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Regarding #Trump's recent physical...

1. Trump lies. Constantly. About everything. It's his default state of being, and is as natural as breathing to him.

2. Trump has a massive ego and also a massive inferiority complex. He needs constant fluffing and reinforcement. He has to be told he is better, handsomer, smarter, everything-er than everybody else.

Put those together, and you get:

3. The things Trump lies about more than anything else are ... himself. He cheats at golf to win tournaments at clubs he owns, so he can be "champion". He brags about first-placing in contests or comparisons that didn't happen or which don't rank participants at all. And on and on...

What's this got to do with his physical?

Well, he announced his results and it says he's 6'3" and weighs 224 pounds.

Which, if true, would mean he's 5 or 6 inches taller than me, but weighs the same. Anyone familiar with how scaling a 3D object up by linear factor X affects mass is now laughing their guts out.

He is *far* more obese than me. Of *course* he's lying about his weight. If he's less than 270 pounds I will eat my hat, and it would not surprise me in the least if he weighed 300 pounds.

So, do you want your government run by a pathetically insecure man-baby who has to lie about his weight to feel better than everyone else?

Shame on his doctor putting his signature to such bullshit.

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@yoginho

Rule of thumb: if a company operating in a highly technical scientific space chooses to release its progress reports or results in an "exclusive" with a mainstream media outlet, rather than via a scientific journal, it's not a scientific company. It's a financial grift.

The #Atari 1200XL was a 8bit #homecomputer running a #MOS 6502 #CPU at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... https://youtu.be/JyA5tA5mmYY

$omehow, in the #8bitwar the #C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in #BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by #Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/

#retrocomputer #vector #graphics #vintage #Atari1200XL #8bit #computer #vectorgraphics #svgART #svg #cgi #art #illustration made by #gfkDSGN with #GPL #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware instead of #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #SaaS #BS

“[w]e are able to gaze into the 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 face of a bronze age royal woman – and it 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 is a face to launch a thousand ships."

Yeah, truly, there is a modern #Greek saying, "a pus*y can tug a ship", so why not a thousand ships? A few bones found 75 years ago give us certainty about her face, and in spite of already having arthritis and dying in her 30s, she looked just like the girl in the picture 🙄

Alice's Adventures in Digital Hallucination.

theguardian.com/education/2025

#AI#Hype#BS

#US #Trump #tariffs
#LIberationDay
#BS

According to economist Richard D Wolff the notion of "Liberation Day" is white supremacist BS.
The US is to this day a colonial superpower. The notion that the US is "liberating itself" from China, Vietnam and other countries they are imposing tariffs on is total BS. Trump is manipulating his base into believing that the US a victim of unfair trading.
And that's just a small portion of what's wrong with Trump's tariffs.

youtube.com/watch?v=594yN8rxIJ

Modern #TechStack|s are convenient but they also make #developers lazy and result in the #enfattening of #Software and #Games.

Nowadays we have shitty #WebApps that eat up 100+MB just for a #WebView and which are instantly useless once they don't have a high-speed, low latency internet connection!

  • People like #GraceHopper and #MargaretHamilton propably wouldn't even be mad, but just disappointed, knowing how a modern #IDE eats more computing power than the entire human race had at their career peaks...

And don't even get me started on all the #WastefulComputing aka. "#AI" #bs and #Shitcoin - #Scams!

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@sekka@shark.community But one of the best tracks - abeit #Blues, not #Chill or #Jazz - is Blue Mary Blues Real Bout - Fatal Fury Special (Neo Geo CD Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3XTuBZiC4w https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-3XTuBZiC4w Hard to believe they were able to get this done with a 135 kbit/s CD-ROM drive and 2 MB of cache! #music #mukke #mood #KingOfFighters #OST #GameMusic #Soundtrack #NeoGeo #NeoGeoCD
#SUN-Microsystems, Inc. was co-founded 1982 by #AndyBerchtoldsheim and existed until #Oracle takeover 2010. The company developed #RISC computer #hardware , components, software like #JAVA, and contributed much more to the #opensource development than #Apple #computers.

Our colorful #svg #retrocomputer terminal #illustration and portrait of Mr. Berchtoldsheim was made with #FOSS #vectorgraphic #design tool #Inkscape, not #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #IP #DRM #BS #SW
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@qlp

My lesson came ~2012-2014, when the media company I worked for had decided to invest heavily in Google's office products (to replace MS Office). I dutifully learned all I could of their APIs, to convert Google documents (of all types) into HTML content for publication, with near-live updates.

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#TheGuardian: (#BS #snakeoil) 👎

"SpaceX’s #Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀 program. Back-to-back mishaps indicate big setbacks for program to […] 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀"

(#ChatGPT? Is that you?)

Have they at The Guardian seen a "program" that we haven't?

#Musk has no "program" for #Mars, just graphics. #SpaceX is a cargo (space)ship company polluting the planet, not a space agency. #NASA, the most successful space agency, is not mentioned even once in the article.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · SpaceX’s Starship explodes in second failure for Musk’s Mars programBy Guardian staff reporter

Google Maps is currently displaying at least some Canadian provincial park names, to some visitors, as "<X> State Park", which is pretty bloody offensive in the current climate.

It may be only displaying them if it thinks you're not in Canada (such as you're on a VPN) which would make this worse, because then it clearly wouldn't be just a mistake.

See here for the first report I saw:
mstdn.ca/@Jennifer_Miller/1140

Mastodon CanadaJennifer Miller (@Jennifer_Miller@mstdn.ca)#Canada #Cdnpoli #BC @Paulatics Someone just pointed this out to me... Google Maps is identifying Provincial parks in BC and Alberta as "state parks" in the subtext. As opposed to "National" or "City" parks. Is this new? I certainly have not noticed before and have looked at a few BC and Alberta provincial parks in the past.