brain quickly forgets I am sitting in my chair and I get into that dreamlike state that a real movie provides. It is amazing to raise my hand to check the time and see my arm and Apple watch be placed into this immersive theater. ANd not have to be interrupted by people around me. (But, as I mention below, I think it will not be too hard for many people with an AVP to watch a movie while all sitting in the same “theater”. We just need network effects of multple AVP owners to allow this to happen)

4. And, unexpectedly, watching a regular TV show is one of the more incredible experiences. Last night I set up the immersive Mt. Hood or Haleakula at night time, and then watched episodes of “Fallout”. I really cannot tell if it is ust an amazing show or if the AVP ehnaces it so much as to make it astounding. It seems like I am right there, geting involved in the video on a level I never have before for any TV program. I completely lost the immersive bacground and only see the Wasteland, the Ghoul, etc. Remember when we watched TVs from 13 inches away. Now we can to that wihout worrying about radiation. I love watching action TV shows on the AVP (Reacher was just amazing). This is an experience like no other. Watching them on a 56 inch screen in the living room now seems to…small.

5. Using my eyes to highlight things and my fingers to select is every bit as revolutionary as a mouse. I think this is technology we will see elsewhere.

6. The battery is big and heavy. But I can put it in a pocket, even plugged and forget about it.

6a. Get a very comfortable chair, While immersed you are not as likely to move as much.

7. Something I have not seen anywhere, and could be a killer some day, is that Apple’s Keynote app is now integrated with AVP. So, instead of doing a virtual rehearsal, with a display and next up screen showing the time, on m laptop, I can give my talk standing on a stage, looking out at an audience (I imagine it is the Steve Jobs auditorium), with a ceiling to floor display behind me. I can turn to look at the screen and see what it shows the audience as well as keeping my display and next-up screen in front of me. I can point at a part of the huge screen and a red dot appears for me to highlight, just like a real laser pointer. I can then turn back to address the audience. I can rehearse a speech in a totally realistic fashion, but without the applause :-(. They also have an immersive background inside a conference room, with a table and chairs around it. I can stand at the front or the back of the room to give my talk (Don’t walk around yet since I would likely trip over something). Think what will happen when the network effects get big enough, and enough people have AVP provided by the company, for the chairs to be populated with immersive avatars of your coworkers, just like a real meeting (Facetime will likely easily allow this). And they can ask questions. Or applaud. I think that this could be a killer use but it does require enough people to have the AVP.

No computer today looks like a 128K Mac but all of them show a direct lineage to its innovative approaches. I think AVP will do the same. As for me, it is cheaper than a 128K Mac and does things I still find amazing. Like the original Mac, it will take some time for its ideas to penetrate, and the final products may not look exactly like it. But I firmly believe it is more Mac than Newton in its historical reach.

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:16:53pm

re: #94 Ace Rothstein

Because “whore” is much more acceptable.
/

I prefer “socialator” from the original Battlestar Galactica series, myself.

/

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:19:18pm

Universities can go to hell in claiming that the safety of their students is their highest priority.

— Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) 2024-04-23T22:52:48.206Z

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silverdolphin  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:20:25pm

re: #92 Patricia Kayden

Why is it hard for so many people to protest Israeli military actions without devolving into antisemitism? I’ve traveled to several countries and never been subjected to hate based on America’s military excursions (many of which I didn’t support). It’s easy not to generalize.

I am guessing that provocateurs funded by Putin are behind the most virulent protests, counting on fellow travelers to, well, follow along (Geez, do I sound like a member of HUAAC or what ;-) The world is really strange today. But the original COlumba protests by the students were peaceful and not too virulent. It was the protests outside by non-students that escalated things. Then the authorities got involved and comingled them all..

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:21:16pm

re: #98 silverdolphin

1a: I have inserts to correct my vision. On my eyes, this corrects near vision but things far away are a little blurry. But since almost everything is close, this is not bothersome. It is totally unotieable on videos which are just amazingly crisp. BUt I can see how anyone with a complex Prescription could be hampered.

