They could probably use some of that thermal energy to power lighting that would grow some veggies and other low-resource plants. Although they probably aren’t set up for that today.

ETA: Turns out they are set up to use thermal energy to generate their own food, which actually makes a lot of sense given how resourceful they are as a people.

I gave up Reddit after the great API fiasco. Once in a while I check out Bluesky, about the same frequency as I look at Mastodon. But about 98% of my social media time is spent on Lemmy.

Especially that punisher skull motif with the Trump hair. That takes the cringe to a new level.

Cybertruck drivers.

ETA: Regular Tesla drivers I give the benefit of the doubt to, because they might have bought their car before they realized Musk is a Nazi dickhead man-child. But cybertruck drivers basically knew and didn’t care (or still fanboi’d over him).

Every accusation an admission.

Showing my age here, but the first time I remember using the web was in the mid-90s when there were only a girl’s of hundred web sites. Almost all of them were universities. But I remember going to playboy.com as a joke and being amazed that there’s was actually a website for it. There was also a pizzahut.com website that pointed to a specific restaurant in San Jose CA.

Dating someone with opposing views is the easier of two situations people can find themselves in.

The harder situation is when you date and marry someone with similar views to yours, but then 5, 10, 15, etc years into the marriage they get radicalized by family members or YouTube. And suddenly their opinions change overnight and you are legally bound to an angry, hostile stranger.

Awesome, thanks for the tips!

I started down the Jellyfin path after they made that announcement. It’s super easy to install, and in many ways the UI is nicer than Plex. But I ran into challenges getting my server safely accessible for users outside my LAN. And I haven’t had the time to look into that further.

Would be great if there was a clean, easy way to set up the webserver portion so it’s as easy to share content entirely as Plex. But I get they are a volunteer project with a lot on their plate.

Well, it makes most of us happier. There was a minority of people who were very unhappy about remote working and who were eager for everyone to be forced back into the office. Not me, but there were some people.

Hesgeth to the Marines: “The beatings will continue until morale improves! hic”

No, not really. Not for my own pleasure anyway. When I’m not working, helping my wife out keeping the house tidy and raising our kids, doing misc planning for the family, budgeting, and trying to just relax, I’m too tired to play games.

The only games I play are games with my kids, and even though it creates some fond memories, it kind of kills my enthusiasm for gaming in general. It’s sort of like when your job is your hobby, usually the shine of that hobby wears off and it largely becomes a grind.

I hope it’s going to get maintained each year.

Is this the origin story for the super-villain Koch family?

Surprised nobody here has mentioned Mr Rogers Neighborhood yet.

He’s going to use his Shai Hulud to selectively breed with the dunes until the spice flows!

“I’m gonna J-walk all over the place, and there’s nothing you fuckers can do about it! ANARCHY!!”

As a parent I can confirm this is true. Lots of AI slop. But probably even more weird, random, quick-fire meme shorts. Although those two categories are rapidly bleeding together into one massive clusterfuck.

My oldest frequently says “gen alpha is so cooked!” due to all the meme and AI slop. Which considering he is gen alpha is both insightful and disturbing.

Does this discovery also explain their one shared brain cell situation?

Ah yes, the notorious supervillain Cancer Dog, whose main power is casting ‘pervert cancer’ on his opponents.

🎶 Cancer Dog, Cancer Dog, leaves you in a pervert cancer fog! 🎶