as alive as you need me to be
Goddamn, now that is a headline!
My inner J Jonah Jameson is impressed, hire that man immediately!
He already works for us?
Perfect!
Never let him know what we pay anybody else!
PNW - I learned them as both rollie pollies and pill-bugs, when I was growing up.
But also friends.
They are so cute!
Let me guess, he also only eats cheese pizza, throws a tantrum when any sandwich has visible crust on it, and thinks 2% milk is 'just too much'.
no cap man fr fr, gotta recognize the w's when you get em, appreciate you gassin' me up!
low key, you gotta lay off that brainrot addiction a bit, replace it with just a dash, a little sprinkle of linguistic hyperfixation, as well as healthy downtime, contemplation, and then a lot of those jokes and memes? they just hit different.
(uh, uh, ok, imagine this comment also overlay bordered with subway surfers or something)
(up to you to determine if the meta irony of that is intentional or not)
Autism + Boredom + Lemmy =
Inordinant level of analysis on entirely random subjects
EDIT
Oh right, social norms!
Skipped my mind.
Thank you for the compliment =D
Yeah, if anything this just shows how mistreated and in poor mental health most programmers are.
Reverse Turing Test:
Are you more stupid and suggestible than an LLM?
shakes Magic 8 Ball
"Signs point to Yes"
I mean, there's no way of knowing with any certainty from this image alone whether or not the guy is tending the fire competently...
But it is actually not as simple as 'just throw on another log'.
How long do you want the fire to burn?
How hot do you want the fire to burn?
Do you have an accelerant, or no?
Is your timber and kindling very dry or very wet?
Is your timber and kindling going to need to burn through bark or not?
How sappy is your timber and kindling?
How hot or cold or windy is it, is it expected to become?
All these things and more can and do affect the initial layout of the campfire, how to adjust it and maintain it to keep it going at the rate and intensity you want it to, especially if the desired goal state of the fire changes, and/or environmental conditions change or are expected to change significantly.
...
Anyway, the 'joke' could be more or less racially based.
I'd say yeah, you probably are more likely to find a random white guy that uh... knows all the stuff I just previously said, but thats because a random white guy (in the US, at least) is more likely to have come from a family that could afford camping trips, could send their kids to the scouts or something.
(This is basically the same root behind the 'black people don't know how to swim' uh, 'joke'.)
(Yep, turns out you're more likely to learn how to swim if your parents could afford to / were not segregated out of living in a community with access to pools or beaches)
Again though, there's no real way from the given context to determine... whether or not the image was made by someone aware of this, and is referencing that...
... or if they're just making a very basic, pithy, uninformed, surface level observation...
or somewhere in between this.
...
There could also be an element of sexism to the 'joke', if you interperet 'and I respect that' as completely sarcastic, sort of going along with your interpretation.
'Oh, clearly this dude doesn't know what he's doing, he's just trying to look like he knows what he's doing.'
...
So yeah, if your 'joke' is possibly racist, possibly sexist, unclear about whether or not it actually is, and generally illicits confusion when it is described or explained as a joke...
Then uh, I agree with you, its not a very good joke.
...
Also, to perhaps clarify younger / more modern slang:
'really fucks with', to maybe a millenial or older, would mean that you keep consistently interfering with or engaging with some person or process or activity.
But! To Gen Z / A, 'really fucks with' is closer to... 'spends their time' or 'engages at all' or even 'is seriously dedicated to'.
Like if I asked a Gen A if they knew person A, they could respond, 'No, I don't really fuck with person A'.
And that would basically mean that they don't know them that well, or at all.
Whereas if a millenial or older person said 'I don't really fuck with person A'... that would be more like a denial of bullying or harassing them.
The Gen Z/A usage of 'fucks with' is much more morally/intent neutral, wheras the Millenial/Older usage is more morally/intent negative.
Yep, the only remaining thread the uh, MAGA doubters have left to cling onto, yeah, that's their QAnon derived idea that, sure, there's some bad Republicans...
...but far and away all the real bad guys are Dems, and they are all hiding everything, because they are the Deep State, even after they're not in power and have been largely purged from any mid or lower level gov positions.
They have to keep believing in a gigantic conspiracy, that everything is 5D chess, that all thr bad guys are keeping secret from them.
Otherwise, the cognitive dissonance collapses along with their personality and mental stability.
