Yeah, the store manager was right to keep their identity as hidden as possible. That dude’s a textbook narcissist, and will absolutely abuse any information he gets.

“At no point did I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders to do anything that they would not, had not, or have not done for anyone else who makes a business dispute call.”

What the fuck is even a “business dispute call”? The police are not supposed to be involved in “business disputes” at all. If he thinks his deputies are supposed to speed through city streets to placate some Karen at Burger King, then he’s beyond educating and should just be removed from his position.

If you’re just looking for the out-of-the-box experience, I’d say a Pixel is probably your best bet. It’ll run stock Android, get updates the fastest, and generally perform very well. My Pixel 6 Pro is still running smoothly today. I’ve never dived too deeply into it, but I believe Pixels will also run GrapheneOS, if you’re looking to really lock your device down and de-Google it.

I dunno, a homemade shotgun worked well enough on Shinzo Abe.

I haven’t actually played any of the Far Cry games, so I couldn’t speak to that. But if they play anything like Cyberpunk, I might have to give them a shot!

Wasn’t this the whole basis behind Elon’s “Twitter Files”? I wonder how hard he’s gonna push to release these “X Files” now.

“that JD Vance PDF file” rolls off the tongue pretty well, for what it’s worth.

Finally, some good news!

Is the mountain okay?

Wow, what even made them think to check it???

I love Celeste so much, the writing was way better than I anticipated a platformer game to have.

I also love some of the easter eggs they put in, like the white block in one of the earlier stages, where you will fall “behind” the block if you crouch on it for a few seconds; a nod to hidden mechanic in Super Mario Bros 3.

Cyberpunk 2077. I’ve been known to simp pretty hard for this game, but I do consider it to be one of the best games ever made. The story, the music, the acting, the gameplay, the visuals… Every single part of the game is just masterfully done. I feel it’s one of those games that everybody should play; a sort of “milestone” game like Ocarina of Time or Skyrim. Even if you’re not a fan of FPS or RPGs, it’s worth turning down the difficulty and playing just to experience the best story ever told through a video game, in my opinion.

What’s their plan going to be when the evictions inevitably go to court? Not trying to make a statement or anything, just genuinely curious what they’re going to do if/when the sheriffs’ deputies start rolling up and drilling out their locks and dragging out their furniture.

Yeah, it’s a shame that she doesn’t seem to be able to put herself front-and-center with this. I hope she’s able to get herself and her family out.

I think Lemmygrad might be a better place for you to fuck off to.

That’s a real shame. Just one more L for us night-shifters.

Are they not 24-hours anymore? I’ve not shopped at Walmart for probably a decade now. Shopping late at night was the best; you never really realize just how much other shoppers slow you down until you have the whole store to yourself.

gg ez

-Me, with a KD of 3/13

Yep, discovery is still a major pain point for pretty much every Fediverse platform. Probably the biggest issue the Fediverse faces right now, IMO.

Part of it is due to technical limitations due to the way ActivityPub/federation in general works. But another big part of it is (what feels to me like) a stubborn aversion to convenience, a trend I see a lot in FOSS dev communities. When you have devs that would be content reading a news feed off of a .TXT file passed to them on a 5" floppy, and users who want features on their platform, you end up with the situation we’re in, where it’s impossible to convince the mainstream user to migrate. If the mainstream user doesn’t already know who is even on the platform in order to follow them, and has no effort-free way of discovering accounts to follow, they’re not going to stick around. Especially when on just about any Mastodon server you join, your local/global feeds are almost all politics and high-level tech discussion.

I think that the average user would be supportive of FOSS and the Fediverse in general, and probably likes the idea of a non-corpo platform where they have more control over their feeds and their content. But I feel that it’s not worth trading away discovery or “algorithmic” tools for most users.

I think if Mastodon (or a Mastodon-adjascent platform like Misskey or Pleroma) could find a way to develop an algorithmic recommendation engine that respects user privacy (perhaps basing recommendations on a file stored on the user’s account, which they can modify/backup at will), we could see a sizable increase in Fedi users.

You’re thinking of the Zodiac Killer. Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer.