Maple Walnut FTW

Anything that has an intransparent, engagement driving, ad laden algorithm that determines what you do and don’t see is thoroughly unappealing to me. At least now that I’m a little more tech savvy and anti-corporate.

Hear hear. Under the guise of Engagement, corporations have weaponized algorithms to maximize the time you spend on their platforms, and it’s absolutely been a race to the bottom, prioritizing Outrage above all else. Hard pass, thanks.

Corporate goals don’t align with that of users like they used to.

Thanks!

Genuine lmao

I’d watch 7 seasons of Voyager voyaging with Ferrets

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It’s not AI, it’s an LLM. It doesn’t know what misinformation is because it doesn’t Know anything

This one is the New Gent Polapurple, SUOK712

It’s from the 2018 line-up, so you won’t find it in stores, though other versions of the “New Gent” line can be similar, with different colors etc.

The face doesn’t really change colors; it’s more that the coating on the plastic changes the color that’s reflecting based on angle, kind of like a CD :)

Agreed! Found this when I went through the Swatch back catalogue on Etsy. They have SO many watches going back decades!

Oh snap, discoloration? I guess that makes sense due to skin oils and whatnot. Darn.

Are all three ticking in sync, or is it a cacophony of mis-timed clicks?

Pretty sure this one is just straight up plastic. It’s SO easily scratched

Oooof, too true

It’s meant as a comparison in terms of Moral Crusades via Prohibition tactics. I have a feeling that a “ban” on pornography will likely end the same way, with hyperbolic responses and lives disrupted to no positive resolutions. But it really seems untenable as a concept, that genie is so far out of the bottle that there is no bottle anymore; only the whole entire internet

Hilarious. As if this could ever actually be instituted nationwide. Regulations on sale and access maybe, but moral crusades like this are perpetually doomed to failure, much like the War on Drugs.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try, won’t posture, won’t grandstand about it, but to actually succeed in this goal when over 50% of the populace isn’t going to be behind it? I guess we’ll just have to watch them try.

Hear hear.

The cloud is just other people’s computers

It honestly isn’t that card to take a can of diced tomatoes and throw it on the frying pan, add some garlic, olive oil, salt, and herbs of your choosing, reduce to a suitable volume, good to go. I’m surprised more people don’t do that.

Feel free to share your recipe though, I’d be curious how others do it

I’m still daydreaming of a Rachel Notley federal run

Oh, Black Walnut, that’s what those are

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