Turns out of it's raining in the evening, there is zero line for the Jungle Cruise at #Disneyland
(Probably because the seats are soaked and the roof only covers some of them)
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Very wet and very wimdy outside right now
When the total came out to $222 i was
A: Relieved it wasn't even more, and
B: Amused at the synchronicity of a bill for $222 when shopping on New Year's Eve, 2022. Like a summation of the whole year!
Then they asked if i wanted bags, and when i said yes it went up to $223 :)
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Went to get some groceries since stores might be closed tomorrow. But i forgot to eat anything before i went, so i was shopping hungry. Mistakes were made.
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Three tests over five days say the persistent sore throat i developed a couple days after coming back from WA is not Covid. So that's good i guess, but in that case what the hell is it actually? I feel a little gaslit by my own body =P
So how many other people took their trash/recycling out a day "early", because you knew if you waited until the actual holiday week pickup day you'd never remember to do it? =P
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I'm logged in on the home page, but logged out when i view individual tweets? WTF?
#TwitterDown
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Hey remember when Facebook made College Humor go out of business because they artificially inflated their viewcount by like 10x so it looked like only posting to Facebook and nixing your own site was the lucrative option when it wasn't?
Just remembered for some random reason...
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I'm calling bullshit on Views -
I logged out of this alt, returned 5 minutes later and suddenly there were 8 more views.
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We had to spend about 10 minutes dealing with the same thing before we could even start slowly and carefully backing the car out of the ice coated driveway on the way to the airport.
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Doubly so b/c we were originally on a 1:30 pm Delta flight that was cancelled a day early and went into the airport and got them to switch us to a "4:30" Alaska flight which managed to be late enough in the day to outlast the ice but early enough not to get delayed into oblivion
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Being one of the few fights to make it out of SeaTac today (after being told that people on cancelled flights would have to wait days for new tickets) is definitely our christmas miracle for this year!
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In case anybody needed a single tweet that simultaneously sums up with horrifying clarity what’s wrong with education and how inextricably linked government is with the interests of the wealthy.
Tremendous work here by the Secretary of Education.
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Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.
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No, Law & Order is copaganda because Dick Wolf explicitly said this was the ideological aim of the show. He’s long said one of his goals was to boost the image of the prosecutor. Profit and consumer demand is one motive yes, but ideological motives also exist. And they matter. twitter.com/dylanmatt/stat
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And it's even more mind-blowing that it's a _prequel_. I'd already kind of mentally written it off ahead of time because i was expecting the same dumb shenanigans as the bad parts of "Solo", but there's none of that.
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Was this directed at the people who already "resigned" yesterday in a bizarrely misguided attempt to entice them back?
Or at the people who still work there but are about to resign after they get this request?
(if true)
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Musk just asked all software engineers to come to an in person meeting today. Beforehand, they’re supposed to email him screenshots of their recent code.
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I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
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I've updated my profile with one of those LinkTree things! (ht )
Also, my Mastodon account has been restored!
...but there are some people i can follow on it and some i can't. I think maybe the home i chose there isn't "federated" with everyone? Unsure.
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Just in case, updated my profile with a bunch of other socials, mostly all just the same name. Not sure about the Mastodon one though. I created it 6-7 months ago when twitter first started looking iffy, and it seems to have been suspended since then. Maybe from lack of activity?
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I guess Melon is going to have a $44 billion tax write-off by the time he finishes burning his newly acquired company to the ground, but i feel like it ought to fall under some equivalent of insurance fraud for arson?
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Let’s be clear about this. The CEO of Twitter can attack his employee’s work publicly all day every day.
But when one responds factually and calmly, they get fired. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Considering Tolkien's deep reverence for the natural world and the pervasive themes in his work decrying the destruction of it, on the "turning over in his grave" scale, this rates about ten million spots higher than a Black hobbit.
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Warner Bros Discovery is releasing ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING’ in its entirety as a set of NFTs.
This will kick off the “WB Movieverse” which will release various films as NFTs.
(Source: theverge.com/2022/10/20/234)
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Uh, ? Why don't you have a PS4/PS5 app? This subscription may not last for very long if i can't share shows with my partner on the TV.
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Whelp, guess i'm gonna have to subscribe to HiDive so i can check out the new Urusei Yatsura.
On the "plus" side i'm probably going to stop paying for either HBO Max or Funimation relatively soon, so that should balance out?
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Google Stadia being retired
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lol. The self-fulfilling prophecy is complete.
Nobody bought Stadia because they assumed Google would kill it, and Google is forced to kill Stadia because it's unpopular.
Google's reputation for killing services killed a service,. I'm not sure how the company ever fixes that.
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the google stadia news reminded me of my favorite Goomic
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I have never wanted wireless headphones in my life.
...right up until new kitten decided my headphone wire is the best toy ever, and has started clawing my legs, arms, and chest while trying to get at it =P
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But i would definitely be impressed if he went all in and chose King Arthur :)
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It seems the new King of England has four title options
King Charles III
King Philip (I?)
King Arthur (II?)
King George VII
As of 2005, he was thinking of going with King George in order to avoid negative historical associations, he said in not-American
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At Universal Studios today, and just discovered that they've replaced what used to be our favorite restaurant here with a _second_ Starbucks =P
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Okay, not _100%_ true. I think I see about 3-4 other people in this 300ish person section of the Space Mountain ride. So including us, maybe 2-3% max?
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Nice sign outside the Disneyland entrance that no one other than ourselves is paying attention to =P
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And that means Disneyland is go!
(With masks, of course!)
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