Everything is the same distance in the AVP, just like other VR headsets, so it corrects your vision entirely. Far away objects are represented by fewer pixels, so they have less detail.

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JC1  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:23:33pm

re: #15 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s $3,500, and the only thing it seems to be the best option for is 3D movies, so this does not surprise me. Even being as good as a pair of monitors isn’t good enough for work, if a desk and a pair of real 4K monitors are an option for you. My 27” made in China 4K monitors cost me $250 each.

macrumors.com

And the 500 dollar quest 3 is almost as good.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:25:38pm

re: #103 JC1

And the 500 dollar quest 3 is almost as good.

It’s a very different animal. It’s not nearly as good for movies or MR that can be done without controllers, but it’s so much better for games.

The AVP was great for Quest 2 and 3 sales.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:25:39pm

Anyone here have any experience with Invisalign?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:29:51pm

re: #81 Dangerman

Marge, I am an American. And make no mistake: I am criticizing the fuck out of you and will continue to do so.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:29:55pm

Mastodon

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:31:28pm

re: #36 goddamnedfrank

Thereby raising a can of spray paint to the status od anti-tank weapon. /s mostly

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:31:50pm

re: #98 silverdolphin

TL:DR I own an AVP and it is awesome for reasons I had not anticipated. It is an historic device, like the 128K Mac.

___________________

I actually own an Apple Vision Pro and, just turning 68, I think I also fit into the old people demographic. You have to really use one for a period of time to get it I think. And some may never (just like the CLI vs GUI views with the original 128K Mac) If you are a visual learner, the AVP willastound you.

I think it is the Mac of an entirely new way to interact with a computer. Like the original 128K, it is expensive, with seemingly little to recommend it. But I bought the original after I saw a demo where they simply selected part of a picture and moved it. Astounding. I knew computers would never be the same.

Let me give some personal insights:

1. Proper fit is everything. Many people think they have to tighten the hell out of it, when simply moving the back strap up or down until pressure is equalized makes all the difference. I have worn the AVP sitting in my chair for more than 4 hours with no discomfort, either on my head or neck.

1a: I have inserts to correct my vision. On my eyes, this corrects near vision but things far away are a little blurry. But since almost everything is close, this is not bothersome. It is totally unotieable on videos which are just amazingly crisp. BUt I can see how anyone with a complex Prescription could be hampered.

2. Post-processed 3D movies are not really worth it. They obviously split the 3d dimension into planes, so that most everything moves left-right, up-down wth little comnig to or away from you. Pre-processed 3D movies, on the other hand, are amazing. It almost allows me to watch Avatar and ignore all the colonialism because it is so immersive. Apple’s own Immersive viseos are the same and I am looking forward to more coming from Apple. The short soccer highlights they dropped were amazing and I hope that someday they could put together a live event (my guess is that this will only work for people with big streaming pipes)

3. But watching regular movies is more amazing than I ever expected. I can watch the movie in an immersive theater on a wide screen (HBO lets me watch it in the Game of Thrones throne room while Disney+ gives me even more choices) that extends across my entire field of view, where I can change my location from front to middle to back of the floor or balcony. My brain quickly forgets I am sitting in my chair and I get into that dreamlike state that a real movie provides. It is amazing to raise my hand to check the time and see my arm and Apple watch be placed into this immersive theater. ANd not have to be interrupted by people around me. (But, as I mention below, I think it will not be too hard for many people with an AVP to watch a movie while all sitting in the same “theater”. We just need network effects of multple AVP owners to allow this to happen)

4. And, unexpectedly, watching a regular TV show is one of the more incredible experiences. Last night I set up the immersive Mt. Hood or Haleakula at night time, and then watched episodes of “Fallout”. I really cannot tell if it is ust an amazing show or if the AVP ehnaces it so much as to make it astounding. It seems like I am right there, geting involved in the video on a level I never have before for any TV program. I completely lost the immersive bacground and only see the Wasteland, the Ghoul, etc. Remember when we watched TVs from 13 inches away. Now we can to that wihout worrying about radiation. I love watching action TV shows on the AVP (Reacher was just amazing). This is an experience like no other. Watching them on a 56 inch screen in the living room now seems to…small.

