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Christopher Snowhill
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kode54 / kuroshi, primary maintainer of Cog for macOS.

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Ah, I see, that's what dissociation is. Yeah, I find myself dissociating frequently. Could also be that because I have rather severe aphantasia, I also do not imagine visual things to go with the dissociation, and just see what I'm staring at. Do other people actually have fun doing this? Because I just find it to be an awful time sink.

I was also wrong when I said I'm too busy chatting and reading social media to read any more. I must spend way more time lost in thought and staring into space, than I do actually ranting on social media. There is probably a place in the Dune universe for people with no useful skills who just space out with overwhelming thoughts all the time, and have infinite problems with expressing any of the ideas they dream up, right?

Hmm *sees UK Online Safety Act* looks like the correct solution is for most of the internet to just blackhole the UK and stop doing business there. ezpz with a Cloudflare geoblock

Parents semi-rant, Bigot Bucket mentioned
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My mom gave a check to the Bigot Bucket because they were “really good to her” in San Francisco in the 1960s, and she swears they were being nice to gay people she knew back then. They rewarded her by sending her an envelope and a form to request info about a “Capital Gains Bypass Trust” that the “average” family can tax dodge their $2MM into. God I wish we had $2MM. On that same note I still can’t convince my dad that Joanne Rowling is an Awful Person. Or that trans people using bathrooms being a problem is in the imaginations of assholes. He seems to be coming down from it slowly, though, except I can’t seem to stop him from reading “news” sites when he’s not playing Solitaire. At least he isn’t spending all day on Facebook any more.

Like, does anybody out there know who will do at-home pickup of toxic waste and/or dead batteries, including UPS lead acid cells? Asking because I don’t want to have to explain to an Uber driver that I’m transporting such things as that in their car. And I’m the impossible American who doesn’t drive.

God fucking DAMMIT. Why did nobody tell me the 10G ethernet in the Mac mini was so goddamn flaky? It drops for 3-6 seconds at a time every few minutes. Unlike every other 2.5G device on my network.

That Mandela Effect moment in the making, where you suddenly think of a place called Vembria, then go Googling, find a supermodel, eventually find the keyword "Soviet", then find that you were actually thinking of Thembria from TaleSpin. Man, I haven't watched that since it was originally running on Disney Afternoon.

Why are we using scare quotes on "M4" when talking about new Macs? Are we still too terribly pissed that new CPUs are only incremental improvements over last year's models? Who gives a fig, it means we can finally stop lockstep upgrading constantly as technology slows down.

subtoot: why does the same person keep calling some computer a "M4 MB(not really)P" ... is it not really a MacBook? or are they implying they're not really for professionals? ¿Por qué no los dos? I guess I'm not really into Apple hate. Then again, I thought M4 hadn't launched in anything but the iPad Pro, so I guess I don't know, either.