sentient_loom

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Teef stonks 📈 in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 2 points 1 day ago

Let's put aphrodisiacs in the chemtrails.

Teef stonks 📈 in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 3 points 1 day ago

might just cancel out the other poisons

Teef stonks 📈 in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Let's put fluoride in the big macs

Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Narayama Murthy was a mistake.

Scottish nuclear fuel leak 'will never be completely cleaned up' in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 1 points 3 days ago

Tens of thousands of radioactive fuel fragments escaped from the Dounreay plant between 1963 and 1984, polluting local beaches, the coastline and the seabed. Fishing has been banned within a two-kilometre radius of the plant since 1997.

Since 2008, over 2,300 radioactive particles have been recovered from the seabed, with 351 removed by a remotely operated underwater vehicle this summer.

The most radioactive of the particles are regarded by experts as potentially lethal if ingested. Similar in size to grains of sand, they contain caesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, but they can also incorporate traces of plutonium-239, which has a half-life of over 24,000 years...

The plant's operator at the time, the UK Atomic Energy Authority, was fined £140,000.

Oh that'll teach em.

I still think we should replace much of our fossil-fuel energy with nuclear, but let's never call it "green." Energy comes at an extremely high cost. This kind of thing makes it hard to advocate for nuclear (although I think we have safer methods now).

Journalist asking the hard questions in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 7 points 4 days ago

Georgia and Moldova.

Journalist asking the hard questions in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 2 points 5 days ago

I'm curious about what this had said.

Journalist asking the hard questions in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So it's like he's been vaccinated.

Journalist asking the hard questions in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

there is a bubble of “USA” around him.

I like this visual. It's like a force field.

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Journalist asking the hard questions (sh.itjust.works)
 
The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 10 points 6 days ago

That's really amazing. Their joke article was hilarious even as a joke. But the fact that they really bought it is beautiful.

The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I thought that was a joke. But regular news sites are running the story. So maybe it's real?

Would you go on a trip with your ex-partner and their former affair partner for your kid's sake? in c/[email protected]
[–] sentient_loom 6 points 1 week ago

My "primitive motivations" are on full display, not covered at all. The "primitive motivation" is to show your kid how to not let people walk all over you.

You absolutely should not be a third wheel for the adulterous ex and her cheating-partner guy.

I never said anything about teaching lessons to the ex. You brought that idea in from nowhere.

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My favorite scene (sh.itjust.works)
 
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They're doing a January 6th (sh.itjust.works)
 
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Have they discontinued Keychron's optical low profile switches? (self.keychron)
 

These mint and banana low profile optical switches are the perfect switches. They're almost clicky, early tactile bump, and they sound and feel so good. There are no other switches like them (that I've found). But they never seem to be available in the stores anymore.

Maybe the Gateron ones are as good?

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TERRANOMICON (terranomicon.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sentient_loom to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

Two soldiers declare a fight to the death, and give each other a year to plan. One starts a mercenary troupe, the other starts a domestic terrorism cell.

Meanwhile, a paralyzed billionaire invents robot bodies and becomes a cyborg. He tries to share this technology with disabled people everywhere, but instead his tech becomes a global arms race between those two soldiers.

https://terranomicon.com

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Parallel Minds by Laura Tripaldi (www.youtube.com)
 

A review of this amazing philosophy of science book on the omnipresence of intelligence and life.

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Are there any guides, tutorials, or documentation for how to start building fediverse apps? (self.fediverse)
 

How is the best way to get started building apps in the fediverse?

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Story plotting app idea I'm working on (self.writingprompts)
 

Please tell me if you think this would be useful for you.

I'm working on a story plotting app which focuses on value changes as the basis of the app. For each section of the story (beat, chapter, act) there are value changes (characters getting closer or further from some goal, threat, or other value). And I want to visualise these changes on a graph, so you can see how everybody's fortunes rise and fall.

There will still be the standard components, something similar to index cards to plot out the actual action of each chapter and beat. But the unique addition that I'm bringing here is you can see everybody's changes of fortune, like watching the stock market, or maybe like reading music.

It will be a desktop application (written in python and JavaScript).

So, does anybody think this would be useful to your writing? Are there other things you might want to see added to such a piece of software?

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Story plotting app idea I'm working on (self.writing)
 

Please tell me if you think this would be useful for you.

I'm working on a story plotting app which focuses on value changes as the basis of the app. For each section of the story (beat, chapter, act) there are value changes (characters getting closer or further from some goal, threat, or other value). And I want to visualise these changes on a graph, so you can see how everybody's fortunes rise and fall.

There will still be the standard components, something similar to index cards to plot out the actual action of each chapter and beat. But the unique addition that I'm bringing here is you can see everybody's changes of fortune, like watching the stock market, or maybe like reading music.

It will be a desktop application (written in python and JavaScript).

So, does anybody think this would be useful to your writing? Are there other things you might want to see added to such a piece of software?

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[Video] Terranomicon Trailer (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by sentient_loom to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

I planned this book for 20 years, spent 4 years researching, writing, editing, and narrating it. The paperback, e-book, and audio versions will be available on October 21!

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The Affirmation by Christopher Priest Book Review (www.youtube.com)
 

I did a book review of an overlooked metafiction classic: The Affirmation by Christopher Priest

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Coma patients are spying on us. (sh.itjust.works)
 

They should mind their own business and stop pretending to be asleep.

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