5. Using my eyes to highlight things and my fingers to select is every bit as revolutionary as a mouse. I think this is technology we will see elsewhere.

6. The battery is big and heavy. But I can put it in a pocket, even plugged and forget about it.

6a. Get a very comfortable chair, While immersed you are not as likely to move as much.

7. Something I have not seen anywhere, and could be a killer some day, is that Apple’s Keynote app is now integrated with AVP. So, instead of doing a virtual rehearsal, with a display and next up screen showing the time, on m laptop, I can give my talk standing on a stage, looking out at an audience (I imagine it is the Steve Jobs auditorium), with a ceiling to floor display behind me. I can turn to look at the screen and see what it shows the audience as well as keeping my display and next-up screen in front of me. I can point at a part of the huge screen and a red dot appears for me to highlight, just like a real laser pointer. I can then turn back to address the audience. I can rehearse a speech in a totally realistic fashion, but without the applause :-(. They also have an immersive background inside a conference room, with a table and chairs around it. I can stand at the front or the back of the room to give my talk (Don’t walk around yet since I would likely trip over something). Think what will happen when the network effects get big enough, and enough people have AVP provided by the company, for the chairs to be populated with immersive avatars of your coworkers, just like a real meeting (Facetime will likely easily allow this). And they can ask questions. Or applaud. I think that this could be a killer use but it does require enough people to have the AVP.

No computer today looks like a 128K Mac but all of them show a direct lineage to its innovative approaches. I think AVP will do the same. As for me, it is cheaper than a 128K Mac and does things I still find amazing. Like the original Mac, it will take some time for its ideas to penetrate, and the final products may not look exactly like it. But I firmly believe it is more Mac than Newton in its historical reach.

Nice write up. I would get one, but my girlfriend would mock me mercilessly 😂

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coin operated  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:32:57pm

That was weird…just opened my personal laptop for the first time in a few months and I get a full-screen popup letting me know Windows 10 is EOS next year and my laptop is not eligible for Windows 11. Time to turn this puppy into a Linux Mint box. About the only windows functionality I needed was the Garmin app and that can be transferred to my wife’s system. Everything else, from iTunes to Google Docs, is already in the cloud.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:40:08pm

re: #105 Ace Rothstein

Wish I did but I’m a child of 80s torture devices known as braces and headgear.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:40:27pm

re: #67 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Dunno. It might be the Martian base from Aldnoah.Zero.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:47:50pm

re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Stormy/Yam encounter has been horribly mischaracterized based on how we label people. She was there as golf tournament eye candy (probably paid a fee) he asked her back to his room with the promise of the apprentice. She slept with him. Probably hoping for that opportunity. Her choice.

She was not sex working. She was not in that moment a porn star.

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:48:56pm
On Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills of Maine signed LD 227, a sanctuary bill that protects transgender and abortion providers and patients from out-of-state prosecution, into law. With this action, Maine becomes the 16th state to explicitly protect transgender and abortion care in state law from prosecution. This follows several bomb threats targeting state legislators after social media attacks from far-right anti-trans influencers such as Riley Gaines and Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok. An earlier version of the bill failed in committee after similar attacks in January. Undeterred, Democrats reconvened and added additional protections to the bill before it was passed into law.

The law is extensive. It asserts that gender-affirming care and reproductive health care are “legal rights” in Maine. It states that criminal and civil actions against providers and patients are not enforceable if the provision or access to that care occurred within Maine’s borders, asserting jurisdiction over those matters. It bars cooperation with out-of-state subpoenas and arrest warrants for gender-affirming care and abortion that happen within the state. It even protects doctors who provide gender-affirming care and abortion from certain adverse actions by medical boards, malpractice insurance, and other regulating entities, shielding those providers from attempts to economically harm them through out-of-state legislation designed to dissuade them from providing care.

erininthemorning.com

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Unabogie  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:48:58pm

re: #92 Patricia Kayden

Why is it hard for so many people to protest Israeli military actions without devolving into antisemitism? I’ve traveled to several countries and never been subjected to hate based on America’s military excursions (many of which I didn’t support). It’s easy not to generalize.