We are years past the point where these people all just believe any actual news that isn't MAGA affirming is fake.
These people will not watch or listen to any Dem, Dem influencer, Dem voter, any leftist, anything that platforms a non Republican saying 'Fuck Bill Clinton, yep he's probably in the files, yep he should probably go to jail, as should anyone seriously implicated in all this.'
They cannot hear this because their minds would collapse, so they avoid it, and if they do accidentally hear it, time for more conspiracy logic to 'explain' how somehow there is a secret evil motive behind saying that.
Contentedness pointed out that my 'one of three' figure is evidently an outdated figure, there are a good deal more than 3 of these 'temperate rainforest' climactic zones, but yes, I think the Appalachian temperate rainforest would be another one.
Well shoot, my info/number there is wrong then, you are correct.
If you can't tell, I grew up in the area, and I was just regurgitating that figure I was taught almost 30 years ago... appears I've got a bit of hometown bias, out of date info, whoops.
I appreciate the correction!
While the current Bear Gultch fire is on the other side of the Olympics...
It would be a tragedy to lose the Hoh Rainforest, and the article mentions that it did burn some decades ago.
The Hoh Rainforest is one of ... only maybe three temperate rainforests on the planet, the vast majority of rainforests are tropical.
If you've seen the movie Prospect... you've seen it, much of it was filmed there.
Yeah, that's 3 trees growing out of a larger fallen tree, which itself is still alive, all covered in moss... where the moss isn't, and the trees appear black, that isn't a burn mark, its a layer of a kind of slimy mold or fungus... and of course, ferns, ferns everywhere.
I guess you would maybe describe it as the closest you can get in the real world to the twilight biome/dimension from minecraft...
If i fits, i shits.
Yep.
That's his plan.
He's mentioned it a few times.
"We will then open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified,” Mr Trump said in the video. “But we’ll open up our cities again, make them livable and make them beautiful.”
Now he has begun to act toward those ends.
https://shelterforce.org/2025/02/14/trump-wants-to-force-homeless-people-into-tent-cities-can-he/
There is no evidence yet that the Trump administration plans to use federal resources to create facilities like the one used in New Orleans before the Super Bowl.
Ah, well, no, wrong, ShelterForce, see above public speech from Trump 2 years ago, or just look outside right now.
https://homelesslaw.org/statement7242025/
This Executive Order is rooted in outdated, racist myths about homelessness and will undoubtedly make homelessness worse.
Specifically, this order:
- Expands the use of police and institutionalization to respond to homelessness
- Prioritizes funding for states that treat homelessness as a crime and end housing-based solutions
- Cuts off funding for life-saving programs like harm-reduction.
Today’s executive order, combined with MAGA’s budget cuts for housing and healthcare, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, in their cars, and on the streets.
My guesstimate is that within a year of Trump's collapsing economy and cuts to all kinds of social programs (so, by Feb 2026), we're looking at roughly 10 million homeless people.
You know, just about the population of entire Chicago metro area.
Was probably around 2-3 million back during Covid.
No, the PIT count numbers of several hundred thousand, they're wrong.
Source is me, I used to be one of the people who contributed to that count, as a data analyst for a large nonprofit serving the homeless.
The PIT methodology is a complete joke, it only counts people in shelters or at known permanent encampments (which are all illegal now), you roughly have to multiply it by 3x to 5x if you want to match the demographics of all the people who call in, say they are or will soon become homeless, and then we either can't help them because we don't have the resources, or they don't want to come to a shelter full of traumatized poor people and would rather live in a car (also illegal now) or hop from motel to motel untill they run out of money (2 or 3 months on average).
EDIT:
Trump/MAGA's insane response to Covid unironically may have actually killed enough people, disproportionately in red areas, that it actually caused his election loss, and then subsequent Jan 6th coup attempt.
Now he's gonna more directly kill millions of Americans, an order of magnitude more.
Because the neoliberals must continue to edge their psuedo-intellecutalism kink, it's all they've got left, knowing fancy words, bloviating about them, and then finally admitting the whole excersize was meaningless intellectual masturbation.
Why do they do this?
Its the Atlantic.
They have an apparently terminal case of false moral and intellectual superiority.
They're just giving hoity toity types the script for a thought excercise version of an argument they theoretically could have with a MAGA, if only the MAGA was sufficiently educated and well mannered.
