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Marriage… Marriage is what brings us together today. Marriage, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream. And love, true love, will follow you forever and ever…

The rise of generative AI is the death of picture or video evidence.

And the written word, as useful information is buried under mountains of generated trash.

No one to date knows what the real consequences of this will be.

Dark Ages II

Call me crazy, but maybe we shouldn’t be allowing people to work on such “advances” if they don’t have the humanities/social sciences background to understand the consequences.

Consequences be damned! We have quarterly earnings reports to worry about!

And it’s on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.celzero.bravedns/

Awesome, thank you!

What app are you using to log the requests?

Why thank you, that’s very kind of you.

City of New Orleans - written by Steve Goodman, cover by The Highwaymen - the City of New Orleans is a passenger line still operated by Amtrak between Chicago and New Orleans

The Gallopin’ Goose - C. W. McCall - not exactly a train but certainly a part of railroad history, the “Galloping Geese” were a product of the declining demand for passenger rail service:

Originally running steam locomotives on narrow gauge railways, the perpetually struggling RGS developed the first of the “geese” as a way to keep its contract to run mail into towns in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. There was not enough passenger or cargo income to justify continuing the expensive steam train service at then-current levels, but it was believed that a downsized railway would return to profitability.
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Motors were not only less expensive to operate, but were also significantly lighter, thus reducing impact on the rails and roadbeds.
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The first was built in 1931 from the body of a Buick “Master Six” four-door sedan.

The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer - Johnny Cash (the Folsom Prison recording) - also not about a train specifically, but about the legendary railroad steel driver John Henry, I think it fits

Orange Blossom Special - written by Ervin T. Rose, cover by Johnny Cash - the Orange Blossom Special was a passenger train running between New York and Miami

*Bonus:

Dumb Ways to Die - produced by Metro Trains Melbourne as part of a public awareness campaign for railway safety in 2012

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The various channels are human-curated and occasionally live dj-ed. I’ve found several new artists I like just by listening for awhile and picking out things that strike me.

Blender. It’s been almost 20 years now since I started working with it, and the time I spent learning it was worth every minute. It is an incredibly powerful tool.

What makes you feel valued?

…and is that something that can be delivered remotely, through a screen?

I ask this not because I necessarily want or expect a specific answer, but because everyone who reads my comment should stop and spend a few minutes considering what the answer is for them personally.

And then think about what you think the answer might be for other people in your life, and what makes them feel valued.

What can you do, to make that happen more often for yourself, and for others? Personally, I think nothing is quite as rewarding as making someone else feel valued.

Talk to your family. Talk to your friends. They want to hear from you, even if they’re busy.

We carve arcane patterns:

into specially prepared pieces of rock:

then apply energy and imbue them with instructions in specific, obscure languages to perform tasks for us. If you make any mistakes while uttering the instructions, the task fails.

If you were assuming this was a rickroll… you would be wrong.

It’s worse than that. And yet, also better.

you asked for it

I assume we’re enemies now.

Somewhere in a box in your childhood home, a Tamagotchi is slowly dying…

We need to not expect some hero figure to appear and change our world for us.

Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival - a 3D printing focused maker convention in Loveland, CO

California Extreme - a pinball and arcade game show, with all machines in free play mode, held in Santa Clara, CA

DEF CON - in Las Vegas, NV

DundraCon - an RPG-focused gaming convention, also in Santa Clara, CA

KublaCon - a board & tabletop game convention, now held twice a year in Burlingame, CA

Maker Faire Bay Area - maker fair held in Vallejo, CA

Golden State Pinball Convention - pinball convention held in Lodi, CA

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Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives

And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives

They ARE distinct from standard Phillips, and posidrive. If one tries to use Phillips on them you’ll likely strip the head.

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As discussed, the previous paragraph was wrong and (as of now) uncited, so it was removed. No information is better than wrong information.

Well sure, we have to narratively excuse it somehow. Otherwise… take a Pokémon game and replace all the Pokémon with pit bulls and rot weilers &etc and then you have dog fighting simulator.

I mean… don’t we consider dog fighting to be animal abuse?

Everything is prod.

No no, everything is test.