A billionaire’s son is just as out of touch as he is.

Trump: "(Barron) tells me about all the ‘hot’ guys, people I've never heard of [for podcasts]… but Don [Jr.] knows a lot about it and Eric knows a lot about it. Tiffany knows a lot. Ivanka knows a lot”

Wait, wait… his 46 year old and Barron know the same stuff? This is just beyond dumb.

#politics

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-taps-into-gen-zs-pulse-with-help-from-son-barron-who-tells-him-about-hottest-trends/ar-AA1sbZa1

@eliangonzalez

“Trump goes full Nazi. Why this spells trouble for Harris.”

🙄

That’s not even close to Jude’s-Christian values. He might want to read the Trump Bible.

“In meandering 10-minute remarks, Trump boasted of his popularity in the polls, denounced his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris as ‘not a good person’ and a ‘Marxist,’ and pointed to his policy platform to argue that he and LDS voters ‘really have the same values.’”

Which Commandment has Trump NOT broken?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/14/trump-to-arizona-lds-voters-we-really-have-the-same-values/75667293007/

@Bix

Crenshaw has a way of seeing the majority of Americas don’t. He also lives in a state that is powered over 20% in renewables.

Solar was cool when making money was important. Now that it threatens the fossil fuel industry, they be mad.

It’s funny how so many Republicans have ceased to be capitalists.

@XaoslordErie

50 years ago we vaccinated against whooping cough. It reduced the number of child deaths. That is causal.

What you are describing falls under “correlation does not imply causation.”

50 years ago I was drinking milk. When I started drinking soy milk, cancers started to rise.

Coincidence?

🙄

To be fair, neither can Newsweek.

That’s only ONE DEFINITION of socialism. To argue it is REQUIRED to be socialist is just dumb. As my polysci Prof in college used to say, “England is a socialist country, yet everyone pretends it isn’t. Why?”

Fail.

“In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Shannon Bream asked Walz about his use of the word ‘socialism’ during that livestream in which she cited Merriam-Webster's definition of socialism, which the dictionary defines it as ‘a system of society or group living in which there is no private property,’ adding that ‘means of production are owned and controlled by the state.’”

And now we know why Fox News is so dumb. They can’t even read a dictionary.

https://www.newsweek.com/tim-walzs-response-socialism-criticism-takes-off-online-1968325

Quantum National Abortion Ban: it’s dead but also alive

“ Donald Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that a national abortion ban would be ‘off the table’ if he were elected president – but indicated that he was not closed off to the conversation and said ‘we’ll see what happens.’”

I’m not sure he understands what “off the table means” — he just spews words.

#politics

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-leaves-door-open-national-172640586.html

“ Aid to several communities impacted by Hurricane Helene was temporarily paused in parts of North Carolina over the weekend due to reports of threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency responders, amid a backdrop of misinformation about responses to recent storms.”

Assholes with guns.

Another reason guns need to be regulated.

#guns #regulation #registration #insurance

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/us/fema-helene-north-carolina-reported-threats/index.html

True story:

Back when I was on Twitter I posted in regards to abortion about “people having abortions.”

Some ass responded, “‘people having abortions’? As if!”

To which someone else responded, “Did you know, women are people?”

@corlin

Oh. LoRa. It’s one of many old standards that use UWB. The company I worked for also did UWB

UWB is what’s uses in Apple Tags and, again, the same people are part of FiRa.

https://www.firaconsortium.org/

“From my vantage point, the future looks handheld.”

Not today Satan.

Or, for that matter, for a couple of decades. The largest gaming demographic is men in their thirties and they use consoles. Yes, there is the occasional market, but it’s not the money maker (it makes money, don’t get me wrong, just not like COD).

The PRESENT is handheld, but the future will still be consoles because disposable income historically increases as you age.

https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/the-future-is-handheld-so-where-do-xbox-and-playstation-go-next

2/2

It’s been over a year and I’m better. Not even close to where I was pre-cancer. I still get winded easily. My allergies are worse. I wear a mask anytime we go out.

But all in all it’s good to be alive.

Is been over a year since I started chemo (start of October).

I wanted chemo so bad. I was diagnosed in August.

BUT because one of the imaging places of choice STOPPED taking Medicare, I had to be routed to a DIFFERENT facility (ended up being 100 miles from where I live — capitalism works!!! 🙄) and they were overbooked so all of Sept I had a HORRIBLE headache. I was alternating Tylenol and Ibuprofen every three hours, 24 hours a day for almost a month.

I had lymphoma just FYI. Not fun. 1/2

#TechLife

But like everything, they are a finite resource. Put too many “things” (technical term) in a shader and it slows the shader down. What does this mean? That as soon as you see ocean, the character starts moving slower. Other things move slower. It’s like time… slows…. Down…

So, ideally, you want a light shader… BUT the less you do, the more tiling you get. It’s a fight between looking good and speed.

So that was my day. More again tomorrow!

#TechLife

Spent most of the day reworking my water shader (a shader is what makes object in games look like “something” — in this case, water).

Water is pretty easy — just pan a normal at an angle to itself, multiply and boom, fake water. Sounds easy, right?

EXCEPT it has an artifact. It tiles. Tiling is exactly what it sounds like — kitchen tiles that repeat over and over. Oceans, for example, don’t do that.

Now, GPU’s are wicked fast. Really. They can do a lot of things really well. 1/2

@allin

I know!!!

Harris probably covered it up, just like Biden’s medical records!

@corlin

Does it use Matter or is another home-grown “standard?” Thread was designed by one of the big boys in Bluetooth, Zigbee (I was in the Bluetooth industry until I retired).

Since then Apple, Google and Qualcomm are part of it. It’s an open standard (unlike Bluetooth which should die die die).

It’s mesh, low power (whine BT your LP sucked), and did I mention open?

Hopefully this kills BT dead. BT, internally, is an awful standard.

https://www.threadgroup.org/thread-group

“You may ask yourself, where are Trump’s tax returns,
And you may ask yourself, aren’t they important,
And you think, is it right or is it wrong,
Main Stream Media, Oh my god, what have they done!”

“Neither (Trump) nor his running mate JD Vance have disclosed their filings, and there’s no sign they intend to, though they could shed light on potential conflicts of interest and personal stakes they have in legislation before Congress.”

MSM not doing it’s fucking job.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/13/trump-hasnt-released-his-tax-returns-the-response-meh-00182874