12 seriously injured, 1 dead, after lightshow mishap at Hatsune Miku concert causes epileptic seizures and blindness amongst concert-goers
Also godfucking damnit, DX Invisible War kind of predicted both parasocial online relstionships / AI girlfriends and AI celebrities with how NG Resonance is portrayed.
People go to her terminals, pay money, and ... they use her like a confessional booth, ask her for relationship advice, express their love for her, etc.
('She' is also directly and immediately submitting all interactions to relevant companies and governments for marketing and law enforcement purposes)
Best I can say is if medical care is an important need for you, then you will need to look at the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area. Rural areas lack much of the health care you might need. As a retired medic that worked in rural areas, I'm not lying when I say if I were to have a heart attack at home, I'm probably very dead before help can arrive.
Makes sense, I believe you.
My idea is to make the move after I am more mobile, more healed.
At the moment, I am doing PT at home, after getting some inital PT sessions and them giving me printed out worksheets.
No real point in paying for more visits when I just do exactly the same thing at the PT center, as what I do at home.
While Minnesota shows as a mostly blue state, that is because we have one large metropolitan area that dominates the rest of the state. And outside of that metro region, the rural 80% of the state skews from purple to red.
Yep, I've seen the county level voting maps, who runs city governments of Minneapolis, St Paul, Rochester, Winona, Duluth, St Cloud, Brainerd, Bemidji... and I'm originally from the Seattle area, pretty much exact same region political pattern.
Otherwise, plan on long cold winters that can grind some people mentally and what to us is warm and very humid summers. We are an outdoors people that enjoy the 3 months of summer and spend as much of our time outdoors as possible. Preferably on a lake in a boat, we own a LOT of boats. Even in winter we find snowmobiling, skiing, and ice fishing as popular hobbies. We are all about the outdoors for sure.
All sounds amazing to me, again, grew up in the PNW, lots and lotsa outdoorsy culture as well, particularly boating, hiking, hunting.
Though, our winters are nowhere near as harsh generally, but I know what a lot of actual snow is like, the Cascade foothills and towns often get around as much snow as what ya'll just get generally, and I've spent a few winters in 3 to 6 feet of snow up there, know how to dress and drive in snow.
As far as the denizens of the state go, we are Minnesota Nicetm to everyone, but as individuals we are mostly stoic and often wary of outsiders. And the farther you get from the cites, the more that becomes apparent. So it can be difficult to build friendships. You can live in a town for 20 years years and still be considered the "new people". Or you can be accepted and welcomed immediately. YMMV for sure.
And we have the 'Seattle Freeze' or 'Seattle Chill' over in western WA, basically the same thing.
Whole lotta Fins and Swedes and Norweigans seem to be the reason for that, were the first large groups of white people that settled in both MN and western WA, set the sort of cultural norms that largely still persist....
... and I already am that same way too, hahah.
.........
Not to be too blunt, but geographically, Minnesota basically seems like western WA, but flat, with harsher winters, and a lack of salt water giving that lovely smell... that also corrodes everything metal more quickly.
Plus tornadoes.
Less volcanoes though, less earthquakes.
Roughly same amount of forest fire and smoke either in the area or coming down from Canada.
.........
If you decide to move here, I wish you luck. As a whole, we are a good and helpful place to live. But there can be bumps on the road of life here also.
I appreciate it, and your rundown here.
Lets just say in terms of moving, all I'd really have to do is ... find an apartment to move into, pack all my shit into a rental uhaul, and drive something like 3-6 hours east on I 90 / north on other highways.
I just have to get to the point where I can physically manage the packing all my shit into a uhaul part.
Well, and/or figure out just some kind of rental situation that'll actually allow me to do a cross state lines, fairly long haul move, that doesn't wipe me out financially.
Yep, you got it.
The ability to parse a human voice into text in near realtime?
Legitimate accomplishment.
Pretty high quality voice synthesis so it can talk back to you?
Also impressive!
But... you could have just plugged those things into... any other kind of system that evaluates inputs and generates outputs.
Could have just made it into basically an addon for wikipedia, with something like a very advanced version of a dialogue tree to basically frame the content, fucking clippy could do a reasonable job of summarizing and shortening long chunks of text into cliffs notes versions, 20 years ago.
I mean, I'm not super familiar with how he's characterized in the comics, but he is characterized this way in the... I guess now the 'older' Spider Man movies.