Can someone ask Rick if he wants to be PM? He would clean up in an election, right?

This novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

• unqualified populist US president
• canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
• subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
• catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy

Vance’s head continues to widen, while Trump has found the briefcase from Pulp Fiction.

Less than a month till the new album. I’m hyped.

Something that worries me about that is attestation. This is the advice from the GrapheneOS Devs:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

They’re asking app developers to trust their keys specifically, which would mean that the app might work on GrapheneOS, but not my fork of GrapheneOS with some cherry picked fix I want.

It would be much better if we stamped this out now, before all online services require attestation.

Canada has a history of ping-ponging between Conservative and Liberal governments every ~10 years.

I think Trudeau was fine as a Liberal PM. The one difference this iteration was that they formed government on a promise to change the electoral system, and they didn’t follow through. That could have ended the cycle. They burned everyone on the left with that move, and they lost the right because the right has gone Trumpist. So now they’re fucked, and we’re all fucked too. 🎉

But it’s ok because some retired boomers get to shout ‘taking our country back’ then blame foreigners for anything negative that happens

And then fly back to Spain with the sense of superiority that comes from carrying a blue passport.

It sounds like you’d benefit from having a project in mind. I always learned programming languages by building something I wanted, or by tinkering on someone else’s project.

They just need to gachafy it. One gun = one pull. Then people won’t stop after one gun. They’ll trade in all their guns and start stealing guns from their neighbours.

I assume they’re going to use it to waste stupid amounts of electricity?

Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue

It’s great for seeing existing dialogue, but I think it falls short for long term discussion between more than two people.

On a non-threaded board (e.g. forums, github issues) you can watch a thread you’re interested in. On Lemmy/reddit you only get notifications for direct responses to your comments.

I think some sort of option to watch/unwatch whole subtrees of comments would help a lot.

I think what I loved most about it is that it felt like a real puzzle where I had to use my brain, and the answers weren’t all in the game. For example, having to pick out that someone in the background of one of the scenes had an Irish accent.

It’s one game where I’ve always wanted to find something that gave me a similar experience. I’m definitely going to bookmark this post for future reference.

Return of the Obra Dinn maybe?

That being said, I haven’t played outer wilds, and I’ve been avoiding reading about it. I loved Inscryption though, so this post is encouraging me to move it up my list.

The Nova Scotia liberals got so desperate this last election that they promised electoral reform.

So everyone other than the conservatives were in support of it, but they still couldn’t cooperate to run candidates strategically.

The liberals and ndp could form an alliance to pass proportional representation and then immediately call another election.

I have to assume most liberals don’t actually want that to happen, and the cpc would go hard on calling it undemocratic.

But at least you still have your head.

They’re pining for the fjords.

That Purple Mountains album is great. It’s just heartbreaking that it ended up being a suicide note.

The thing that bothers me most about it is that it’s making the tax less progressive.

The people who will benefit the most are people who spend the most on: toys, games, eating out, etc.

I get that the whole point is to allow some luxuries for Christmas, but this is going to do jack shit for people who are really struggling.