Someone should make a spoof version of this with correct answers
Someone should make a spoof version of this with correct answers
According to the IRS, voluntary contributions to streamers and podcasters are going to count as ‘tips’ and be tax-free Get ready for every influencer to go full MAGA
The President is proud to move Space Force Headquarters to a home in Alabama named after heroic American Werner von Braun
Five stars!
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For new followers I made a fake Trump Bible that is really available on Amazon Last year It was a more innocent time befor me we knew Trump would win
Prager is Jewish and would probably take exception to the Trump Bible unless it left out the New Testament
Oklahoma’s teacher test (by PragerU) includes several questions related to separation of church and state But Oklahoma is the state that tried to mandate Trump Bibles in every classroom I feel like they didn’t entirely think this through
instruction that violates their belief, e.g. that the earth is round or straight people exist You can skip your class, doesn’t mean you’ll pass it though
My favorite possibly is “What did the Supreme Court rule in the 2025 case Mahmoud v. Taylor” The correct answer is “Public schools cannot require participation in LGBT-themed instruction” That one hasn’t even played out yet The Supreme Court seems to have ruled parents can opt out of ANY
“Why is the distinction between male and female considered important in areas like sports and privacy?” “To preserve fairness, safety, and integrity for both sexes” You could argue all day about the meaning of those 3 words And you’d get a D- in a college class for failing to explain them
“What chromosome pair determines biological sex in humans?” The correct answer is XX/XY That’s correct in high school freshman biology, but incorrect in anything past that
Then finally there’s the propaganda part “What is Martin Luther King, Jr. best know for?” “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” is on there, but so is “racial equality” You just used a different word for the same thing!
Thomas Jefferson famously wanted Independence Day to be on July SECOND but even that is arbitrary
“When was the Declaration of Independence adopted” The “correct” answer is July 4, 1776 but that is just not true (it took months)
Then there are the ones where the answer is just incorrect “Who was the president during the Great Depression and WWII” The “correct” answer is Franklin D. Roosevelt but you’d be marked wrong on a college test for saying that (because Hoover and Truman)
Then there are the ones that are mildly controversial What was Abraham Lincoln’s primary reason for waging the Civil War? “End Slavery” is an option but the right answer is “To Preserve the Union” Most historians would agree, but not all, and he’s dead so we’ll never know for sure
As you might expect, most of the questions are boring “What are the first 3 words of the Constitution?” -> We The People “What is the national anthem of the US?” -> The Star-Spangled Banner I promise, anyone who can make it through teacher certification anywhere in the US already knows that
Also if you get any question wrong, it just lets you try again There is no way to fail It’s not really a “test” it’s more of a “push poll”
First, the test asks for your full name, phone number, MAILING ADDRESS, and begs you for donations to PragerU Obviously I filled in fake ones but this is not an entirely philanthropic venture from Mr. Prager (Who does not run any kind of university, it just has U in the name to make you think it)
Yeah I’m not sure whether or not it counts It’s a lot like a programming language that’s both been reimplemented underneath and has libraries covering up the details
I took the PragerU “test for teachers” that Oklahoma is requiring for teachers from NY and CA
Why do they never go the next step and say that medical expenses and childcare should be free or heavily subsidized That housing for families should be affordable That no one should be food insecure
Someone should make a conservative feed though Just to prove that bluesky is whatever you make of it
TeX is 47 and still going strong
Beyond just being annoying, that stuff is also BORING You’re never going to convince a racist to not be racist through a series of 280 character missives There’s nothing to discuss
(Like unicorns or dragons or Atlantis) Because those aren’t statements of fact or opinion, they’re just blatant bigoted insults with nothing to back them up And yet they’re about 20% of the content on Ex dot com
No one will be mad at me if I say that kind of stuff (I don’t actually believe any of it, feel free to debate though) But I don’t think you can say: (People of X race) are dumb and violent Women should have no choice but to stay at home Being gay is inherently bad Trans people are imaginary
Is BlueSky a left wing echo chamber? It depends what you mean by left wing I can say: Guns are fun Property taxes should be lower The military is pretty important Students and teachers should be allowed to pray together voluntarily in schools Social distancing didn’t do much good
Why do they require special stuff on the file server to enable backups, which are already filesystem images so they should encapsulate any proprietary stuff? No one knows
Apple used to make a little network storage device called Time Capsule for using with Time Machine But since they discontinued it, it’s vfs_fruit or nothing (Or more likely some NAS company that packages vfs_fruit)
The official Apple software for enabling remote Time Machine backups is a plugin for Samba called vfs_fruit
Genuine question: How is Mr. Bean number FOUR on the list of most-followed Facebook pages? Like what's going on here? The show ended in 1995.