This is just my opinion, but I think most of those people don’t give a crap about the plight of the people of Gaza. They hate Jewish people, and this issue gives them cover to let that freak flag fly. It’s not that much different from the MAGA people who got permission from Trump to say they hate Latinos and Black people. They just wanted a safe space to let it all out there.

And I say this as a Jewish guy who cares about the plight of the people of Gaza. And yet I’d be a target for these assholes simply because of my ethnicity. That’s the very definition of bigotry.

I keep saying this, but it’s a master class in squandering good will.

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Ferdinand  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:53:12pm

re: #99 A Three Hour Tour

I prefer “socialator” from the original Battlestar Galactica series, myself.

/

Or Firefly’s “companions”

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:53:40pm

re: #113 HRH Stanley Sea

One more in the long list of people Trump has defrauded.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:55:25pm
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Ferdinand  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:56:09pm

re: #103 JC1

And the 500 dollar quest 3 is almost as good.

But the AVP is a wearable PC and the Quest is an accessory/plugin like a mouse, so it’s an apples and oranges comparison

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:56:39pm

U2 opened Sphere in Las Vegas. Phish broke it in.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:57:01pm

re: #116 Ferdinand

Or Firefly’s “companions”

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“Ambassador”.

Regardless, every culture have had their sex workers and fiction writers who envision the future keep them around.

Yes, even in Star Trek.

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Captain Ron  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:57:12pm

Why is the senate dragging out this aid bill? Just STFU and fucking vote.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:57:17pm

re: #85 The Ghost of a Flea

Thinking of that scene from Civil War.

What kind of Americans?

And people say Garland didn’t come down on any side.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:58:51pm

re: #120 teleskiguy

U2 opened Sphere in Las Vegas. Phish broke it in.

If only you could get Umphreys booked there.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:59:11pm

re: #122 Captain Ron

Why is the senate dragging out this aid bill? Just STFU and fucking vote.

Rand Paul effect?

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:59:16pm

re: #115 Unabogie

Yes, there are many Jewish people who have protested and spoken out against what Netanyahu is doing in Gaza. This isn’t an us versus them situation. I support the goal to destroy HAMAS and get back the hostages but Netanyahu has lost the plot.

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:00:01pm

@niedermeyer.io

Big takeaway from the Tesla earnings call is that Elon doesn’t want to do anything to shore up sales, because he’d rather try to use the idle GPUs in parked Teslas as a distributed AI supercomputer… which doesn’t make sense, but even if it did, it would still be stealing from your customers.

@kenwhite.bsky.social

One more reason not to buy a Tesla: I don’t want my steering to stop working during rush hour on the 110 if Elon Musk asks Siri to find evidence Rhodesia was settled by refugees from Troy

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:00:31pm

re: #92 Patricia Kayden

Because many of the newly minted anti-semites regard themselves as heroes. Among the few who see the evil and the fewer with the guts to stand against it.

This obviates any need for thought as they’re The Good Guys™.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:01:56pm

re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg

It costs something like $30,000 per minute to operate the LED screen inside. Phish can afford that. Umphrey’s McGee? Not so much.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:02:08pm

re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg

Rand Paul effect?

I’m going to call Rand’s neighbor.

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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:05:08pm

re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg

If only you could get Umphreys booked there.

I’m holding out for the Dead Milkmen.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:06:25pm

In their career Phish has sold over $600 million worth of concert tickets. They’ve been independent artists since the mid 90s, so they’ve been able to keep all the money they make, which is a fuckton, the band members are all fabulously wealthy. They grossed $30 million in four nights at Sphere. They’re a huge business.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:06:26pm

re: #127 jaunte

@niedermeyer.io

One more reason not to buy a Tesla: I don’t want my steering to stop working during rush hour on the 110 if Elon Musk asks Siri to find evidence Rhodesia was settled by refugees from Troy

Dave: Put on the brakes and come to a stop, HAL We’re heading over cliff!

