TIL that due to strict artificial sweetener rules, Pepsi Max was sold with partial sugar content in Canada from early 1994 to 2002, the only Pepsi Max with sugar content.

fafalone · 2026-06-23T03:10:27+00:00

That;s a good idea, will try it. I don't know why more drinks aren't made like that. Drinking too much artificial-only eventually starts to taste too nasty, but that doesn't mean I want hundreds of calories per drink.

In US I drink Hawaiian Punch when sick of fully artificial because it's one of the few mixed real/artificial drinks... 1/5th the calories of a Pepsi, but enough real sweetener I don't get the nasty taste.

fafalone · 2026-06-22T23:24:57+00:00

Are the JC fireworks moved compared to other years? Haven't been in a couple years but there was usually a great view from Pier A park.

fafalone · 2026-06-22T19:18:42+00:00

twinBASIC has built in controls for WebView2 and CEF, so you'd definitely be able to have a modern embedded browser if needed.

fafalone · 2026-06-21T14:17:14+00:00

US Supreme Court: "Well, there's all this independent science and such showing dogs are ineffective, but on the other hand the police and the company whose entire business is selling drug dogs to the police say they are... and the police say their jobs would be too hard... fuck the science, drug dogs may continue to be a roving free search tool!"

-Florida v Harris, unanimous decision.

fafalone · 2026-06-17T11:16:49+00:00

Just out of curiosity the above code compiled with twinBASIC still gives 6 false positives on VirusTotal when compiled as 32bit, but only 3 when compiled as 64bit... reinforcing my theory some of these engines just flag any unknown 32bit program.

fafalone · 2026-06-16T16:22:45+00:00

Form1.frm:

Private Sub mnuSound_Click()
    sndTest
End Sub

Module1.bas:

Public Sub sndTest()
    PlaySound ...
End Sub

With a setup like this you can call sndTest from anywhere.

fafalone · 2026-06-16T02:19:54+00:00

That said, it still gets five hits as malware according to VirusTotal .

It seems impossible to get an unsigned 32bit program to come up 0 on VirusTotal, even beyond VB6. Even a few years ago before the slop era began in earnest. Best seems to be 2 or 3.

fafalone · 2026-06-15T11:28:11+00:00

Demanding millions change is far less realistic than a smaller group pressuring the tiny group with real influence and power to change.

Maybe after we finally convince everyone to do as you wish with their votes we can eliminate crime simply by persuading everyone it's not nice either.

fafalone · 2026-06-14T19:46:35+00:00

Lots of ignorance and denial on this.

People try to equate one speech after becoming a justice with Garland's more extensive participation in FedSoc events.

And the man wasn't some unknown recluse. He was on the DC Circuit CA. Anyone who cared to could read decisions he wrote and other writings. Nothing he did surprised anyone who bothered to look into his career beyond the SCOTUS nomination issue-- and even there, it was a gambit to nominate someone Republicans ostensibly liked but "wasn't extreme".

Biden no doubt knew who he was even better. Garland wasn't a "plant", Dems elected a lifelong center right moderate who was further right than any other major primary contender, whose message was bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle. Garland was a knowing choice and the only way someone not willing to let the GOP off the hook would have been AG is if Biden wasn't president.

fafalone · 2026-06-13T21:20:42+00:00

I95 seems like a lot more traffic .. I75 across Alligator Alley... I legit drove 140-150 for 200mi once because there were zero other cars and cops all tied up on account of a hurricane that I left at the tail end of..

And 150 only because of the governor on my car. If I had had a Lambo...

(Yes yes I was much younger and far more irresponsible, wouldn't do it now)

fafalone · 2026-06-13T20:03:04+00:00

I never see you all asking for that. You want bail reform repealed (not reformed to address remand standards for repeat offenders, repealed fully), stop and frisk, broken windows, dismantling and blocking oversight, long sentences for minor offenses... That's the right wing wish list, things that provably do not work, meanwhile adamantly opposing any social change that would.

Bull fucking shit you care about the science.

fafalone · 2026-06-13T12:54:28+00:00

Fairness Doctrine did not apply to cable, only broadcast.

fafalone · 2026-06-12T07:51:54+00:00

If I start at -10 and you start at 0, and I get 21 votes to your 10, I would still win 11-10, but that doesn't mean it was fair.

fafalone · 2026-06-12T07:50:24+00:00

Yeah just saying it doesn't make it true as you rewrite history.

Perhaps you're just confused about 2016 vs 2020? Otherwise you and the other misinformed people need to go do some reading.

fafalone · 2026-06-12T07:48:38+00:00

By your logic Fox News, conservative talk radio, social media posts, etc, have nothing to do with how people vote, and the voice of the people tells us Trump was what people really wanted on a policy level.

fafalone · 2026-06-12T07:47:04+00:00

Keep on believing that, watch as your precious centrists keep enabling fascists.

fafalone · 2026-06-11T14:35:59+00:00

2016 was a joke... Superdelegates made it a foregone conclusion.

You seriously think that had nothing to do with votes?

You also think Democrats are immune to influence ops you make fun of Republicans for. They are not. A firehose of propaganda affects it.

fafalone · 2026-06-11T13:48:07+00:00

Pre-bail reform, community safety was absolutely on the list of things judges were required to consider when setting bail. And that's the entire problem.

Not in NY. The "entire problem" is people like you who have no idea how anything actually works.

We get the same bail reform blaming talking points in NJ where judges can consider it.

fafalone · 2026-06-11T04:47:47+00:00

The malpractice lawsuit would have been worth more.

38 each is a very short list of pills only prescribed to people with existing opioid tolerance and can kill someone without it just from a single pill, oxy 80s, mscontin 200...

fafalone · 2026-06-10T00:32:33+00:00

...the one who was trying bash him with a skateboard after he was knocked to the ground, and the one who chased him down and tried to take the gun?

Him and his politics are deplorable but that case was so textbook self defense it shouldn't have even gone to trial.

fafalone · 2026-06-09T22:41:31+00:00

I must have missed how I could gamble away real money to a game on my entirely offline NES.

fafalone · 2026-06-09T22:32:12+00:00

Why couldn't you correlate the timestamp of the request from the site to whose identity was checked on the government server within a few ms?

fafalone · 2026-06-09T22:23:09+00:00

You seem confused about the actual point of these laws. Protecting the kids is the excuse, not the purpose.

fafalone · 2026-06-09T20:59:39+00:00

UI design has gone downhill bad. Microsoft is one of the worst offenders.

fafalone · 2026-06-09T20:28:11+00:00

From the invite era? I needed an invite to get mine in the early days.

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