14-year old me was way cooler than I am. I seem to be declining with age.

Fair.

I’m really struggling with this reading. The rebels aren’t space communists trying to save their homeland from the encroaching Empire, they’re fighting to restore the republic that was the precursor to Palpatine’s totalitarian regime. If you allow for the sake of argument that they represent the Viet Cong, then the story of the first movie is about how a handful of heroes, some of whom were defectors from the Empire, were the ones instrumental in the first major Rebel victory, which is a bizarre kind of Great Man Theory/white savior complex that I imagine the Viet Cong wouldn’t have appreciated.

Also the later movies make it clear that the fall of the republic and the rise of the Empire was almost entirely due to the machinations of one man, Darth Sidious a.k.a. Emperor Palpatine, which again points to a Great Man Theory of history and doesn’t align well with the real world, where the rise of the U.S. as an imperial power has more to do with structural forces that serve the interests of the capitalist class.

I’m not saying Lucas didn’t intend it to be about the Vietnam War, but I’m saying that if he did intend that, he didn’t include much in the movie that supports it.

Mmm. Lost 85% of the matter in the observable cosmos, Master Obi Wan has. How embarrassing! How embarrassing.

I suspect the claimed “99.98% accuracy” is counting out of all faces scanned, which is a bullshit way to make the tech look good. Most faces are not marked as shoplifters in the database. A system that literally does nothing would probably still have greater than 99% accuracy.

What we really want to know is what percentage of reported matches are accurate, and I bet it isn’t anywhere near 99%.

Pokémon Infinite Fusion is really great! It’s Pokémon but you can fuse two monsters together to make a new one. A lot of the fusions have custom art! (The other ones are like that old Pokémon fusion creator that pastes one monster’s face over the other one, lol.)

Look for their Discord if you want to download it. All websites that profess to have download links are unofficial and may be malicious.

BIRDBRAIN feat. Kasane Teto, by Jaime Page and OK Glass

Moon denialists

I know what they mean, but moon denialism would be much funnier than moon mission denialism. I want to start a counter-conspiracy theory that the Artemis II mission was real, but they had to edit the moon into all of the footage because the moon doesn’t exist.

Sounds like my kind of software! The thing I always hated most about Discord was that other people use it and I have to interact with them.

Isn’t that his other brother? That’s Louis Prevost who lives in Florida. The brother who lives in Illinois must be John.

But this is not the “About this account” tab, which doesn’t expose your city, email, or device type. It looks like a document on a pastebin-style service (it has voting and report options, number of views, etc.). So how did they get the additional info?

Edit to add: My gut says “they made it the fuck up to discredit someone they dislike on the internet.”

I licked several of the Switch 1 carts and I can’t taste whatever they’re using on them at all. I feel like I’m missing out!

The Culture seems like the obvious choice. You can be whoever you want, do whatever you want (or not do much of anything, if you prefer), live as long (or as short) as you want… There are no downsides, really, unless you object to living in a society where the Minds are so vastly more intelligent than humans that you’re functionally their pet. I can see how some people might find that unsettling.

the obligation to retain the original product logo (Section 7(b));

the denial of any rights to use the copyright holder’s trademarks (Section 7(e)).

Uhhh is it just me or is it impossible to follow the first requirement without violating the second one? The logo requirement seems engineered to make sure that you can’t actually fork the project: if you include the original logo, they can hit you for trademark violation, and if you don’t include the logo they can say you violated their license terms.

I wash graphic tees and other printed clothing inside out because I was told it does less damage to the image. No idea if it actually helps.

Low function day. I am supposed to be finishing cleaning my room, but by the time I did laundry and went shopping and made lunch I ran out of energy and had to lie down, and that was the end of that plan.

This is bad because my roommate is very unhappy about the state of my room, which is abysmal (the mice that live in my walls shit on everything and it stinks), and I would like to fix it so that he feels better about it. I tried to hire a maid service to come clean the apartment, but the one I contacted said they wouldn’t come out if we had mouse droppings, I guess because of the risk of sickness. So the plan is to get things clean enough that I can tell them the mouse droppings are cleaned up so that they can come out, but obviously I struggle to clean which is why I needed help in the first place… I wanted to get it done over the weekend but the weekend has now ended, so we’ll have to see if I can get it done tomorrow.

I think the whole idea of grading kids like they’re show dogs is pretty gross in the first place. “Welcome to the world, kiddo, the first thing you need to learn is that we’re here to judge you, and if you don’t bark on command you will be deemed to be a failure.”

Fuck that shit.