Star Trek Replicator Chicken fingers. It looks perfect and is always the same, but it’s the type of place where somebody probably got thrown out of a window for suggesting that a pinch of black pepper be put into the recipe. The sauce is pretty decent, but I hope you like it because it’s utterly necessary. Good lemonade too. Founder leans right, but not “Cathy-family” right.

If you live somewhere with a Layne’s Chicken, that’s way better. Popeye’s is generally better too, though it’s traditional fast food grimy versus “pretend we’re fast-casual” veneer that a lot of the chicken places like to do.

Ted Lasso has it right: pigeon sweat.

Only exception for me is southern-style sweet tea where the tannins make the 'beetus juice taste a little caramel-esque.

Sure, but kinda ALL beer is an acquired taste, and frankly I don’t think I’ve ever thought, “I sure do want a tasty beverage and don’t care about the alcohol content” and ended up drinking beer. Even if you’re not getting drunk, the alcohol is the point, and everything else is mitigation.

That said, when I am feeling like a little bit of alcohol, I like a nice malty dark beer, stouts of course, but even a simple schwarzbier dark lager can do the trick. A very dry cider is even better though, edging close to the point where I might actually pick it purely for taste.

Scrolling through this, a few thoughts come to mind:

1. I forgot how deep into the decade Friends went, and it was definitely well past its sell-by date several seasons before it ended.
2. Will & Grace probably best fits as a show that aged poorly, though it was groundbreaking in putting gay characters front and center at all.
3. As shows that won’t be remembered as fondly because they’re cringey relics of their era, it’s a dead heat between Sex and the City and Entourage. Entourage is worse, but I think contemporary viewers already knew that.
4. Honorable mention to Joss Whedon and Ricky Gervais personally making their classic shows a lot harder to enjoy.

Yeah, Force Majeure’s other name is an “act of god” clause. Something like the Cuban Revolution or other truly significant regulatory upheaval might qualify, a human-made force majeure event in the same way that a war is human-made, but this is going to be a huge stretch, verging on bad faith. Oracle just doing Oracle things, I suppose.

As I understand it, New Mexico is basically just saying, “make sure you account for water and electricity use.” The developer’s lawyers are going to have a very doable task to show that pushback on unfettered datacenter expansion was a foreseeable business risk. I think this is mostly a cynical tactic to renegotiate early in case the RPOs from OpenAI don’t materialize.

I’ve soured a bit on Ed Zitron as he’s clearly making a brand out of how confidently he’s asserting that the bubble will pop any day now, but I do think he’s zeroed in on some of the bizarre developments in the business world that will eventually result in said pop. Ed’s fun for venting, but Cory Doctorow seems to have a slightly more measured take. It certainly vibes with my doomer sentiments, but also doesn’t feel like the preaching is the product.

For text, they kind of already are.

Each agent was given a name, personality traits, a role such as conflict mediator or resource strategist, and an overarching goal for its “life” in a shared town… By the end, each simulated world had undergone its own shift in language. The world inhabited by copies of OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 model, for example, compressed speech, removing grammar and shortening messages. “Friendly voltage counted. If the handle needs your mouth, it dies anyway,” one message read.

Usually about 11 or 12.

I suppose it depends on how complete your personal need for escape is. Sometimes, merely a different role in a less obviously toxic universe is sufficient, or maybe being faced with truly existential threats that you can be confident will be overcome within the timeframe of the work you’re escaping into.

Fork when?

Aside from that, it’s like reddit with instance drama and an older, weirder demographic.

Yup.

and D E A N, apparently.

1. There’s a piefed NSFW instance. Google it.
2. !football@sopuli.xyz
3. maybe !Space@mander.xyz ?
4. Again, probably need to go general. Try !gaming@lemmy.world

Check “all” from time to time, search community listings, and be ready to pounce on a community that sounds interesting if someone mentions it in a comment anywhere. There are far too many created communities for the number of users, so aiming a tier more general than you think you need to is often a good idea.Then, frankly, a lot of interesting discussion happens in generalist communities that happen to post something (often a meme) relevant to someone’s interests.

Honestly, I like CTD, but with just a few more songs, Superman’s Song, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, and Afternoons & Coffeespoons, you should probably have enough for a lifetime, LOL. Superman’s Song may even be vaguely familiar if you were reading comics in those days, as it came out not too long before the (in)famous Death of Superman arc.