HAL: I’m sorry I can’t do that, Dave. My processors are currently working out Elon’s wealth to the penny. Ask me again in 2.73 hours.

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retired cynic  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:07:10pm

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:07:18pm

re: #133 sizzzzlerz

Dave: Put on the brakes and come to a stop, HAL We’re heading over cliff!

HAL: I’m sorry I can’t do that, Dave. My processors are currently working out Elon’s wealth to the penny. Ask me again in 2.73 hours.

It brings to mind the incident with the spaceship computer making tea in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:07:46pm

re: #99 A Three Hour Tour

I prefer “socialator” from the original Battlestar Galactica series, myself.

/

Maybe we can use the Greek Hetairafor people in those careers.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:08:21pm

re: #135 Nerdy Fish

It brings to mind the incident with the spaceship computer making tea in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

That was my alternative.

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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:10:28pm

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:10:48pm

re: #137 sizzzzlerz

That was my alternative.

“Computer, why is my car not driving? I’m in the middle of the fucking freeway!”
“Master Elon has asked me to make the perfect cup of espresso. Please wait.”

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:11:47pm

The face of a man who is silently regretting the choices that led him to this moment.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T00:09:08.000Z

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:12:35pm

Relatively lucky par, going by others today in the earlier thread…
Wordle 1,039 4/6

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:13:16pm

re: #133 sizzzzlerz

Waiting for Elon to throw a tantrum one day and just send out a command for everyone to make a hard right turn.

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:13:46pm

“He would never do that, it would be bad for business.”

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:13:53pm

re: #119 Ferdinand

But the AVP is a wearable PC and the Quest is an accessory/plugin like a mouse, so it’s an apples and oranges comparison

It’s not even an accessory like a monitor. It’s a standalone VR system that has some excellent games, and can also be used as a PCVR headset wirelessly.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:16:39pm

re: #135 Nerdy Fish

It brings to mind the incident with the spaceship computer making tea in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:17:31pm

re: #126 Patricia Kayden

He hasn’t lost the plot. This was the idea all along.

Just like the invasion of Iraq was planned for years and 9/11 gave an excuse to do it, Oct. 7 gave Bibi and his cronies their excuse to wipe out the Palestinians.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:20:01pm

Mastodon

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Semper Fi  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:20:04pm

re: #105 Ace Rothstein

Anyone here have any experience with Invisalign?

I know someone who went through the process (a bit more than 1yr for her) to provide additional space between a couple teeth to make room for a dental implant.
Though a senior she still had one baby tooth and wanted it gone and replaced by an adult sized implant. To do so her dentist used Invisalign to spread the teeth on either side of the baby tooth. She was required to wear them (Invisalign) for a certain period each day. At some point the little guy was pulled. Then there was a period where she needed to grow more bone for the implant. Once sufficient bone was achieved implant occurred. She reported no problems throughout (we talk almost daily). No-one knew unless she told them. Doc painted one tooth white on Invisalign when little guy was pulled. It was a lengthy process for her but no discomfort.

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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:20:09pm

John Carpenter’s The Alex Nevil @thealexnevil.bsky.social
*
3h
“Walk away. You do not want any part of him when he’s like this. Just apologize and walk away.”

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Ferdinand  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:20:31pm

re: #144 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

It’s not even an accessory like a monitor. It’s a standalone VR system that has some excellent games, and can also be used as a PCVR headset wirelessly.

Huh. Didn’t realize that. The Quest I’ve used had to be synced to another device like my laptop. I do know the AVP is fully self-contained

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:21:53pm

re: #65 Mattand

Quick two cents on the Apple headset conversation:

You can pretty much substitute “Macintosh” for “Apple Vision Pro” in every complaint/criticism/mockery you’re seeing right now, and you basically have every dig leveled at the original 128K Mac from 1984.

