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some lady that draws comics (http://egypt.urnash.com) and likes to call herself a dragon
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owner and operator of dragon.style
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current project: No Pizza On Luna (http://egypt.urnash.com/npol/)
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patreon: https://www.patreon.com/egypturnash

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so I was reading this article about the philosophical problem of whether or not consciousness is an inherent property of the physical mechanics of the brain when I came to this image

which was, to its very minor credit, credited as "AI generated"

and then I just stopped reading there because I'm just gonna assume the rest of the article has been AI-spammed with as much care and attention to detail as this image

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Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA · 8w
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Darius Kazemi · 11w
Feels like I constantly complain about this but man do I hate 2026-era web development stacks!!! I often find myself looking at a project website that's serving less than a dozen static documents to ...
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@nprofile1q...

There's "the goal of making this website is to provide this information".

And there's "the goal of making this website is to give me practice with this technology that all the megacorps use".

The former's been a solved problem since like 1995, but zero megacorps are gonna pay you the big bucks to know how to set up a perl script that automatically decorates and links raw text files you ftp up there, so everyone who wants those gigs presses all their sites into servicing the second goal too.
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mcc · 11w
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this morning the person coming by to mow the weeds and shoo off the squatters on the four-years-disused, blighted house next door informed me that, oh yeah, the guy who owns the place has about *fifty* places like this and every single one of his neighbors is about as happy with him as I am

*fifty*, I'd looked at some city records and found five others, but about *fifty*?!? I'd recently heard the local district attorney was prosecuting someone for a couple *dozen* properties in similar condition and figured this guy was too small to bother with, but FIFTY?

so I sent some email about this to my city council member, with some links to the records I'd found, and they just got back to me saying 'thanks, we'll take a look, we looped in the director of the Department of Code Enforcement and someone at the DA's office too".

HELL YEAH THIS IS A GOOD DAY