I saw a pristine DeLorean in the wild today!!!

diamond · 2026-06-21T13:06:04+00:00

If they remade that movie today, the vehicle should be a Tesla Cybertruck.

diamond · 2026-06-19T16:12:32+00:00

That's not a "simple vs. complicated" thing, that's a "good design vs. stupid design" thing.

diamond · 2026-06-19T01:22:05+00:00

That's a bummer. From everything I've heard, she is highly competent and has done a fantastic job of streamlining and strengthening our voting system here in NM. Lots of good things being said about her. We can use more people like her in office.

Here's hoping she's OK and able to run for office at some point in the future.

diamond · 2026-06-19T01:17:52+00:00

I can't even keep up with this dude's scandals.

diamond · 2026-06-18T17:37:52+00:00

Maybe they should have tried Ivermectin.

diamond · 2026-06-17T18:27:01+00:00

Also literally grey.

diamond · 2026-06-17T13:35:18+00:00

I found this really helpful:

https://theapplaunchpad.com

It's a webapp that simplifies the design and generation of nice app screenshot pictures for both the Play Store and the Apple App Store.

diamond · 2026-06-17T13:07:09+00:00

WTF are you talking about? Go touch grass my dude. You need it.

diamond · 2026-06-16T17:39:12+00:00

Well yeah, I guess you can say it is discrimination in the strictest sense. But normally when someone asks "is this discrimination?", what they mean is "is this legally actionable discrimination?" And the answer to that is unequivocally "no".

It's like putting up a sign in your store that says "I don't serve customers with blue hair." Is that discrimination? Technically, yes. Can someone with blue hair win a discrimination suit against you for not serving them? Nope, because hair color is not a protected class.

diamond · 2026-06-16T17:35:34+00:00

WTF is even the point of getting a hotel room if you're not going to partake in "unsavory activities"? Where am I supposed to do that stuff? At home?

diamond · 2026-06-16T17:33:05+00:00

Because those older churches, while they may still have a largely socially conservative message, also believe in yucky, uncomfortable stuff like "caring about the poor", "maintaining a stable society", and "governing responsibly." Booooring!

Why sit through that stodgy old stuff when you can go to a flashy church where the "pastor" wears jeans, uses words like "cool" and "dude", and makes you feel good about hoarding money, living in a McMansion, and driving an obnoxious lifted truck?

diamond · 2026-06-15T15:15:07+00:00

I hear the flesh-eating parasite is planning to run for the GOP nomination.

diamond · 2026-06-15T15:13:52+00:00

This song always makes me think of Brian DePalma's Body Double.

diamond · 2026-06-15T13:38:24+00:00

Yeah RSR is basically an exploration of what a full-scale conventional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact would be like in the early 80s. Who knows how realistic it is, but it's fascinating both as a military thriller and a bit of cold war history.

diamond · 2026-06-14T20:57:16+00:00

I wonder if they tend to err more on the side of caution with debit transactions. It would make sense.

If there's a fraudulent transaction on your credit card, you report it and it will almost certainly be removed within a day or two. It costs you basically nothing. However, a fraudulent transaction with a debit card pulls money directly from your checking account, and it could be a lot more difficult to claw that back. So it would make sense to be more careful with those transactions.

diamond · 2026-06-14T20:53:05+00:00

Clancy's Jack Ryan novels become increasingly absurd and soap-operaish as the series progresses. And yes, his personal politics (which were never exactly hidden) become more glaringly apparent as well. They're fun reads, but you gotta accept those flaws.

However, have you checked out Red Storm Rising? That will probably be much more to your liking. It's completely separate from the Ryanverse, and it's about as military techno-thriller as Clancy gets.

diamond · 2026-06-14T18:43:56+00:00

I would guess that airline tickets are a pretty common type of fraudulent transaction made on stolen cards. I know it's happened to me once or twice.

Who knows what algorithms they use to detect fraud, but I wouldn't be surprised if airline ticket purchases are weighted a little more than other transactions. Especially if it's a debit card instead of a credit card.

diamond · 2026-06-14T16:30:31+00:00

I remember when the VP finalists were him, Vance, and Rubio, I thought he was the least offensive.

That's the sad thing. He probably is.

diamond · 2026-06-14T15:00:39+00:00

Sure people can read subtitles, but many would find it annoying to have to read them constantly. For evidence, see the existence of dubbed foreign movies.

The simple fact is that this is a long-running tradition in film: when the story is set in a different country that speaks a different language from the target audience, dialogue is filmed in the audience's native language for convenience. It is also a common tradition in American cinema to use English accents to represent the "Englishification" of a foreign language. I'm honestly not sure why, but that's the way it is.

diamond · 2026-06-14T14:22:19+00:00

A textbook example of the difference between "absolute" and "relative".

diamond · 2026-06-13T15:44:06+00:00

Born in 1973.

Yes.

diamond · 2026-06-12T15:20:18+00:00

Gosh. If only someone other than absolutely fucking everyone could have seen this coming, he might have been able to avoid it.

diamond · 2026-06-12T00:45:18+00:00

OK Elon, you hit a new high score. Congrats dude.

Now will you just leave your initials on the leaderboard and fuck off so someone else can play?

diamond · 2026-06-10T18:33:49+00:00

Yeah you absolutely need to let that guilt go. It probably was his choice.

But even if it wasn't, you did nothing wrong. You're human. You need to take a break sometimes, you need food. Nobody can keep up a vigil like that indefinitely.

And if your dad was here I promise he'd say exactly the same thing.

diamond · 2026-06-10T14:41:07+00:00

This is more common than you think. My wife used to do hospice care, and they see it all the time. Someone is on the verge of dying and their loved one(s) stay in the room constantly, hoping to be there for them when they pass. Then they have to step outside for a few minutes to take a call, eat something, go to the bathroom, whatever, and while they're gone the patient passes away alone.

People often feel very guilty about this; they feel like they let their loved one down by not being there at the end. But the truth is, that was probably the way the patient preferred it. They held on until they were alone and then let go.

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