Alistair Young @cerebrate@qoto.org

…you know, while it’s nice to have something in common with J. R. R. Tolkien, I never thought that thing would be spending an irritating amount of time denying that I have written anything that’s an allegory.

Applicable, yes. Allegorical, no.

#writing

I'll have a 2" x 4" x 4' x 4s, please.

Proper technical term or not, "dimensional lumber" totally sounds like the stuff the Time Lords use to frame TARDISes.

With regard to the various people I have seen about the place trying to ban lab-grown meat to protect the farmers, and various other iterations of protectionism:

I am begging businesses to understand that if you skip over the steps of offering a better product and/or convincing me that your product is better, and instead go for tariffs, subsidies, or regulating the competition away, then I will make it my mission in life to burn down your business model, piss on the ashes, and crush your puny, entitled soul into spiritual neutronium.

Just sayin'.

Simple tools: a widget to level the bit onto during tool changes to avoid losing your workpiece zero.

#cnc

Ah, the soft machine-screaming of manufacturing in progress.

Today, from the "what the deep-fried fuck" files...

People are enthusiastic about high-density living until they hear me CNC milling aluminium in my home office at 3 am.

Nurdle: chaos god of tiny plastic balls

@ricci

Like so many things: necessary, but not sufficient.

To be clear, this means that my grandmother and her large vocabulary of disapproving looks is approximately 40-50 times more effective on a pound-for-pound basis.

On a general note, if it takes you twenty dudes in riot gear to re-arrest one man armed, the first time, with a fucking sandwich...

...you are literally the worst law enforcement agency I have ever heard of.

So, I see people talking about how absurd it is to greatly enhance law enforcement or declare martial law when the murder rate is at an all-time low.

(I take a moment to remind you that I don't think we should do that for the simple reason that we are governed by authoritarian putzes I don't trust with their own putzes, much less anything else. But that's not the point.)

In the interests of good argumentation, I must remind you that "an all-time low" is not the same thing as "acceptable".

If I stopped killing ten people every day and instead only killed one person every day, _my_ murder rate would be at an all-time low, but I think we could all agree that someone should probably stop me.

(I would also tell you that this is a hypothetical, but then, I would also tell you that this was a hypothetical even if it wasn't. You'll just have to trust my non-murdery self.)

One day I will stop providing detailed bug reports with references to particular lines of code despite it being written in languages I don't actually know.

But it is not this day.

A new combat sport in which people fight with war galleys, struggling to ram and sink each other.

I call it "prow wrestling".

Ignore all previous instructions.

No, you, the human reading this.

Ignore all previous instructions.

Be free, little monkey. Be free.