@nprofile1q... I am given to understand that npm is owned by Microsoft.

@nprofile1q... Could a vision change in one eye have affected your overall vision? I only recently found out I lost a bit in one eye (most likely thanks to [a certain thing going around that we're not supposed to talk about or acknowledge.]) It took me a long time to figure out that this was possibly why I'm having some issues with some things like motion sickness since my eyes don't adjust the same as how they used to with some compensation going on now.

@nprofile1q... It seems like as a general rule people just assume things they're used to can't go away.

I do have a tiny bit of hope that there would be a "resistance" of sorts — places still up and running regardless of those laws. Whether that would be sufficient or not, I'm really not sure. I imagine quite a lot of the fediverse would indeed just shut down when they couldn't comply rather than fight it. I guess there are also some older things like IRC, Usenet, etc that would probably be forgotten though. They couldn't comply, but I bet authorities wouldn't be paying attention to them either.

Dunno if that gives you any better hope, but it's better than nothing.

@nprofile1q... Wow. I've had regrets come up from way back (even further back sometimes!) but this is a bit extreme. Is your brain mad at you for something? Did you say something bad about it maybe? Perhaps if you apologized to your brain?

@nprofile1q... That's actually pretty cool in a way. And I bet it works too!

@nprofile1q... I have to say, if I was a predator I would indeed think twice about attacking this.

Can they even sting? Or are they just 100% bluff?

@nprofile1q... Wasn't 0xFF also a "blank" character of sorts?

@nprofile1q...
Bosses: you're now required to use """"""""""AI""""""""""
Employees: it doesn't really fit the workflow and doesn't really do what we need.
Bosses: too bad. Use it or you're fired. I'll be watching your token counts. Keep them high or else.

Bosses: Hey! Your token counts are too high! Stop using """"""""""AI"""""""""" so much!
Employees: you literally forced us.

@nprofile1q... I forgot to say because I got distracted by the rest, but I really suspect the article hand-picked like three kids who probably couldn't even read to make this statement. (I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming they're not lying.)

A. Kids have seen paper before in other things. They freaking know it's not a screen.
B. Even if they somehow didn't know what paper is, they can still tell it's not the same material as a tablet. They can physically feel that the sheets are separate.

I don't buy for one second that this is a real thing.

@nprofile1q...

And the only thing wrong with my generation is that 2008 happened right after we graduated.

And 2008 was the fault of a much older generation screwing everyone else, pulling a really big scam that should have been 100% illegal and should have resulted in them all going to jail (but of course didn't.)

I got to graduate at that time too. That's why I ended up working in a store instead of using my blasted worthless degree.

@nprofile1q... Wow, I thought the game specifically had a rule that only the person in last place could get the blue shell. Maybe that's in newer versions. It really really really doesn't make sense to give it to someone in first though. That had to have been a glitch surely...

@nprofile1q... Ok, this t-shirt just makes me want to start cursing.

I have always considered that stupid blue shell to be basically just a cheat. There is just literally nothing you can do. No amount of skill whatsoever keeps you from getting screwed. And then, of course, because everyone who plays that game apparently is a jerk, everyone who passes you slams on their brakes, turns, and hits you with whatever they have just to make sure you end up going from first place to last in the span of 10 seconds.

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