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  • TIL that in uber in certain countries you can select a driver that does not talk for people who prefer silent drives

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  • I don't know what kind of vibe I'm giving off, but I always seem to get the "Deepstate, amiright?!" drivers. Okay, that's a lie... I do know my vibe... I live in a Texas suburb and I'm a cishet white guy who wears cargo shorts and dadcaps and likes sports.

    I hate it, but still, this person is taking me somewhere I need to be so I want to be nice, but I can't quite bring myself to pretend to agree. Unfortunately, a polite "Oh, I'm not sure I'm sold on that" just gets them helpfully trying to probe, "so why would Kamala do a pizzagate if she weren't a lizard person?"

    Fuck me, I need some tattoos.

  • The Grim Reaper Patch Circulating Among Guards at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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  • It may have been "designed" by this guy, who seems to be from San Antonio. He seems like a peach among peaches.

    Visibly upset, Martinez told Prokopas that he previously worked for the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. He said he had just been discharged from Critical Response Strategies, the private contractor that provides security at the detention center, after a physical altercation with another guard inside the facility.

    EDIT TO ADD: In Texas, Sheriff's offices in big counties like Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and Harris aren't even regular day-to-day cops. They run the jail and serve process if the constables don't have the manpower.

  • What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?

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  • I was around almost at the beginning of Eternal September. In December of 1994, I posted to a newsgroup that google eventually archived on the web. Beyond that, my eBay account predates y2k. The first purchase I recall was a parallel port ethernet adapter so I could use Arachne for DOS on my 386SLC33 laptop in the university library. I mailed out a money order and hoped this "buying shit on the internet" thing wasn't going to be a scam.

  • TIL that Craig Bartlett, the creator of the PBS Kids animated series "Dinosaur Train", also created the classic Nickelodeon cartoon "Hey Arnold!" (Which actually originated from Sesame Street)

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  • I liked the way they'd introduce non-dinosaurs (and sneakily, the main pterosaur family are not technically dinosaurs either) from the fossil record, like the giant snake. There were definitely WAY worse things that I sat through, but PBS kids of that era had a ton of good shows (and now too? I dunno because it doesn't have Hatsune Miku and friends so therefore my daughter doesn't care). She actually still has an "Odd Squad" lore book in her backpack.

  • TIL that Craig Bartlett, the creator of the PBS Kids animated series "Dinosaur Train", also created the classic Nickelodeon cartoon "Hey Arnold!" (Which actually originated from Sesame Street)

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  • Matt Groening is his former brother-in-law. Dinosaur Train was in the rotation when mine was little. It's not a top-tier "parents will notice the layers" one, but it's very tolerable and a good show for the littles.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Imagine if that one fire were the series finale. All-time great show if you end it there.

  • Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead

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  • Always grimly funny when you can basically suss out the lazy-ass prompt: "Now do the same message, but Spanish."

  • Kevin O'Leary Wanted 400% Tariffs To 'Squeeze Chinese Heads.' Now Says All His Customers And Shareholders Want Their Money Back. 'My Head Is Getting Squeezed'

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  • “I got phone calls from our customers, from our lenders because we board against our line of credit, and from our shareholders that we reduce distributions on during this period waiting to settle on the tariffs,” he said.

    While O'Leary is rightfully eating shit for a stupid trump-simping accelerationist take that everyone knew was garbage, I mostly want to point out how what somebody's transcription software did to his accent, because I'm a dork.

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  • They say they used a paid actor. Of course, even if that's true, it's not particularly hard to find someone with a similar pitch, accent, and timbre, and then finish fixing it to make sure it's as confidently soothing as the NPR voice you wanted to steal in the first place. I suppose in one sense it's not utterly different from hiring a soundalike, but now the soundalike is damn near perfect (the clips in the article are VERY similar and feel more like the difference in recording equipment than anything else) and doesn't need to actually be available to perform for new impressions. Yet another example of "withstand motion for summary judgment, string it out, lobby against future guiderails" as the totality of Silicon Valley's legal philosophy.

  • What tourist destinations do you think are NOT overrated?

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  • Ahh, but which one? LOL, I'm just kiddin', they all have serious issues.

    I grew up in the suburbs of the Florida one. It's... fine? Go Jags!

  • Meta patents AI that takes over a dead person’s account to keep posting and chatting - Dexerto

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  • Maybe it can repost racist MAGA slop, creep on the granddaughters of ex-girlfriends, and put private messages into the public feed, just like your dad!

  • What do you call your significant other in your phone?

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  • When we were not-quite engaged and doing long-distance, my wife ganked my dumbphone and quickly edited my contact from {her name} to {her name}-mywife, no spaces, no capital letters. So now, twenty+ years later, that's what it still says, and that's how I address greeting card envelopes to her.

  • Myminifactory buys thingiverse

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  • Stratasys and Ultimaker already killed it.

  • Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network

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  • This is pretty much what I said to my wife while scritching my dogs. First it'll just be expanded to missing kids and olds, because of course everyone wants to reunite families, but eventually it'll be something that "law enforcement" can request for whatever the hell they want, because after all they're the good guys keeping us safe!

  • She's a security risk

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  • Why do you think Starfleet had to set that up in the first place? You think they WANT a huge network of oversized saltwater-flooded Jeffries tubes running alongside the constantly infiltrated and poorly electrically insulated normal ones?

  • What are movies/tv series that has the same vibes of Shrek movies?

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  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • I was using a 2012 "vintage" minitower PC that originally came with Win7 as a crappy little plex/local FTP/Minecraft server, and I had been wanting to try MacOS after not seeing it for a while, so I got a Mac Mini with an M2 in it, and while I've hardly stressed it, it seems really nice. It's small and completely silent, and if I did want to use it more, Apple has certainly tried to keep their walled garden pretty and well-organized.

  • Timeline Cleanse

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  • It's funny... In some ways, I think he adored the stories they were telling, and particularly the potential the characters and the setting held, but he really seemed to dislike the production environment and many of the specific decisions that were made. He is an artist with a very specific voice (lol, literally even) and mindset that was maybe poorly suited to making Star Trek his "thing."

    God though, can you imagine if the brooding-to-manic Sisko acting roller coaster had become iconic in the broader culture like Shatner's staccato shouting and dramatic pauses?

  • Timeline Cleanse

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  • Also the best answer for Avery in particular to not to have to lie to anybody.