Go to Wendy’s and get a 4 for $4 add bacon. bacon cheeseburger, nuggets and fries. That counds as three.

Well remember when turn-by-turn GPS driver guidance was new, and it would say “Turn right now” and people didn’t interpret that as “make a right turn at the next intersection” they interpreted it as “hard a’starboard!” and drove into buildings and lakes? There’s gonna be a lot of that.

People are going to get sold regular cab headliners for their extended cab pickups because the computer said it would fit. That’s gonna happen a lot.

It has gotten almost impossible to find a practical pickup truck. they’re all giant penis enhancent vehicles.

Some aspects of streamer culture I get, I do not understand vtuber culture. Youtube started recommending one to me because apparently played a video game I like and watch videos about, and…as far as I can tell her job is to be professionally sexually harassed. Like, men used to whistle at showgirls in saloons, now they throw virtual acorns at anime girls to “nut on” them.

Fun part is her mom apparently found out, and participates.

There are a few reasons why I’ll watch a stream or let’s play of a video game:

1. the sports angle. If you like to play a game, be it basketball or A Link to the Past, watching someone else play it extremely well can be gratifying.

2. Additional performance. Streamers themselves are characters, watching someone react to the game can be compelling in a way that’s difficult to describe.

3. Rediscovery. Watching someone play a video game I know well can help me see it through fresh eyes. I can never play A Link to the Past for the first time again, but watching someone play it for the first time can help revisit that experience.

What…is this shit? What’s the real reason behind this? What senator or governor has a brother in law in the age verification business that got this corruptioned into being a thing all of a sudden?

The difference: We pretend to care about girls. We don’t pretend to care about boys.

Go get The Good Place on DVD.

Caffeine. It’s perhaps a boring answer but I have a physical dependence on caffeine.

Or because he’s a cat that is near lemons. Citrus is very bad for cats and they HATE the smell.

Oh man, reminds me of kissthisguy.com. Back when the internet was still run by humans.

Tell you one I recently realized: Chattanooga Choo Choo. I don’t know who the “original” artist of that one was, it’s been a country-western staple for awhile. Came back into my attention recently because I was rewatching Hyce & KaN’s Let’s Podcast of Railroads Online, and one of several backing tracks is an instrumental version, so the song got stuck in my head. Singing it while doing dishes, I got to a lyric I never understood, and looked it up.

The lyric I heard:

There’s gonna be a certain party at the station

Satin and lace, a hustacauphanie face

I…didn’t know what “hustacauphanie” meant. My brain did that thing where I assume a word exists I’m not familiar with. Like, you know how sometimes women’s skin is compared to alabaster? Hustacauphanie might have been dead people talk for some luxurious or exotic material or…something. So I looked it up. The actual lyric is:

There’s gonna be a certain party at the station,

Satin and lace, I used to call ‘funny face’

The songwriter managed to pack the entire second act of It’s A Wonderful Life into half a lyric. We don’t have compression algorithms that good anymore.

I was actually aiming for “auk” but it was late and my linux brain took over.

awk

Point of order: That was Microsoft rather than Google.

must be chewsday, eh bruv?

GPS itself is a one-way technology. On a basic level, the GPS satellites broadcast their precise location in space, and a very accurate timestamp from an onboard atomic clock. By comparing the difference in timestamps from a few satellites, you can determine how far away you are from each, thus deducing your own position. User devices only receive broadcasts from the GPS constellation; they don’t transmit. This is by design; GPS originated with the US military who wanted a navigation system usable anywhere in the world passively. You can use GPS without giving away your position by transmitting radio waves.

The privacy nightmare is when you mix a GPS receiver in with all the other sensors, storage and radios found in a smart phone. How many apps on your phone have GPS privileges? Why does it want that?

I was promoted from Commander Aggravated.

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Are they shipping Graphene for the 10 now?

They are no longer as open source as can be. The Buddy Board, Nextruder, their nozzles, all closed source.