I love the Fediverse because half of it is like "fifteen well-sourced reasons for UBI" and the other half is "I draw the furry porn your dad doesn't admit to buying" and they're actually the same half.

True humanitarian disaster is unrolling in #Russia as the authorities are switching off mobile Internet in places even very distant from the front line to stop Ukrainian UAVs. It has the unintended consequence that without mobile Internet you can’t buy vodka.

Since 2019 Russia introduced very strict regulations, according to which each sale of alcohol is registered in real-time (!) in an on-line system run by tax administration. This regulation is intended to enforce time restrictions on alcohol sales, so you can’t buy it after 23:00 and before 08:00, plus many more - for example on some holidays, in some locations etc.

If Internet doesn’t work, shops can’t register sales so they can’t legally sell alcohol. Risking huge fines and losing license, they won’t even offer “delayed registration” and widespread snitchery makes it really difficult to bypass these regulations.

This is a great read. https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/i-was-a-juror-on-a-murder-trial

> So you say here on your jury questionnaire that a police officer once stole your car, ran over your cat, and crashed it into your living room, while singing a song of her own invention, You Are Stupid And Ugly And That’s Why I’m Doing This, Also, I Can Get Away With It Because I’m A Cop.

> Random people in Alameda County are also fully based and ACABpilled. I think probably a third of the people questioned were asked something like “you said in your jury questionnaire that ‘all cops are lying bastards and I hate them.’ Can you elaborate for us on what that means?”

> In an act of sheer writerphobia and systematic oppression of bloggers, you’re not allowed to remove your notes on a jury case from the courtroom... So every break, I rushed to my laptop—mind full of contraband knowledge—and scribbled down as much as I could remember.

@Faintdreams status.metafiler.com is excellent self-parody. I can't remember the last time it accurately reported an outage.

@chartgerink bummer. I wonder if they can turn it into "code and collaborate without hosting." Which would be a huge step down but the coding and collaboration tools were still pretty cool.

We've basically arrived in the "don't take any service for granted EVER" era of the web.

> Glitch is basically shutting down

https://ino.to/TWHhp5a

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

If I won the lottery I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs.

@mhoye

Luke: “you knew my father?”

Obi-wan: “Oh yes. That guy was a dick. Accidentally born stuffed full of magic force-bugs, lucked out a few times pod racing as a child, basically peaked there. Grew up an entitled, incompetent jackass. Crap pilot, liability in a fight, couldn’t stop acting like some crybaby incel even after one of the most powerful women in the galaxy inexplicably took a liking to him, finally carved up a kindergarten and got made an alt-right hero for it. [smiles] Flammable tho.”

BRING 👏 BACK 👏 TALL 👏 POPPY 👏 SYNDROME 👏 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

Come for the nervous system, stay for the anus. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2023/what-is-a-neuron-when-did-it-evolve

welcome to 2025 where mainboards have 7 different kinds of USB ports

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝

#dishwasher #parody #iot

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
-Elon Musk, Feb 28, 2025

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html

Hot ball in aloe gel :blobfoxlurk2owonotice:

@trelane Yep they are not kidding about it being super piss !

Finnish windscreen wash doesn't quite translate

How it started: Life is DNA, which uses rna to send messages and make proteins that do stuff.

How it's going: Life is RNA, which uses dna as a long-term data storage medium optimized for replication and repair.

#CentralDogma #Biology #pooptoot