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flargh

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Tech journalist, freelance writer and content creator with an IT background. Serial #Apple reporter/analyst/expert. Lifelong #gaming and #StarTrek fan. #80s music enthusiast, especially New Wave, synthpop and "college radio." Married with kids. Cat lover. https://mastodon.social/@flargh elsewhere, mostly. Personal account. 🖖

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grumpygamer, to random
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Real or The Onion headline: "Red Lobster files for bankruptcy after missteps including all-you-can-eat shrimp."

flargh,
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@demofox @mogwai_poet eat the tail, eat the evidence

flargh, to random
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Even though I already know what the big reveal is, I'm still really enjoying Sugar on Apple TV+, three episodes into it. Just as a love letter to noir cinema it stands on its own.

flargh,
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@waynedixon there's no coating it

flargh, to random
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There's a very fine line between "people don't like to have their views challenged," and "people don't like arguing with assholes."

Sometimes you just need a smidge of self-awareness to understand which side of that line you are on.

Wraithe, to random
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One of the shitter things about getting older is you go from collecting trading cards, & then you’re older and you start noticing how many of those “in memoriam” cards you have from funeral homes.
I’d like to go back to having Cheryl Ladd cards.

flargh,
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@Wraithe It's a weirdly fun idea for one's own arrangements, though. Distribute a pack of funeral cards with different photos, complete with stale bubble gum stick.

Wonder if my family would be more receptive to this than my "fill my abdominal cavity with candy then truss me up and have the kids hit me with sticks like a piñata" idea.

flargh,
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@Wraithe my other idea was to be rigged with marionette strings and at some point during the service to start dancing to calliope music.

ElleGray, to random
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Saw this and immediately wondered if the sound a parent made stepping on it in the dark in ancient times is the same noise we'd make today

flargh,
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@ElleGray Thomox the tank engine

RickiTarr, to random
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Would half chicken half ducks be called Chucks or Dickens?

flargh,
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@RickiTarr this is all fowl nonsense

siracusa, to random
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I spotted this car on the road, and my daughter asked why I thought it was cool. After I explained, she said, “Why would a company name a car 9/11?”

flargh,
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@siracusa Hah! I was actually thinking about this (sarcastically) the other day.

flargh, to random
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No-mow May is a great idea in theory but not in practice when the grass gets to be hip-height. Either that or I need to invest in a goat.

fahrni, to random
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Gee, too bad we don’t have any EV manufacturers here in the States. https://mastodon.social/@buermann/112447762297466034

flargh,
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@fahrni This is a facile look at the state of EV and the auto industry in general.

Reagan's voluntary export restraint policy worked half a century ago. But we're in a post-NAFTA world. BYD sets up manufacturing in Mexico, goes through NHTSA cert, blam, they're a domestic car maker.

Doesn't mean we're getting $10K EVs. The Seagull, for example, is a tiny car with limited range. Ask Nissan how its Leaf sales are going. Oh, right. Discontinued.

flargh,
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@fahrni And none of this addresses the biggest consumer concern over EVs: range anxiety and the woeful state of charging infrastructure and technology.

Until EVs have the same range as ICE vehicles are as convenient to use and quick to recharge as a gas tank is to fill, they're going to face uphill climb with the vast majority of American consumers.

There are good reasons why Americans are buying hybrids in record numbers but are tepid towards EVs.

flargh,
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@fahrni If Kei cars were legal in the US, here's what I'd love. Either that or a pickup in this form factor

https://minitrucks.net/blogs/news/ev-kei-vans-are-coming-daihatsu-toyota-and-suzuki-collaborate-to-develop-ev-kei-van

flargh,
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@fahrni Every so often I'll see an older Kei truck that's been legally imported come up for sale on Facebook marketplace, typically for ridiculous money for what you get, and I'm always tempted.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

flargh,
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@RickiTarr listen more. talk less.

flargh,
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@RickiTarr

cstross, to random
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Surely I can't be the only person whose first reaction to seeing a company is named "Hugging Face" is to wonder if they sell Alien xenomorphs bloodily bursting out of human abdominal cavities as a service?

I mean, what were the founders THINKING?!?
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112450968041276837

flargh,
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@cstross Andreessen Horowitz and Alphabet financed a business called Soylent.

I fully expect some VC will pay for a business called Torment Nexus in the next five years.

We live in dumbest timeline, Charlie. Irony is dead.

flargh, to random
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are the spice girls from arrakis

niclake, to random
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Wonder if TSwift will have anything to say

Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker says Pride Month is example of 'deadly sin' during commencement speech
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5493651/2024/05/14/chiefs-harrison-butker-pride-month-sin/

flargh,
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If I were her publicist, I'd say "embrace your queer fans, but stay in your lane."

I just don't see a lot of upside to her wading into a public debate with her boyfriend's teammate, even if she gets pressure to do so.

flargh, to random
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Saw an expiration date on a bottle of rubbing alcohol and why is that necessary

stroughtonsmith, to random
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A $3,000 Mac has the ability to run iPad apps. It shouldn’t be controversial to suggest that a $3,000 iPad should have the ability to run Mac apps

flargh,
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@stroughtonsmith the difference is that the iPad is for content consumption only, silly.

flargh, to StarTrek
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prune danish is a warrior's pastry #startrek

flargh, to random
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James Cameron wants to make three more Avatar movies and Zack Snyder wants to make three more Rebel Moon movies, these guys need an intervention

flargh, to random
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that we've gone from "that guy must have brainworms" to "that guy literally has brainworms" reinforces to me that we are in the absolute silliest timeline

flargh, to random
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Last night I saw a Punisher flag decal on the back of a Subaru wagon and boy is that a very confusing vibe or what

flargh,
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@fahrni @dmoren and I are both in Mass, which is (in)famously liberal to the rest of the country. But once you get outside urban liberal centers like the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville area and some of the surrounding suburbs, the state gets very purple and quite red very quickly.

I live on Cape Cod, and it's very common here to see lots of Trump and Let's Go Brandon-style paraphernalia hanging from the back of trucks and on people's porches.

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