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BalooUriza

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Middle aged furry, OpenStreetMap volunteer, Urbanist.

Got the PDXFurs off the ground back in 1997, have helped with various outdoor fur cons in Oklahoma.

Yes, DM me if you want! What's even the point of IM or social media if you're closed to DMs?

Sometimes lewd, you will see kink. 🔞 Opinionated; I'm not for everyone.

I don't always CW, but when I don't, I make it easy to filter.

🇺🇸 :ms_bisexual_flag: 🐻 ΘΔ

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@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to Phoenix Suns

Watching scramble because of some rumor The Oregonian ran with about the leaving just has me scratching my head. Like, if it's that important to the local economy, it's time to eminent domain the team into public ownership. If not, then what's wrong with the arena and why can't their billionaire owner afford to fix it?

Oregon should be pushing hard to externalize the cost of private desires of billionaires back on them, not just rolling over for them.

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@cy This just hit me: I don't remember what was there before the Rose Garden Arena. I know about Memorial Collesium (and high key think it's still the better of the two adjacent hockey/basketball arenas), but what was across the street from the Collesium before?

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@cy Also a mystery to me. I'm guessing "a black neighborhood" just given the way Portland bulldozes those about once every 30 years for some reason.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

I just have to point out that the choices are always "Jank that improves with time" or "corporate jank that becomes worse with time". And the latter just adds to personal technical debt over time when you arrive at the same crossroads again when the corporate jank kicks in.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

I dunno, what's going on in the US suggests why it's a fucking good idea to let the public know who the police are like we know who our representatives are. Good cops don't have to worry about the public having that info.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp87gg2rde2o

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

This is also why drivers education recommends 4 seconds following distance and why DOTs warn you lanes are ending or closed ahead.
https://www.kidwonder.us/09-164637-drivers-who-leave-a-large-gap-in-front-of-them-in-traffic-jams-actually-help-reduce-congestion-by-preventing-the-phantom-wave-effect/

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@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar cygnus I feel like nearly every time I hear someone called a gringo, it's meant pejoratively, and most of the time when it doesn't get the intended reaction from the person directed at, they're usually too ignorant to get that they're being insulted, which is usually a component to getting called out like that in the first place.

That said, is there room in the world for a competitor to Señor Frog's?

bulwark

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

Playing hookey to deal with the truck. Just finished walking from the other side of the next neighborhood over. My back hurts, which means I need to walk more.

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@photorat This was a 5km walk, did it in about an hour and a half but I was also playing @streetcomplete as I went.

@ricmac@mastodon.social avatar ricmac , to random

Let's take a trip back to the year 2000, 25 long internet years ago. A year in which Flash websites proliferate, blogging expands, social news sites like Slashdot gain influence — all of this while the dot-com bubble slowly deflates and Napster dominates headlines. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2000/

(special thanks to @GroupNebula563 & @Steve for suggesting Homestar Runner, the perfect Flash website suggestion for that year!)

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@ricmac All Your Base would have also worked, since that meme went so viral you'd go to HP, Apple, Dell or Amazon and their usual slogans and logos would be replaced with versions that included "All your base are belong to us" for a few months.

@GroupNebula563 @Steve

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services avatar homegrown , (edited ) to random

Something that could make Mastodon safer and more pleasant to use would be reply controls.

This would optionally allow users to specify who can reply to their posts, so that people who experience abusive replies from bigots, trolls etc can pre-emptively prevent that happening.

It would also give people a middle option between follower-only posts and public posts.

If you're comfortable using Github, you can vote for this by giving a thumbs up at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762

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BalooUriza ,
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FlexibleToast The animated season was better than the first three live action seasons of TOS, too.

SaveTheTuaHawk

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , to random

If you post a website link on Mastodon, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that it is clickable.

When you include https://example.comclickable link like https://example.com and you may also see a link preview box below the post.

If you leave out https:// you just get a non-clickable address like example.com and no preview.

🤓 Special Bonus Tip For Nerds: You can also use other protocols for clickable links including gemini://, dat://, dweb://, gopher://, ipfs:// and ssb://

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@FediTips On Mastodon, correctly created links always count as 23 characters no matter how long they are.

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@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar ValueSubtracted As a former Scout, I really want to like this show. As someone who's watched too much cartoons, the "every line is yelled children's voices in high-gain microphones" and a straight up fugly animation style are massive put-offs.

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@StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website avatar StillPaisleyCat It's not that I can't hear the voicework, it's that the voicework is seemingly intentionally awful, even for preschool programming. Contrast to, say, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood or Carl the Collector, which manages to target that age group without screaming every line.

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@roofuskit@lemmy.world avatar roofuskit Even teenage me could easily see that was only a gimmick to get some on-screen foreplay going.

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@ValueSubtracted@startrek.website avatar ValueSubtracted I feel like the writers were visibly struggling with being painted into a corner by some extent by TOS, which would have been progressive for the 60s but backwards by the 90s. With a side order of being stuck, depending on market, with following or competing on another channel against Baywatch (mostly reruns but still).

cybervseas

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@stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip avatar stargazingpenguin Well, I think I just figured out why Paramount is rolling the dice on making a new Trek series a podcast.

