Ooh, a Boy Harsher reference in the wild. Nice.

What I love about Blade Runner is the dead-simple use of literal atmosphere: rain, fog, hard lights, and hard shadows. It’s always cold, rainy, humid, and it’s hard to see. Every scene is just… uncomfortable yet it has this exotic beauty to it.

Man, it’s like Ridley Scott saw this gorgeous prop on set and said: “Okay, gimme one hard light over there and move it around until this thing looks really cool.” You really can’t see half of what’s in the frame because it’s obscured by the other half of the frame and the prop itself makes no sense… but somehow that doesn’t matter: something important is happening.

With an all-digital display cluster in a conventional car, which is effectively just an LED screen, it’s possible to hack something like this in. Getting a modern center console to cooperate would take some elbow-grease, but is also probably doable.

This, of course, is after the hygenist is done raking your gums with a prison shiv.

Yes, but only for the mere moments before it becomes porridge.

It’s the sugars in those vegetables. It turns the pot into a bacterial growth medium. Given enough time, something is going to survive that environment. Maybe it’ll be probiotic, but most likely, it won’t.

where it was often necessary to render unruly guests blind.

(emphasis mine)

Blind?!

My guess is that hitchhiking+skateboarding means grabbing an actual moving trailer hitch or three. Were he manually kicking the pavement with zero assistance, I cannot imagine covering 55 miles a day without it being downhill the entire time. After all, it is F L A T after you cross the Rockies. For at least a thousand miles. That or he has legs like tree trunks.

You guys are getting a retirement?

Fuck that.

I strongly dislike how the argument hinges on the very movable goalpost of “illegal” drugs. It has this awful moralizing “protect the kids while we destroy privacy”, vibe to it.

At first I though this would require an end-run on HIPAA, but all they really need to do is re-schedule a bunch of therapeutic drugs. Or ignore the FDA entirely and just enforce a ban by edict (somehow) through a different agency. I don’t think we’ve ever seen federal agencies openly disagree like that before, but I think it’s possible. Also: big pharma may have something to say about all this.

Like a lot of the nonsense coming from this cabinet, it’ll test the crap out of state’s rights.

Fine, then it’s not a political party outright, and instead a lobby. Or a trade association. Or a big bunch of very angry like-minded voters. The point is that such a group could exert leverage within the DNC coalition as a voting block. We already have these for other interest groups. DNC membership is really only useful for voting in primaries to most people anyway - it doesn’t have to signify allegiance or kow-towing to party power.

Lately, I go on a 30-minute “Not Interested” spree on the recommendations feed when I need to weed things out. I burn everything that I know I’m never going to watch. I have 500+ subscriptions and the ratio of those with new content to trash the algorithm hands me is too damn low. So I have to set it straight some times. After this correcting action, things are noticeably better for about a month.

Another move is to right-click and open unfamiliar stuff in an incognito/privacy window. This helps keep similar material out of your feed.

“Clock App” = TikTok.

Took me a minute, not gonna lie.

Why not both? It’s easier to force your way under and into that tent/coalition with an organized front to do the talking. A political party that has well defined goals and objectives, while speaking for a big group, is bound to be better at working within a broader coalition than what we have now.

Best I can do:

Welcome to the top of the sigmoid curve.

If you were wondering what 1999 felt like WRT to the internet, well, here we are. The Matrix was still fresh in everyone’s mind and a lot of online tech innovation kinda plateaued, followed by some “market adjustments.”

I was gonna say. It’s this exactly. Plus a nice feature of Fediverse stuff is that it can scale down to hobby levels if needed. Venture funded commercial services abhor this and will compromise all kinds of things (e.g. morals, ethics) to keep going at whatever scale they’re at.

This gives me hope. It’s like we’re all finally learning how to moderate forums in this ridiculous climate.

Perfection.