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• Post #2286475

  @Kierkegaanks @ParadeGrotesque @GayDeceiver New stable-coin just dropped.

• Post #2286474

  @saltywizard @Nerde @GayDeceiver "And my ax", or something.

• Post #1879289

  @MicroSFF Did the queen do what she could to set them up? That'd be nice.

• Post #1137082

  @Merovius Yeah, I had one of those once. It didn't sour me on Kickstarter (it was actually Indiegogo), but it certainly soured me on that particular creator. It was for a horror graphic novel. The finished product didn't suck, but the story was unfinished, as I recall. Annoying.

• Post #1137081

  @Merovius Mostly I've supported authors and publishers (e.g. Uncanny Magazine) and I've had pretty good luck with them.

• Post #1137080

  @codinghorror @drsbaitso @nedbat @inecas I think, as a control, you should ask it about other philosophical stances. Perhaps communism, or anarchy, or Objectivism.

• Post #1137079

  @lynnemthomas Not "same", but definitely "similar".

• Post #1137078

  @Daojoan Have they pivoted in a circle yet? A sphere? A torus? Plotting the pivot in some kind of N-dimensional space could be really interesting! (Probably a torus. It seems like almost everything is basically a torus.)

• Post #1137077

  Low Quality Fact: One day we will discover that everything @lowqualityfacts has ever posted is, in fact, 100% true.

• Post #1137076

  @grb090423 A bit of a reach: https://socialjusticebooks.org/the-woman-who-outshone-the-sun-2/ ?

• Post #1137075

  @UncleDuke1969 Mood.

• Post #1137074

  Alternate universe in which Trump is a Russian asset is otherwise absolutely identical to this one https://newsthump.com/2026/01/20/alternate-universe-in-which-trump-is-a-russian-asset-is-otherwise-absolutely-identical-to-this-one/

• Post #577436

  @scream You've attracted a cat.

• Post #577435

  @ovid No, I read a lot of Hofstadter in my youth and wanted to be an AI researcher. I am still in software, though, and that was also on the menu. I'm also happily married, which I guess I'd kind of implicitly assumed, but not really dreamed about, as such. And I live in the woods in a log cabin, and that was *totally* not on the menu! But is also awesome.

• Post #577434

  @SFWA The word-wrap on this on my phone was ... unfortunate 😊

• Post #577433

  @lowqualityfacts "Yes, but inflation believes in *you*."

• Post #577432

  @the_etrain The bird is self-portable and will most likely fly away. Unless maybe it really likes pears. Or turtle doves. Or french hens. Or calling birds (whatever those are). Or gold rings (probably more a raven thing than a partridge). Or geese. Or swans. Or maids. Or dancing. Or leaping. (Maybe it would think they're trying to fly?) Or piping. Or drumming.

• Post #577431

  @MaryAustinBooks :) I logged in to X for the first time in months to read the rest of that thread. :) (Alas, there wasn't much more than that.) Anyway, thanks!

• Post #577430

  @lowqualityfacts Those crazy French!

• Post #577429

  @NinjaNia My wife commiserates by proxy.

• Post #577428

  @cstross How much is struggling with a difficult novel similar to debugging (or changing, or writing) a computer program? (I've never written a novel but I've debugged/changed/written lots of code.) At a guess: They're related, in an a->b->c... kind of way, so, like, changing something in one place might ramify in many other places, but other than that, mostly dissimilar.

• Post #577427

  @NinjaNia "You have just read a shitpost and you have a few options" makes me laugh but also a bit sad that it's needed, sort of like the occasional tagline "Please note: There was not a question in this post" and similar.

• Post #577426

  @meluzzy I guess you mean, aside from nothing being plugged into anything, which even I, a non-gamer, can spot. :)

• Post #577425

  @npr @world-news-npr "reasoning" ... right.

• Post #577424

  @cstross Global variables everywhere, oh my! :)

• Post #577423

  @NinjaNia Good luck with your new browser, by the way. ;) I need one with a better answer on how to solve the problem of AI slop everywhere, myself.

• Post #577422

  @cstross You should write a book about people running software on their own brains and the Bad Things that can result from that. Hey, wait a minute ...