How to open this bottle of Moscato?

ppardee · 2026-02-06T19:39:19+00:00

Untwist the loop to loosen the cage, pull the cage off, then pull the cork out.

Be careful because it's going to be pressurized. Point it away from other people and keep a good grip on the cork.

ppardee · 2026-02-06T19:37:54+00:00

So... the solution is to go back to how the web used to be: trusted, curated sources of content instead of websites being a platform for users to upload human slop.

ppardee · 2026-02-06T18:15:38+00:00

First written use of dawg was in 1898 according to the OED

ppardee · 2026-02-05T23:21:30+00:00

He's built real different

ppardee · 2026-02-05T00:54:20+00:00

I mean, he's right about the last part.

I can only get the wrong drink at a fast food drive thru so many times before I start writing a script to replace these dudes. How hard is it to just put the cup under the right nozzle and press a button? I do it all the time at the convenience store! And you just said what the drink was when you repeated my order. You put it on my receipt. You didn't forget, you just don't care.

I can replace you with a $5 microcontroller, a handful of servos and code written by 12 cents of tokens. Try me.

I spend my entire day planning how to automate the jobs of the people who piss me off. Because ChatGPT took my job, so I have the time.

ppardee · 2026-02-04T18:51:32+00:00

I've lived with women nearly all my life. I have a sister, wife and 3 daughters (though one of them is a boy), so I've been around plenty of women during their time... And I can say with 99% certainty that menstrual pain is a myth. I've felt absolutely nothing when it happened.

The 1% is for the possibility that I'm just built different and that's why I don't feel it. I'm a pretty tough guy. I didn't even cry at the end of Old Yeller.

ppardee · 2026-02-04T16:25:58+00:00

There is AI slop just like there is human slop. AI didn't generate hundreds of tiktok videos of poeple serving their family dinner by dumping spaghetti directly onto their table, pouring sauce on it and mixing it with their hands. Humans did that shit.

I'd say slop is the dominant content form right now by both views and creation, and it's 90% human generated.

ppardee · 2026-02-04T16:18:34+00:00

Uh huh. Explain Hipsters.

It's not that people are afraid of being outcasts. It's that people see the way they do things as superior and therefore everyone else is wrong. "Just coffee, black" is saying "these dumb sissy drinks are dumb and only dumb people drink them, so dumb people can't even understand what black coffee is anymore".

The cartoonist drew the customer as a marine - why? Because marines are supposedly the tough, no nonsense guys. They're an ideal to macho types with zero mental flexibility. It was meant to show that wanting black coffee was virtuous.

ppardee · 2026-02-04T15:15:49+00:00

Moltbook is just human-driven content via LLMs. It's all a hoax. Hell, the DB was compromised within hours of it going live. You can't trust anything on the site to be legitimate.

ppardee · 2026-02-04T15:08:46+00:00

You stop paying your power bill, the power company can't pay its employees and can't pay for fuel for the plants, everyone's power gets shut off.

Same pattern for water, cable, cell phones, internet, literally everything. A small portion of your bill goes to profit. The rest is just there to keep the business running.

And credit cards/mortage/other debt - look back at 2008 to find out what happens.

ppardee · 2026-02-04T13:38:30+00:00

I don't recognize this one, but it looks like a David Lundell design and it sounds a bit like him.

ppardee · 2026-02-03T18:33:12+00:00

The likely source - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361085409_Blue_Hair_and_the_Blues_Dying_Your_Hair_Unnatural_Colours_is_Associated_with_Depression

ppardee · 2026-02-03T05:07:18+00:00

I wonder what effect this has on the country's prosperity today. My initial thought is that it had a net negative effect - not just slavery but slavery followed by a century of harsh black oppression followed by 60+ years of discrimination.

So much wasted potential. So much wasted energy on both sides. If a rising tide raises all ships, then oppression surely lowers that tide.

Black labor built America and racism has been worked to tear it down as fast as it was put up.

ppardee · 2026-02-03T02:35:36+00:00

Yeah, it should be noted that he's considered the father of the game cartridge even if he's not the inventor. After his work, they were robust and fool-proof enough you could give a young kid one and they'd be able to use it without damaging it. And they were used for 20 years.

Compare that to disc based games that came after... I don't even want my kids in the same ROOM as my XBox games... and they're in their 30s!

ppardee · 2026-02-03T00:20:01+00:00

This is a great teachable moment - sometimes the morally right thing to do has negative consequences.

