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kescusay , 6 months ago to videos in Borderlands 2024: Official Movie Trailer

Never having played Borderlands… is the game actually this unapologetically stupid? I chuckled at a few bits in the trailer, but I felt bad for doing it.

kescusay , 6 months ago to nottheonion in Police called to investigate alleged LGBTQ propaganda at Russian ‘My Little Pony’ convention

No worries, seems to be gaining traction and still makes me go WTF, so I’ll allow it.

kescusay , 6 months ago to news in First federal trial for a hate crime based on gender identity starts over trans woman's killing

I have a trans kid. I worry every single day about cases like this.

kescusay , 6 months ago to technology in Passenger sees Boeing 757-200 “wing coming apart” mid-air — United flight from San Francisco to Boston makes emergency landing in Denver

Or the original Shatner episode.

“There’s something… on the wing!”

kescusay , 6 months ago to news in Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition

WikiLeaks published them out of order, lacking context, and with clear intent to have them used as the basis for some kind of conspiracy theory. And they started publishing them literally 30 minutes after Trump’s Access Hollywood “grab 'em by the pussy” tape came out: politifact.com/…/its-true-wikileaks-dumped-podest…

WikiLeaks made “pizzagate” happen, and is clearly a Russian asset.

kescusay , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to news in Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder in last-ditch bid to avoid US extradition

Early on, the Russian asset released some genuine information in order to establish some bona fides. But since then, he’s used his platform to create nothing but instability and strife. Never forget, the “pizzagate” bullshit came directly from WikiLeaks.

kescusay , 6 months ago to technology in Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated

It’s more like you get some kind of weird construction multitool that promises to be a level, a drill, a hammer, and a dozen other things, and it turns out to be a really good, innovative, and helpful level… and a really bad everything else.

kescusay , 6 months ago to technology in Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated

Yeah, I figured that out eventually, but also figure the same probably applies to the other Copilot. Same underlying technology.

Wish Microsoft would use different names for different implementations.

kescusay , 6 months ago to technology in Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated

Copilot isn’t actually bad for developers, it’s just that you need to be careful with it and recognize its limitations.

Writing a bunch of REST endpoints for an API and need to implement all the typical http verbs, and you already have all the matching methods for reading, updating, and deleting values in a complex SQL database for each endpoint to call? Copilot can turn a ten minute chore into a ten second one. Very handy.

Writing those complex SQL methods in the first place? Yeah… Copilot will probably make a ton of mistakes and its work will need to be triple-checked. You’ll save time just doing it yourself if you know how. (And if you don’t, you have no business calling yourself a developer.)

Copilot is best for easy boilerplate and repetitive code. Problems arise as soon as you ask it to get “creative.”

kescusay , 6 months ago to nottheonion in Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans

This reads as transphobic, but I’m going to leave it up for two reasons:

• First, your subsequent comments don’t show any malice, just a lack of understanding.
• Second, that lack of understanding appears to have been rectified by others’ comments, and I think seeing that could be valuable for onlookers.

I’m not trans myself, but my son is, and he explains how he felt something like this…

Imagine you’re a pretty average boy, and interested in stereotypical boy things. You like boy clothes, you want to hang out with your friends who are boys, you look forward to growing muscles and a mustache when you’re old enough, etc.

Now imagine that at the same time, all your clothes are girl clothes, your name is girly, and everyone around you thinks you’re a girl.

That wouldn’t match up, would it. It would feel incongruous and wrong.

If you’re cisgender, you can absolutely prove you’re a boy to everyone’s satisfaction, and you’re unlikely to get dressed in the wrong clothes or given a mismatched name in the first place. So you probably don’t ever have to think about your gender and whether it’s being expressed by your body incorrectly.

But for trans people, it’s not uncommon for them to become acutely aware of gender when they’re young in ways that their cisgender counterparts don’t, precisely because of the mismatch.

That’s how it was for my son. He didn’t figure out he was trans until he was around thirteen, but he knew something wasn’t right long before then.

kescusay , 6 months ago to world in Alexei Navalny: Putin critic dies after 'feeling unwell' and 'losing consciousness'

Not half. Never forget that the insane, reactionary conservatives are a minority in this country. They’re just extremely loud.

kescusay , 6 months ago to news in 'Gun-loving' GOP governor reportedly seen 'running scared for his life' from mass shooting

Wait, you mean he wasn’t suddenly transformed into a good-guy action hero with a gun? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

kescusay , 6 months ago to nottheonion in Donald Trump's threat to NATO allies has moved attention away from questions about President Biden's age

Given other differences between them - one’s a lard-ass who eats at McDonald’s all the time and the other’s a fitness nut who bikes all the time - the smart money’s on the orange shit-gibbon kicking it first.

kescusay , 6 months ago to nottheonion in Lickinghole brewery in Goochland closed indefinitely while owner deals with health issues

That’s it. Community closed. Nothing can top this headline.

kescusay , 6 months ago to news in New York vigilantes take down ‘migrant’ on live TV – but he was from the US

They’ve done the guy a favor. You see, he’s going to be rich after suing them for every penny they have.