Relevant: THOSE DAMN ALIEN BASTARDS ARE REAL. by Gianni Matragrano.

Even if it’s not a good substitution for chest compressions (it’s 1AM, do you know where the horse’s heart is?), it makes me think of that CRUDBUMP song.

A cheap convection toaster oven not really, it is half-way between an oven and air-fryer at best.

I mean if it’s good enough, keep using it as long as possible I guess.

Me: <using Blender in Linux to make low-poly badger>

You: <using paid retro software in WINE inside Linux VM to make low-poly pudu>

Me:

Can’t, I already got a titanium spork more than a decade ago.

If it’s (not) out of the bag, then it’s (not) out of the bag. Now that is a powerful cat fact.

TECHNOLOGY.

Must not know about asphalt yet…

???

This is an odd sticking point (same with another comment), it doesn’t even seem relevant to either thought (especially the first) other than it being asserted already by the inclusion of the comic.

Maybe not-special is true or maybe differences can brushed aside, but either way these thoughts are likely conclusions from their lived experiences and even a nice interpretation of the comic seems more like a cold comfort that doesn’t change much going forward. It probably has more impact if someone does live in/near a big city (particularly a place like Portland), but that is a bit of a leap to assume.

I made this for a comment (about small-data images, jpegs) days ago:

I turned on chroma subsampling

43KiB, though obviously a chunk of that is from the colors of the jpg Professor.

EDIT: I just noticed webp messes with colors around the edges too (which would matter more if I cut the resolution in half or so). The original .png (what I actually uploaded) doesn’t at 51.6KiB.

Also obviously this would be less data in non-pixel format (well, it’d likely be eaten up by overhead for packaging, though after that it would allow tons of art for negligible data cost). Would be smaller as an svg for example (or an swf).

OP, is this you?

BRAIN: “You are tasked to consider the evidence, and whether it proves BEYOND a reasonable doubt: whether my client is undateable. Is my client… a perfect man? No-”

ME: “She can kill me, yeah.”

I mean yeah, that’s the problem. It’s a beautiful world… FOR YOU. Just like how dating sites exist, but that doesn’t mean they work for everybody.

<Scientists holding their ears to the ground>

Earth

Detective

I actually was going to say something like that but got bored with it. I’d rather watch NWAR again for the detective puns.

The name’s Diff… Diff Fective.

You think I’m Abe Normal? No, but I have a lot of respect for them, really pushing the meta strategy further than ever.

I’m built diffefectively 🫠

As someone untreated (and shut-in), the grass isn’t green here either. I don’t know what the here-and-now alternative is, especially as a well-understood and very-effective med that can be taken irregularly is probably an exception rather than the norm (esp. for something serious/underlying).

If somebody finds a combo of meds that makes them more-than-somewhat functional I think that’s great, I don’t care how you try to frame it. I’m probably not surviving any sort of collapse either, not that I’d even want to. (someone on meds might do better if they can taper off)

I take more issue with the cost and hoops of the US health-insurance system (+other stuff like transportation). It’s a failure even by “pick two” standards… if it’s “you try this first” or 4 appointments for testing/specialists before one step is made it would be much better if bureaucracy weren’t also an issue.

Specifically with the gov’t imploding now (and the impending rug pull) I’m not sure what I could ever do unless there was a real chance someone will let me be a test subject for physical brain preservation (and they’d move my brain some other not-imploding country).

Go into a local field and tame a wild horse??? Probably healthier that way anyways (all-natural, soul-bond)

But did you know that women who own horses are likely to live on average 15 years longer than women who do not own horses? Why wouldn’t people get a majestic car-sized animal to improve their well-being, are they stupid?