Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.

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  • It’s right wing too, but it’s not populous.

    California’s population is roughly equal to Canada’s. Alaska’s got less than 2% of Canada’s population. We can absorb Alaska without too much disruption, California would be more of a fusion. And their economy is twice the size of Canada’s, so likely it’d be seen as more of Canada joining California rather than the other way around.





  • I was at the bedside holding the hand of both my brother and my father as they died. I actually had a voice recorder in both instances and had it running, in case anything important was said that I needed to go back and review for whatever reason.

    But I don’t really recall the specifics of what was said, and I didn’t go back to listen to those recordings out of some form of curiousity. I didn’t believe that there was anything particularly profound about the last words that were being spoken at the time, by either me or my dying family member, aside from of course trying to express some sort of reassurance and/or expression of love to ease any distress that was being felt.

    The important words are all the ones we spoke to each other during our lives. Saying “I love you” in those last moments is nice, of course, but the important “I love yous” were the ones spoken over the years prior to that.

    If you’ve got something important to say to someone, do it now. Or, if you really want to ensure that it’s only heard after you’re gone, make a recording and put it in a clearly labelled box.













  • Huh. Based on the community this was posted in, I can assume that the answer the video comes to is “yes” and not watch it. But according to Betteridge’s law of headlines the answer is “no.” I need to argue about this without watching it but I don’t know what stance to argue about.

    Ah! I’ll use the Orbit plugin to get an AI to summarize the video for me. Hm. The AI-generated summary says the video describes an anecdote about music copyright violations, talks about some ethical considerations about both music and software piracy, and then:

    The speaker concludes by acknowledging the complexity of the issue and the importance of considering the perspectives of all parties involved.

    So I guess the answer was “Maybe?” How am I supposed to have a pointless Internet argument about “Maybe?”

    Bah. Someone attack me for using AI, at least that’s a debate I can sink my teeth into.