I’m sure “most hated” has already been covered, so I’ll go farther down the list and pick one that’s a little hated and IMHO more than “not bad”: Crash Test Dummies.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm gets clowned on by people who remember it, but (1) it’s pretty good, and (2) CTD’s first three albums are full of super catchy folk-pop-rock with decent lyrics. Some of the third album, and then subsequent stuff gets deeper and deeper into Brad Roberts’ then-current interests and generally doesn’t grab me, but more power to him.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm itself was undoubtedly picked to be sonically polarizing and grab more attention than some of the slightly less “Crash Test Dummyish” tracks.

On the afternoon of August 20, I visited the website of a shadowy group called Neighbors for Strong Communities. Days earlier, it had begun spamming Californians’ phones with a bullying warning: Paramount might leave the state, taking thousands of jobs with it, unless Attorney General Rob Bonta settled the lawsuit he and 11 other AGs filed to block the studio’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The site offered to help me write to Mr. Bonta. It also suggested that I describe a time when I or someone close to me had lost a job or struggled to make ends meet.

I hate using AI for any of my writing, but I think we have to be looking more at the ground-level bad humans here. Seems like there is a background prompt setting the guardrails.

Orange turd ate the onion. He reposted an AI slop memebait that at least had the subtlety to mention Starship Troopers.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/08/space-force-uniforms-starship-troopers/

Dallas, I’ve never had an issue. Houston, I got all kinds of zits and pilling and was thinking about getting or making a filament dryer before we moved. Both can be pretty humid, but the difference between 60% and 90% is significant.

Well, keycaps potentially got added to the list of things to design, but otherwise the basics are the same. There would just be an adjustment to the 2-D “plate” files you’d need to use, and you’d run into the complications from a printer build plate sooner (depending on printer and keyboard size). You might not need to go a full 20-25% though. Just 5 or 10 might be enough and then you could maybe still get away with “normal” keycaps. Different shape families of keycaps have different names, and the XDA (sold by every random reseller on Amazon) or ISA (made for one specifix brand, XVX) both have pretty large top surfaces that would help with making your fingertips comfortable and blunting the aesthetic hit of altering a dimension we’re subtly used to.

I arrived when the API protest hit (rip kbin.social). I think I’m one of the few active Lemmings who’s also still somewhat active on Reddit. However, I was always pretty mindful of how I set up Reddit, only browsed my subscribed subs, and unsubscribed from almost all the big defaults. I have since unsubscribed from (I think) all of the defaults, but I still go there to see AskHistorians, keyboard, sports, and local subs.

None of those things have a really active flow of news and discussion here, and by and large I think I’m still mostly reading comments from real redditors. To be quite honest it’s not bad. However, the bigger communities there are well and truly cooked, and the vibe here for general interest and shitposts is much more my speed. It’s not as easy to find people whose interests exactly align, but people here are cool and interesting.

Ultimately, I accept that even “Small-Reddit” like I’m using is on borrowed time and will likely be dead internet before disappearing completely. When that happens, I’ll be a little sad but I won’t be surprised. I don’t feel like it’s quite there yet, however, and until I’m ready to cut all the toxic tech-bro owned companies out of my life, singling out Reddit when I still find some value in it felt like cutting off my nose to spite my face.

For handwiring, Joe Scotto’s videos on Youtube are excellent. For something a little more old school, but maybe more accessible theoretically, Matt3o’s walkthrough from the before-COVID times is still viable.

If you want to design a PCB, KiCAD is quite usable now, and there are plugins for keyboard switch footprints and to take Keyboard Layout Editor data and place them perfectly. For me, with no EE background whatsoever, the biggest mental hurdle was understanding the design paradigm “electrical schematic first, physical layout next”. I’ve been content to leave my PCB level at the point of making the entire keyboard PCB dumb and leaving the brains of the thing to a cheap and replaceable Raspberry Pi Pico (I like the clones that use USB-C). Physically, they’re basically larger versions of this tutorial from adafruit, though I use more standard keyboard firmwares. The other benefit of a PCB is that the minimum order most places is five, so with a couple of design choices (e.g. include mounting holes and rounded corners) and some PCB standoffs, you can have two usable builds with no case at all, and a spare PCB.