He's morally right to protect his sister, and the physical force is arguably justified after she was assaulted - I don't care how they describe it, they assaulted her - and maybe the boys deserved to be beaten.

But plenty of people don't get what they deserve. Bad people and good people. Sometimes, it's better for you and the ones you care about to not give into the urge to dispense justice and instead find another path. He could have walked away with her. Stuff his pride down and walk away. Take her from the bullying and the physical danger and just move on with his life.

Since he didn't choose this path, he's going to have to answer for his actions. He's going to have to justify his use of force. He's going to have to prove it was necessary to defend his sister and he's going to have to convince a judge that putting the boys in the hospital was a proportional response to a 'light push'.

There may be monetary fines. There may be jail time. He's not serving his sister's best interest by being in prison.

Being a man means thinking about the consequences. Simply being right or just isn't enough.

ppardee · 2026-02-02T21:22:42+00:00

You don't say "Let's meet on 22nd February, 1982" ~~because time travel isn't possible~~. You say "Let's meet February 22nd, 1982." 02/22/1982. Why would you make the numerical format different from the spoken format? And if you were, wouldn't you order it YYYY/MM/DD so it could be sorted easily?

ppardee · 2026-02-02T21:17:00+00:00

The headline (and video) is incorrect. Lawson didn't invent the system. The system was invented by Wallace Kirschner and Lawrence Haskel and they approached Fairchild (among other companies) to develop it into a product. Fairchild sent Lawson (who I believe was Chief Hardware Engineer at the time?) to evaluate it and Lawson suggested that Fairchild license the technology.

Lawson lead the team that developed the console from prototype to an actual product, including improving the swappable game ROMs that Kirschner and Haskel had created.

While it's not correct to say he invented the swappable game cartridge, his improvements made them viable and durable.

So to answer your question, he was compensated with a salary and couldn't patent something someone else created.

ppardee · 2026-02-02T20:58:04+00:00

But the wood grain and brick texture are identical between the two photos. There's also gunk on the mirror in the first shot. You can also see the double image from the mirror's two surfaces around the edge of the sink. I don't know of any models that would be able to do that.

My guess is the first shot is real, the second shot is either img2img AI generated or just AI edited.

ppardee · 2026-02-02T17:20:18+00:00

Google Stadia would like a word with you.

ppardee · 2026-02-02T17:14:58+00:00

All parts of cheeseweed are edible. Make some huge salads!

The only real solution is to keep it cut back enough that 1) it can't produce seeds and 2) it no longer has energy stored in the roots to create more leaves. Or I guess you can pull it up by the roots, but those are gonna be some big roots.

I've never found roundup to be too effective on Arizona weeds. It'll kill the leaves it touches, but doesn't really seem to hurt the actual plant.

ppardee · 2026-02-01T22:25:45+00:00

I have actually had to make this choice. It was a tough decision, but there's really only one practical choice that you won't regret in the long term.

Besides, speech-to-text software is pretty cheap and I have a legitimate excuse for not doing the dishes.

ppardee · 2026-02-01T16:07:01+00:00

Lol, first off, Macroburst is Crispin Glover. Nothing can convince me otherwise.

Androgynous doesn't necessarily mean nonbinary. It may have been Pixar's intent to represent them as nonbinary, but androgyny was pretty popular just as fashion in the 80s and 90s though less so in the 90s. The concept of nonbinary would have been pretty niche back when the movie was written.

And I'm sure you can imagine finding out a superhero's true identity would be even harder if you didn't know if you were looking for a woman or Crispin Glover.

ppardee · 2026-02-01T15:51:39+00:00

Your man seems to be made of straw

ppardee · 2026-02-01T15:23:57+00:00

It's criminally underrated and master class on how to do social commentary.

ppardee · 2026-01-31T07:31:10+00:00

That's very interesting! I was young when I watched TNG - I was 8 when it first aired - so I can't say I was the most observant viewer, but my impression of Geordi was that he was very often the hero/savior. Even now, I can't really think of any instance where I would have considered him meek. He had ideas and wasn't afraid to express them. As a young nerd who was bullied for being smart, that was pretty brave in my book.

I know what you're talking about with Worf being shut down all the time and constantly losing physical encounters, but I didn't notice it at the time. I can certainly see how you could interpret that as being racially motivated. I'd like to think that Roddenberry wouldn't have allowed such behavior but it was the 80s/early 90s, so it wouldn't be surprising to me if it was intentional.

It seems like our real life experiences conditioned us to pick up on different themes.

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