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Also, Devon Adair is. so. damned. hot.
Am I too late?
One of the finest #ScienceFiction series ever seen on TV. A bit of Northern Exposure, a bit of Star Trek, a bit of Lost In Space. But just the good parts. #Earth2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH-6...
Found it! wfmu.org/playlists/TD
How does steel production square with your talk about climate change? :-D
@wfmu.bsky.social I missed it, of the irony. When will it be online?
OK SIMBA.
And get mugged or shot?
That's the best you've got? Wokeass race bullshit?
How do you get down there. I never knew you could.
How is that place even still open?
Nah it's just a terrible UI, low functionality and lack of groups.
said, the Macs are not too bad, because they're actually not Macs any more. They're unix systems with amazing Mac emulators built in to run older software. Linux would be cheaper, but I get it.
Apple killed the Mac. They killed the shitty MacOS with unix. They have been processor promiscuous and in so doing (with Motorola) were conned by IBM into starving the 680X0 human and financial resources to evolve. The new ARM Mx Macs are expensive dongles to prevent Intel Hackintoshes. That
Wait, what?
Fighting slavery was similar. I would go John Brown on your candyass.
They have to live in cages most of their lives 👺So we transport them in cages as well 😡Pigs are treated like shit everywhere 💔Don’t support animal abuse #LiveVegan live a compassionate lifestyle ✌️
I commented on the tilt correct. However just yesterday I was musing on how the UK folks (and others) often call cookies "biscuits". I commend the Tirosh Half coated Biscuits (affordable at the evil MalWart). Naming makes one feel better about iffy eating habits.
I saw #WFMU stickers on cars from all over the US and Canada. I started listening. Now I'm a believer. WAMC.org is also excellent, mostly for public radio content. FunHouseRadio.com is for funny music. #enshittification #enshitification
Weekends. The 40-hour work week. Sick days. That didn't just happen. Organized labor did that. And today, we celebrate how far we've come. And how far we've yet to go to build an economy – and a country – that works for working people.
Maniacs like Elon Musk want nuke Mars before we're even sure there's no life under the surface. #SaganQuote #CarlSagan #Mars #Ecology
#NoKings #Science #Democracy #CarlSagan #SaganQuote
RFK Jr. has odd skin coloring, yet different from that of #Trump. #RFKjr #CarlSagan #SaganQuote
#StarTrek #CarlSagan #SaganQuote #NASA #ScienceFiction
If you read the article, look at the numbers pre-2018.
I shat out tougher nuggets than you.
I'd feed you to a polar bear if we met. You fat old fuck.
Just a reminder that #ScienceDaily is not a science outlet. They don't promote good science. They're a bit like a papermill, but worse, just repeating any press release anyone sends them. As with #IFLS, either just avoid, or treat everything they post with extreme skepticism.
DEPORT!
FAA so Great Again.
Trump is a shitbag. Chinese should be kept out. They're all spies.
What a joke.
This research was funded by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). Of course News Nation peddles this #junkscience. Same uni and Dept as last time. Same funder. Same old. They do this every 6 years. Nobody remembers the meat scandals at McMaster U.
Jaw slackens.
So you literally admit you want to be abusive. Your moral logic is "cats rape" so why can't I?
This is already causing animals to suffer and die. #Pets #animals #cats #caturday #dogs #livestock #vets www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po6m...
Jamie Oliver brilliantly debunks the lies and ridiculous statements that RFK JR. has stated on multiple occasions. Experts are saying that RFK JR’s statements could very well be related to the worm in his brain. He is extremely dangerous and unfit! #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/JPzXG...
🦋 US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says he wants to understand what causes Autism - a goal that reputable scientists have been pursuing for decades Bringing in vaccine critic David Geier as top researcher on the large federal study should be a shocking choice - he is infamous for flawed studies 🦋 #MMR
It is irritating how the media doesn't even know what the word "skeptic" means.
RFK Jr. 😂🤣 🔊🆙
I have really come to loathe RFK Jr. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
[Gift article from The New York Times.] Thanks Bernie, RFK Jr. must go!! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Stand Up For Science and encourage your reps to impeach RFK Jr. @standupforscience.bsky.social standupforscience.net/quack-o-grams
RFK Jr. is a menace to global health. Let's #MAHA. #CDC #FDA #Pardon #Sirhan #HHS #NIH #RFKjr
#Trump #Pardons #Pardon
There's no way to know for sure but it does not look good.
Posting disinformation is bad.
Dead, abused animals apparently.
Is a laybe a woman driving while playing with her cellphone?
In computer terminology, #Sprites are hardware constructs. Most of what most of you think are "sprites" are not Sprites at all. The word is now so eroded that it means almost anything that moves onscreen. So what's the point of the term, unless we reclaim it? Not than you can convince most people
I'm inclined to agree. Frankly I'm disappointed that Carl Sagan and Mr. Spock both ever used the word "believe". In my strict constructionist view, to believe is to accept/assert something is true/real/valid without any solid concrete evidence. Interestingly, Sagan did seem to appreciate this.
I wish this guy lived on my street. @techconnectify.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCl...
The figures indicate that in 2020-21, when the pandemic had most office employees working entirely remotely, the average number of sick days for the public service was 5.9. That number grew to 8.1 in 2021-22, 8.8 in 2022-23 and 9.2 in 2023-24. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
And when people refer to tissues as "Kleenex" we roll our eyes. Unless they are in fact Kleenexes. Does that make sense to you Norbert? Not as a tradename-protector, but just as in calling things correctly.
Byte #2 grabbed attention by putting Rob Tinney's Trek art on the cover. In retro-spectacles, it's worked out.
I understood the reference.
Put it another way: even if their hardware wasn't first, they were the first to use the term Sprite and attach it to that kind of hardware construct. Thus Sprite refers to hardware. Had TI gone IP/TM/© wild (as would happen industry-wide in a few years) there would have been no malappropriation.
even if the hardware construct predated TI's VDP (which IMHO is irrelevant), you heard TI engineers say they coined the term Sprite. Ergo, the term itself (Sprite) refers to a kind of hardware construct they designed. Clearly the term refers to hardware. Notwithstanding common misunderstanding.
It may well be the hardware constructs appeared before TI. You're the one who kept bringing up TI. And then started running back to prior arcade games when the TI engineers said they coined the term Sprite. "Sprite" was coined there, in reference to a hardware construct (see the chip). So even if
Wait was that inside the scanned pages of the screenshot somewhere?
>(Your comment isn't even asked for.) Then who were you talking to? >There's a citation. Where?
A magazine. That's fine if you want to gauge what sold next to "Astrology Monthly" on the newstands in that era. Without the link to the Byte mag pages, I won't comment, since your teensy weensy screenshot was just obvious cherrypicking.