It took a while but PCs in general and Macs in particular eventually found their footing. People shit all over the watch for the first year or two as well, until they were able to fine tune their message on it.

And, yeah, I know: look at the Newton. Pobody’s nerfect, LOL.

I’m a three decade Apple customer, and have no intention of getting this thing: too expensive and doesn’t solve any immediate problems. That said, I wouldn’t count Apple out on this. It’s entirely possible we’ll be wearing smart glasses that are direct descendants of what Apple’s doing now.

Or this could be the thing that destroys them. There: all bases covered.

We don’t don’t have the Laser printer/PageMaker equivalent yet. As with VisiCalc on the Apple II. Without them, Mac would not have survived any longer or been any bigger than Amiga or Atari. Or, yes, Newton.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:23:32pm

re: #150 Ferdinand

Huh. Didn’t realize that. The Quest I’ve used had to be synced to another device like my laptop. I do know the AVP is fully self-contained

The Rift headsets depended on a PC. Quest has always been standalone + PCVR. I don’t love that it’s Facebook that did it, but they made VR affordable to people who don’t have PCs, and to people who can’t afford the expensive headsets.

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sagehen  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:33:41pm

re: #142 jaunte

Waiting for Elon to throw a tantrum one day and just send out a command for everyone to make a hard right turn.

In one of the Fast & Furious movies, there’s a scene where the villain sends out a command for all the cars in parking lots (on half a dozen different levels of the structure) to all start and head at full speed for the edges, flying through the air and all landing on the street…

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:34:49pm

re: #105 Ace Rothstein

Anyone here have any experience with Invisalign?

Two of my kids have had it. It is nice during the time, because you can take out the trays when you need to eat and brush your teeth. Once you get through then, your teeth will be straight, but you have to wear a set of trays at night for the rest of your life.

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:36:58pm

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:37:39pm

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JC1  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:38:15pm

re: #119 Ferdinand

But the AVP is a wearable PC and the Quest is an accessory/plugin like a mouse, so it’s an apples and oranges comparison

That’s not accurate. The quest is a complete computer.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:41:07pm

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:43:08pm

Owl 4 egg Incubation. 26 days 23 left to go.

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:53:08pm

Victoria @burrddoh.bsky.social

Christofascist clown chicken

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:54:14pm

Those videos of Trump talking about “shining a bright light into the body” and injecting bleach? They’re definitely not worse than I remember. I was already as sickened and appalled as possible, and I still am.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T00:53:19.000Z

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:54:38pm

Crop and aspect ratio tweak of the first one. Looks a bit better I think:

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:56:34pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

It costs something like $30,000 per minute to operate the LED screen inside. Phish can afford that. Umphrey’s McGee? Not so much.

Oddly enough, that video system was designed by my former employers (and sometimes bandmates)

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:59:54pm

re: #161 Charles Johnson

That was the last press conference Fuckface gave in re: COVID-19.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:00:42pm

I just got home from the polls. One machine was a &^^$# to shut down but otherwise it was a decent day. There were 50 voters in my division. I expected less. I worked with three great people and hopefully I will have them on Election Day in November. For right now I am very tired and I am going to bed. I was the de facto Judge of Elections again.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:04:45pm

re: #165 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yeoman’s work, you do.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:06:38pm

Just when we needed him most, he returns.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:07:00pm

re: #140 Charles Johnson

FYI, this is is how your comment tenders in my iPhone. Is this how it’s supposed to be?

The face of a man who is silently regretting the choices that led him to this moment.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T00:09:08.000Z

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:11:06pm

re: #168 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

FYI, this is is how your comment tenders in my iPhone. Is this how it’s supposed to be?

The face of a man who is silently regretting the choices that led him to this moment.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-24T00:09:08.000Z

[Embedded content]

Yeah, the Bluesky embedding code doesn’t work well with mobile devices, unfortunately. Still needs some work. We’re on the cutting edge here at LGF.

