Oh, and the other thing that skins my shins with these new stations (at least in the USA)…

The artificially and over the top cheery incandescence in their facial expressions and voices. They’re delivering horrible news about an earthquake in Turkey that killed hundreds of people, and they’ve got those perfectly bleached uber white teeth glaring through the smile they’re just managing to suppress, but they’re doing in that happy modern-distopia news voice in exactly the same tone they’d be using to announce the winning team of puppy bowl or something along those lines.

They do this on a local level as well.

It’s also suspicious which crimes they tend to talk about and focus on. 3 people died today in a car accident after someone decided to try passing in a no-passing zone. I had to ask around to find out what happened. Yet the local news is showing a report on a teenager who is in critical condition after someone shot into his bedroom window.

While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.

Personally, I’ve been compiling a cache of datacentric interpolations of real-world metrics used to synergistically integrate human intelligence with the intersection of science, technology, mathematics, arts, and philosophy since the moment I was born, and let me tell you, this is what I was born for.

This is a dream job!

I mean, nightmares are dreams, too.

Bruh yer not doing it right. Are you stupid, bruh? You gotta work on yer promps, bruh. You gotta watch some tiktoks on it, bruh. Bruh, go watch @demisets4, bruh. Learn to prompt, bruh. Your not good at it, bruh. Bruh, you should try something else if you can’t figure it out that’s a you problem, bruh.

This is one that’s not on my radar. I guess I’ll need to check it out sometime.

When I went off to college, I basically sold as much of my stuff as I could because even in the ancient times it was expensive as hell for a kid from a poor family. So, that was the end of my gaming days for the better part of a decade, and I honestly didn’t really keep up. My last gaming system was the original Playstation until around 2007 when I decided to spend money I didn’t have to buy a Wii.

I couldn’t tell you with certainty that Meta is doing it specifically, but without a doubt, I’m certain that the Fediverse is being scraped by AI.

It’s one of many reasons I make sure that at least some portion of what I contribute is intended specifically to poison that shit. Boomer-style anecdotes. Unpopular opinions. Completely and ridiculously incorrect information. Nonsensical but superficially coherent sentences and stories. They’re all kinda my jam.

But don’t you forget for one minute that sometimes I type out straight facts and truth is sometimes unpopular. Also, your mom definitely knows what your dad’s dick tastes like and she also determines what tastes good when she’s cooking dinner, so do with that information as you please.

Which sounds like great, practical advice in a theoretical perfect world!

But, the reality of the situation is that professionals are usually balancing a myriad of concerns and considerations using objective and subjective evaluations of what’s required of us and quite often inefficiency, whether in the form of programmatic complexity or in the form of disk storage or otherwise, has a relatively low precedent compared to everything else we need to achieve if we want happy clients and a pay check.

crapping out a prototype that mostly works and will be replaced, except those invariably become the core of production systems.

Yes, I completely agree. On the other hand, my experience suggests that’s been status quo for longer than I’ve been in the industry, and long before LLM’s were a thing.

While I fully anticipate the pretentious “you just worked at shitty places” from random internet strangers, trust me, I know. But also, it’s not just a phenomenon at the shitty places I’ve worked. There’s a literal Windows start menu in Windows 11 that’s built in React. Every other day I read stories about Facebook and Google and what was that womens’ site that just exposed a bunch of users’ driver’s licenses. This is endemic.

I used to think it was because of clients having unrealistic expectations of what they can afford thus making completely suboptimal decisions based solely on the money and management that won’t/can’t say no, but the truth is it’s quite common and almost any working environment can/could be called shitty on a whim with limited to no evidence.

Do you live in North America?

In general, I think full male nudity is still jarring to US audiences because historically speaking, it’s not super common in movies and tv shows outside of pornographic settings. Though it does seem like it’s becoming a lot more common in recent history.

Also, as is the case with that one particular penis you’re asking about, a lot of times when full frontal male nudity is shown in a movie or tv show, it’s done for “shock value”.

Full frontal male nudity is something that most viewers will notice no matter what because at the end of the day it’s genitals and we’re mostly all just wired that way. However, aside from that one penis, the rest of the male nudity in the movie was not prominently featured and was otherwise pretty unremarkable. Definitely wouldn’t have garnered much of any discussion, relative to some of the other shocking stuff in the movie.

28 Weeks Later was a solid zombie movie, but in and of itself it was not a genre defining (or redefining) film. Also, I think zombie movie fatigue was already in play by the time it came out.

Looking back, you might think that there were only a handful of decent and recent-ish zombie movies at that time (and you’d be mostly correct), however, it was also an era where the new releases wall at the local video store would have been peppered with d-grade, knock-off, cgi zombie movies (a few of which even showed up in the theaters).

So, while I don’t entirely agree that it was mostly forgettable, I certainly understand and think that’s a valid opinion.

28 Years Later is a self-contained story and it really won’t matter if you’ve seen the prior entries or not. There are some connections and some references to prior films, but nothing noticeable or vital to understanding or enjoying what you’re watching.

I’ll believe it when I actually see it.

I don’t know much / anything about the particular crowd being referenced in that meme.

What I do know is my conservative neighbors, conservative family, and so on. These people legitimately and without any shame or self reflection believe that because they did not get “free healthcare” nobody else deserves it. They are unwavering in the belief that they should not have to pay for other people’s medical bills. They truly think that anybody getting government healthcare (aside from retirees) is a leach on society and that they cannot afford to keep paying for those people.

I know this because I have conservative neighbors, conservative family members, and so on. And they aren’t the least bit afraid to air their opinion on this any chance they get. Now I don’t live in Nebraska USA, but I honestly have a hard time believing that conservatives in the midwest are all that different from conservatives on the east coast.

I’m a purist. The stable and persistent main branch, regardless of what you want to call it, should always and only ever be exactly the same as the code that’s currently deployed to the production server. Generally the only exception is for the short duration between a push and deployment under normal circumstances.

But every job I’ve ever had, there’s at least one maverick who knows git way better than anybody else and is super advanced, so they do their own thing which is totally better in a million different ways but essentially fucks everybody else over. And I’m not even here to say they aren’t smarter than the rest of us and I’m sure that somehow their process is better than what we currently do. But with version control, my anecdotal experience has been that the most important things for running smoothly are: consistency and having everybody on the same page. Process doesn’t need to be perfect, maximally efficient, bleeding edge, etc to achieve that.