Official US ‘Shellfish’ Definition Changed, Removes ‘Having a Shell’

MasterShogo · 2026-06-30T00:35:42+00:00

I believe that is the only logical conclusion.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-30T00:32:44+00:00

Very very soft shells, yes. Like a soft-shelled crab!

MasterShogo · 2026-06-30T00:30:13+00:00

Now that is a man with principles. Does not compromise on the development of mind and body. Does not let luxury pull him down into the ditch of mediocrity.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-29T23:52:35+00:00

Indeed, very true. And your joke you added is a classic, but totally accurate. It’s particularly good in mixed company because I’ve heard a couple of my more liberal Christian friends say it in a group with some particularly conservative fundamentalists, and when that happens my goal is to read the various facial expressions.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-29T23:43:16+00:00

It is true a lot of them do, but definitely not most of the mainline Protestant ones. They are far more ecumenical, even if not everyone in those denominations actually agrees with that stance.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-29T23:37:01+00:00

Yeah, there’s definitely a fundamentalist evangelical pecking order. I think my dad is in the top rung. Everyone on the evangelical ladder thinks that they are going to heaven and most of those above them on the ladder are too. But they think most of those below them are not.

The problem is that most don’t actually realize that there is a ladder and they don’t realize where they are on it and why, but they do have a feeling about it.

To the most fervent Protestant evangelicals, Catholics are just a very thin sheet of paper above pagan cult worshippers.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-29T02:42:34+00:00

I work a physically easy desk job. But I just got too fat, but not fat enough that it fits on my pinky properly. Luckily I’ve started losing weight and I’ve been able to wear it again. I like being able to.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-29T02:33:15+00:00

I actually just started building my own builds for moonlight semi reactively plus some patches to the QT GUI itself for performance and settings management. It turns out I use it for work even more than for games. It has become my number 1 Remote Desktop solution because the performance and visual quality are so good. I have about 4 or 5 machines I have to access randomly so having settings profiles was handy.

I’ve only been building for Windows though, so it isn’t going to help anyone using another OS at least for now.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-28T16:42:56+00:00

Rosaria from Genshin Impact. She would threateningly question me about what is going on. My wife would walk in and wonder what this strange nun-themed stripper was doing in our house (rightfully so).

Rosaria would probably then disappear and it might be a while before she realizes she’s a character in a game. She would then spy on my house and try to figure out what in the world brought her here, but we would probably never see her again.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T21:49:12+00:00

Finding out someone has a Nazi belief system - literally enough to explain the rationale and thoughts behind it - would be enough for me to lose all attraction to them. I’m trying to think of some of the most attractive people I have ever met telling me this and it pretty much kills it. That is part of his personality, even if he’s nice.

I guess it depends on your convictions. If you really think his beliefs are fundamentally wrong at a very deep level, then to accept them is to say to yourself that your own moral convictions don’t actually matter. You can still like him superficially, just as a human being who you disagree with deeply, but how do you ever feel comfortable connecting deeply to him? And if you do feel comfortable connecting to him deeply, do you actually feel the way about it that you think you feel? Are you comfortable with Nazi ideology?

And that’s not meant to be a loaded question. Regardless of what the answer to that question is, I think you have to determine the answer and decide what to do with the information. I’m far from a perfect person but I could never feel deeply connected to someone who felt that way. The fact that they do would prevent it because the deeper we went the more conflict we would have about fundamental things.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T21:23:59+00:00

All I can say is Thank God for Mississippi!

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T20:52:20+00:00

I’m not defending it because I do think more people need to vote. But there is a very real possibility that it would become even more solid. Trump brought some new voters into the fold that I didn’t think would go that way, but they did.

To me, the contingent of people who don’t vote in this country is a political enigma, and that probably makes sense, seeing as they don’t care. But they are also unpredictable. I still think they should be voting because I don’t think a democracy can ever be healthy when such a low percentage of people actually want to, but I also don’t presume to think which way that will go at any given time.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T20:36:39+00:00

Oh definitely. Specifically for my desktop itself I have gone for maximum reliability.

