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Morons don’t even understand that toilet paper is domestically produced, not imported, so a dockworker’s strike would have fuck-all impact on the supply of it anyway.

Bethesda was obviously already toast to anyone paying attention when Fallout '76 came out. They certainly haven’t improved since.

…And I can’t believe that these are the motherfuckers who own the rights to Doom now.

How many beers is too many? We don’t know since that’s different for everyone- but we all agree at some point, it’s too many.

This is literally exactly how it works, though. There is a legal percentage threshold of blood alcohol content wherein it becomes illegal. The line there is drawn. And although where it is drawn is specific, it’s not in the same place, on a state-by-state basis.

This is simple: Keep your hands off my guns, quit picking on transgender people, and leave my porn alone.

Easy. I ought to be on the supreme court. Think of the payroll savings if you just fired all nine of those motherfuckers.

Interesting, re: the spam theory.

I do know that some of my dinkum posts on here are among the first page results for whatever the object in question is, but I’m not sure if that’s due to Google somehow deciding it’s a highly relevant match or if it’s just because some of this crap is so damn niche that there isn’t any other content on it.

For example, this, where I’m result #2 only after the Amazon product page. Or this, where I’m #7. Also #7 here. For this I’m result #2 which is above Walmart’s listing for their own product.

Okay, okay, this one is almost a Googlewhack, but I’m occupying both spots #5 and #6 even if you just search for the alleged “manufacturer’s” name. Admittedly, out of only 6 results to begin with. If you add “knife” to the query I rise to position #4.

…And yet others don’t appear in search results at all. So I can’t say I have any idea how the fuck Google’s search results work.

…Anything written in English, and you can usually filter that even more by just looking for people using too many U’s.

* Rather, a program superficially imitating the first level of Doom is able to run on a simulator of a quantum computer.

Not to diminish this accomplishment, but based on the level geometry on display there this is obviously a bespoke but very basic 3D-ish engine, extremely simplified, built from the ground up to do this and is not an actual source port of Doom before anybody gets too excited.

While it’s amusing I don’t think it really serves to illustrate too well the actual exciting parts of what quantum computing is actually theoretically capable of. Regular old boring Turing-compatible binary computers are already perfectly capable of running Doom already. ^{[citation needed]}

I have to imagine that when some c-level suit saw that term in his moth-eaten copy of “Social Media for Dummies,” I don’t think it was intended to be taken quite so flagrantly visibly literally…

Manufacturers absolutely do make only-for-sale-in-California-variant cars. Motorcycles, also. They’re not as common as they used to be because emissions laws elsewhere are also starting to become as stringent as the CARB rules these days as well, so it’s becoming more cost effective to just make everything the “California version.”

Throughout the early 2000’s, the distinction was much more relevant. The last vehicle I had to work on that I know for a fact to be a “California version” was a 2014 KLR650. It has additional (unreliable…) emissions control equipment that is not present on otherwise identical bikes from the same model year that were not intended for sale in California.

Furthermore, California will refuse to plate any vehicle that does not specifically have a California compliant emissions certification if it has fewer than 7500 miles on it, i.e. if it is new. Those that don’t meet California’s standards are labeled “49 state” vehicles.

That, and the Internet has been teaching people how to create bombs since the dial-up days. I don’t predict that LLM’s will be either a benefit or a detriment to that particular strain of natural selection.

Neat.

I haven’t dug into the docs much. This really does return vectors? Because all of the OSM servers and services I have seen return tiles that are bitmaps, which for the type of data being displayed always seemed like a rather moronic way to do it.

As usual for the type of screeching and breathless hit piece that these types of things inevitably become, it seems that two very distinct things are being conflated here in a probably deliberate attempt to make them appear equivalent.

The headline image shows a bunch of nitrous oxide cartridges or “whippets” discarded on the ground, and there is one lonely mention of nitrous down at the very bottom of the article. The article puts a lot of scary words around “inhalants” but stops short of defining which ones they’re actually talking about, and I’m guessing (having not watched any of the TikTok videos nor do I intend to) that nitrous is not the actual, or at least only, concern here. Either that or they’re trying hard to imply that nitrous fries your brain as much as huffing, say, tetrafluoroethane.

Doing nitrous (or whippets, or hippie crack, or laughing gas, or whatever you want to call it this decade) is neither new, nor is it particularly harmful provided you can manage not to do it in such a moronic way that you asphyxiate yourself or pathologically huff the stuff at the edge of high precipices or while driving or something.

Inhaling propellant gasses from aerosol cans, meanwhile, i.e. the usual sort of “huffing,” is monumentally stupid and also a fast track to permanent brain damage.

Just make sure you’re packin’ the right kind of chrome, choom.

Texans’ right to carry firearms on land owned or leased by governmental entities.

Like the courthouse, police station, and state capitol building? Can I carry my gun there? No? Wow, I wonder why.

Agreed. We should come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who coerces anybody to enter into prostitution, and leave everyone else alone.

Like content recognition can’t recognize text, if that’s what it’s been configured to look for?

That would require us to deal with both Reagan and Nixon over and over again, though.

I guess their bullshit would be reverted when each loop resets. But still.

That particular strain of nonsense is actually specifically an Amazon thing, because you cannot sell “non branded” merchandise on Amazon, a policy that’s in place allegedly to combat generic whitebox goods from flooding the site. Your product has to be sold under a registered trademark, but the loophole is that said trademark does not actually have to make any sense whatsoever.

Now there are brokers who will assist anyone in registering a trademark that is literally just a random string of letters for this express purpose. All you have to do is concoct a combination that no one has used yet, and register it with the USPTO.

Therefore the entire scheme falls flat on its face, and manifestly fails to make any impact in the problem it purports to solve. But it does probably give Amazon a legal escape hatch to accusations of being a dumping ground for Chinese knockoff products, because they can point to all those trademark registrations and say, “No, see, everything sold here is all totally from a 100% legitimate brand!”

I turned one of my coworkers on to knockoff shit on Wish, and he is heavily into fishing and pretty much agrees with all of your sentiments listed here. He’s been buying knockoff lures like mad ever since.

I will further add that a lot of fishing gear is consumable. Not just line, but also hooks that can just plain break or wear out, and especially lures and so forth in that they are inherently prone to getting lost, irretrievably snagged in a tree, outright eaten by a fish and dragged to the depths never to be seen again, etc.

It is therefore bonkers to pay a premium for most of this stuff which is ultimately disposable.

“But that’s just an exaggeration taken out of context!!!”

…And it’s also literally the slogan on the license plates in our nations capital.