So a little bit of investment in stadiums here, a new TV deal there, some exciting QB play, and a sprinkling of Canadian exceptionalism… Sorry, wrong CFL.

Some people think that failing ballasts will trigger their thermal protection, so it could be as simple as cooler weather or components that are failing but haven’t yet, and a little variability in temperature or the intial jolt of electricity may make it work for a while. I generally found CFLs to be finicky and annoying after a while, though i don’t recall ever having one that seemed to die completely and then come back.

https://www.edn.com/teardown-what-caused-these-cfl-bulbs-to-fail/

I’m not much of a coder, but even if they’re doing something procedural, it can and should still have a blacklist.

So like, it wasn’t just hiding in the game’s dictionary, but someone or some pre-coded algorithm selected it to feature?

Well, that is exactly the song I would have expected from the Fancy Like Applebees guy if he were tasked with writing a soul-searching meditation on family life and addiction.

A little bit of casual misogyny and toxic gender roles here. A little bit of underexamined personal philosophy there, where the subtext of self-loathing is literally the only interesting direction the song could have gone. We’ve got soft-pedaling the message enough that no one in the audience feels compelled to change their behavior (we all need a beer, just trying to “avoid AA”). We’ve got the dissonant images of “can’t afford $35 for an oil change,” but also writing a mainstream country radio hit as a reasonable professional goal. We have bizarre shoutouts to (famous college football coach) Nick Saban, John Deere, Skoal, and Nicorette. All of it in a sing-song cadence a toddler would be proud of and ending up in a line-dancing bar with big tiddies dancing around.

Fucking hell, Nashville, this is why I have to justify and cajole people to listen to anybody with a southern accent. Contrast the Walker Hayes garbage with Jason Isbell also doing a lightly up-tempo song about the struggle to stay sober and do the right thing.

Or, if that one’s too subtle, here’s him doing a semi-autobiographical (and it’s only barely “semi” from what I understand) roots rock confession that’s literally about an alcoholic in recovery. Seriously, compare “Keep muh dawters off the pole!” with “Last night I let myself remember… my daughter’s eyes when she’s ashamed.” There’s probably half a dozen other lines like it, that are “comparable” but… well… NOT comparable.

Also, what the heck is up with your link #5? It’s definitely not the linked song, I don’t think it’s a Walker Hayes song, and I can’t seem to find any of the lyrics on the interwebs. Is it an AI hallucination? If it is, it’s somehow slightly better than Walker Hayes.

It’s also worth pointing out that rhyming is not the only way to get those pattern-recognition neurons firing. Meter in poetry/lyrics is all about this, and the Ancient Greeks knew all about it. They also knew all about mnemonic tropes (wine-dark sea) and other devices. Old English in particular built most of its poetry and songs around alliteration rather than rhyming.

They’re welcome to him. I suspect even for oil-loving Albertans, stupid tough-guy posturing is more appealing than the reality of Donald fuckin’ Trump actually being in charge of anything about your life.

I mean yes, in a certain sense mbin is exactly how open source is supposed to work when things go sideways: fork the code, change the name, leverage the original work, leave Ernest in peace, whatever he’s dealing with.

(not just the verysmart, young, white, male, liberal a la Reddit)

Nope, we’ve also got the verysmart middle-aged white male liberals here, and some Communists too!

You know what? Sue them ALL for false advertising!!! I bet this thing can’t even travel underwater.

There are two main differences at this point: MBin (KBin itself is dying as the dev had some combination of burnout and undisclosed personal shit) has better Mastodon integration (if slightly confusing), but worse app support. For “Reddit like” functionality, they’re pretty much completely comparable and compatible. If you’re happy with your setup, no need for two accounts.

It’s not literally a scam, in that I’ve ordered things and they’ve arrived (in a timely fashion, actually), but the “free” stuff is pretty close to being one. The free credits or whatever are so over the top as to be eye rolling, so while they probably are officially a scam, I just couldn’t get too worked up.

Overall, it’s basically a tiny bit cheaper than AE, a tiny bit faster, but with more limited selection and they make the annoying gamification on AE look like the height of restraint and class. I found my personal line for trading time and tracking for cheap prices, and it’s between AE and Temu.

One tangential weird thing is that I’ve seen Shein, the fast fashion brand, has gone full “marketplace” and is now selling a lot of Temu like stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with clothes.

I am a man with medium sized hands. I’ve been comfortable wearing my band for almost twenty years, though I don’t feel like my knuckles are particularly prominent. Mine seems to be 6mm width and 1.5mm height and feels neither delicate nor chunky. If you’re specifically going for an extra rounded look and feel, maybe just stay away from the 1mm.

Really though, if this is going to be for daily wear, buy it from a brick and mortar store that can do a proper fitting, or from someplace that will send you some brass testers or something, if that is even a thing. I know you can do it for eyeglasses.

Look, friend, if you can’t trust 15 year-old me, who acceptably tied FOUR different knots that one time to check off the box in the handbook, or 17.83333 year-old me who managed the building of not one but TWO picnic tables for a local elementary school because my Dad was being a pain about finishing the final Eagle Scout project, then who can you trust?!?!?!?!

As a bonafide Eagle Scout, I remain firmly convinced that any rope tying needs can be met with a combination of square knots and more rope. 🤣

LOL, it’s more that I’m less concerned finding out a cat is named after a woman who just wanted to watch the world burn, and I presume the cat would be too.

Yup. This is the boring but likely true response. You get the one Gareth/Dwight who remembers that memo about not using trademarks in marketing materials and decides they know how this all works and that the rights of Warner Brothers have to be respected before putting their intellectual property on a published document. “Just get the appropriate permission on corporate letterhead and notarized, and this will all be fine.”

Social media is one way to fix it, but I tend to think a couple of layers of escalation would have worked as well, if a bit more slowly.

At least Arya doesn’t go full speedrun genocidal maniac because the showrunners are bored and think they have Star Wars money coming.

Never name your kid or your dog after a character until the who is over, folks! Cats? It’s fine.

Exactly. LEDs are rated for 10k hours. 10-15 watt power supplies made both to cram into a tiny space defined by GE 100 years ago for a completely different lighting technology, and to hit a $2.00 price point for the whole assembly? Not so much.

I’ve actually got a super cheap and super bright LED in my garage that has been working for a long time, but it’s one of those big ugly sunflower looking ones that would never fit in an enclosed fixture anyway, so it actually lets the power supply breathe. Even then, I’m sure it’s putting out more lumens than is good for whatever half-assed components and heat sink are in it.

Yes, this is an important nuance that’s being overlooked, but I do agree with the dissent that there’s enough here for a jury to decide. Classic question of fact as to whether ordinary care was used at the various steps of the process.

It could be some eye-rolling micromanagement. More likely to me is the manager had written that sentence out and had a bit of a lazy moment where he just pasted in his draft asking her to fill in the blanks.

Based on the rest of the article, however, I’m also completely willing to believe she was having trouble with details and he thought this might be the only way to task her with providing complete and accurate data, and nothing else.