Carl

lmao that's wild, I don't live there anymore but some of my fondest memories of living in San Diego include taking the train downtown to the Padres stadium for games, it was so nice not to have to worry about finding parking and navigating event traffic (not that they didn't have a parking structure so you could do it the bad way if you really wanted to).

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 16h ago

Yeah office buildings are hard to convert because the requirements for apartments are so much higher - but with corporate real estate values in the gutter and apartments/condos more expensive than ever there's a massive benefit for seeing the process through to its conclusion. Just about every city in the US would benefit from a government program to expedite + help pay for these conversations (or just take over office buildings and convert them into publicly-owned housing directly) since the free market has trouble doing things with long term benefits.

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 16h ago

This is such a petty expense to be trying to claw back like this. There is no way that the military, with its economy of scale, is spending more than it takes per soldier for chow hall food - all this does is add another thing that the solders have to stress over, when the whole point of the military social democracy thing is insulating the troops from the negative effects of capitalism to ensure their loyalty + keep them focused on their job.

It's not a very long walk from this to charging rent for a barracks room.

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 16h ago

Is she giving the kid colloidal silver or what?

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

"having takes" is cringe, so no

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

hey, it's exactly the thing the experts said would happen

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 1d ago

that's my computer, actually. I've been replacing all of my math functions with hacky estimations from old video game source code for fun.

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I don't listen to Trueanon often but Brace has never struck me as someone with particularly well thought out principles. This leads him to contradictions, and leads his show to attracting an audience with a lot of internal contradictions, like this user with this really unnecessary pathologization of furries, and that whole post with its openly reactionary bullshit (being anti-furry is ALWAYS a precursor to being anti-lgbt), but also the fact that the subreddit downvoted it into oblivion.

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

I guess the problem with that definition is that "extremely off-putting" varies a lot between people. I don't find vegans off-putting at all, I think that's a perfectly normal thing to choose to be, but there are a lot of people in America who get extremely angry when a person tells them they're vegan. That shouldn't be on the vegan, that should be on the person getting unreasonably angry.

I guess what I'm saying is that I agree in spirit that we shouldn't drag interminably online BS into the real world, but I think the "be normal" mantra is unhelpful and can be easily twisted in an antisocial direction, and I think that as we see in the linked post it can get used to smuggle in widely held conservative reactionary opinions without examining them.

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

retvrn to teamspeak

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

Had a dream last night where I heard someone typing, and I walked up to them and said "do I hear memory unsafe programming?" and sure enough they were coding in C++.

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

A soldier in Hawaii, but they've just captured Zuckerberg's house.

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

If you're like me and you don't know what car t cell therapy is:

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy treats some types of blood cancer. Scientists create the treatment by adding a lab-made gene to your cancer-fighting T cells. The change helps T cells detect and kill cancerous cells.

Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

well that didn't last very long lmao

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Carl [he/him] @hexbear.net 2d ago

this football game reminds me of a fairly oddparents joke, "everybody knows that the last two minutes are the only real competitive parts of any professional basketball game."