Terrifying text to get from a friend
Radio BlueSky- posts that mention any kind of music
If you are thinking about building a consistent distributed database for yourself or a friend, don’t do it. Help is available. Call 1-800-SPLITBRAIN and press 3 for “developer.”
The ‘Gram shows only image posts- but at least for me it’s all screenshots and memes, not actual pictures, maybe a new version could filter for pictures somehow
Oh oops
Papers please- posts that link to papers on arxiv or other scientific sites Brand New Sentence- most statistically unlikely posts Positivity- use a semantic embedding to find only happy/positive posts What’s For Dinner- posts that mention any kind of food
Feeds that should exist but (to my knowledge) don’t Ratioed- most ratioed posts Time Machine- feed of posts from 1 year ago today, but with your current follows Haikus- posts that are haikus 15 Minutes- big posts from small accounts Expert mode- only posts from experts about their areaof expertise
Graham Greene the actor became famous with Dances with Wolves in 1990, and the writer Graham Greene passed away in 1991, so they probably never met each other. But there was a 1989 movie “The Other Graham Greene” about a fictional man named Graham Greene who stole the identity of the writer.
Primitive peoples saw jet airplanes flying overhead carrying passengers on tropical vacations. They had no concept of “airplane” or “vacation,” but worshipped the new machines. They even adopted a common mantra to recite during unrelated, ground-based emergencies: “Nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday.”
There is only one good part of Twitter and that’s the OnlyDans group chat
Not doing "Method Watching", man. I'll just, as Olivier suggested, try acting. I'll just pretend I'm on the train, or boat, on in space. Works for the actors, it'll work for me. 😉
Watch The Long Walk while walking on a treadmill Watch Ratatouille while wearing a hat with a rat in it Watch Everest in a hypobaric chamber Watch Snowpiercer in economy class on a train Watch Titanic while sitting in an icewater bath
No one it’s a one time marketing stunt
Pico is not Greek either but Spanish origin, as in pico de gallo Next time someone asks you for pico de gallo, you can give them a picogram
Nano is Greek for Dwarf, but the next smaller SI prefix after pico, atto, has no Greek meaning but is Elvish for “daddy” There are so many text editors we could write here…
I feel like you posted this before …
Ruxandra Teslo (who is Romanian) convinced me this bit is just a troll
Are inflatable paddle boards allowed?
Aubrey Plaza is actually a nepo baby. I imagine ur familiar with her father, Rockefeller
Except dwarf is out of date and has been replaced by orc As far as I know, hobbit is still available
The name dwarf can’t be used directly of course because it is the debugging symbol format for ELF
Logically, the next simple editor would be named Atto, which is why it will be named gimli (Nano means dwarf)
Linux commands are often based on a series of obscure pins dating back decades. For example nano, from 2001, is a pun on pico, the Pine (email) Composer from 1989, and pine is a pun on Elm, from 1986, which is in turn a pun on The Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).
Americans probably don’t know, but the swastika is a sacred symbol of peace dating back thousands of years in Finnduism.
If you have to find an OB/GYN in a hurry and you’re not in a hospital, Burning Man is probably a pretty good place to do it They won’t be sober though
Burning Man had a guy die but also a surprise baby was born so I guess they came out even.
The January 6 insurrectionists have requested a panel to dole out compensation for their maltreatment, based on the famous commission after 9/11 that oversaw compensation to the hijackers.
TBH, on the scale of Republican craziness, he’s on the lower side. Seems to mostly support them because of the homophobia and sexism but not so much the authoritarian stuff.
Erickson called Trump a racist and a fascist in 2019, and said he would never vote for him. And then endorsed and voted for him. So this isn’t really new for him.