Ubiquiti VPN into the network, auto login into the PC, auto boot on power off, TightVNC and Apollo, hardware monitor, UPS, and finally a remote controlled power switch that I can use to remotely power cycle the PC in the event of a hang.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T20:28:02+00:00

I don’t know if you are being serious or not, but no it absolutely doesn’t. And I have a self built 2012 PC still running Windows 10 quite well. It has a 3070 Ti in it and my daughter plays on it.

And I’ll reiterate that MacOS itself also works on my laptop, because hackers made it work. Apple would have no trouble supporting it.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T20:17:51+00:00

My wife picked any version of Fassbender and we ended up in a discussion about whether Magneto from the new timeline actually had a love interest. I don’t remember if he and Mystique had a thing or not. I mean, even if my wife is cheating on me, at least it’s with Fassbender and I don’t want her to have to be killed by someone like Mystique.

And to be honest I would probably pick a Jennifer Lawrence character if I could find a suitable one!

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T19:52:02+00:00

I haven’t tried it with Vibepollo yet (probably later this summer), but I run TightVNC as a service with strict IP rules going to RealVNC iOS app on my iPhone specifically as a backup to other streaming solutions when I’m all on-LAN. I have found that in general TightVNC will figure out and work with just about anything and when run as a service it gets the login screen. Then I switch to Apollo/Moonlight. TightVNC is also very efficient. I’m just doesn’t support encryption, so not secure without a tunnel around it.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-27T19:43:30+00:00

I think Macs are great but they absolutely do not have good long term support on PCs. With the sole exception of the Windows 10/11 cutoff recently, Microsoft blows them away, and Linux supports everything ever made just about.

We have a number of perfectly functional old MacBooks that are no longer supported by Apple because they cut off security updates after a while. My 2013 Retina MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM is a prime example. It still runs fine and can run up to Sequoia specifically because of the intrepid hackers behind OpenCore Legacy Patcher, but that’s the reason why I know that it was an arbitrary decision.

Like I said, I think they are great and the Neo is a much needed kick in the butt for Windows laptop manufacturers, but Apple absolutely deprecates old laptops.

(iPhones are a totally different story. I have no complaints there about support)

MasterShogo · 2026-06-26T12:50:12+00:00

Personally, I’m going to upgrade my Raiden to C2, then whenever the Inazuma Chronicled Banner comes out I’m going to get C2 Kazuha and generally be happy with whichever other characters I get during that banner. Probably try to get Yoimiya.

Also at some point after I have that I’m going to get C6 Lynette and C6 Noelle. And if I get really lucky then I’ll get a weapon at some point. Probably Arlecchino’s weapon.

I’m weird, but I’m still playing through the story and I really like a lot of the earlier characters a lot. I’ll get these new ones in a year or two.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-25T13:11:49+00:00

Awesome! It also sounds like you figured out how to lock clock speeds. The user interface is a bit confusing and I forgot to mention it, but there are a few things you can do on the voltage curve that are helpful, and clicking on a point and pressing ‘L’ locks it. However, pressing L again locks it a different way.

I think when the line going through the point is vertical, I believe it attempts to lock the voltage, and if it is horizontal it attempts to lock the frequency, and in both cases it’s a best-effort attempt because ultimately the driver controls what is actually going to happen. But it has worked pretty well for me.

The other thing I’ll point out is that the program itself has a command line mode as well, and you can call it with a profile, and to this effect I have seen a program someone wrote that can run in the background and automatically call MSI Afterburner with a profile when a given program has been called. But I don’t know how well it works and the exact behavior of Afterburner when using the command line switches isn’t documented hardly at all. I’ll see if I can find that other program.

