Mike

Software developer, anime fan, retrogamer, lover of nature, and pursuer of other geeky pursuits. He/him. bsky:@kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com

[Mike @KithKanan]

Hey @Google @GooglePixel_US please fix the @GeminiApp landscape m
ode! I should not have to balance my Pixel on a coffee mug or bowl of fruit to read the output when I have a perfectly good book style case/stand!

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@peterg11742 @amconmag @GOP @DNC Nevertheless, in our current system, it's a binary choice. If you'd rather destroy the world than live with people who see the world slightly differently, seems like a skill issue.

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@Kingsidney99 @joejangleson @traecrowder You act like it's a good thing that he declines his salary because taking it would mean accepting that he works for US and not the other way around. Instead he's getting paid billions by others who don't have the interests of the American public in mind.

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@SkyeSharkie Right. Visual minimalism is what you go for when you have a product that doesn't need to shout at you visually to get the sale, like Studio Ghibli movies in Japan, for example (not my photo). Ironically that can make minimalism attention-getting in contrast until it's everywhere.

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@MartyRobbins_ @phadetheplex @crampell Yes, that's exactly what you're doing, thanks for confirming.

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@JWhitebread1 @BradRTorgersen I don't take engineering advice from so-called Arthur King.

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@BradRTorgersen @WDE2011 Now do this with the B-52 and <hypothetical 7th generation fighter>

[Mike @KithKanan]

@JWhitebread1 @BradRTorgersen No, because absent genuinely disruptive technology never guaranteed to occur where and when you need it you're now dealing with a mature industry where the easy improvements have been made and the remaining ones possible become increasingly expensive for smaller and smaller gains

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@asglidden @FrankPulpwriter @DaddyWarpig It requires some planning around/awareness of the terrain to use well (ex: for area denial, blocking off escape routes or protecting a vulnerable flank) for sure.

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@theKageRyu @AlysssaHazel IDK, it's always been the same amount of meat as two cheeseburgers - less than a QPC, Whopper, Jumbo Jack, Dave's Single, Famous Star, etc. It's the smallest 'premium' burger on a major chain menu now. Wendy's was snarking "where's the beef" about the tiny patties in the mid-80s.

[Mike @KithKanan]

@caseyphillips @sciaticant @cmclymer Oh, and if I HAD developed an *actual* expensive condition, there was another word that's come up again lately: rescission. Insurance cos or snivelling trumperatchiks, but either way it means "we're cheap dealbreakers in expensive suits who want you to die if it'll save a nickel"

[Mike @KithKanan]

@caseyphillips @sciaticant @cmclymer As the then-employee of a small business that didn't offer health insurance, I watched my individual insurance premiums quintuple in the years before Obamacare passed, and since by that point I had a pre-existing condition if I dropped that plan I wouldn't be able to get another.

[Mike @KithKanan]

@FrothyFriar @LJamesRice Also, lose the side emergency exit doors with crash bars. What kind of evil overlord cares about building to code or protecting retreating invaders and their own henchmen from crowd crush?

[Mike @KithKanan]

@FrothyFriar @LJamesRice Trap the glass to explode when broken, sending hundreds of tiny dagger-sharp fragments at high velocity straight for the adventurers' faces with a significant chance of blindness for those without eye protection.

[Mike @KithKanan]

@DungeonNoir Some of us still remember the old ways.

[Mike @KithKanan]

@janky_future @Brink_Thinker My perspective on the 70s may be a little different because the sleepy beach/college town I grew up in was "the murder capitol of the world" for a while there with multiple active serial killers.

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@janky_future @Brink_Thinker There WERE tho, we mostly just didn't know as many details because news reporting was more local and the threshold for blowing up a story into major national news was higher without 24 hours of cable news channel programming to fill.

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@tassonephoto @gregoryjon @GovPressOffice My local (independently owned franchise, so survived corporate going under) Radio Shack store seems to be fully capable of doing business here in California.