heavyboots

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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I mean I’ve been using DuoLingo for like a decade (only paid the last 2 years) and it’s been very useful until now.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I'll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly I have used Blue Sky and Mastodon and Mastodon feels a lot more elegant to me, personally.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (31 children)

What I don't get is why anyone would ever choose commercial social media again given there are Activity Pub clones for practically everything now, where you aren't the product. So many people learned nothing from the ongoing Twitter debacle and the zillion Facebook privacy scandals apparently.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Having used my helmet multiple times it’s fairly obvious to me they actually performa a useful function. As far as I’m concerned the only controversy is whether they should mandatory or not (and I don’t think they should). But otherwise, if you choose to wear one I think you ARE doing yourself a favor wearing one.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, that seems relatively obvious to me (best actor and actress being separate categories that is), and I bet they’re trying to stir up shit from a really simple statement she made? Quite possibly they also stoop to hand-wringing about “whatever category should we put a transgender person in?” too.

I refuse to read the article and give them clicks though.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

It is always hilarious and strange to see the buy-in on these things. We have a single coder in his late 60s that has bought in hard to spicy autocorrect. Meanwhile, the youngest on our team (like 22) won’t touch it with a 10 ft pole.

The other issue is just the morality of it. Do I know people that got rich on Bitcoin? Yes. Do I feel like they’re participating in a pyramid scheme still? Also yes. And with spicy autocorrect, where they got their training data for any and all of these models is so freaking morally bankrupt, and they’re desperate to paper over that and make it “ok” for businesses to use it.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 102 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Had to click through to change my downvote to an upvote, lol.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Literally all we need is everyone to kick in a couple bucks a month and I think everything would be in great shape. I think the user base is like 65k+ users currently?

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 98 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

They need to get the fuck rid of that executive. Whoever has been running FF the last couple years has done a terrible job in picking directions for them to go, IMHO.

 

From the link, which is terribly presented…

Join Pima Animal Care Center’s clinic staff as they bring their mobile medical unit, Karen’s Karing Van, to Summit Park, 1800 E Summit Street, to provide FREE services on May 1, 2, and 3! (7am to 2pm)

Available services:

On May 1: Check-in beginning at 7 a.m. (40 spots available): Spay/neuter, vaccines, and microchips. Large-breed female dogs will get first priority; other pets will be accepted based on availability.

On May 1, 2, and 3: From 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (150 spots available each day): Vaccines, microchips, and wellness exams.

Vaccines provided will be FVRP and rabies for cats and DHPP and rabies for dogs.

This event is for Pima County residents only. Cats should be in carriers and dogs should be on leash. There is no limit to the number of pets one person or family can bring, but please be aware that you will be waiting in line and only bring the number of animals you can safely handle in that scenario.

Please plan to arrive early and wait in line.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago

LOL, just another reason to avoid buying from Amazon, really.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some of the new rally content is really fun (and tough!).

 

Just Bel doing Bel things. I nearly pulled something laughing at this one, though. 😹

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by heavyboots@lemmy.ml to c/printsf@lemmy.ca
 

Neal Asher has a new book out called Dark Diamond. The dedication page in it is quite frankly pretty horrifying.

Five years ago, I watched the two Falcon Heavy side boosters come into land at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base. Honestly, it was like something in a game animation and seemingly too perfect to be believable. Others, I've seen landing on drone ships with names taken from lain M. Banks' Culture books. Just recently, I saw a huge booster for the Starship come down to be caught between two metal arms - y'know, they caught something the size of a skyscraper like a dropping stick - and that was an astounding feat of engineering. But these are not in isolation, since SpaceX, as of last month, has launched over a hundred rockets in 2024.

Meanwhile, the guy who brought this about, the guy who is aiming to make humanity multi-planetary by putting us on Mars, has a few other projects on the go, like building electric cars, burrowing tunnels under cities, putting up a satellite internet system and, perhaps the most important of them all, preventing the totalitarians of our world from killing free speech.

So thank you, Elon Musk, for bringing to reality, right before my eyes, those things I read and dreamed about as a teenager.

That… is a REALLY unfortunate, given Musk's apparent aspirations to be a Culture-level Bad Guy™. It's like Asher's paid absolutely zero attention to the fact that the Starlink is considered pollution on a massive scale, from an astronomy perspective and numerous environmental aspects. And that Elon's Boring Company is widely acknowledged to have been a ploy to stop Cali from approving light rail projects. And that his purchase of Twitter was in fact a splurge to destroy a free speech platform and bend it to be another disinformation platform instead. Yuck.

I should add that while I personally don't really enjoy Asher's books all that much to begin with, I was utterly unaware of his politics until now. I will strongly recommend against him going forward, much like I do with Orson Scott Card, despite an extreme fondness for some of Card's earlier works.

Do you guys worry much about the politics of the authors you enjoy, or is it more of a me thing?

 

Everybody get out there and enjoy! Looks like cooler weather ahead too, so should be a great day for it.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by heavyboots@lemmy.ml to c/tucson@lemmy.ml
 

Tuesday was the last recommended day to mail ballots back, so if you mail it now, it might not arrive in time to be counted.

You can drop it at any polling place in the sealed, signed and dated inner ballot envelope. (Outer envelope is not required for this activity.)

Credit to u/SubGothius on Reddit; just cc'ing this info on here for anyone that needs it.

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