Switched to Zen as soon as I switched to Linux about a year and a half ago. Love it.

Okay, who let a Ferengi become the CEO of Delta?

Ray-Ban is owned by Essilor-Luxottica, a truly evil conglomerate. Worse on Purpose has an excellent piece about them that is well worth everyoneʻs time to read.

Iʻve been buying Knockaround glasses for years. Theyʻre not owned by Essilor-Luxottica and have pretty great quality that has improved over the years. Only reason Iʻve had to buy new glasses from them was either due to theft or loss.

EDIT to make the conglomerateʻs name accurate and not sound like itʻs co-owned by Aragorn using his kingly name

I spent a month in Thailand, teaching English in a rural village on the border of Laos. Over the years the Thai teachers had acquired multiple decks of Uno. They merged them into one giant deck and developed some brutal house rules that I still use. They stacked every plus card. So if you put down a +4, the next person could put down a +2, etc. They’d secretly conspire with each other to run a gauntlet of plus cards. I once got in on the action and we went around the circle like three times stacking plus cards. We were targeting my best friend, who was teaching with me. Got like +40 cards or something built up.

Then bro holds up the reverse and that meant the whole plan turned on me. Everyone was roaring with laughter.

Yiga Clan gon have a heart attack

Yeah. I definitely had to disassemble it and clean it out once I got home… but translucent keys!

I found the keyboard for this at a thrift store for like $7 and grabbed it like I was Gollum getting the ring back. I don’t care if the USB ports are too old to run some things, it’s peak design.

[Faye Dunaway, screaming] NO SERIFS EVAAARRRR!!!

I drive a 2017 Kia Soul EV and it still has the old logo and I love it. I love that it is a boring, no-nonsense logo. Just straightforward. KIA. No pretense.

Now it’s КИ (sorry if Cyrillic doesn’t show up on your device)

This right here.

Grok, is this true?

Legit ethical question: since LLMs are trained on stolen knowledge and art, is stealing an AI book theft? Also, given the current US laws about how an AI “work” cannot be copyrighted, what’s to stop me from taking someone’s AI “book” and just slapping my name on the cover and reselling it?

I missed out on that game when it first released, but my best friend had rented it at Blockbuster (apparently the one copy they had wound up stolen later on) and told me that it was great. I was like fourteen, it was 1997, and FFVII had made me obsessed with JRPGs and I NEEDED to find a copy of Chrono Trigger. I spent MONTHS trying to track down a copy. This was before the internet as we know it today and so I had to scour flea markets and garage sales. I grew up in Orlando and there weren’t really used video game stores around. But I remember driving with my mom somewhere and seeing a sign on a shop that said “used video games.” Walked in and there was a copy, in the box. I think I paid like $40 for it.

Incredible game. Might be more incredible because of the quest to find it.

Totally. Not trying to defend the guy, just sharing the story. Just seems super convenient. Why not tell the people yelling at you that you’re trying to protect the turtles? Why are we only now hearing about this? Seems like the sort of story one of my kids would come up with to try and get themselves off the hook.

Swimming pool. Surrounded by seals trained to throw rocks.

We’ll let Pele sort out how to pronounce that name!

“NOAA, huh? You guys give the weather report. You can’t do nothing to me!” spits

“You know what NOAA stands for? No Assholes Abided!” firefight ensues

There was that story of da guy who killed one on Moloka’i. Was like last year, two years, yeah? Never found em. Local guy I think.

“Eh, get cracks!”

Saw that the local guy is also not having any charges pressed against him for this. Love to see it.