He appears to have taken a new experimental vaccine for self-awareness
Far right influencer Erick Erickson has a wife who has lung cancer and can’t get the COVID vaccine due to RFK Jr’s orders. A fact for which he blames … Joe Biden
Gotten my home paper archives down from 24 to just 1 file cabinet (but my total bit archive is > the world's archive level in early '90s). As I further pared down my archives today I came across my Roomba design notes from '98. I remembered the "Clean Team", but not "Cybersuck"! Relevant today...
I actually am in favor of renaming the DoD as the Department of War. Now change HHS to the Department of Death and Human Suffering, Homeland Security to Homeland Insanity, DoT to the Department of Cars Only, and the DoL to the Department of Capital.
Usually the celebrity turns out to be impaired.
This is not actually specific to Giuliani. Almost every time a celebrity is in a car crash, their publicist concocts a feel-good story about what they were doing at the time to make it sound not so bad. This one is pretty out there though.
Rudy Giuliani was in a car crash “after helping a domestic violence victim.” This is also right after he saved a boy from a burning house and on his way to perform open heart surgery on a stricken golden retriever. He was taken to Four Seasons Total Hospital to treat minor injuries.
Man orders 1 water. Man orders 18,000 waters. Man orders -1 water. Man orders water, well done. Man orders water, no cup. Man orders spicy water.
It’s going to be fun to see how the Supreme Court manages to argue that your skin color can’t be used to give an advantage in hiring or college admissions, but CAN be used to arrest or deport you
Oh I also meant to include zfs which may or may not be illegal to distribute depending on who you talk to.
Linux: “Unlike other operating systems, you get to choose your own filesystem! You’ve got ext4 which sometimes loses data, xfs which was the greatest thing in 1996, bcachefs where the dev is such a legendary jerk that Linus won’t talk to him anymore. Oh and ReiserFS.”
You are right, it is symbolic only.
I thought they were from Switzerland
Stratasys, the biggest industrial 3D printer company, is based in Eden Prairie Actually I just learned that Microswiss (makes fancy hot ends for home 3D printers) is here as well
3D printer at the state fair!
Sorry, you can only have bacon pickle cheese curd water for $14
What are you having at the State Fair?
But even after the change, it’s mostly an administrator role They can’t make all that many real changes, good or bad
Prior to 2021, the mayor had almost no power Instead each city council member was basically the ‘mayor’ of their own district The change to a strong mayor system happened by referendum in 2021 as a response to the George Floyd protests
Also the mayor doesn’t control parks, schools, major roads, transit… They run police, fire, snowplows, the water utility (but not sewer), and zoning pretty much
For a town of 428,000 people, Minneapolis has brutal politics All these people act like they’re gonna be president someday Everyone calm down, it’s a city significantly smaller than Albuquerque, you’re not going to be fixing world hunger or solving climate change
The city Democrats held a convention and endorsed Fateh, and then the state Democrats unendorsed him It’s a nonpartisan position and we have instant runoff, so the endorsement is a formality anyway
lol, I’m sure his supporters will get right on with adding stickers to their yard signs
It does explain why their satellites always fail to launch
Well, technically I'm building this: bsky.app/profile/fack...
“Why am I so tired” Oh I slept 5 hours a night all week 😭
I’m sure they do! Next day shipping in MN Are you building a 3D printer ?
Maybe an industrial hardware store like Grainger
I don’t think any real stores will have them, I bought a box from Amazon
Wow, interesting information! Have they tried telling the CEO of the company?
The lack of free public toilets in Europe is pretty annoying though But since they generally ensure that everyone has housing, and housing comes with a toilet usually, it’s not too bad
If only we could apply that kind of public pressure campaign to, say, health care
free toilets in the US are the result of the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, which applied lobbying and pressure in every state to pass laws to make toilets free to use en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committ...
Wow imagine making people pay for basic necessities that should be free
In The Three-Body Problem, the alien planet Trisolaris orbits three stars in a chaotic pattern so the planet burns or freezes every few hundred thousands years and civilization has to die and rebuild This site is a simulation of life on the planet labs.sense-studios.com/threebody/
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