[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, all corvids are fair game here. The quote they commented to you is the beginning of a copypasta rant that someone did about jackdaws, crows, and corvids.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I've made the comment that I feel like a Disney princess with the crows because they'll fly up to me a lot, sometimes past my head to get my attention or they'll squawk from a tree as a I pass by. The other day one of them landed on my car at work when I first got there because I wanted to adjust my parking but he thought I was leaving without feeding him. They'll hang out on branches outside my office window and hope I notice them and feed them.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

A beakful of treats apparently

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

There are quite a few crows on the streets of Portland.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Taking someone's lead sounds like a British saying indicating the opposite of following someone's lead. It sounds like you're taking someone's leash in your hands and directing them where to go.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Without consent, it would definitely be unethical.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Tech is a tool. Powerful tech in the hands of unethical people will be used unethically. Tech doesn't magically do the "right thing" as if it has any volition.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's basically translation convention minus the overt indication that it's a translation.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranslationConvention

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not able to reproduce the issue. I see a projectile and resulting explosion.

Are you in a new game since 2.01 or is this an older save game that predates the updates?

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Aliquando et insanire iucundum est.

  • Cynical the Younger
[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it can be controversial. Best not to plant it near a foundation. There are few in a mostly empty field near where I live and another few in a park where the trees are spread out.

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My first print (after a benchy test) with my new Sovol SV06 is the Maltese Falcon replica.

The SV06 was affordable ($229 US after a coupon on Amazon, plus a free roll of silk PLA) and it prints great after assembly. Assembly was easy. Firmware update was fast and easy. I opted for a Prusaslicer profile I found on Reddit instead of using Cura Slicer since I use Prusas at work.

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Crow on a Fence (imgur.com)
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Crowbits here was trying to shove every last treat I put out for him into his caw maw before flying away.

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Prusaslicer 2.6.0 is out (www.prusa3d.com)

Everyone raves about the organic supports, but I've been using the beta for the improved, multidirectional cutting tool.

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languid-lemur asked on the Cyberpunk subreddit what the most cyberpunk thing is in your daily life.

This was my response:

Spending untold amounts of time on executive-function-attenuated addictions to dying corporate ad-driven profit machine engagement platforms that you reopen after momentarily forgetting that you just closed them when the dopamine rewards diminished while your life was happening in the background white noise without you noticing, like the soft hum of the air filters you've forgotten to service for another month. NFC smart watch payments on self-checkout machines for your greater convenience and the lessening need for inhuman interactions and paying fewer retail employees a poverty wage with no benefits, while the smart machine stupidly tells you to remember to take the receipt that you declined to print and tells you to have a nice day and sincerely thanks you for your purchase from the deepest abscesses of its silicon heart. Meanwhile at work you hesitate to deal with the security-obsessed IT administrators who want to lock it all down so the technology is not useable because that's how you prevent issues, deepfreezing 99% of the hard drive so it forgets to remember your files when it reboots over night after an update and a network crash they wait a few hours to tell you about. But at least the black-topped corn starch 3D printed glow-in-the-dark mechanical keyboard caps are turning out decently and the supply chain shortage price-gouged microcomputer hardware you've been waiting for finally arrives via webcam monitored independent contractors so their boss can cowboy up to the mesosphere one more time instead of solving world hunger. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

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The Big Book of Cyberpunk is coming out Sep 26, 2023.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700576/the-big-book-of-cyberpunk-by-jared-shurin/

One of my short stories is getting republished in it, titled Keep Portland Wired.

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