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
@scanlime I think "not trying to scale" and "hiring" might be at odds with one another.
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@wfryer Why does your post have the opposite of the article's actual headline?
So there's this big cactus out front of my house, and whenever we get big rains after a dry spell, it sprouts over a couple days and then blooms at night. Whenever I'm up late enough and remember, I like to try to take a couple pictures of the huge gorgeous pink-white flowers that most people will sleep through. #bloomscrolling
@ketmorco @kevinbhayes I disagree. The current status quo is that the vast majority of citizens will never directly experience armed violence in their entire lives. Looking at most of human history (and even contemporary hotspots like Ukraine and Gaza), that's an incredible accomplishment. A lot of work went into getting us here.
As I said before, of course there's still lots of room for improvement, but "vehemently opposed"? Nah.
@SecurityWriter It's solid hardware. But the real jewel are its knuckles controllers. Which, you may or may not use depending on if you plan to use a HOTAS setup while in VR.
@SecurityWriter If you want something simple, comfortable, and reasonably priced, the Meta Quest is your best bet.
If you want something with a bit more juice and control, Valve Index.
If you need the absolute best, you have to go overseas to the Varjo, I think.
@kevinbhayes @ketmorco Yes, I'm not opposed to that. But on the flip side, we need to acknowledge that we *already are trying it*. We do tons of prevention that escapes most people's notice. No matter how much you do, there will always be tragedies that break through, and there will always be someone responding to that tragedy with "we should do more prevention." At some point, you've got to take a step back and recognize that not every tragedy is preventable and we already live in a remarkably peaceful and just society. That doesn't mean there isn't still room for improvement, but vague calls for "we should have prevented this" aren't really helpful.
@Av8rdan I think the biggest cause of that is simply population density. In America, we have to lay *a lot* more track between big cities, and that's really expensive.
I do wish we had better rail though.
Let's not forget to add the surgeon general's warning label to Dungeons & Dragons and Rock & Roll too while we're at it.
“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental...
@kevinbhayes @ketmorco And that's a great goal. But we also need to be realistic and realize that prevention will never be an absolute solution. And it also doesn't hurt to recognize just how much prevention society already has built-in that we take for granted.
@ketmorco Yeah, if that's all it is. I think we can all get behind the idea of lunatics harming innocents due to delusions being "bad".
But when the concept of "rights" get invoked, there's usually a little more to the message.
@WmShakesp3are Nah, in the past, without the internet and 24 hour news, they had a much easier time concealing the hidden corruption.
And when it got too blatant, they actually punished the person (at least removed them from power, even if they didn't face charges).
In other words, back then, they pretended that they weren't crooked.
Today, they don't even give enough of a shit to hide it.
@ketmorco Maybe I missed the point, then. What do you think it was?
@briancs So we have that in common, then.
@Szwendacz @argv_minus_one@mstdn.party Plausible.
@briancs Pretty well, thanks.
How do you sleep at night after straw-manning people's arguments so egregiously?
@PattyHanson @cdarwin But he didn't have that right. It was his delusion that's at fault here, not his rights.
@cdarwin This whole framing about his "rights" falls apart once the linked article notes he was arrested and is being charged with murder.
Louis Ingenthron
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@garyackerman In high school, I was once assigned a book report on a book so boring that it put me to sleep within a page or two. "Essays on the American Frontier" or something like that.
I gave up, wrote a bullshit report, and flipped through the book to cherry-pick some quotes I could use to support my made-up points.
I got an A.
Sometimes the students can tell when the teachers haven't done the reading either.
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
