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
#SCOTUS essentially just ruled that any #President is free to commit #insurrection without reprisal so long as their party controls #congress.
It's clear that they don't have any more regard left for #democracy or the #constitution.
I'm concerned that there's a decent chance future history books will point to this as the start of the second civil war. Without any accountability imposed, the chance of #Trump attempting a more violent version of #J6 when he loses again is damn near 100%.
Ladies and Gentleman, we've just entered a constitutional crisis.
Please make sure your seatbelts are on and your tray tables are up.
Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with Donald Trump, allowing th...
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If there actually was some Illuminati-level conspiracy to remove the weakest people from the gene pool, convincing the absolute dumbest people not to vaccinate their kids would be a pretty solid way to get that done.
JFC. Let's be clear here: If you're posting CSAM, you're already evil. If you're posting CSAM out of some kind of "righteous anger" to ruin someone else's life, there's a *special place* in hell for you.
Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity https://sopuli.xyz/post/9897240
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Call it what it is: a voter suppression gap.
“A major contributor appears to be a Supreme Court decision weakening the Voting Rights Act.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/turnout-gap-white-black-voters-growing-study-finds-rcna141512
Republicans fighting knowledge... again.
Ga. Senate passes bill banning American Library Association https://www.advocate.com/politics/georgia-senate-ala
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Drove a new Honda and it abruptly warned me to keep my hands on the steering wheel. I’d never taken my hands off, it just very confidently and very wrongly scolded me which I found very annoying.
And this is why I still don’t want to buy a new car… all this automation is so half-assed 😩 don’t get me started on the “adaptive” cruise control or the lane assist 🫠
This is a fucking stupid reason to attempt to justify further genocide.
Israel government says it’s not sending delegation to Cairo talks about a Gaza truce because Hamas has failed to deliver a list of hostages that wo...
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James Bond being such an elite agent that he's "Licensed To Kill" sounds ridiculous on this side of the pond where every green beat cop fresh out of training is licensed to kill.
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People are discussing the water impact of AI, a topic that @jfleck and I discussed last year when he gave me a tour of the Albuquerque water system.
John encouraged me to compare AI to other water users. Karen Hao cites 50 million gallons a year from Microsoft's Phoenix datacenter. Golf courses in Phoenix use 80 million gallons per *day*.
When managing water, AI is important but there are other users that could make more of a difference.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602/
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Genuinely huge news from the American Psychological Association, which just voted 153-9 to pass a new policy agenda supporting transgender healthcare, actively dismantling the misinformation and lies ABOUT trans people and their healthcare needs, and calling for a complete repeal of all anti-trans bills, nationwide. It isn't federal law, but it is huge and will have a beneficial impact in a number of places in the US.
Well done on the APA, here, doing what they can to protect trans people.
https://www.apa.org/about/policy/transgender-nonbinary-inclusive-care
From Russia With Love (1963) would be a near perfect movie if there wasn't a pointless 30-minute break in the middle for gypsy women to dance and catfight.
After watching some old Bond films, I got into a wiki binge on old Soviet counter-intelligence.
Reading about how they managed to turn, disinform, or otherwise nullify the efforts of nearly 40,000 German intelligence agents during WWII is jarring compared to the the bumbling ineptitude of their modern armed forces.
Power may corrupt humans, but it seems clear throughout human history that corruption also corrodes power.
There are two types of people in this world: People who think steam trains are rad and people who don't know enough about steam trains.
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What time is it?
That’s right, it’s time to push your changes to prod as you head out for the weekend!
Just got two beef empanadas and a guava pastry at a local Cuban restaurant for $7.
Reason number 9,438,127 I love immigration.
Pretty sure I can narrow down the exact moment I realized language was bullshit to when my parents scolded me as a child for forgetting the last syllable of "pussycat".
Another example of Matt Gaetz being a jackass:
Mr. Gaetz: You don't have to understand my questions. You just have to answer.
The Witness: I do have to understand your questions. Isn't that the point of
asking a question is that the question -- the person who is going to answer it understands it? What do you mean I don't have to understand it?
Another example of Matt Gaetz being a jackass:
Mr. Gaetz: You don't have to understand my questions. You just have to answer.
The Witness: I do have to understand your questions. Isn't that the point of
asking a question is that the question -- the person who is going to answer it understands it? What do you mean I don't have to understand it?
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
