Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

1.) Tech companies post record profits.
2.) Tech companies lay off tens of thousands of employees.
3.) Wait, where'd those pitchforks come from?

@NatlSecCnslrs Wait. IANAL, so correct me if I'm wrong, but does that basically say that the court decided the legal standard for "reasonable" was subjective and punted it to the department the court was meant to be checking and balancing?

I don't get why haggis has such a worse reputation than regular sausage.

I want a law to say that any elected official who tries to ban the beloved Robin Williams movie Ms. Doubtfire is immediately ejected from office and banned from holding future office.

@pebonilla To be clear, that law would ban a movie theater from screening Ms. Doubtfire, right?

Really excited to see the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" folks explain why it's bad that Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine.

@mmasnick I've never even been to DC, but I'm double-checking my sock drawer just to be safe.

Just sorting through some old stuff, and this seamless #spacecraft re-entry #animation #video I did a while back was a lot of fun, but it was even better with appropriate background music that I can't afford to license.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwEXbftM8ho

@ThinkingSapien RAR isn't so bad, but when I see a tarball being used after the year 2000, I know someone is screwing with me.

It's incredible how much of a limiting factor "refuse to work for crypto scams" is for independent software engineers.

I could be making crazy money right now if I was just willing to help sheisters convince idiots to part with it.

@AmberWavesofFlame Fair. Although it certainly seems like, especially in the last decade or two, guns are going the way of cigarettes in the cultural subconscious.

@AmberWavesofFlame Other countries absolutely have mid-range weapons. Just off the top of my head:
The Israelis invented the Uzi, an automatic weapon with the form-factor of a pistol.
The Spanish & Brazilian governments both made a bunch of select-fire Mauser pistols.
The British produced the STEN, a full-auto weapon that fired standard 9mm pistol rounds.
And for something more recent, we have the P90, known for being compact and having an extremely fast firing speed, coming out of Belgium.

US Law is actually pretty good about drawing a clear line in the sand between semi-automatic and fully-automatic weapons, making all of the above illegal for regular citizens in the US. Which is why loophole devices, like bump-stocks, remain so contentious.

Once again, the right accuses the left of censoring while trying to pass laws to enact actual censorship.

We're starting to have a real problem with book burning among the American right.

@AriCohn The effect is so strong, in fact, that it applies even to half-huskies.

Got progressive bifocals for the first time and its messing with my head. I've got pretty extensive natural peripheral vision too, so that's probably not helping.

I get the feeling I'm gonna be nauseated for a few days until I get used to these...