Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
There are few things more infuriating in #UI/#UX than menus that fold out when you hover over an element only to fold back in before you can interact with them.
@arossp Don't worry, that's just one of those things that's only learned by necessity.
Once they grow up and get to their third apartment (the first one with an actual dishwasher), they'll learn right quick.
Louis Ingenthron
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I don't mind that "Massachusetts" is hard to spell, I am however a little indignant that people there never came up with a decent song to teach us all how to spell it. If Mississippi can do it, you can do it, Masechussets.
@SecurityWriter Because they require lots of metal to make and metal is an expensive commodity since the Trump tariffs and the pandemic.
@JenX Yes, they "enforce federal laws". They don't challenge state laws.
The most the DOJ could do is sue the state that enacted the law, and that's already been done by private individuals who have a much stronger claim to action.
@JenX Based on the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that established it, it's to ensure that everyone has fair and equal access to the ballot.
@JenX The wheels of justice grind slowly. 🤷♂️
I was just answering your question about why others weren't dealing with this. Because it's not their job. It's the courts' job and the courts are working on it.
It takes time to dig through the GOP's horseshit to thoroughly repudiate it and shut it down completely.
Every time I watch #Firefly, I catch something new I never noticed before.
This time around, it was in the last episode, "Objects in Space." Did anyone else notice that the oddly-colored planet the ship flies by in the cold open of the episode appears to match the superball River gazes into to close out the episode?
I finally need my high school calculus and it's not even in my brain anymore. 🤦♂️
@NatlSecCnslrs@mstdn.social Wait, do you not lock your computer?
@shanselman Shit, I identify as libertarian (or at least I did before the MC takeover of the party), but even I'm all for socialized drugs. Nobody needs to be protecting someone's freedom to chose between shitty insurance companies when there's such a better alternative available.
@katebranden @gregpak There are some extenuating circumstances that could thwart that, but what you said is mostly true.
That said, though, most of the vocal critics who are closely following Florida politics... are in Florida.
@JenX @gregpak Don't need it. federal district courts have already shut down several other unconstitutional laws DeSantis & the FLGOP have passed. The system is still working as it should.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137836712/college-university-florida-woke-desantis-1984
@mattmaison @gregpak They are. It would just be difficult to prove in court and a PR disaster for Disney who just wants to sweep the whole thing under the rug.
@gregpak If that law passes, I'll be morally obligated to start an anti-DeSantis blog just to violate it.
Louis Ingenthron
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Not to be an alarmist, but this is fucking terrifying. https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/
It's amazing how many people with money want to waste that money failing to replicate someone else's success.
On a related note, it's amazing how many brilliant ideas will never be executed because they didn't have the capital to back up the concept.
@jeffjarvis Ambition does not equal speculative overinvestment.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
