KnitWit
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- Comment on How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet 4 days ago:
Markwayne having equity in a kratom business absolutely tracks.
- Comment on How Trump transformed the White House lawn into a fighting arena 6 days ago:
Markwayne Mullin earlier today called it the President’s House (as opposed to Peiplems House), which says everything you need to know about what the admin thinks of it.
- Comment on THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 6 days ago:
Yeah, if anything they were ahead of schedule this year and playing with house money. Future is bright for the Spurs.
- Comment on Decathlon offering cash refund to stop festival-goers abandoning tents 1 week ago:
As someone who used to volunteer to get into fests for free a bunch back in the day, the amount of shit people leave behind is beyond ridiculous. Still bur ing charcoal grills used to drive me nuts on cleanup. Good way to get free shit though.
- Comment on THE OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED FROM CHAMPIONSHIP CONTENTION 2 weeks ago:
27 years ago knicks v spurs was the start of a dynasty. If Wemby can stay healthy it could be an all new era, dude is gonna be a problem for the league.
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 3 weeks ago:
With the unit price going way up by selling a 10 pack of slices for the cost of a bottle of ketchup, somebody probably got a promotion for this idea.
- Comment on "Sober" 2 months ago:
This, but unironically.
- Comment on Artist whose work was used in Marathon without permission now has a credit in the game 3 months ago:
Hopefully they also have a credit in their bank account.
- Comment on oh no 3 months ago:
As someone with anosmia, I can confirm my farts don’t smell.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 3 months ago:
He already did this during the first term. There wasn’t anything interesting, but it did distract the conspiracy folks.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I mean, the apostle Paul, who wrote like half of the New Testament, was a literal Pharisee. He ‘converted,’ and took over after the fact.
- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 8 months ago:
But we can’t afford _____.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Stop with the slop!
- Comment on Kawhi Leonard reportedly paid $28 million for 'no-show job' with Clippers as way to get around NBA salary cap 9 months ago:
He’s been a no-show for the regular gig for years as well.
- Comment on One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs to ignore guardrails 9 months ago:
I am almost positive all of these articles like this are still just marketing for AI. Even in these comments, there are multiple ‘I used it and (blah blah ai blah). Seems ripped from the Hot Coffee mod style of interest farming.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 9 months ago:
I get what your saying, and if it lead to that then I agree it would be a good thing. But that isn’t what this is or how it is going to move things forward. It’d be like thinking that universities will thrive because Trump is normalizing govt involvement in them over the Harvard threats and expansion beyond.
Linking the altruistic potential of what he is doing to the very obvious extortion is carrying his water in terms of acceptance. It’s the same as what has allowed him to skate in the media for so long instead of calling out what it actually is.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 9 months ago:
Intel is just the easy one for people to get on board woth, as they are struggling and have received grants etc. Lutnicknalready said they want to do the same with Lockheed-Martin, who does jot have the same issues, amd expamding from there. I fully disagree with the notion being put forth that this is comparable to other nations ‘socializing’ their industries. This is Trump taking a cut. He attacked Intel, attacked their ceo and m threatened to have him removed. The ceo then bowed and is apparently giving up 10% of the company and is being called a genius by Trump now. It’s extortion.
- Comment on Intel warns shareholders that the US government's 10% stake could hurt company's international sales 9 months ago:
Deal hasn’t even been finalized yet, and already they announce its gonna cause problems. Everything he touches turns to shit.
- Comment on E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm | The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies. 11 months ago:
Just pure malice.
- Comment on Will Texas Be an AI Powerhouse from its Energy Mega Campus? 11 months ago:
They are known for their electrical grid, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 11 months ago:
Well, perhaps I’m just wrong then. But for me, I see twenty tears of MS buying up studios, sitting on them, and closing them with some sort of excuse about changed plans. It’s always the same though, studio performs well, gets bought, makes no games or games out of their genre, and closes. Call it whatever you want, I call it business as usual.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 11 months ago:
It’s how these large corporations operate though. Ignore, buy, or bury, that’s how they all operate. They may have ‘plans’ to use the studio, but for them if all they get are the assets and a less of a threat from the old ip, then that’s enough. I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it also absolutely something microsoft has done for years in their larger business model.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 11 months ago:
They know exactly what they are doing, they are reducing competition.
- Comment on hell yea, brother 11 months ago:
Uh, my time to shine? Back in grad school I used to clone paddlefish (gynogenesis) by heat shocking a freshly fertilized paddlefish egg at the right time so that the egg is activated but the males dna is never incorporated. Paddlefish and sturgeon, while looking totally different, are actually fairly closely related (they had a common ancestor like 200 mya) and so the chemical reactions take place to get everything going. But they are also distinct enough that if the timing isn’t right and the father’s dna accidentally gets incorporated, they create these hybrids. The hybrids are important because its the only way to identify males, which this whole process is designed to exclude. The reason you’d want to do this is the production of caviar in which males are of no value and cannot be easily identified for years.
Now, I was in Kentucky, and we were breeding paddlefish (the colbert report had a segment on ‘kentucky tuna’ that the economics professor terribly tried to promote if you can find it) for the non-existent paddlefish caviar market as opposed to breeding sturgeon like they did in this study, but its the same general principle at play. The inly real difference is that unlike these hybrids that could apparently grow to juvenile or adult status, the paddlefish mother hybrids were very much dead within a week of hatching and were obviously deformed at hatching.
- Comment on Hurricane-killing particles could sabotage storms before they grow 11 months ago:
Next geo-engineering proposal: suck all that extra energy into space. Just skim a little off the top, maybe we’ll get some of those greenhouse gases out of here while we’re at it. There’s a lot of atmosphere out there, ok. We’re in an abundance economy with the atmosphere. We could probably stand to lose a little if I’m being honest. I ran the numbers through my bespoke AI, AImosphere, and it really liked the idea.
- Comment on Juneteenth Goes Uncelebrated at White House as Trump Complains About ‘Too Many’ Holidays 11 months ago:
Last week: We should have a parade. This Week: We can’t just go around celebrating everything.
- Comment on Bryan Cranston Reveals What He Loves About the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Revival and Why He ‘Missed’ Playing Hal 1 year ago:
All I know, is that whenever I walk into a room, I want everyone to say ‘it smells like Hal in here.’
- Comment on Javier Bardem Takes the Wheel in High-Octane F1 Drama 1 year ago:
Javier Bardem, Dean Stanley Morgan, and Gerard Butler are one person fused like the King Ghidorah meme in my brain.
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 1 year ago:
Was on Bluesky the other day and saw greg pak posted something along the lines of:
_We’ve successfully recreated the pre-elon twitter experience, but we forgot that it also sucked. _
- Comment on Kirsten Dirksen - Tetris founder's family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia 1 year ago:
While we’re pointing things out, this is also a non-islander owning 32 acres of land on the big island. Cool that a rich guy is going green though I huess.