Elf…no ass

Excuse you…

Streaming services, and seemingly all computing technology lately…

Deep fried pecan pie. On a stick.

It’s not even that hard to do at home. Go buy a frozen pie. Cut it into slices (let it thaw a little bit first if necessary, then re-freeze it). Batter the slices, jam some popsicle sticks in the ends, and deep fry them; deep frying can be a little intimidating at first, but it’s easier (IMHO) than making peanut brittle. Dust with powdered sugar. Serve while still warm.

Fucking incredible. Probably take a few weeks off your lifespan, but worth it.

All-Despising Baby Skull

America only ever has one healthcare bill. It is the total amount spent on healthcare, including harm done to people who don’t seek healthcare because it is too expensive, plus all the costs of people going to the emergency room when they have no other option, plus all the people who go into bankruptcy from medical debt. It’s all one total bill, no matter how you spread the math around, and the only question is how much of that money is being wasted on inefficiency and lost to corporate profits. We might as well all keep paying that bill, but figure out ways to reclaim those corporate profits for the people.

What’s weird is that I work at a used book store and we are busier than we’ve ever been in our fifty years of operation. From my perspective, print media is a very hot commodity… so long as the selection is carefully curated and the prices are carefully tuned to respond to the market on a day-to-day basis. If retail sellers can’t manage that, maybe they need to look at their own business practices and figure out what they’re doing wrong.

I love the infinity d4

It rains so much in Vancouver that it convinces people that there is no god.

Safelite repair, Safelite replace.

Boom! Big bada boom!

Not for nothing, but couldn’t this be used to have AI play a game for 80,000 simulated hours and flag all the bugs? Human playtesters are important and have value, but no human should have to do the work of criss-crossing an enormous game map thousands of times just to see if the character model gets stuck on a random vertex sticking out somewhere, and yet it seems to be a distressingly common occurrence in more than a few games I’ve played.

Doesn’t want a breeze to come along and make him look like

That’s certainly one of the points that I needed to learn about. There are certainly genetic diseases like congenital heart defects or hemophilia. But then there are genetic differences that might seem maladaptive under certain given circumstances, but wouldn’t be any issue at all or might even confer advantages under different societal contexts. And then there are the straightforward differences that eugenics-obsessed regimes like to define as undesirable, like having the wrong hair, eye, or skin color, and then use that as an excuse to persecute whomever they want to. The whole thing is irreparably fucked.

We have to go to Hammerbarn.

When I was a freshman in college I thought “Surely nobody would want to inherit genetic diseases, and why wouldn’t we want to to try and make people just naturally live longer, healthier lives?” but then I did even the tiniest bit of research on how eugenics actually worked and I completely abandoned that line of thinking.

Weird Al, Mission Statement

I like to see what’s going on in the handheld emulator world!

I have no goddamn idea what kind of noise Patrick Stewart is making at 0:30 but I’m imagining the director just saying “Well, he’s Royal Shakespeare, he must know what he’s doing!”

I’d like to run a poll of as many Americans as could be managed, and ask them if we should maintain diplomatic relations with… and then list a series of real and fictional nations. I suspect we’d get something like 25 to 30% who think we should cut off diplomatic ties with Narnia, Wakanda, and Oz.