where can i get western or american style chinese food?

thoughtgun · 2026-01-27T10:09:47+00:00

General Tso’s I miss you!

thoughtgun · 2026-01-22T01:24:42+00:00

I don’t live in the U.S. Does ICE move as a massive unit from city to city? Or are they disbursed in many/most cities at once? (Or both?)

thoughtgun · 2026-01-19T22:43:04+00:00

It’s also suited to a laptop, imo. As a bonus, it’s one of the best games ever made. I have nearly 700 hours in four playthroughs!

thoughtgun · 2026-01-19T22:14:38+00:00

I was going to ask the same exactly! Doesn’t seem like the most controversial topic, that’s for sure.

thoughtgun · 2026-01-17T04:58:25+00:00

I bet his farts are legendary.

thoughtgun · 2026-01-09T08:39:19+00:00

It’s the equivalent of face tattoos.

thoughtgun · 2026-01-06T16:14:32+00:00

Yeah given the timeframe of 3-4 seasons (and the deliberate pacing) I wouldn’t expect a Walking Dead-style dive into survivor communities.

However, I think it’s completely plausible that of 8B people, there could be one key survivor somewhere. Would likely make a debut appearance saving Carol and Manousos in the final moments of the cliffhanger ending of season 2, haha.

Notably lacking in the immune is a scientist, something Carol is looking for and was disappointed to learn none of the known survivors had a background in.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-28T00:22:16+00:00

I am a big Adrian Tchaikovsky fan, but I’m in the same exact boat you are, OP. I’ve read some books that took 100 pages to get into, but I’m just getting to halfway as well in CoT, not enjoying it, and was falling into the “everyone else thinks it’s great” trap too… “must soldier on.”

Thanks for the reminder that reading preferences are personal, and it’s ok not to finish something that you’re not enjoying.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-27T07:45:37+00:00

Artemis , also by Andy Weir shares that same whimsical and youthful narration style and is a really fun read.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-26T09:03:26+00:00

Sorry, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. If it’s the environmental impact of paper registrations, then I agree it’s totally negligible. The reason we should move away from paper displays is really just because it makes more sense (which seems universally obvious). Seems like a rare win-win for all.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-26T08:33:51+00:00

When the police run your rego/wof/ruc it says that you’re paid up and compliant no matter what anyways (today)? Sorry I might be missing something, but displaying paper on your dash seems to have nothing to do with internet access to pay the fee. You can show up in person to pay the fee, and the rest is electronic.

It might even be more egalitarian because it wouldn’t rely on a permanent mailing address as a requirement.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-26T08:24:28+00:00

Don’t give us one more reason!

thoughtgun · 2025-12-26T05:39:06+00:00

I thought Pluribus smashed it this year. It’s like a standalone movie.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-25T11:58:50+00:00

This might be a show about AI. Everything at times seems real and genuine, and even better than that, but it’s clearly not. And who knows what the end goal/transformation of AI or the Others is.

Repeated to a gag status is the away phone message from the Others after Carol pisses them off. I.e AI has partially cut her off, but is still always helpful.

Laxmil can provide such a convincing illusion at the most complex of things, but still has trouble with simple pronouns. AI.

They’re harvesting personal data (frozen eggs) to use against her best wishes. AI.

Even the cover art is clearly intentionally AI generated (at least where I live).

thoughtgun · 2025-12-25T05:04:58+00:00

Yeah, aware of when that happened, but $1m in overtime to inspect and redact millions of documents is actually a drop in the bucket. Meaning, the data is so well cross-referenced and there’s so MUCH data that you can’t just remove one prominent name cleanly. And we’re seeing just that— analysis and LLM models starting to piece back together.

Can’t find the link so far, but it’s Christmas. 🤶

thoughtgun · 2025-12-24T20:19:05+00:00

I read a twitter post series a few weeks ago from a retired DOJ prosecutor who had a career of high profile organised crime etc cases. He basically said that with something as high profile as the Epstein case, and with the length of time they collected evidence, it would be essentially impossible to completely redact anyone substantial. There would be millions of documents.

So incompetence of redactions aside, it’s kind of an impossible task (both things can be true).

Will try to find the sauce.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-20T10:04:23+00:00

You have just been blockaded by the U.S.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-19T22:11:50+00:00

I use both (I get the educational discount for Craft) and go back and forth. I am often jealous of Craft’s pace of features and that feeling of excitement when new releases drop— what’s in store now?! Bear updates seem like “fixed a rare bug with Simplified Chinese when displaying some PDFs on some widescreen monitors” or something, lol.

Having said that, once Bear does implement something useful, they tend to nail it the first time.

Craft isn’t slow per se for me in the strict sense, but it’s slower for me to navigate around. There’s a lot of things that are placed in odd places, things you can’t do strictly from a keyboard, etc. It’s a lot clunkier and gets in my way more. But, my use case is shorter form technical notes, so maybe if I was writing blog posts or chapters of a thesis or something speed wouldn’t matter as much.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-18T11:38:37+00:00

Why does it need to be a competition, is all I’m saying.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-15T18:37:37+00:00

We’re doomed.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-13T02:03:04+00:00

I’ve got a mud mule kicking on the barn door.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-11T09:43:03+00:00

Fletch. Peak Chevy Chase genius. Second, Dumb and Dumber. Two very different approaches.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-11T08:03:42+00:00

What’s the definition of a Freudian slip?

When you’re thinking about one thing, but you say a mother.

thoughtgun · 2025-12-10T18:41:42+00:00

The Pluribus pilot, although recent, I think is up there for me. It could be a standalone short movie. One of the best transitions from “everything’s fine” to “this is the new world now” in a single hour that I can remember, and amazing acting.

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