That’s the expression of a man who just had a random naked encounter with an albatross. It’s a mix of befuddlement and wonder.

I like it, except that’s so not how turtle shells work, lol.

Oh that’s what happened to my car when I got cutoff by that damn red monolith memes always talk about.

Restarts into Grub which autos to Linux and when I go back to Windows it’s all pissy at me.

There’s something primal about throwing feces at aggressors. I like it.

Yes but wouldn’t you like to sign up for an outlook account? No? Sorry that wasn’t a question, this full screen window has no X and you will comply.

… unless you do the thing that skips it, but man that’s an awful experience.

You know someone has been waiting forever to say that.

Add to my Heroes.

Hard to say but probably not. For instance I mention Hmong because they were political refugees from Laos in the 70s to various parts of the US as refugees, many of which didn’t move away after a generation. Only a few hundred thousand but they may make up a sizable amount of Asian in Minnesota and Wisconsin, not getting much say in where.

If you move by choice, as many modern immigrants do, usually you end up where there’s work, like California (and H1Bs and colleges get a ton of well educated East and South Asians). It was enough to make Irvine blue, which was astonishing!

And older generations? Probably on average close to where they originally landed (most people don’t move more than 50miles from home) but of anyone I’d see them most likely to move to like minded places, but work usually influences that more. Keep in mind, anything past 4th generation is pretty dang assimilated.

To be fair, it’s not a very well defined group. It’s heavily split by country of origin and economic status. Imagine differences between Indian men with traditional values, Hmong refugees settled in the midwest generations ago, 6th generation Chinese in Chinatown enclaves, or 1st generation Chinese recent grads from Beijing starting up in Tech, etc…

Other racial groups also lose out on interesting distinctions (e.g. Cubans are super red) but tend to still be fairly homogeneous in political views historically.

So technically it’s probably even redder across the board, although if I remember exit polling, black man are still blue.

Still close tho, and very depressing.

Not sure how I feel here. I hate overzealous legal departments and AI services, although admittedly Midjourney seems less scummy than some alternatives (like open AI). At least they’re not attacking someone who pirated Frozen 2 or made a fan game or something, like certain legal departments would.

Finally some good news today.

I also notice a lot less traffic on the west side during Jewish holidays. By this logic, is the suggesting rounding them up, too?

Oho, Shen should write for a Sliders reboot.

Checkerboard! Keeps it level if I keep the pattern.

I did once replaced half the brown eggs with white eggs and visa versa to screw with my partner. It didn’t work. I was just weird.

I hadn’t even thought about it until you brought it up. Kind of disappointed in people jumping on this like flies on shit but like… it’s 2025, so bigger things to be upset about.

In any case, apples and oranges. And PSA, if you need a Switch 2, grab em on the rebound. There’ll be used ones, likely hackable in 6 months and none of that goes to Nintendo. Don’t forget what their legal department has done in the past few years.

I know this is all about awkwardness but what if you get the Lemmy Be Wholesome ending where they made a new friend who also likes the niche film you do?

Not that I recommend it. Lol

Jokes on you, it’s Star Trek in the year 2025. It’s about to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Piracy and emulation is inevitable, although we’ll see if it’s months or years. I’m boycotting Nintendo over their legal practices, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to play their games. It’ll be extra juicy to be able to emulate it eventually, although buying used is technically an option too.