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[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

I'm 60 now and am literally a Boomer; fast food has definitely gotten worse. Especially in the last 10 years or so. The foods and processes have been tweaked and tuned to the point that the value of the food hovers just barely above the price and not a tick more.

Health concerns also play a role. McDonald's fries are a good example. When I was young they were cooked in beef tallow and they were so good they would roll your eyes back in your head in in ecstacy (not kidding). They switched to vegetable oil due to health concerns over saturated fats and they've just never been the same.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wanna see Hoe-door.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'll pour one out for the Yaris.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Try kagi. It's paid at $5/mo., but you get 300 searches to try it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's useful for my firmware development, but it's a tool like any other. Pros and cons.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I should have attributed, sorry.

Randall Jarrell, published in 1945.

Bomber ball turret gunners and tail gunners had the shortest life expectancy of any combat occupation in the war, as these were the first targets of incoming fighters. I found one site that said tail gunners' combat life expectancy was four missions.

Ball turrets couldn't reload in flight. The ball was too small for parachutes, and the mechanisms jammed or froze often. Typically they put small, young, single guys in them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Maybe try a poem.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,

And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

Randall Jarrell, 1945

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just happy to see someone remembers the Spin Doctors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This isn't malloc though. I have to assume the cast is because the user has experience with the output from an LLM being untrustworthy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I agree that he was pretty hostile but it's Fox News. To be expected.

But she's the sitting Vice President. "Yes, madam Vice President." or at least "Yes, ma'am./madam." is the appropriate way to reference her though.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

But think how safe you would be if you did pack a bomb.

The odds of there being one bomb on a plane are tiny enough, but the odds of there being two bombs on a plane are vanishingly small...

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