Software engineering contractor/consultant in America specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
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Last Notes npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…valu First one has Cillian Murphy. Second one has Idris Elba. Third one has Ralph Fiennes. That's how I keep them apart, lol. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Did anyone else dislike 28 Years Later as much as I did? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Every single Marvel wiki article reads like this: npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Idea: Reboot Home Improvement as a show about Jill Taylor trying to reconcile her stodgy Trumper husband Tim and their adult, married, antifa son Randy. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron It's actually incredible how much of Pete Hegseth's schtick has been done before by Major Frank Burns. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron I just released v1.0 of my #Unredacter software. It can be used to remove lazy censorship from PDF documents, like those in some of the #Epstein files. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron I know Elon Musk is a busy guy, so I went ahead and fixed his meme for him. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Any #liberal US-based #WebDesign folks out there that might be interested in volunteering a bit of time to help jazz up a non-profit informational political tool? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Over the next 10 years there's gonna be a bunch of studies that basically boil down to "people fell for #AI because they like positive reinforcement, which works, and they weren't getting it elsewhere in their lives." npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron I have further expanded the https://www.maga-collaborators.net website. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…pye9 Requiring a physical key to access digital goods? Who the hell thought that was a good idea?!? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…cl5w @nprofile…hn6t Yup, I've always driven American my whole life. I'm now planning on buying a Hyundai. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…z76w Yeah, but why bother with a padlock when it would be so easy to just climb right over it? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…cl5w Right. AI is the factory-made frozen lasagna in the plastic tray. It's fine sometimes, but when you really want a proper lasagna, you go to an Italian restaurant or you make it yourself. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…9wrc Yeah, but I do still see it as sort of a "sorry we're so shitty elsewhere" apology tour. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…9wrc Isn't that pretty much what USAID was for? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz I wouldn't say it makes me feel clean (although it doesn't make me feel less clean either). I'd describe it as "refreshed". npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Yeah, the former. Sometimes when I'm home and it rains, I'll just go outside and stand in it for a while for fun. Usually not to the point of being soaked, and I change clothes as soon as I get back inside, but it feels nice. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz @nprofile…0d5n I mean, I grew up in a Republican household. I voted for both parties through to the Obama era while donating to libertarian policy groups. I only finally registered as a Dem on January 7th 2021. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Ah, then you and I have very different responses to rain. For me, it's rejuvenating even when it's whipping and cold. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Evolutionary response to life-giving rain, perhaps? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz @nprofile…0d5n I agree with most of that. We're all a product of our history and experiences. Most of Europe would describe your definition of "moderate" to be "conservative", while in Texas, you'd be a commie, so it's all about frame of context. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz So in other words "moderate" is what everyone thinks of themselves and nobody else. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Most of what you're describing happened before half the electorate graduated from high school, so I kind of doubt it was a major factor. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz I never said people didn't think he was bad, I said they thought he was a moderate. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz As long as we have a pro-dictatorship party and an anti-dictatorship party, the choice for every American should be clear. You don't have to marry the Democrats for life, but describing them as "radical" in this moment for primarily opposing the very authoritarianism you recognize to be a threat seems to be extremely counter-productive. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz You are literally the only person I know who thinks Biden wasn't a moderate. But also, he wasn't the party's latest nominee, nor does he seem to have any part in the party's current anti-authoritarian platform. He just pardoned his family and noped his way outta the whole situation. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Yeah, I don't agree with that assessment. The Dem party certainly has some radical elements, but describing their core party platform or the majority of their members as radical does not seem to be supported by reality. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz You should read the above thread again. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz If that conclusion were true, it would be a lot easier for NPA candidates to achieve federal office. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Sure, of course, some voters expect that. But it's pretty fair to assume that the vast majority of people who vote for Democrats want them to vote with Democrats to enact Democrat policies, and likewise for Republican voters. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron I will never understand why some Democrat elected politicians think that Democrat voters elected them to vote against the Democrats. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron I was very much opposed to the "doomer" talk. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Just experienced my first real-life engine failure in #GeneralAviation! npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…j2mx Uh, yeah, so are the rest of us 😄 npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…9wrc I can't even get my liberal friends to agree to that. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Dunno, how about you ask all the Nazis who got excited after yesterday? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz If you look at the individual politicians and what they supported, then you'll see that Trump was the one to threaten a TikTok ban in the first place back when he was president in 2020. It was only when he was out of office and democrats agreed with the ban and it stopped being a partisan culture war issue that he flip-flopped to opposing it. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Biden said the same thing as Trump: that he wouldn't enforce it (for the one day of his administration it applied to). TikTok just dngaf what he said because he was on his way out. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Redid my website for potential new clients. Open to both criticism and referrals! npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz That kind of thinking strikes me as overly-conspiratorial and direly lacking in evidence. It's certainly possible, but I think Occam would take issue with it. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz If they had so much influence, why wouldn't they just prevent the aid packages from the beginning so they wouldn't have to throw their entire army through the meat grinder in Ukraine for over a year? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz They lifted those restrictions a couple weeks ago, interestingly. Ukraine has now launched US missiles against Russian targets. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Maybe so, but it seems a bit far-fetched to me, especially what with their pushing so much funding to Ukraine as well. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…hpxz Wait, if he's "controlling" the democrats, then why did the Democrats sanction so many of his oligarchs and take their shit? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @nprofile…j2mx Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1fcj…esja It'll keep happening while folks keep paying for their subscriptions. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron Wouldn't an incredibly simple way to automate anti-abuse be to automatically suspend any account that gets blocked by more than half the users it reaches out to? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1lse…5d80 I think there's also a pretty large contingent of people who will just take the money and not vote at all. Since the only condition of getting the money is being registered to vote, you could even call it a registration drive. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1lse…5d80 Yeah, I don't think anyone will feel obligated to any more reciprocity to Elon than they would if their bank errored $100 in their favor. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub10r4…dv23 @npub1lse…5d80 Yeah, but that article is for something else entirely, and it mentions that what's described in the OP is, in fact, legal. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1lse…5d80 Sounds to me like they're harvesting your contact info to send you biased election mail, which is all protected speech. It's not any different than if Planned Parenthood offered free T-shirts for joining their mailing list. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1lse…5d80 I can't imagine how it would break the law. It's not so different than a sandwich shop harvesting and selling your data for every 12th sub free. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 Well, they don't strip. But otherwise, yeah, that's literally its entire appeal. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 ...which pales in comparison to the money spent keeping the current systems in place. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 Sounds like a great idea! Sadly, though, my movement's underfunded and none of the billionaires want to donate to it 🤔 npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 No, but you did use the free market as a defense against why obscene wealth isn't indicative of exploitation. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 Then we do not, and will never have, a free market in this country. Therefore, we need to rein in the wealth inequality that does demonstrable harms to the people on the bottom of the scale. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 Why not? Does a free market not allow for inheritance? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1kpw…xzz4 Then explain nepotism. npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron @npub1aq2…4nfw Why post about it, but choose to conceal her name? npub1aaankn9zrfmvmcwmxfz205r4fap4fngwzxxglfctrfel50u3sc4qr6ra6c Louis Ingenthron What is the connection between native #Spanish speakers and having a motor-mouth? I've noticed that lots of folks who started out speaking Spanish speak very very quickly, often leaving no gap between words and blurring them together, no matter which language they're currently speaking.
