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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

“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

I’m willing to bet you the ones worried are male and worried about cheap labor. And think women are only good for creating cheap workers.

There isn’t a baby shortage. There is a cheap LABOR shortage.

Takeaways:

• Viktor Orbán because of course
• Best quote: “Not my responsibility to keep the country alive”
• Why baby shortage is important: never said

I read the crap so you can ignore it.

BTW, Europe in the article is treated as its one country. I want to cry.

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“ These are among the benefits—along with cheap child care, extra vacation and free fertility treatments—that have been doled out to parents in different parts of Europe, a region at the forefront of the worldwide baby shortage. Europe’s overall population shrank during the pandemic and is on track to contract by about 40 million by 2050, according to United Nations statistics.”

There are DOUBLE the number of people on this planet since I was a kid. In 30 years we will only lose 40 million. 1/2

BTW, in case you’re wondering, Biden DID release his medical records. Oddly, it’s buried on the White House website.

He released his records In FEBRUARY of this year!

There is no coverup. Trump’s people just don’t know how to use computers. They probably still use typewriters and carbon paper. Hell, Trump wants us to look at years old records and PRETEND they’re current!

/nosanitize

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Health-Summary-2.28.pdf

They STILL think they are running against Biden. This is just lame.

“Kamala, who covered up Biden’s mental incapacity for 4 years as the world burned, has thoughts on medical transparency,” Miller wrote. “She literally was the central figure in the greatest continuing medical coverup in American history.”

Why is Trump so sacred to release medical records?

Is he more unfit than we thought?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-not-impressed-kamala-014253464.html

“What message does this send to little girls? ‘You can become president, just as long as you don’t age, OK? You can’t age, because as a woman, you have to be both hot and credible.’ Like, fuck off, Vogue”

Huh. At 59, Harris is older than Kelly.

Kelly isn’t hot. Harris is.

What Vogue is saying is nice people can be hot at any age.

Also, no one “air brushes” anymore. Also, you can eliminate lines by lighting. But Kelly doesn’t know this.

#politics

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/megyn-kelly-kamala-harris-vogue-cover_n_670be6fbe4b0ce20754aa5ca

Unable to deliver autonomous driving for a decade, Musk shows off the RoombaTaxi and RoombaVan while investors say, “WTAF?!?!”

“There was a physical robotaxi on display, plus the unexpected unveiling of a “Robo-van” that can serve as a minibus or commercial vehicle. Those are both positives, but there wasn’t enough detail about Tesla’s self-driving technology, how it is improving, what regulators think of it, and how Tesla will make money from the service.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/tesla-s-robotaxi-event-was-a-c-minus-what-that-means-for-the-stock/ar-AA1s8kam

Trump wants to use the military against Americans who are not Republicans. Why? Because he doesn’t like our politics.

"I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within… We have some very bad people, some sick people, radical left lunatics.... And it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military."

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1845469638768972272

For the record, Donald Trump didnt even come close to “draining the swamp” — the swamp grew bigger.

#politics

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/09/27/the-federal-administrative-state-grew--even-under-president-donald-trump/

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Central Park is 843 acres. Kennedy Space Center is 144,000.

SpaceX is 98 acres. You can walk one side of it in less than 20 minutes.

Every time Musk launches a rocket he causes damage to the fragile ecosystems. He doesn’t care that he is doing it either.

He wants to rebrand himself as an ecologically minded individual — that Tesla is about saving the planet.

He is full of shit.

He just cares about making cash.

“The company had warned that the rocket’s slowdown from supersonic speeds would set off sonic booms, sending thunderous noises through the area surrounding its South Texas launch facility. The rocket booster stopped firing soon after the tower arms closed around it.”

By “it” they mean the three fragile ecosystems the “spaceport” is in the middle of. Look, I know 98 acres sounds huge. It isn’t. You can walk one side of it in less than 20 minutes.

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Is it me, or does it seem that Republicans want the people and states to decide and when the outcome is not to their liking they sue?

Is this what they mean by freedom? Freedom to tell us our vote doesn’t count?

“‘If the ballot measures pass, there’s a lot of interest in challenging them as vague and misleading, and that can be an area for an injunction or other court action,” said Kristi Hamrick, the chief policy strategist with Students for Life of America.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/arizona-ballot-abortion-00183538

“Donald Trump’s presidential campaign partnered with billionaire Elon Musk to banish a file on JD Vance from X, the social media platform owned by the tech entrepreneur.”

Elon Musk is a champion of free speech if and only if he approves of it. If he doesn’t, he’ll ban you from Twitter.

Sounds… legit?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-had-musk-help-060932883.html

Better than the other which is “Dingy Gray”

This is the toothpaste we use. I constantly marvel at whoever came up with the name for this generic toothpaste.

Must have taken them minutes.