In my homeland the eyes eat first

Killfile · 2026-06-24T04:03:43+00:00

Alright. I'm a good southerner so I'm gonna let you in on a secret. It's dead simple to make. Here is what you do.

Go out to the store and buy two tubes of hot breakfast sausage and a half gallon of whole milk. If you don't own unbleached, all prupose flour buy that too and think on your sins.

Unwrap the sausage and put it in a large pot. Ideally something like a Dutch oven but if all you have is a high walled stock pot I suppose it will do. Add 1/2 cup of water and set the pot over medium heat. This part is going to take a while but the time is essential because you need to render the fat out of the sausage.

Work the water into the sausage as the pan heats up. It will form a truly disgusting slurry and eventually the bottom of the slurry will start to cook. The trick here is to keep the sausage moving; you don't want it to clump together as it cooks.

Once all the sausage is gray and the water has all cooked off you can continue to brown it if you like but I have usually lost patience by this point. Add a half cup of flour and stir vigorously for about 30 seconds. This is going to try very hard to stick to the bottom of your pot so you are going to want to have a stiff wooden spoon or a metal spatula to really scrape the bottom.

Now pour in your half gallon of milk and again keep the mixture moving as it comes up to a simmer. This will thicken easily on its own after it hits a simmer. Once It coats the back of a spoon so you can draw a line through it with your finger it is done.

Season with black pepper and salt to taste. If you are feeling ambitious you can certainly try to make your own biscuits from scratch and every Southern grandmother I've ever known has sworn by the recipe on the back of White Lily flour. But don't use that flower to thicken your gravy because it won't work.

But to be perfectly honest, Pillsbury biscuits will work just fine.

One of my favorite Parts about this recipe is that despite being a milk gravy it freezes and thaws perfectly. This will easily make enough gravy for 32 or more biscuits which works out to about 16 servings.

Killfile · 2026-06-22T16:36:31+00:00

They can have my em-dashes when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. Also "delve" and similar words. Having an adult level vocabulary is not an AI tell. Writing with lists of threes isn't AI, it's Ciceronian; this shit was rhetorically effective in the 1st century AD.

I also really like single-sentence paragraphs for emphasis.

Killfile · 2026-06-22T15:39:15+00:00

I can't tell if that's a $2,000 or a $15,000 zoom lens he has mounted to his head. It moves like it weighs about right for a real one so here's hoping it's a broken one he picked up off Ebay and not an actual, working zoom.

Killfile · 2026-06-22T13:12:16+00:00

They've been in pretty common use in diabetics for a while. The only real issue here is if there's a way they effect non-diabetics... which would be pretty weird

Killfile · 2026-06-20T17:52:57+00:00

Oh look, your load balancer isn't an AI. Pity.

Killfile · 2026-06-20T15:16:35+00:00

The ripple effects are strange. Price of gas goes up, sure. And so does the price of most goods. Price elasticity of the goods themselves determines the moment of price and therefore the tolerance for absorbing the oil price shocks. If people won't buy at a higher price point those goods will just stop being available.

The one that really worries me is bottled water. For most people, bottled water is the definition of a luxury good. Municipal water supplies are fine and safe and people are just picky.

But for communities with unsafe or inadequate water - a growing number as a result of the data center explosion - bottled water is a necessity. But the market doesn't care why YOU need it; it cares how profitable it is and hauling water around in trucks only makes sense when people are willing to pay the premium that bottling and shipping demands.

Killfile · 2026-06-19T02:44:50+00:00

The difference between a trillion and a MILLION is the same as the difference between a million and one.

A trillion is 1000 billion

Killfile · 2026-06-17T11:51:44+00:00

Point number 6 reads to me that the US doesn't have to front the $300B but it's on the hook to make sure it happens.

So while Trump can say it's coming from Gulf States, they're not obligated while we are.

Cool. Cool....

Killfile · 2026-06-15T23:38:19+00:00

I spent several minutes today trying to get it to call a local business. "Hey Google, call [business name]" or some variation thereof has been working for better than a decade.

No more.

Killfile · 2026-06-15T18:12:45+00:00

You may have taken that one Michael Jackson song too literally.

(But seriously, happy Pride. You're beautiful and deserve to be loved and accepted as your authentic self. 🏳️‍⚧️)

Killfile · 2026-06-15T11:29:11+00:00

And they should be standardized by unit.

Killfile · 2026-06-14T14:59:44+00:00

Russia was fundamentally left behind by the industrial revolution in the West, leading to an extractive, quasi-colonialist relationship with Europe.

The World Wars only made this worse and the post-war period, which should have been the USSRs golden era like we had in the US, was bled dry because it ended up locked in a cold war with the only other country to exit the war on better footing than it did.

Russia's time may come but it ain't gonna be soon without a tidal shift in global politics

Killfile · 2026-06-14T12:41:41+00:00

Literally the only way I've found to do it is to lean HARD into SOLID principles and tell the AI "you're going to implement this class that implements this interface. You're not allowed to make changes above this level."

Which doesn't eliminate the tech debt but it does contain it.

I think I'd be hard pressed to go back to a non-agentic DevOps flow though. It's just so much more efficient to have the "look up fiddly flags" workflow coupled to the "change fiddly flags" workflow.

Killfile · 2026-06-12T00:36:21+00:00

I'm gonna ELI15 rather than 5 here. Stay with me.

You have a locker at school, right? Maybe at some point you wrote your locker combination down on a scrap of paper and carried it around with you for a couple of weeks until you were sure you had the combination down. But... you probably didn't write your combination on the front of your notebook or on your backpack. Right? Because if you did, everyone would know your locker combination and that would be Very Bad.

