To be fair, I’ve read that the Texas proverb bit was him cutting himself off mid sentence to prevent a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”. I have no idea of the veracity of the claim but it’s interesting if true.

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No surprise really. Back in October last year the Premiere of Alberta (Canada’s very own Howdy Arabia) passed a proposal to stop labelling carbon dioxide as a pollutant and instead celebrate it as a "foundational nutrient for all life on Earth”.

Disliking the video is engagement, that’s probably why they show up every so often. It’s basically the algorithm saying “hey, can I suck you into an anger spiral today? No? Ok, I’ll try again later.”

He also renounced his US citizenship in Action Comics #900 like 15 years ago.

If you have a Pixel you can install Graphene OS

Electoral reform and the NDP coming out swinging, leaning hard into social programs with a sharp and charismatic leader.

I also know that chatgpt can be better than an asinine conversation with people I work with.

I think that’s the point op is trying to make. AI may have some legit uses, but it simply can’t replace conversation and human connection, and it really is strange when a person uses it to replace human interaction. It’s like only eating junk food. Sure, you feel full, but you’re not getting what you need.

I’m not saying I think it’s wrong to be introverted and not want to engage with others, just that using AI to bridge the gap between yourself and others when you do engage can come across as weird, thoughtless, and potentially flat out insulting.

Socializing is more than only talking about what you want to talk about. Also, especially in a work setting with people of different tastes and backgrounds, sometimes something as seemingly asinine as this topic is the only thing a handful of people can find common ground with. Small talk is called small talk for a reason, Conan and Dave never engaged in small talk.

My Signal screen fits 8 chats, and looks simliar to any other messenger I’ve used. It’s a messenger app and the UI shows messages. I wouldn’t want it to show anything else.

Ukraine could throw a wrench in their plans by simply not accepting whatever Putin offers. He’s then left with “stay out of it and stay in Ukraine” or “join Trump and risk Ukraine flanking into Russian territory”

Yep. There’s a non-zero chance that maga civilians are dressing tactical and kidnapping people they believe shouldn’t be here. I hope not, but there’s really no way to know either way at this point.

OsmAnd. There’s also a new fork of Organic Maps called CoMaps after Organic had some drama. A bunch of Organic devs left and forked it into CoMaps.

SmartTube on streaming devices!

Did it last week myself! Feels pretty good eh?

It blows my mind how often I immediately look for “thebeaverton” these days, and even moreso how often I don’t find it.

Haha! Slam dunk!