Old Jimmy Twodicks

This has a Dr. Seuss feel to it.

If you can’t stand

Feel free to stand

Behind the troops

In front of my Ram

If you can’t sit

Feel free to sit

Behind the Sneetch

In front of the cliffs

If you can’t walk

Feel free to walk

Behind the Zax

In front of the stalks

Yes officer, this comment right here.

I’m shoving money into my computer but nothing’s happening

Richard B. Riddick. The “B” is for Butt.

Good. Regulators should be able to order large-scale actions like this, especially when personal safety is at risk. I’d rather not be driving around with a possible claymore mine a foot from my face.

Agalloch - The Mantle. It’s an absolute work of art that makes me want to disappear into a frozen forest.

Diddy Kong Racing, even though Pipsy and Tiptup were inherently OP.

I prefer the simple dy/my/dy/my format (with the year reversed for added ease of use). For example, today would be 14/02/70/72.

NIST and ISO have stopped responding to my emails, but I’m optimistic that the Türk Standardları Enstitüsü will eventually adopt it as their preferred standard.

Thanks to mods, all Dragon Age games have nudity.

They’ve also featured the ability to swap your character model with Thomas the Tank Engine. With big tiddies.

Yeah, this is pretty painful to watch. Trump is a piece of shit, but he’s way more forceful and even somewhat coherent. Meanwhile, Biden’s just above a whisper and is somewhere between stuttering and rambling.

Boy, I can’t wait to watch so many aspects of our society be actively eroded in such a short period of time 🍿

I use Voice by Paul Woitaschek (available on F-Droid). It has a nice, simple interface and a few really useful features. I’ve gone through dozens of audiobooks in various formats with it and haven’t had any problems yet.

I can’t believe you’ve done this.

This, to me, is one of the biggest fallacies of tech companies claiming they care about sustainability goals. No matter the application, most of our hardware is made with materials that come from central Africa. Those mines and facilities are largely controlled by China. Whatever you think of China politically, you have to recognize that many of the sustainability disclosures that, say, Apple is making are premised on these mines self-reporting compliance with certain standards. In practice, miners are using outdated, poorly maintained equipment. Commonly, they’re using shovels and even their hands.

You can write all the cutesy reports you want with stock photos of green leaves, hands holding soil, and smiling “farmers.” Unless and until you’re directly funding better means of extracting raw materials like cobalt from the ground, companies’ claims about their commitment to ESG should be completely dismissed as nonsense.

Some sources:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-24/cobalt-mining-in-the-congo-green-energy/100802588

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/drc-cobalt-and-copper-mining-for-batteries-leading-to-human-rights-abuses/

Yeah, this is going into the rotation

That’s what she said.