yeah read that Caddyshack was made in florida instead of california because they didn’t want the studios breathing down their necks.

that’s pretty much a whole manga subgenre now

When you finally see the big picture, you have to die because you know too much.

there are groups on mastodon?

Harvest those email addresses.

Did zucko not pay his protection money?

Here you go. There are a number of ‘corrido de luigi’ songs out there.

Elon quitting as CEO is not enough. He has to divest from tesla as well. His obscene wealth is the problem, and as long as his wealth is in the company I’m going to be pulling for it to tank to zero.

real cops do this too, though not execution style.

They’ll turn off benefits to people with opinions

I like mine. I have tinnitus and its important to me to be able to dial down loud music and movies, without the sound getting muffled and unintelligible. Mine are custom molded with removable 20db etymotics filters; they came with solid filters too that you can switch when you just want to block sound and don’t care about fidelity.

Before these I had some etymotics 30$ musician’s earplugs and they never worked very well. With them in I couldn’t make out the words a singer was singing, and always felt like I was missing out on the music.

My GF has a pair of 20$ musicians plugs she likes just fine (“downbeats”), and she doesn’t feel like they ruin the sound. So maybe custom molded isn’t as important as a good filter?

For sleeping, shooting, or settings where hearing isn’t important, the foam ones are fine.

I went back to work once (programming) after a couple of beers at the bar. Turns out not a job I can do while drinking.

Fuck amazon and fuck whole foods, their subsidiary.

So convenient for my boycott list

are we looking at a work slowdown from the digital serfs of x?

So I guess ‘Nicole’ is a bot or something? Feeling FOMO

that is the wrong mindset for a boycott. no amazon period from now until forever. if shows go under so much the better. take your show business elsewhere.

You don’t have to replace the html web. If a new system was sufficiently fun to create with, people might use it for all kinds of cool new projects. Kind of like Flash used to be. You’d go there for a specific thing you heard about.

A new web free of cruft might turn out to be cheaper to develop for, and that might appeal to the corporate types. Maybe useful for intranet type apps where the browser is specified anyway and you have a captive audience.

Ok maybe off topic, why does a web browser have to be one of the most complicated software artifacts on earth? So expensive to write and maintain that only a few orgs with huge developer resources can do it?

What would it look like to start from scratch with a massively simplified standard for specifying UIs, based on all we’ve learned since html/css was invented? A standard that a few developers could implement in a few weeks using off the shelf libraries. Rather than reimplement every bizarre historical detail in html/css, have a new UI layout system that’s simple and consistent, and perhaps more powerful.

Haven’t looked at it in detail. I like F-Droid because the apps seem to be non-predatory OSS that gets the job done. Its not really a ‘store’ though. I think some apps have a paid Play Store release and a free F-Droid release, to make it easy to support the devs if you want.

Does accrescent support non-free apps?