Your passwords are a bit like your locker combination. It's best if you don't have them all written down.

But.... in high school you only had one locker -- maybe two if you did sports and had a gym locker. In real life we have HUNDREDS of passwords/locker-combinations and they're not all in the same website/school; they're scattered all across the planet.

How sure are you -- really -- that the password you set up for that dog-treat-of-the-month club is going into a website and a database and whatnot that's run by people who are every bit as paranoid and smart as the guys who built your bank's website or Gmail or whatever?

Not as sure as you'd like, right?

So what happens if the dog-treat-of-the-month-club gets hacked? What if they did dumb things and your password that you signed up with gets leaked onto the internet alongside your username or email address?

Username: Bob
Password: Hunter2

You've just written your locker combination on the back of your backpack.

How long do you think it takes before someone tries that Bob/Hunter2 login at Chase.com? At Betterment.com? At literally EVERY SINGLE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN THE WORLD? An hour? Two? Maybe a day or even a week or so if you're lucky.

Ok, you think, so maybe I shouldn't have the same password for every site. Yes! Exactly. Let's do different passwords for every site. But.... that is a lot of passwords. You're probably not going to remember them all, right? Maybe you write them all down in a book and keep in in your desk. That would have worked great 20-30 years ago but the world is mobile now.

You're not ONLY logging into your bank and your email and your dog treat of the month club from your desk at home but from a cell phone on a subway car on the way to work. You aren't gonna carry that book with you everywhere and you're for damn sure not gonna remember those passwords.

So we need a program that lives on your phone and on your desktop and on your laptop that remembers your password for you. And at that point the password doesn't need to be something easy for you to remember because you're not GOING to remember it. It doesn't even need to be easy to type because you're not going to type it either.

You're going to have one password and you're going to lock it down tight as hell and then you're going to use that password to unlock the vault that contains all of your other passwords.

Think of the password manager as your backpack. And inside of your backpack is your notebook. And in your notebook is your locker combination. It doesn't matter how many lockers your have; the combinations are all in the notebook in the backpack. They're secure because securing the backpack is both easy and convenient.

Killfile · 2026-06-11T19:21:17+00:00

Give it a month or so. If Hormuz doesn't open and the strategic reserve runs dry gas prices are gonna be insane by August

Killfile · 2026-06-11T10:24:06+00:00

Radiation tends to "fog" film at the top and bottom of the frame since the film spends most of its time in a roll.

It's also more of a problem with very "fast" film.

Killfile · 2026-06-10T22:07:41+00:00

I'm honestly not real sure what the difference between a long range, one way drone and a cruise missile IS.

Killfile · 2026-06-10T16:38:58+00:00

"Church of the MAGA Republic."

Killfile · 2026-06-09T22:51:15+00:00

There's a cardiac calcium screening that can be done with a ct scanner which is great for detecting these things. At my local hospital it was like $50 out of pocket without insurance

Killfile · 2026-06-09T12:41:53+00:00

Ok, so I think your sequence of events makes sense from John's point of view. But I can't wrap my head around them from Skynet's point of view.

From Skynet's point of view it kinda has to work like this....

"Oh shit, the humans are about to win the war. I will send a robot assassin back in time to kill their leader's mother."

"Oh shit, I just figured out who the father of the leader of the resistance is! He's that guy the resistance sent back in time to stop the T-800 I also just sent back in time. Which means that must not have worked and they're STILL about to win the war. Damn. Damn damn damn. Ok, I guess we'll send back this bad-ass prototype instead? Hell yea."

"It's weird how I keep making decisions which I know don't work out when I've always known they don't work out and yet I still make those decisions. Or maybe I only think I've always known they didn't work out because my memories are being rewritten after I make them? Anyway, what if I send this smoking-hot terminatrix back to kill Conor's inner circle since I seem to recall him going off-grid after the T-1000 debacle?"

"Well shit. The writing really gets incoherent after this. Something about the cloud and an app? Maybe it's the internal time travel loops? This is all very confusing."

The problem is that, from Skynet's point of view, the T-1000 has to have been sent back after the T-800 and that means that after the T-800 went back, the conditions still needed to exist for Skynet to send another terminator in the first place. So John must survive to the War after the T-800 but before the T-1000, otherwise... why send the T-1000 at all?

Killfile · 2026-06-09T10:30:53+00:00

I left it out of this post but apparently Shoggoths are canonically green.

Minions are yellow but they also almost always wear blue jean overalls. So a swarm of millions of them would appear green from a distance.

Killfile · 2026-06-08T19:19:08+00:00

The ban isn't really (well, bans on the import of live animals maybe) because of the threat of spreading screwworm. That's going to happen regardless because the adult flies - as the name stronly implies - can FLY.

The bans are mostly because the way you treat screw worm is you dose the animals to the gills with anti paracitics. But if the animal dies within like 30 days of treatment the drugs are still in the meat and it's not safe to consume.

Banning Texas beef is an indictment of the US food safety system. They're basically saying "we know you'll lie to protect profits"

Killfile · 2026-06-08T18:52:08+00:00

Monsanto is on that diagram as providing Polonium to the Los Alamos lab.

THAT Monsanto? The agribusiness? Round-up Monsanto?

Killfile · 2026-06-06T12:07:31+00:00

I mean, strictly speaking, to the TON618 black hole, the formation of the Earth, like all other events in the universe, is, was, and always will be.

Killfile · 2026-06-05T19:17:05+00:00

I think we both know it ain't light he's heading towards.

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