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
This is actually kind of funny. If the GOP just had enough integrity to disavow an alleged child molester, there's a pretty good chance they'd still have enough unity to be able to pass House votes.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/witness-told-feds-she-was-paid-for-sex-parties-with-matt-gaetz
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
“The fact that nothing has come of it has kind of astonished her, who along with all the others had been the focal point of such an intense investigation,” the woman’s lawyer said. “For them to go through all that and then for the target of the investigation to just get a wink and a nod has created for some of them a loss of faith in the system.”
#maga #gaetz
https://www.thedailybeast.com/witness-told-feds-she-was-paid-for-sex-parties-with-matt-gaetz
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
LMFAO 
Musk and Taibbi are beefing again resulting in Taibbi publicizing an exchange where he simps, “Elon, l've repeatedly declined to criticize you”
WE KNOW MATT WE KNOW
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
🇳🇱
@LouisIngenthron Not at all. Nebulas do look different in X-ray and other spectrums, and **some** nebula are uninteresting in visible light. But all the famous nebulas more or less are quite beautiful to the naked eye.
See this post from my blog for a picture of the great nebula in orion using visible light only (also attached)
C'mon, not even potheads are stupid enough to go for something called "diet weed" are they? This is like that time they said teenagers were getting high on sewage, right?
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
I wanted to work it out once and for all
framerate-independent lerp smoothing 🐱
They could try *gasp* lowering prices to meet supply and demand like the rest of us.
But nooooo.... landlords operate in their own reality where they can afford to post losses for years to keep the price tag high.
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that governments asking tech companies to provide encryption backdoors violates human rights.
This is awkward as various European countries are trying to pass laws mandating exactly that. Hopefully this is one more nail in the coffin.
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
I’m not always an optimist, but I see this as a glass 85% full.
Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/americans-believe-climate-change-study?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
#EricAdams tries "fueling mental health crisis" as a new excuse for #censorship and getting around the #1stAmendment. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-york-mayor-sues-social-232437187.html
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
I’d rather have a conversation with an informed person I disagree with than an uninformed person that I agree with.
This principle has brought me more growth than almost anything else.
Our opponents are not necessarily our enemies, and they might be our greatest teachers.
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
Just fell victim to a fraudulent advertisement. At least I was skeptical enough from the start to not actually lose any money or personal info, though.
Reporting it to the FTC made me feel a little better.
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
These crows removing the bird-prevention spikes from this new condo. They are not having it!
It's pretty crazy that the airwaves are owned by the federal government, but low-earth-orbit isn't.
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-to-deorbit-100-starlink-satellites-due-to-detect-1851251676
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
Better be willing to be surveilled, say Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and Deputy AG John Fowler, or you're a criminal.
Protest is a First Amendment right. Carr is trying to squelch protest against a new military police training facility by trying protesters under RICO. He must not have much else if "didn't have any data on their phone" is all the state has on Ayla King.
It would be terrible not just for these defendants though, but as precedent for all of us.
https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/02/12/georgia-ag-claims-not-having-a-phone-makes-you-a-criminal/
That's so sick and fucked up.
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
Attempts to limit non-legal-adults' access to social media should be reflexively rejected like book banning is, and like Frederic Wertham's comic book panic was before. It's all about restricting their access to information.
Louis Ingenthron
boosted
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?
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