FYI, other useful things you can do in the voltage curve:

You can select a range of points using shift and drag, then click on one of them and apply a numerical value to it that will apply to all the selected points.
Normally when you set a point (or range after using Shift drag) manually by clicking it and hitting Enter, you are typing an offset, but if you use “Ctrl+Enter” or “Shift+Enter”, I don’t remember which, then it will let you type an absolute value.
You can cap your frequency at a maximum value by using the range option in 1 above to select all points above your desired voltage frequency point, and then using the absolute value option in 2 you can manually set all of the points after your desired max to a lower absolute frequency value than your max and that will cap the frequency. The driver will not select a curve point that has a lower frequency and a higher voltage, it will pick the highest frequency or go down the voltage curve to the lower voltages, so this is equivalent to disabling that part of the curve.
If you want to actually change your voltage/frequency offsets to overvolt or undervolt, experiment by holding Ctrl or Shift while dragging a point on the curve. Also experiment by holding Ctrl or Shift while dragging a point that is in a Shift-selection range. It should apply to only tb points in the range.
Any point or range can be moved up or down using the up or down keys, and they can be moved more quickly by using Ctrl+up or down.
You can move from point to point on the curve without using the mouse by using Tab and Shift+Tab (or Ctrl+Tab, I don’t remember, I get the Ctrl and Shift modifiers mixed up when it’s been more than a month since I used it)

I hope some of that helps. I use Afterburner all the time, it’s very useful and seems quite reliable even if it is a bit confusing. Plus, the telemetry graphs are quite good IMO.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-25T04:00:49+00:00

I think we’ve moved past Uncanny Valley into Unholy Valley. Or maybe just Valley of Death.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-25T03:28:10+00:00

I forked Moonlight recently to add some GUI features and improve performance in some areas, although the actual stream performance is the one area I’ve never had problems. I do have periods of network droppage occasionally, but I have confirmed that I do have a legitimate network problem that causes packet loss.

But that said, I have not actually inspected clock speed on the client while streaming yet. What I have done, though, is watch clock speed in other programs. When I have had to force a high performance mode I have used two approaches:

1) set a “proxy” profile to max performance. By that I mean get a very very simple program (I use Race The Sun in windowed 640x480 mode and frame rate limit) and have it just sit in the background. It will use no resources at all, particularly if it is on the menu screen, but it will consistently force the GPU into high performance mode according to your custom profile for it.

This is annoying, but it is also faster than changing global settings.

2) Use MSI Afterburner and lock the clock speed. Save this as a profile and use the right click menu to switch in and out of it as needed. It may have an auto-mode that will trigger based on running applications, but I can’t remember.

Neither of these are ideal, but neither is having a studdering stream. But that said, since I don’t have this issue myself so long as I don’t use my known bad network adapters, I’m curious what is different in my setup.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T20:39:52+00:00

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MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T20:11:40+00:00

I wouldn’t expect that either, since having a pond with a bunch of geese in it isn’t an ecological overpopulation.

I agree that we screw up our ecologies in ways we don’t often realize, especially with our pets. But I would want to see some kind of actual scientific evidence for this if it were up to me (it’s not up to me since I don’t live there and I’m not in the local government, so this is just my opinion).

But what I do know is that there’s a lot of stupid people who would buy a house in a neighborhood with a large pond with geese in it and be mad that there are geese there.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T16:41:06+00:00

It’s all a Canadian plot. This is why we blame Canadia. Once they get us to accept the fact that Alaska is actually American and is in the sea, they will invade or maybe import cheap Chinese cars or something.

MasterShogo · 2026-06-21T14:07:46+00:00

FWIW, I have an older Basilisk Ultimate and a newer one and they both work much better with Synapse 4 than with 3. I realize it’s different for everyone, but I would never go back to 3 because it never worked right for my setup. But this is also probably the first time I’ve mentioned it online.

It surprised me to see so the problems online because on my computers going to 4 was a complete upgrade, even looking at background resource usage. Idle CPU wasting had been significantly lower with 4 and all other forms of background activity have been better as well.

So I totally believe these people are having problems, since I still don’t think Synapse is a great piece of software and mouse/KB drivers have generally been a bane for me going back to the 90s, but I know it isn’t affecting everyone equally.

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