What's your local regional phrase most similar to "We're not here to fuck spiders"

Like, I'm sorry (consults list of popular baby names for 1975 to find the most typical for that era) Jason, but you're an adult.

Your choices matter, your politics have an impact on the world, this is real life, and you've been making real choices this whole time.

People rely on you.

rate our shop cat

Kinda tired of Troll Politics and I am 100% willing to blame the tuned-out reactionary slacker ethos of GenX for this shift in the cultural zeitgeist.

(Present company exempted, but like, consider the guy you went to highschool with who now owns a car dealership and his wife who is a little too into licenced character entertainment)

Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

"It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/measles-killed-6-week-old-baby-coroner-confirms-after-rfk-jr-disputed-deaths/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

it sounds like pure snark to say “log off and touch grass” and the like, but there were drastically different social dynamics and use patterns and dopamine triggers involved with participating in the same sorts of chats that we have on fedi but on a dial-up bulletin board system with a single phone line and modem for incoming calls.

if you wanted to interact with the other users (other than the sysop who may or may not be hovering near the computer running the BBS ready to intercept you for a chat or to see what you’re up to) you had to log off so someone else could log in.

because of this, some BBSes had session time limits - you get 60 minutes and then you’re done until next time, you get two sessions a day, that sort of restriction - to ensure other folk got access to the shared resources and could also use them according to that BBS’ setup and norms and so forth.

so you’d develop your own optimized loops for any given set of favorite BBSes but eventually you’d be done for the day - you’d read all the posts and responded to the ones you were gonna respond to, you used all your turns in tradewar for the day, you downloaded your allotment of files for the day, it was contained.

does your computer always need to be connected to the internet?

Can guitar frets perform multiplication?

https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571047

#HackerNews #guitar #frets #multiplication #math #music #tech

This is the government of Canada’s scientific finding.

It is true.

It is also a terrible message. Here’s what’s also true:

Every tenth of a degree of global warming matters.

Every fraction of temperature rise we avoid saves lives, reduces disease, food and water shortages, disasters.

That means:

Every wind turbine and solar panel deployed

Every heat pump installed

Every energy efficiency retrofit

Every electric bus and vehicle

Every job created from all these things…

It all matters! It all counts.

But so do new pipelines, the LNG boom, and the Carney government’s dismantling of Canada’s climate policy.

Folks, it’s not too late. We can change course and choose a healthy, safer future.

We just need the right kind of nation-building projects.

(And that includes engaging First Nations first.)

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/changes-to-canadas-climate-now-irreversible-federal-report-says/

#canada #cdnpoli #environment #climateChange

@eff

😮 Seriously, is the organization that should be protecting our digital rights, now defending the abuse of extreme right billionaires, who are stealing our human creativity to make us all redundant?

@Daojoan Me thinks you rely on mortals to fund your Substack subscriptions.

@zackwhittaker I'm relieved to see the hatred for all this surveillance is now become universal and non-partisan, at least among non-billionaires.

@blogdiva

...I'll takeit.

@decryption

I've never been to one ... is there as much noise as some claim?

I've seen them from the roadway ... and the hundreds of sheep grazing underneath ...

@mattblaze @mark When we were designing BMDs and other voting equipment for the California open source reference project - everything from BMDs to ballot counters to procedures to laws - we had long arguments about QR and bar codes.

My argument was that two indicators of voter choices was an invitation to suspicion by those who don't like voting (or machine-assisted voting). It was a matter of increasing voter confidence rather than anything technical. I wanted every mark on the paper to be human-readable. (We did go so far as to consider using factory watermarked paper as an anti-counterfeiting measure. But anything that added cost or required staff support or special storage was resisted by the county clerks with tight budgets.)

I personally like BMDs - I have trouble holding a pen with enough precision to fill a bubble or draw a line. (I tend to vote via drop-off at the county clerk, so I can spend a lot of time at home getting my fingers to use a pen.)

@garbados I think you can get a lot of good links to both sides of this argument here:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/open-letter-mark-ruffalo-paramount-skydance-9.7328204

A lot of the defense of Ruffalo has been of the "he's not antisemitic" variety, which is the logical fallacy that this poll is about. I don't think that's a good response; I think digging into the content of his critiques is more interesting and valid.