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New comment by ourmandave in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

ourmandave — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:50:50 +0000

...provide air coverage for Texas leadership.

The GOP runs Texas. The governor, sec of state, AG, and both houses are republican. Since when have they ever wanted or needed air coverage?

New comment by ourmandave in "50k Boat Names"

ourmandave — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:39:33 +0000

The Ocean Trader comes up, but it's not the same specs as the MV one.

Which is special forces support ship hiding in plain sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Ocean_Trader

New comment by ourmandave in "Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager"

ourmandave — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:27:08 +0000

Dividing generations across decades might work for marketing to them in general, but it's otherwise about as useful as horoscopes and the BMI scale.

New comment by ourmandave in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

ourmandave — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:48:22 +0000

I like this for the clarity. No more wishy-washy Is Amazon Evil?

It's just Amazon ~ Fuck Yeah We're Evil

New comment by ourmandave in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

ourmandave — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:42:09 +0000

149 days until Jan 3, when new representatives are seated.

New comment by ourmandave in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

ourmandave — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:39:18 +0000

pssst, we don't hate corporations and billionaires. We hate organizations and people that knowingly harm children for profit.

New comment by ourmandave in "How Americans View Capitalism, Socialism and Free Enterprise"

ourmandave — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:18:48 +0000

socialism = "social safety net measures", which it isn't but, as mentioned, it seems that many in the US think it is...

They think "Social Democracy", not pure "Socialism".

But the Right will equate one with the other to pretend the left are communists.

New comment by ourmandave in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

ourmandave — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:08:58 +0000

* (didn't announce, were not uniformed, believed to be imposters, etc).*

Okay, but what if they just wear masks and use unmarked vehicles?

Then do they get a pass for shooting you in the back?

New comment by ourmandave in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

ourmandave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:53:05 +0000

Or pave it over and paint it green.

New comment by ourmandave in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

ourmandave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:46:21 +0000

Plus, when mowing a lawn, you often want to leave a nice pattern, so you cant just go for pure efficiency.

I just want shorter grass asap. Not going to lie on my death bed bemoaning not mowing enough.

If it were up to me, my yard would be a prairie restoration tax deduction, but alas, neighbors.

New comment by ourmandave in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

ourmandave — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:41:54 +0000

We can just buy them from the Ukrainians.

New comment by ourmandave in "The true power of regular expressions (2012)"

ourmandave — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:12:21 +0000

Every time I cut-n-paste a regex into code, I comment with the url of the spell book page I copied so future me can answer, "WTF does this do again?"

New comment by ourmandave in "3D Pinball for Windows (1995)"

ourmandave — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:02:42 +0000

People have build IRL Space Cadet pinball machines.

New comment by ourmandave in "Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall"

ourmandave — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:22:38 +0000

The administration's corruption is so blatant in everything else, it's the default assumption now.

New comment by ourmandave in "Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall"

ourmandave — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:00:43 +0000

Yeah, the guy who declared "No Kings" demonstrators extremists and terrorists, and threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act against ICE protestors has in effect said he's not my president for me.

New comment by ourmandave in "Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall"

ourmandave — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:43:51 +0000

Two things that got RFK nominated.

He's the opposite of Fauci, who Trump hates for contradicting him. And MAGA hates because during the pandemic they saw mask mandates as government overreach.

And he's the poster boy for conspiracy-loving anti-science halfwits like Trump and MAGA.

And he got approved because GOP senators get primaried and death threats if they go against Dear Leader.

New comment by ourmandave in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

ourmandave — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:31:19 +0000

I don't doubt the premise, but this sounds like another in a long series of Doing X May Delay Onset of Alzheimers articles.

Most of which includes the author's favorite mental task, food, or exercise.

New comment by ourmandave in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

ourmandave — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:15:25 +0000

Decent article.

No notes.

New comment by ourmandave in "Understanding the AI Economy"

ourmandave — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:05:58 +0000

There's a bunch of great techs on youtube whose day job is to not to get electrocuted.

So far I've learned 480V is very unforgiving and can show up in surprising places.

New comment by ourmandave in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

ourmandave — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:52:19 +0000

Is he just down the street from Carl's Draperies?

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/terminator/images/e/e9/Tdf...