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When Truculent got blown up by c4 it shouldn't have torn him to shreds. The explosion should have destroyed all his insides and momentarily expanded his invulnerable skin like a balloon, which should have contracted to a boneless sack of goo. At least that's how I would have done it. Maybe they thought of that and decided cleaning up the mess had more comedic effect.

This is hypothetical - the glasses don't fact-check what people say, they somehow detect willful deception, like people expect polygraphs to do, but with high accuracy. Would people welcome these, fear them, object on privacy grounds? I think it would be very contentious. Would people feel different if they only fed the information to the wearer but didn't record or send it anywhere? What exactly would the issues be?

He almost always called it "the Second World War", not World War Two.

Every summer we put up a collapsible shade canopy on our back deck. To make it high enough for tall people to walk under, I screwed short pieces of scrap 4x4s onto the legs, like stumpy little stilts. They worked but they were ugly, and had to be roped in place in case the wind ever tried to carry the whole thing away. This meant setup and takedown took time and it all looked sloppy.

So I designed and printed a trim set of stilts on modular joints that twist-lock into fittings permanently screwed onto the deck, tapered and nearly flat so people won't trip on them. They're barely noticeable and the whole project is super mundane, but I'm inordinately proud of them because I am a dull man.

edit: as requested, I added an image of one of the "stilts". Besides what I already mentioned, another reason I did this was that with the 4x4 stumps attached, the frame didn't fit in its fabric storage cover when taken down every year, and I didn't want to unscrew and reattach the 4x4s every time. The new stilts attach to the canopy legs with one small screw, and they'll all fit in a zippered side pocket of the cover. The other reason for doing this, and if I'm honest the main one, is my love of 3d design lol.

This seems dumb to me. When people said they saw a tweet you knew it was from Twitter - instant brand recognition. A "post" could be from anywhere. Throwing away that distinctive identification seems stupid to me.

Typical pattern: "Scientists find something strange when they look at a common whatever - and it's not good!"

This kind of crap used to be the style of little blurbs at the side or the bottom of an article, but it's in the headlines now. Until you click the headline you don't even really know what the article is about anymore - just the general topic area, with maybe a fear trigger.

Clicking on the headline is going to display ads, but at that point the goal isn't to get you to buy anything yet, it's just to generate ad impressions, which the content provider gets paid for regardless of whether you even see the ads. It's a weird meta-revenue created by the delivery mechanism, and it has altered the substance of headlines, and our expectations of what "headline" even means.

Dunno what made me think of this just now. When I worked for IT in a school district way back in the 90s, a librarian told me she kept a supply of mouse balls in her desk because kids would steal them out of the school computers. What I remember about those balls was they picked up dust and crud off surfaces. Pretty soon optical mice came along and they were history.

No idea how I got there but somehow I saw this post somehow on sh.itjust.works, about a prefab house that was found floating in the Pacific. I wanted to comment but the only login I have is on lemmy.world. Notice the post is from The Picard Maneuver, whose posts I've seen many times, and it says lemmy.world above their name.

Lemmy.world has a whitepeopletwitter community but the newest post is 2 months old. This one is from 10 hours ago. Search on the lemmy.world main page for "Minding" turns up a bunch of posts going back months, but this one isn't there.

I thought I understood how federation works but I'm stumped. Is this really a lemmy.world post? If not, what does the presence of "lemmy.world" on it indicate?