Mouse @snailerotica@chitter.xyz

@ people who enjoy / use guns: why are there multiple types of gun? like, what's the point in having a shotgun AND a rifle AND a revolver AND a handgun AND whatever else we're forgetting

[infodumping highly appreciated]

@paul hullo! i came across a broken link to soundpipe and after a little digging found your wiki page that mentioned it being removed out of respect for csound - what happened?

it is frankly offensive that software requires modern levels of ram and cpu power to function

serious question: is punishment ever an effective motivator?

""we need to recoup costs"" by tricking people into downloading malware?

what this is telling us is that itch is on shaky ground, whether from actual financial issues or from a management that deluded itself into imagining such

neither bodes well

so itch.io is serving ads when logged out

https://nitter.fdn.fr/polclarissou/status/1562119687613423618

https://itch.io/post/2228602

AM's famous "hate" speech from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, as presented by the tiktok voice.

you're welcome

is passenger transport via boat worse than air? we know the amount of noise caused by boats is bad for wildlife, but surely it's not worse than the environmental effects of aeroplane travel?

there is, apparently, only one long-distance passenger boat left - the Queen Mary 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_2

does the uk lean more:

finally finished reading the handmaid's tale [been reading it in parts while cooking]

it's amazing. so well written and uncannily prescient in a deeply upsetting way

"Silica gel, also referred to as silicon dioxide or synthetic amorphous silica (SAS), is listed by the FDA in the United States as generally recognized as safe (GRAS), meaning it can be added to food products without needing approval. Silica is allowed to be added to food in the USA at up to 2% [...] In the EU, it can be in up to 5% concentrations."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silica_gel

[should go without saying, but do not eat the packets that say do not eat; they can contain toxins. h/t @VoxSomniator ]

what minecraft mods do you use

every time we hear about some new Wonder Material™️ that will Save The World®️ and then we look and it's just adding some shit to plastic.

like cool, now neither of them are recyclable or biodegradable or anything actually useful

is there a good primer we can send our mother in law on what incels are that isn't the contrapoints video

interesting results.

omelas doesn't actually need to torture the kid, but it would be bad for the torment nexus industry if they turned it off, so they don't