using claude to script up a way to compress my media library a bit so I can avoid buying new hard drives that are now way more expensive because of claude
It'd be great if hard drive prices fell another 50%
do you think i'm spooky dot horse
@truebe.horse
Former lighthouse keeper, occaisional clock maker, dental floss tycoon. Bluesky’s Tallest User. Arizonan. Not anyone's lawyer. He/him/truebe
using claude to script up a way to compress my media library a bit so I can avoid buying new hard drives that are now way more expensive because of claude
It'd be great if hard drive prices fell another 50%
It'd be great if hard drive prices fell another 50%
as an Alpha White Male Western Civilization Defender I know what to do when someone talks shit about me online: start crying and tattle to the teacher
lmao
alright im gonna make a martini and snack on some chorizo iberico and babybell
i do think it's more than a little problematic how many people in this country no longer believe in public goods
Means Testing is when I test if you’re mean to me when I say everyone should have their basic needs met.
so you're thinking about buying another synth despite not really playing synth
not working has never stopped a death penalty, it's only fair to put a wealth tax on the books for the rest of human history
all the pieces like "why a wealth tax doesnt work" miss the point. sometimes you just want to throw your drink in someone's face.
I’m glad I’m not preoccupied with litigating tom morello’s impact on the 2024 election today. I’m actually pinned under a train. the paramedics say the wheels are the only thing holding me together and I’ll die when they move the train. I don’t see why they have to move it. I could just live here
The only world fascists envision is one of metal beams that protects their concrete prisons. These trees did more for our world than any one of these fuckass brownshirts ever could.
They cut down the "grandmother" tree.
My contribution to the permanent daylight saving debate is we should replace AM and PM with just BM
I’m not wearing this hoodie because the weather is cooling down, I’m wearing it out of contempt for the weather that is not cooling down.
"The most important fact they establish is that the traditional narrative of Marbury v. Madison—the decision that supposedly established judicial supremacy in the United States, as taught in high schools across the country—is an invented tradition." prospect.org/2026/10/05/o...
The Supreme Court’s Power Is Based on the Lie of Its Supremacy - The American Prospect
The Constitution does not establish a judicial dictatorship.
prospect.org
Here's a fun idea: what if we maximized wealth extraction without increasing wealth generation. Im sure that wont break the economy further.
For about a century the price tag was tied to the product (cost plus margin), so you paid what the person behind you in line paid. That norm is now eroding, chart @lindsayowens.bsky.social @ProSyn www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/surv...
Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible.
Imagine if the 2030s is still just careening back and forth between a normal Democratic party and MAGA every 4 years. With every attempt to rebuild or repair scuttled every 4 years.
We gotta be stuffing more people on here into lockers IMO
E.T. Absolutely on team “kill it with hammers” to this day.
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
The razz-cranberry lacroix actually tastes worse cold
love feeling like shit the day after I get my flu and covid shots, still feel better than if I had gotten the flu or covid
People can log on and say whatever they want “most agricultural water is captured and re-used” not it isn’t. That isn’t true.
Decided to watch the Uprising and this is how I find out Andrew Garfield is English