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
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Got called a fascist by a Biden supporter for..... saying I support Biden?
Lesson of the day: Sometimes you just need to take a deep breath, put your phone down, and remind yourself that you simply cannot win on social media.
If there was a button that could sum up your entire life up to this moment and, if the totality of your deeds were net-positive good, give you a better high than any drug and $1,000,000, but if your deeds were net-negative bad, it would put you in excruciating pain and empty your bank accounts... but you wouldn't know which result you'd get until after pressing it...
Would you press it?
Uh oh, the British are totally going to go back to their old conquery empire ways without their medicine, aren't they?
"Tea shortage horror sweeps Britain as supermarket shelves left almost totally empty"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/tea-shortage-horror-sweeps-britain-32114738
There was some especially strange #weather late last night in #CentralFlorida... The night was perfectly still for 5-10 minutes before a sudden, strong, sustained gust tore through for about a minute and then it got calm again. This pattern repeated for an hour or two at least.
In Florida at least, "painting over it" is a derogatory term for superficially fixing a problem without doing anything to address the root causes. It comes from our shittiest landlords, who are notorious for painting over cracks and holes in walls and, in one case that was famous on social media a while back, even painting over a cockroach.
Given that context, I'm not sure this ad sends the right message. We need to address the cause of the problem, not just paint over its symptoms.
I don't watch the Super Bowl, so I only saw a bunch of complaints in social media about a swastika appearing in an ad. This is a very powerful ad. ...
#Steam is currently selling a game about Alex Jones and suddenly I don't feel like giving them a bunch of my money for new games anymore.
It's nuts that the government tells me what my property taxes are, but not what my income taxes are.
Property owners essentially get math subsidized by the government while non-property-owners get fuck all.
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The year is 2025. Instead of having newscasters, mainstream media channels now permanently display the president's age on the screen, down to the millisecond. Every minute a voice announces that the president is now a minute older than they were a minute ago. Somewhere in the world, bombs are being dropped on a country you've never even heard of. The headline on the screen reads "The president is now three times as old as the world's oldest dog".
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This is the ship Jutlandia, which Denmark sent into the Korean War in 1950 with 356 hospital beds, 4 operating rooms, and a dental clinique.
We sent Jutlandia to Korea, not because this war was our war, but because we could save the lives of American soldiers. The Danes fought alongside American soldiers in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in many other conflicts.
Trump saying he will not help US allies, is spitting in the face of every allied country, who has fought alongside the US for decades.
This always comes down to a gender divide. Men like to collaboratively try to solve large problems. Women like to collaboratively empathize with whoever is bitching about large problems.
When we try to mix the two, both sides get pissed off. Men brush women off as "emotional" while women write men off as "reply guys".
At some point, we just have to stop getting pissed off at people who are trying to be helpful and recognize the good intentions.
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I will never get over the fact that tech companies chose layoffs over embracing remote work as their primary cost cutting move.
There was even an opportunity to lower compensation by paying people less who lived outside the Bay Area but they chose RTO and layoffs instead.
Survival games that tell me my character is "not tired enough to sleep" are extremely unrelatable.
The media framing of this whole thing is just wildly dishonest.
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Neither the NY Times or the Washington Post reported Trump's statement that he would encourage Russia to attack NATO on the front page.
Both managed to find room for missives on Biden's age & memory.
And they're completely flummoxed as to why journalism is dying...
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#Murfreesboro, #Tennessee "must pay $500,000 as part of a settlement with the [ACLU] and other groups over an ordinance designed to ban #drag performances from taking place on public property." The city had falsely claimed that a 2022 Pride parade resulted in "sexualization of kids," then denied subsequent permits to #LGBTQ parades and events.
Murfreesboro has agreed to pay $500K of its taxpayers' money, repeal the bigoted ordinance, and approve future parade permits.
Imagine if he was held to his own standard for "delinquency".
@NPR@press.coop
Trump says he'd 'encourage' Russia to attack NATO allies who don't pay their bills Republican front-runner Donald Trump said Saturday that, as pres...
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This is not a “reasonable”punishment, Texas.
While in couples counseling, 39 yo lawyer not happy to learn wife is pregnant. Drugs her water; she has it on video and in trash he put at the curb. Tests confirm. Daughter born 10 weeks early; she weighed 3 pounds. She is developmentally disabled.
Mason Herring pleaded guilty.
Sentence? 180 days in jail (not prison). Basically OK to poison your wife to force a miscarriage.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/husband-jailed-drugging-pregnant-wife-204253088.html
A local sheriff's office helicopter is circling my neighborhood at 8 in the morning... with ADS-B turned off.
Suspicious.
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If you could pause body aging, what age would you have paused at, and why?
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
