Wikipedia page “Vertibrate” section “Evolutionary History”.

Ah. NY Post.

Source?

34 felony convictions and still votes.

I love how the first thing they brag about is that you can put the status bar on any edge of the screen – a feature that Microsoft previously took away.

No one’s keeping you here.

The bare feet are absolute genius as a feature of the costume, but they also add insult to injury.

Just that I wouldn’t have bought a WiiU if I wasn’t misled to believe there was going to be a WiiU-exclusive Zelda game. It was a bait-and-switch.

It’s surprising to me how many gamers out there believe deep in their bones that Nintendo is complete assholes while being completely blind to how just-as-evil Microsoft and Sony are in their console dealings.

All three can be (and are) simultaneously evil, if different flavors. Nintendo’s litigious. Microsoft’s got all the bullshit in the OP. And Sony does that thing where they sell you a disk but what’s on the disk doesn’t work and they make you download the whole game after you put the disk in your system.

(Bonus: Nintendo marketed BotW – though not by name – as a WiiU exclusive title before they even released the WiiU; and then they proceeded to dual-release it for WiiU and Switch. I’m still salty about that. Microsoft cut corners, causing the red ring of death thing. And Sony did that thing with the PS3 where they announced they’d support Linux and reneged after selling it to people. And all these examples are just what I know off the top of my head. And I’ve never had any Microsoft or Sony systems except the XBox 360 and PS2, both way after they were EOL.)

I’m really happy with my Pixel 3a. (And I think the Pixel 3a XL is just as well supported by FLOSS ROMs but with a bigger screen.) It mostly checks all the boxes you had in your list, and I think it’s probably the only real option you’re going to find in that price range.

I ran Lineage for a good while, but I’ve switched to Ubuntu Touch more recently. It’s incredibly well supported by both operating systems and just from what I’ve seen, most FLOSS ROMs tend to support it. (One exception I know of is PostmarketOS, which last I heard didn’t support the 3a very well at all.) Being honest, Ubuntu Touch’s app availability is pretty abysmal. Writing apps for Ubuntu Touch seems more accessible than for Android, though (especially now with the bullshit that they’ve pulled with sideloading restrictions.)

One caveat: If you’re looking for 100% FLOSS, probably the 3a isn’t what you want. Even Ubuntu Touch uses a bunch of proprietary driver blobs. But again, the options for fully FLOSS-compatible phones seem pretty pricey.

Oh. Jesus. Yeah, you’re right. -.-

I really hope Democrats are smart enough not to count their chickens before they hatch. Everyone remembers going to bed on election night 2020 2016 expecting to wake up to news that the U.S. would soon have its first female president, right?

Are you familiar with “analogue horror”? It’s a genre of (mostly) video horror that uses video and audio filters that make it look as if it’s shot on a 1980s or 1990s video camera (or even a 1980s/1990s home camcorder.) That sort of style evokes a lot of nostalgia in 80s/90s kids.

It obviously doesn’t add fidelity to the image to use such filters that blur, add white noise, and add video artifacts like you might see from a malfunctioning VHS player. It removes fidelity.

But it adds a “quaint” and sometimes surreal feeling to the media, particularly for folks who have been exposed to a fair amount of that medium of video. Or even folks who have only been exposed to retro recreations of elements of that medium.

I’m sure something similar is already happening to the brains of the younger generation. They’re forming connections to AI slop. And some day, I have to imagine elements of AI-generated video content will be used – on purpose – in new media to evoke a sense of quaintness, nostalgia, and otherwise “mid-2020’s-ness”.

I don’t think they’ll exclusively use “GenAI” technologies (stable diffusion, Dall-E, etc) to give media that feeling either. It’s weird to think about now, but they’ll probably be make ways to add AI-slop elements in novel ways that the actual GenAI technologies aren’t capable of. (Again, making a connection with VHS-looking filters, I don’t imagine most people making things like analogue horror content today are using actual VHSs and vintage camcorders.)

So, I can agree with your premise, OP, but only with the slight addendum of “for now”.

I hate that this is what the mid-2020s is going to be remembered for, but I guess every decade has something to be embarrassed about. NFTs/blockchain/cryptocurrencies, Beanie Babies, The Macarena, gestures broadly at the 80s, etc. But great things have come out of all of those decades as well.

I would donate a kidney to see this done as a serious, gritty film.

I was at a farmer’s market with my mother, and there was a butcher there called “Raised Right”. We’d never bought from there before, but we looked at the menu and my mother got really excited when she saw they had tongue available. And I’ve got a pretty adventuresome palate, so I was down. We bought the tongue and cooked it up. Ate it with home-made tzatziki and stuff.

Pretty good stuff. A touch bland, maybe, but you’ll never find a more tender meat. And it’s really cheap. I guess just because people are squeamish.

We got tongue from that butcher several more times. It became a pretty regular thing.

Time passed, we got too lazy to get up early to go to the farmer’s market. We got a hankering for tongue again and found one at Walmart of all places.

It was disgusting. Mushy and stringy. Not at all the same as the farmer’s market butcher. We never did a Walmart tongue again.

Probably to be expected. Walmart’s not exactly the place where you would expect to get quality… well anything, really.

You’re not supposed to eat the skin of the tongue either.

“TNPD” doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as “TACO”, but I’ll take it.

Wirth’s Law

they refuse to use Jira because it’s “too complicated”

Honestly, based.

have me log ticket statuses in a spreadsheet instead

I take it back. Good god.

“Huh, moss that grows near ice. What would you call that.”

“Moss-ice?”

“Too long. I want something shorter.”

"Mice.