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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:12:07pm

re: #105 Ace Rothstein

Anyone here have any experience with Invisalign?

I just a finished up a half a year with it. Short story: absolutely worth it but expensive. Had some remodeling done as well.

Longer story: my dental practice, after seeing me for 20 years, was basically like “Your teeth are falling apart from crowding and grinding at night. Do this now while we can still fix everything or say ‘Hello’ to Dentureville.”

Doc scans your teeth, sends the files off to Invisalign, and they send back the trays, which is one upper and one down. I had one or tray I had to wear for a week, 30+ weeks total. Over time the trays slowly force your teeth into position.

Here’s the thing: you have to wear them a minimum of 20 hours a day and brush and floss after every meal, or as much as you can. I wasn’t always perfect, but I was close.

If you have dental insurance, make sure it covers adult braces. We had to adjust that to get Invisalign covered.

Give me a second and I’ll post before-and-after behind the privacy tag.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:15:55pm

re: #170 Mattand

Yep, they scanned me today. They told me that my overbite is 50% which isn’t bad. My bottom fangs are tilting and “falling” back, and a couple other bottom teeth are moving. I want to fix this shit now and not later when it’s worse. And yes, it is expensive.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:16:13pm

re: #154 Belafon

Two of my kids have had it. It is nice during the time, because you can take out the trays when you need to eat and brush your teeth. Once you get through then, your teeth will be straight, but you have to wear a set of trays at night for the rest of your life.

For LIFE? How come? What’s the difference between invisiline and regular braces?

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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:16:48pm

re: #167 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

Just when we needed him most, he returns.

I was gonna make a joke about the man coming around again, but I’m sure about seventy bazillion people beat me to it.

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:17:16pm

re: #172 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

For LIFE? How come? What’s the difference between invisiline and regular braces?

Even after regular braces you’re supposed to wear a retainer forever. After Invisalign it’s 8 hours a day.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:17:45pm

re: #165 PhillyPretzel ✅

I just got home from the polls. One machine was a &^^$# to shut down but otherwise it was a decent day. There were 50 voters in my division. I expected less. I worked with three great people and hopefully I will have them on Election Day in November. For right now I am very tired and I am going to bed. I was the de facto Judge of Elections again.

Thank you for your service!!! ♥️♥️

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:20:44pm

re: #174 Ace Rothstein

Even after regular braces you’re supposed to wear a retainer forever. After Invisalign it’s 8 hours a day.

I had braces forever when I was a kid (my teeth were all over the place). I was never told to wear a retainer after they came off. I had never heard that before.

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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:21:54pm

re: #172 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

For LIFE? How come? What’s the difference between invisiline and regular braces?

You can pop ‘em out and pretty much eat and drink whatever you want, as long as you clean your teeth afterwords.

My nephew is going through regular braces right now and cleaning them is a horror show.

I’m on the retainer stage right now. My dentist said that the teeth are gonna try to move back to their starting position, so you should wear the retainers as often as you can. You can start to scale that back to night time only after a while.

My doc said I have to do this forever, but given how shitty my teeth were, and watching what my family has gone through due to bad teeth genetics, it’s not a problem.

Grand pop had all his teeth yanked at age 27 (1939 if I’m doing the math right) and my father struggled with a bridge he had to wear. I can live slapping clear plastic braces in my mouth between now and my dirt nap.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:23:50pm

re: #177 Mattand

Grand pop had all his teeth yanked at age 27 (1939 if I’m doing the math right) and my father struggled with a bridge he had to wear. I can live slapping clear plastic braces in my mouth between now and my dirt nap.

💯!

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sagehen  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:20:53pm

re: #174 Ace Rothstein

Even after regular braces you’re supposed to wear a retainer forever. After Invisalign it’s 8 hours a day.

Not forever; just sleep with it for a few months until the bones harden and teeth settle into their new alignment. (I didn’t; two of my teeth shifted but I didn’t bother to get the braces back on to fix it).


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