What a great shitpost. Fueled a strong comment section. Well done!

People pretending the US is still a country of laws. Cute, but depressing too.

As do the courts quite often.

It’s all shooting, but the indoor galleries seem to make the concussive effects a bit worse.

People should also be aware that shooting guns causes physical brain damage, so they should take that into consideration.

I don’t know that he’s dumb, but that makes him even worse.

I could be wrong, and I’m sure I’ll be pilloried if so, but I don’t think the ‘stolen land’ part is really the point of the statement. To me it’s more about pointing out the difference between ‘undocumented’ and ‘illegal’. In the same vein as ‘unhoused’ vs ‘homeless’. Or the classic ‘tomato’ vs ‘tomato’. To me it seems to get lost in pedantic weeds and I prefer the Shakespeare observation of a rose by any other name.

I figure it’s like I used to feel that my engine ran smother after getting an oil change. The brain is weird and can’t be trusted.

I remember the BeOS guys doing a demo at my LUG before they release the BeBox (or whatever their computer was called). That OS was so ahead of it’s time. There were about 200 of us just gasping at how good it was and what it could do. Actually using BeOS on a PowerPC ended up being an on ramp for me to Linux. By the time Haiku came out, life was too busy and I was too entrenched in Linux. Maybe now that I’m retired I’ll take a look at it.

I just find it interesting how values about seem to correlate (with my limited data points) strongly with age. From my son and his friends, who are around your age, to my parents and their friends who are generally 85+. That’s the only reason I asked, not for some “ah, gotcha <kid, grandpa, whatever>”, just interested.

Thanks.

Yes. So if the surge went from 3 riders to 5, that would be a 67% surge. I’m not sure why you bolded that, the article wasn’t too long for it to get lost. I’m not saying that more bike lanes aren’t badly needed, or very appreciated. I was just nitpicking a news article using percentages, which can sometimes be useful, but often add no value whatsoever. That’s why I pointed out the numbers backing the 15% increase at the other intersection. I have no idea why the author didn’t use actual numbers for both intersections.

I hate percentage reporting. So use went from 3 to 5? At least it gave an actual number for the 15% increase:

The city of San Diego installed a bike counter at 30th Street and University Avenue in 2022. The device, which counts both bikes and scooters, has shown steady ridership growth each year. The record of 131,779 trips in 2025 represents a 15% increase since 2022.

I thought the entire issue was with catfriend1 handing over the repo and everyone in the dark as to whom, or why, or anything.

How old are you? I’m just curious.

I see the shit that people send out, obvious LLM crap, and wonder how poor they must write to consider the LLM output worth something. And then wonder if the people consuming this LLM crap are OK with baseline mediocrity at best. And that’s not even getting into the ethical issues of using it.

You, and I, typing this, in a thread about non-standardization certainly blows a hole or two in your simple thinking. It’s weird to think of flexible thinking as simple. I would say I envy your rigid comprehension, but I don’t. It would be awful to be lost when someone says N Celsius instead of N Fahrenheit or vise versa. What a miserable, difficult way to try to make it through life.

These threads always make me laugh. Maybe because of the way/where I was raised I really don’t care at all what anyone uses.

Cryofreezing

Minnesota supports castle doctrine, or so I’ve read.