My wife and I are midway through season 7 right now. She’d never seen Voyager before!

A beautiful grump!

Great point! Libraries are kind of a cheat code for being able to do things on a dime.

Someone else already said “library and park”. That’s essentially right, but there’s more.

My city does movies in the park all summer. There’s a similar music in the park set of events. Both free.

We have pretty good biking trails (just don’t try to commute by bike!).

Most of my friends are homeowners. We don’t all host the same amount, but we regularly get together at each others’ houses.

There’s a free zoo and a free art museum here. Other museums charge for admission, but the tickets are decently cheap.

We have some sports in the area, but our teams aren’t very trendy. I’m not sure what the pricing is like tbh.

There’s a lot of live music at some of the bars in the area. I don’t do a lot of this myself, but I think the cover was pretty minimal last time I went to one.

(OK, yes some of these things do cost money, but they’re not super spendy if you have any sort of budget)

salt the fuck out of it.

I misread this as ‘fuck the salt out of it’ for just a moment.

Many US states have sales tax, but I don’t think it counts as VAT.

Thanks, I’ve updated it.

If you like that thought, you’ll love the ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships!

… see also this jalopnik post.

Weren’t the trade federation and the separatists the same thing?

Or am I mixing up my ep 1 and ep 2 names?

It’s been a while, and tbh I’m not eager to go back and rewatch them.

Oh no?

IIRC they called the bad guys the Separatists in that movie.

Ayyy! Glad to see more Furryosa in here :D

Oh, yeah, that does make sense. I’m not sure why my brain went up the garden path on that one.

Smear? What milk products are you thinking of? What came to my mind was cheese (which you could call metan tofu, I suppose…), but I would usually expect cheese to be sprinkled, not smeared.

One of my go to sites has a jump to recipe button…works on my computer but fails on my phone 😔

The recipes are good enough to put up with the inconvenience

Hard disagree. No books should ever be burned. Don’t legitimize the practice.

OK, what’s the best photo you’ve taken of your cat?

Eh, I don’t think it’s an outright scam, rather “just” a bad investment / overhype. The language model programs do have some real uses, after all.

I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level SE

You don’t “get it”?

AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don’t need to hire more devs

Yes, I think you do.

I largely look at this as leadership using AI hype as an excuse to cut staff regardless of actual productivity. The house of cards hasn’t come down quite yet.

It doesn’t have to be a good implementation, it only has to be good enough for a demo to get the C-suite saying “Oh, slap a chatbot on there and then fire half the department that handles this now”.