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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • "No": Evers defies USDA memo asking states to undo steps to provide full SNAP benefits

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  • Evers is a good dude, with a good team, and I’m really happy we have him to “save us” from… some others of us..

    He’s the sort of politician you don’t hear about, even locally, until it’s something good, and I’m really glad we voted him in.

    He can’t fix everything and we are regressive in a lot of ways, but he helps blunt the worst of it.

  • Trump Thinks Canceled Flights, Long TSA Lines, and Chaotic Airports Will End the Shutdown. He’s Wrong.

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  • I looked at the public transit option to go somewhere 2.5 hrs by car from where I live. A big-ish city (relatively speaking).

    No train goes between points (or to that city at all for that matter), and the bus would take ELEVEN HOURS!!!! Fucking what??

    I’d love to use public transit, but I’m not willing to take 4x as long, and 11 hours.. I could probably walk there in that time..

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Black olives, and red onions sliced about 1/4-1/8 inch or so thick. I’m sure really thin would work just as well, but I can’t vouch for it because I’ve not had it. Diced onions work well too, and white onions will do if red aren’t available.

  • Lemmings who still don't want to use AI, why?

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  • I used it way back when image generation was pretty new.. I used it to generate some muse-type stuff for a project I have in mind. See what it was capable of and what the hype was about.

    It’s really really bad. I had to save dozens of things that I’ll need to piece together into the cohesive whole I’m looking to paint. But that’s ok because it’s going to be multiple iterations so I need to make it myself anyway.

    I could get much better examples now I’m sure, but it’s only for rough models, especially mythical being body proportions (I’m not super artistic, I need examples) and it just doesn’t need to be good in all ways to be good for specific parts of the whole. Plus I really don’t want to pollute my own vision with the average of everyone else’s. That defeats the purpose of making art.

    I will probably continue to not use it; image searches that omit AI would do just as well for what I need. Lots and lots of real humans have made art of these things in the past. It’s just unnecessary.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Try pineapple, onions, and olives. Same sort of thing; sweet, savory, flavory. My go-to.

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  • I used to think this sucked.

    My life has been chock full of switchbacks. But I think that’s ok now.

    Running straight to the top is nearly impossible for anyone, and certainly will burn through all your energy super quick if you happen to manage it. Yes there’s a gondola for wealthy people, but there’s no personal gratification from taking the easy way, and everyone else thinks they suck for literally hanging over us and not helping any of us climb faster, instead throwing rocks at us to slow us down.

    But the thing about taking the hike, even with all the switchbacks, is that.. there’s a lot of really cool stuff on that hike, no matter which path you start from or which mountain you are climbing. Those amazing things are mostly nestled where your path whips you back around. You won’t experience any of those things if you go straight to the top. And where’s the satisfaction in that?

    Besides that, it turns out the top isn’t always the best place to be anyway. You get sunburn up there, there’s not a lot of room, and the air is thin. Once you make it up there you spend all your time trying not to fall down or get hurt, and maybe even building a rickety tower to go even higher, making the problem even worse.

    I’ve made it what appears to me to be about halfway up, a nice stable spot with big open inviting areas and a view of the rocky expanse I’ve already crossed, and I really like it here. It may only be 1/8 the way up in reality, but I think I’m done with my hike for a while. It’s not the goal I’m “supposed” to be aiming for but this place makes me happier than continuing to work toward someone else’s goal. Toward the top of a mountain I’ll never crest because I started too far away.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.

    I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.

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  • I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.

    Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.

    I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger.. I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus????), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction..)

  • I literally describe breathtakingly good pizza as "cartoon pizza"

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  • Have you ever had a renfaire-style roast turkey leg? That’s what I always assumed they are, and that’s easily one of my favorite things of all time, to the point that I keep turkey drumsticks in my freezer quite often.

  • Partner chicken

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  • I’m curious how you have it that you feel that way. Do you bake it, broil, steam? Do you cover? Uncover? How long for each? What bits do you have?

    I mean breast skin is not great skin so if you like that cut I get your dislike but if you do legs and thighs, baked or fried or anything where it crisps and a lot of the fat cooks out, that’s not to your liking?

  • Twinkle twinkle little star

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  • Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!

    I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?

  • Twinkle twinkle little star

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  • Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!

    I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, along with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!

  • Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority

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  • Maybe our simulation attendant finally came back from the bathroom and stepped in..

    (Please please please let that be the case)

  • I'm actually going to play this one, I promise

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  • I still have ps2 games in my backlog (physical collection)… won’t even say how many ps3-5 games I’ve got sitting… but it’s a lot.

    Replaying botw for the dozenth time tho, then probably horizon zero dawn, I only need to do the hardest mode on that and I’ll have done it on every difficulty to 100% at least once.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • I got pulled over the other day. The reason given was a lane change violation (which was bullshit pretense, it was right outside a very rural, but very busy, bar so this was likely actually entrapment, tho I was for sure under the legal limit - I was there to check out line dancing because I’ve never seen it before, and only had one beer in the hour I was there).

    I also had a very expired registration (haven’t driven much, and didn’t realize I forgot to renew it).

    But I got let off everything with a warning..? I spent days trying to figure it out because it should have been a ticket.. he didn’t even seem interested in waiting for me to dig out my insurance info (which I had, just had to get it out of my wallet).

    But I have a dash cam.. and it records sound. It would have proven I didn’t violate anything, and he was recorded saying why I was pulled over so no way to flub it and say it was actually the registration all along, and thus the pretense for pulling me over in the first place was void. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I got off with a list of warnings rather than tickets.

  • Is it wrong that I want one?

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  • Oh man now I’m imagining having two tanks set up side by side, one labeled “before” with the little prop suspended on fishing line somewhere around the middle of the water column, and a second one labeled “after” with a crushed craft little chunks scattered all over the bottom..

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  • Pfft no way, I’m learning code via rimworld mods!

    Those error and event logs are -ooohhhhh- brutal. But I’m almost to the exposure point where I want to try editing some of the files to fix the problems and see what happens! ;)

  • Beer eases loneliness, tackles mental health epidemic, claims Heineken’s CEO

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  • FWIW I’ve also read this. And that tea in Asia had largely the same impact due to also being boiled.

    It became a cultural staple partially because it was safe, though whether the people who preferred it just survived more frequently and out-competed non-beer or non-tea drinkers, or if it was a known thing, or if it was just chance that it worked out to be safer and they had absolutely no idea.. well the book didn’t touch on that..

    For your average person the fun of alcohol makes more sense than cleanliness, but on a larger scale? Could have been ignored or promoted despite the negatives due to fewer issues with GI problems.

  • Which are you?

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  • is ghost cat ghost because of eating chocolate, or just taking advantage of the fact it ran out of lives?