That's just fair use, right? Then the robots puke video back out on demand, fantasy sportball people can make their teams win, or folks can have their team fuck or steal from target or whatever people do with LLMs when they aren't building scams and throwaway code. And nobody will have to care about Google or Disney's goofy little money war.

There, I fixed it.

Yeah, that happened too, and also helped push me away from new music. But I think I was on a declining-interest path already.

Bandcamp is also still good for buying MP3s. Of the small amount of music I've purchased over the last decade, most of it has been from there.

A designer lock-in-a-sock.

I assumed it was a large-scale money laundering scheme.

I'm getting older, and like a lot of people, have paid progressively less attention to new music over time.

It seems like humans "imprint" on music around puberty, so what you listen to then tends to stick.

I do have favorite acts I still pay attention to, occasionally go to a show I pick up new stuff occasionally but don't seek new music out.

I used to pay a lot of attention, though, and ripped all the CDs I had. That's been added-to over time, and I'm pretty sure if I were limited to just my collection for the rest of my life, that would be totally fine.

My tastes tend not to be popular stuff, and the streaming services don't really cater to me anyway. They don't have a lot of music I do, they don't don't have my playlists, and I have no interest in robot muzak. There's just no reason to subscribe.

I've had that sig so long, I'd forgotten where I'd seen it, but apparently, yes. It's Wheeler.

Or if it's even still readable. Intel when retrieving the 486 tape-in for the Edison project had to bake the tapes in an oven to remove moisture, and then had ONE CHANCE at imaging the tape as it crumbled to dust going through the reader.

Hahaha, what?

You say the pilot in control should have intentionally sheered off the wings (FULL OF JET FUEL) off during a dual-engine failure? You obviously have no idea about planes.

There is nothing that could have been done. They were past V1. There was no arrester pit at the end of the runway (which wouldn't have done much). We're talking about a vehicle loaded with 10,000s of lbs of fuel. Sheering the wings off would have spread chaos and destruction.

There is nothing that could have been done.

- Continue pointless noodling about with ui. We haven't really pissed off a significant segment of our dwindling user base in about a year, so go big.
- Sprinkle tripping robots over more features. Think of novel use cases that haven't been tried before. (Let the robot restyle CSS, maybe.)
- Buy at least one random company and integrate it poorly. Have we considered lawn care?
- Volunteers are still stubbornly hanging on. Try to single out hard-to-find talent and use the robots to shit all over their work. Don't be an asshole, that makes them think someone cares. Just make it clear that we value them less than the cost of electricity it costs to replace them, poorly.

We have a language cop. Everybody watch your referents - it isn't enough that you demonstrate your compliance with their ideology, they are relentless.

No, I mean fucking unhoused, Angela Pickles.

I was pointing to the historically anomalous mercantile streak this regime has.

Explicitly taking stakes in private companies is a lot more problematic than a lot of people seem to think.

Republicans used to claim 'picking winners and losers' was a bad thing.

I 100% believe they won't bail out the industry as a whole.

I also 100% believe they would "take a stake" in particular companies in return for... certain considerations.

I am less worried about college kids' word choice than thug trash beating up people in the streets, the President subverting democracy and disease running rampant.

I don't share some of your concerns, but that's fine; I expect you don't share some of mine. But it does sound to me like you're much more familiar with Republican critiques of Democratic policy than actual Democratic policy. One such thing is you putting the words of activists into pols' mouths and pretending that's the official capital-D Democratic line. It isn't - activists are activists precisely because they want to change the current party line. This is literally

. None of which is to say I'm a rah-rah fan; only a few of them actually come anywhere near reflecting my policy preferences. But given a choice between a getting a cold and getting measles, I'll take the cold.

I see you've read my sig.

Goes back to the old joke

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. It's a hardware problem.

Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. We'll just work around it in software.