Definitely the right choice.

But my pucker pattern is MINE!!! It unlocks my phone!

Clara is a brunette, I just want to clarify that in case people get confused about which meme. :) (It took me a sec)

Made the mistake of watching the other one recently.

Don’t be like me. There is no sequel.

But also, I’m still mad they left that kid to die in the mineshaft because they couldn’t be bothered with continuity… that would have almost maybe sort of possibly redeemed some of the movie… a tiny bit.

Yeah, maybe thats the case. Idk. I haven’t given it a lot of direct thought, tbh. I’ve always had a curiosity about having male organs (masturbation seems a lot easier for one…), but I don’t want to be a man and wouldn’t be able to identify as one, certainly. My hobbies and interests tend to be things people associate with men, but I think it’s just stuff cool people are into in general.

The reason I say I’d like to be fully androgynous is that I’m ace/aro, which took me a solid chunk of my life and a great deal of misery to figure out, and just don’t want sex organs or secondary sex characteristics (including all the hair, yuck) at all. I want to be the sex/genderless baseline generic human bodyprint that I feel like. I’m not using them (genuinely don’t think my vag even works anymore, haven’t tried in years), don’t need them, so don’t really want them. Tried to get a hysterectomy so at least I wouldn’t have to deal with anything related to that, but I’m healthy and have no offspring so they wont go for it.

Im not sure it rises to the level of dysphoria, though, more like a preference, and one nobody would likely take particularly seriously.

I don’t particularly like being a girl, but I don’t think I would want to be a boy either. I’d like to be fully androgynous (not just NB). Is that an option?

Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.

This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland. Often old farmland is used for development.

We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.

That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.

They have some really cool pressure capsules for bringing deep sea specimens to the surface, can’t imagine it wouldn’t work for bacteria and such, but the actual studying of it would be very difficult.

Like the blob fish, which was really just a fairly normal looking fish that essentially ruptured into a pile of goo under the lack of pressure, the cells they would be trying to study would be really really difficult to do anything with.

You’d probably have to create a whole special automated lab for them, maybe even a whole mess of different types for different environments, but making a rover-type craft and studying them in situ would probably be much easier. Like the mars rovers, but close enough to control live.

Personally, I’m partial to sending people down to work on deep sea labs to study this stuff similar to the Rifters series by Peter Watts. It seems fascinating to be modified to breathe underwater and survive the pressures.

Link is to the archive.org full copy of Starfish, book one of the Rifters trilogy, all of which were released entirely free under a Creative Commons license, and are absolutely amazing imo. Wild ride of insanity and destruction. All of his work that I’ve read has been great.

Consider: graphics cards pricing.

Shit’s not coming back down to reasonable prices any time soon. At least not without major intervention on the part of governments.

Thank you, I went into the mastodon (I think that’s what that is?) post looking for a link, knowing I’ve seen it arranged like a comic before, and was dismayed there don’t seem to be one.

Considering the delay some stuff has, I extend it to roughly a week.

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification :)

I’m not really sure what you are trying to tell me here…? I mean I read the entire article that you posted and it sort of explained the feature flag thing, so I’m good there, and the rest of this stuff was more or less in the article as well.

The fact that he’s into bimbofication makes so much sense, even if she didn’t do it strictly for him… (mar-a-lago face is political bimbofication as far as I’m concerned)

Bet he was real encouraging.

As someone who just updated from 17 to whatever it’s on now due to that security vulnerability (and who used android prior to this piece of shit), they are definitely still getting worse.

Autocorrect got substantially worse between versions, to the point that I can’t get a single message without a misspelled word that it doesn’t even try to fix, a misspelling that it corrects to something completely different, or it corrects the right word to something else (I’ve turned it off entirely, it’s now actively worse than nothing…). The ui is unusable for me without accessibility options to remove transparency to get rid the bright glassy nonsense they did and change it to ugly gray boxes (headaches exacerbated by bright stuff in my face, ugly was my only option and that fucking sucks because it worked -and looked- fine before…). They also haven’t bothered to fix the glitch in night mode where touching the text entry field makes it glow bright gray (speculated they used the light mode effect by accident), a problem which has apparently been around since 18 first dropped in ‘24. Some phones, like mine, have a glass backplate they don’t go out of their way tell you is glass, which shatters if you nick the glass tubes around the camera that sticks out a foot… why so much fucking glass? Is it to kill resale value? I bet it is!

Plus all the stuff you said. Also I don’t believe them that they support user privacy. Why would they when they can pretend to and still get the money?

My friend has always been on iOS and updates it whenever updates are out, and didn’t notice the creep of how bad it was, but slamming from 17 up to current was almost as much of a shock as moving to iOS in the first place, as far as reduced usability goes.

As soon as moto drops a graphene compatible device I’m getting one and never looking back.

Good thing librarians aren’t afraid of letters cuz that’s a hell of an acronym. Can’t even pretend it’s a word.

Inside assistant/, there’s an entire mode called KAIROS i.e. a persistent, always-running Claude assistant that doesn’t wait for you to type. It watches, logs, and proactively acts on things it notices.

This is gated behind the PROACTIVE / KAIROS compile-time feature flags and is completely absent from external builds.

Oh hey, that’s creepy as shit, even if it’s not active (I assume that’s what the second paragraph means)

Makes a person wonder what they really intend to do with that list…

She knows, she’s definitely struggled with that feeling. Written all over her body, and shown to the world in an act of support and solidarity.

Powerful picture.