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@Elizafox Despite the cost of living, it still remains popular.

You have just lost The Game. Possibly for the first time in years.

Don't mind me, just cloning my Linux partition because Windows is insisting on installing the "October" update, and I've heard rumors and would rather not chance it.

Them: people get more conservative as they get older
Me, age 16: that sounds plausible
Me, age 21: I suppose I'd be a pretty unremarkable Labour voter if I lived in the UK

Me, age 35: our choices are global collapse or automated luxury gay space communism

Keystone pipline: *spills 210.000 gallons of oil*
Petrolheads: ...

Niger delta: *is destroyed by oil extraction*
Petrolheads: ...

Pemex pipeline: *kills 85 in explosion*
Petrolheads: *chirp*

Electric car: *exists*
Petrolheads: "BATTERIES ARE POLLUTING! WHERE WILL YOU TAKE ALL THE ENERGY FROM? ELECTRICITY COMES FROM COAL! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE DEPLETED BATTERIES? ELECTRIC CARS ARE JUST A HOAX!"

@Elizafox the only valid use for Piers Morgan is as a pier, but that should only be done in an emergency situation

Does anyone know of any good resources for how the fediverse works API-wise? I originally thought it was just ActivityPub/OStatus, but there seems to be a lot of non-standard stuff.

A group of fennecs is a bushel of reet

Early episodes of Monty Python pre-dated the decimalization of British currency in 1971, so in some episodes where they talk about money it's complete nonsense, like "3 pounds 12 and 3/4" and you think it's just the normal Monty Python brand nonsense, but nope that's just how their money worked back then

ultimate fluff

Many email senders, including the U.S. government, implement tracking that is undisclosed, difficult to opt-out of, and can expose sensitive information to third parties and sometimes even others on your network. It doesn’t have to be that way. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/stop-tracking-my-emails

The neuroscience of creativity (and yes, right brain/left brain is mostly bullshit) http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Lehix9m6F4I/the-neuroscience-of-creativity.html #boingboing #brains #creativity #neuroscience #psychology

Bungie are splitting from Activision, going independent, and taking #Destiny with them https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/10/18177457/destiny-bungie-activision-split