Depends on the context surrounding the art and whether enjoying said art is directly funding the artist’s problematic views. Someone enjoying a Lovecraft story isn’t doing shit for him. No one’s views on race are going to change from stumbling upon his cat’s name either. Whereas someone buying a Harry Potter product is directly funding trans people’s deaths. However, buying a Harry Potter book secondhand is supporting local business (though I will still judge you for shitty taste and for promoting the franchise)

Context matters a lot.

Original music: probably everything Solar Fields did for Mirror’s Edge. Not original: No Rest for the Wicked is perfect for Borderlands. Hard choices though, there’s a lot of good shit out there.

I’m a sideshow performer. One of my sillier “tricks” is eating fruit rinds.

Impossible: coconut, mandarins/clementines (you can bite them but it’s like chewing leather)

Tough: Watermelon and pineapple. Bananas are also hard because of how dry they leave the mouth. These are the ones I do most often. I like to bring someone up on stage to join me

Easy: Lemon, lime, most oranges

Better with the rind: kiwi, ripe mango

Hahaha I would 100% defeat that challenge. I eat them for fun

With a little bit of practice you can save time by doing them simultaneously! You haven’t truly lived until you’ve started at a wall for 20 minutes during despair breakfast

As a FE focused eng with too much industry experience, I refuse to touch any UI that was generated by AI. That sounds like a nightmare. Hell, I refuse to touch any UI that was generated by fucking DreamWeaver.

One of the hardest challenges in large scale UIs is keeping everything organized and modular. It’s way too easy to write event dependent spaghetti code.

In a normal scenario yes, but “vibe coding” rewrites whole swaths of code. It’s like painting detail with a bucket. Trying to keep up with it seems like a sisyphiean task

I bet you their “10x coder” can’t describe what a unit test is nor its purpose

Then again, can you even unit test AI generated slop with how often it’s rewritten?

There was a really good book about a ghost ship that used to come and go at a port. I read it in highschool. I remember it had a purple cover but I don’t remember the name.

My dad brought me to the US when I was 5, and I spent almost all of my life there. I made a home for myself, made connections that I miss dearly, and got some fantastic opportunities as a circus performer.

But as a latina trans woman, I’m not sticking around for the genocide. It’s been building my whole life and I’ve spent my whole adult life screaming from the rooftops about my right to exist but it’s mostly gone unheard. Now we’re here.

For context, I permanently left the US because of Trump.

Moving is really difficult. Moving internationally moreso. Immigration aside, assuming you don’t have any visa problems or anything, there’s so much logistical and bureaucratic headache involved that the stress alone caused me to gain significant weight.

That said, I have no regrets. I’m glad to be out of that mess. Even if my new country isn’t perfect, it’s already such an improvement over even pre-Trump USA. While I didn’t have to learn its second language, it’s one I’ve been wanting to learn so I decided to jump right in. I’m enjoying the process and have been picking it up rather quickly.

Find some way to test their empathy. Hell, just give them the test from Bladerunner

I still have my original Pikachu gameboy color, and it works. Somehow the battery on my Pokemon Red hasn’t died but there’s nothing useful on it.

Not electronic, but I have a pre-WW2 era windup clock that still works. It’s loud af and built like a tank

Even plus even

Odd plus odd

Even plus odd

Odd plus even

So am I, and I still prefer CLI for everything

It’s what you make of it. Some people don’t make anything with theirs.

Personally, for me it’s to form community and to leave a positive lasting influence on others. Except fascists, they can rot in hell. For others, it might be to learn as much as they can or to impart their wisdom onto their children.

Google’s Instagram keeps seriously advertising “vibe coded projects”

I’m honestly not a big meat eater but venison is good. I’m a bigger fan of sausages and smoked meats.

You said not lamb but lamb. Nothing will ever taste worse than the lamb steak I had from a high end Brazilian churrascaria once. It straight up had the taste and texture of poop. Thinking about it makes me gag.

That’s also where I learned how much I hate filet mignon

Dude wtf are you running on that thing