@fortyseven (breathily, swooningly) "Vincent." @benbrown
@violenteastcoastcity Kinda want to play this like bingo. Or a punch card
I think "Free Hugger" might be my favorite monster in One Punch Man so far
Shower thought: Someone needs to remake the Six Million Dollar Man, except in current healthcare dollars.
Like a $6 mil bionic man with parts that keep fritzing out. One or two are from startups that evaporated last year and have no support infrastructure anymore. Maybe the left ear got bricked in a firmware upgrade last week. His nuclear power generator is actually a swollen lithium battery bank. Oh and his brain implant is a Musk Neuralink with half the threads retracted.
Insurance covers none of this.
If Venture Bros was still in production, this idea would show up there
@dcm I want to say the power source was a nuclear reactor in the arm, because I seem to remember an episode where the arm was damaged and he had to find shielding to protect everyone from radiation poisoning
@dcm I might have to, at least up til the episode with Bigfoot š
The new Six Million Dollar Man: he has a decently-tended retirement fund and a nice set of hearing aids and he doesn't really leave home much
I feel like I just wrote the start of a weird Rush song, kind of a sequel to New World Man
Sweet crimony, this is petty. What is this impulse to build up goodwill and then just set it ablaze?
Over here hugging my Pocket Casts app hoping the photomatt rampage doesn't fuck it up too
@jmason Yeah, automattic bought it a few years ago, which seemed nice at the time
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/16/22580023/automattic-pocket-casts-podcast-app-tumble-wordpress
@rafeco ohai! I didn't even know the Well had a mastodon instance!
I just went heads down in an ADHD hyperfocus fugue state on some node.js code to take a directory of files, bundle them up in a zip file, upload them to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, and build a signed download URL - and somehow it seems to have worked the first time?
I'm going to go have a sandwich and stare at a wall for a bit
Does this count as bragging? Because Iām as baffled as anyone by what happened during that chunk of lost time š
Aliens may as well have abducted me and written that code
In other news, in an effort to lose some weight, I've started logging meals again.
Can I subtract calories if I share some of my lunch with the cats, as a little treat?
@mdhughes I always like to imagine the conference rooms or slack channels where these things are triaged, prioritized, etc. Since Automattic is a remote company, this can't be easily blamed on huffing dry erase markers
US politics?; climate change
So, like, back in 2001 when 9/11 happened, a lot of folks decided their response to the scary thing was "I refuse to be afraid, I'm going to live my life as usual"
Which, cool, that's a not entirely awful stance to take against literal terrorism, I guess? But it seems like a lot of folks settled on that as their own response to any disturbance?
COVID? "i refuse to be afraid" Wildfires? "i refuse to be afraid" Hurricanes? "i refuse to be afraid"
Like, c'mon folks, you really should be afraid of some of these things - at least to the point that you interrupt your daily whatever and react effectively and maybe possibly consider what might be done proactively
re: US politics?; climate change
@jalefkowit Yeah, like viruses really don't appear to feel anything in any case, but their reproductive patterns really seem to benefit from folks continuing about their habits