AlexLost

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@stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip avatar stargazingpenguin Given that Doctor Who and Star Trek are canon now in both franchises I think I know where they got it from.

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cuchi I'm honestly looking forward to this series. Haven't seen any of the trailers, just kinda burned out on broody, hero speech, sobbing in a hallway, dark-ass Picard/Discovery Trek.

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TexasDrunk Good one.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

Surprised there's no MUD or MUCK clients on @fdroidorg

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@fdroidorg I don't have termux, I searched in the fdroid app and got nothing.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

Deep Space 9, in the bridge's ready room. Sisko sits at his desk while Quark is standing in front of it. Sisko: You mean raktajino? Quark: No, the Rat Casino! Q: It was the most successful gambling establishment in human history. And I want to recreate it. So if you'll just give me access to Earth history files... S: The answer is no. But I'm curious just what the hell you're even talking about. Q: Come on! You must've heard of the Rat Casino. All the games were rigged so even if you won, they wouldn't give you real money. They paid you in mini counterfeit bills instead. And they had assimilated Borg werewolves that'd jumpscare you if you tried to leave. S: [stares blankly, "captioned emissary.exe is not responding"] Q: Pizza! They sold used pizza! S: Chuck E. Cheese? Q: That's the one!
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@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

Today I learned vistas largely consisting of factories, freeways and military bases occasionally interrupted by the green and grey blur of cliffs and trees is "scenic". Not to knock Cascades: it's dependable higher speed regional rail. But I personally think it's about as scenic as Metrolink Los Angeles' Antelope Valley Line for about the same reasons.
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/amtrak-cascades-one-of-the-most-scenic-train-rides-unveils-new-look-for-2026/

@ben@lubar.me avatar ben , to random

worst game you could add borderlands style character introduction freeze frames to

BalooUriza ,
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@ben Arguably, American Truck Simulator. Mostly because even compared to its Euro cousin, and despite the trucks being faithful recreations down to their specs, American trucks are all fairly closely matched in capabilities and styling and don't offer a lot of distinguishing elements outside of creature comforts.

@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

I’m happy if I get the door open.. meanwhile:

Woman rolls over a car completely for a competition, very impressive

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@stux Well, we'll definitely know who dumped who in a breakup.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

I see @Theramansi using StreetComplete in recent cyangesets! 😀

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@IceWolf Easiest ways would be with @streetcomplete or SCEE (both are on @fdroidorg ), or @everydoor or using the web editor for that kind of simple edit.

@Theramansi

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

Billionaires want to be astronauts because guillotines collaborate with gravity.

@beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar beeoproblem , to random

Was conversing with the SO and managed to breathe in a housefly. Once I was able to explain my rather abrupt bout of violent coughing their response was to laugh at me.

I can think of more efficient methods of pest control but it was funny at least.

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@beeoproblem couple summers ago I almost got knocked off a bicycle by a cicada hitting me directly in the back of the throat. Got the bike stopped safely but what happened next wasn't pretty

@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar TechConnectify , to random

So I just got back from a Menards run and I've noticed something fascinating:

Menards has always had a lot of store brands. But they're really pushing a new food brand called Marcella. Stuff like coffee, jams and jellies, prepared foods, sodas, etc. A lot of it is fairly unique - I bought a maraschino cherry cola on a whim and it was pretty great!

The weird part? They're pricing this in-house stuff higher than name brands. The soda was a tad more expensive than the Sprecher's next to it!

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@TechConnectify Oh, that's what Menard's thing is exactly? I now know what a Menard's is. Sort of like a...Atwood's or Tractor Supply Company?

@beeoproblem

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

given how many help requests you see on stack sites and mailing lists these days that amount to "but chat gtp said", I wonder how often emergency room doctors hear the same thing from their patients

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@aeva Quite a lot, except in the medical case it's the "but webmd said" and has been going on for about 20 years now

@beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar beeoproblem , to random

I recently bought a hybrid car to replace my very much clapped out 2005 Corolla.

Assuming its internal fuel mileage data is accurate my comfortably sized SUV gets better combined fuel economy than a 24 HP i2 Polski Fiat despite having nearly ten times the power.

Electric drives, even just assisting things, are pretty insanely efficient.

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@beeoproblem I get better than the manufacturers combined pedal assist range on my folding ebike. Probably because on crosstown trips, I'm not using it as a crutch, I'm actively pedaling and just having the motor nerf Tulsa's steep hills from "this might actually kill me" to "really aggressive cardio"

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

I think I crushed that job interview.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us avatar BalooUriza , to random

Oh Really?'s "Coding with GPT: 7th Edition", subtitled "Introducing the uncanny valley into your codebase". The cover features a cat-dog type creature with a dog on one end and an emu on the other.
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