Absolutely true story.

I was a latchkey Gen-X. Once, as a young teenager, I was sure I witnessed a UFO landing in my back yard. It was night in the fall, and I was alone.I was alerted to a sound like a giant vacuum cleaner. I looked outside and saw smoke and a big machine with lights, either in my back yard or neighboring field. It crept closer, and spun around. My heart was racing.

Then I realized it was a combine tractor in the neighboring field, harvesting cross at night. The smoke was dust from the harvest. That’s when I realized: Anything can be a UFO if you are bad at identifying things, and don’t realize it’s not flying.

This is pretty good advice, and something I often need to remind myself of. The word “just” weakens what you’re saying and is usually superfluous. Delete it.

Some, but… Certain super-addictive drugs should be limited.

Holy crap it’s a full-page ad!

Yes, because of Proton, I’m seriously considering dumping Microsoft now. My big holdup was my library of Steam games. I just found out about Proton a couple of weeks ago, and as it turns out, most of my games are pretty compatible.

I participate in Street Complete already. But I was interested in something more game-like.

I was thinking about the exact same thing! Open source, OSM mapping with a Pokemon-like travel and collection game. But I’m super busy in grad school at the moment, so I can’t do it. Just put the idea out into the universe for now.

From the article:

She was already at "risks of maternal thrombosis given her history of (deep vein thrombosis during a COVID-19 infection)

Why do I picture this lady as an anti-vaxxer & anti-masker?

Republicans are the ones that nicknamed it that, to try to make their supporters hate it as much as a Black man, even if it hurts them.

Sometimes that won’t even work. Maybe just a little cognitive dissonance.

Like, for rich people?

And wives of rich people?

PeerTube is also a Fediverse service, and does the longer form videos, like YouTube. It mostly works fine; it just lacks content.

Side question: What do you use as an RSS reading?

So, you’re being negative about an alpha release of someone’s hard work without checking it out first?

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s a fantastic book about comics and visual arts in general.

This is exactly my training, too.

Venture capitalists funded it, and when their money runs out, they must be paid.

Bluesky users will be advertised to. Their information will be sold. No thanks!

Balatro and Slay the Spire both have a lot of reply value. Very different games.

We’ll, uBlock 😎

Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.

What makes you think that?

Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.

Proton has labels & folders both.