The void is pleased. You shall be spared. For now.

Mild correction, Apollo is a boy, otherwise, excellent poem.

The living void

I absolutely love The Wall. During the Covid lockdown I got pretty obsessed with Pink Floyd and went down the rabbit hole. I still listen to them a fair bit now, though not as much as I did then. It was pretty much 50/50 Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan 24/7 playing on repeat for about two years.

I should rewatch that movie again. It’s probably my most listened to album ever, but I’ve only seen the movie once. It’s a pretty good watch imo.

If I lived in Alberta I could probably get it that cheap, but then I’d need to live in Alberta.

For reference, Alberta is sort of our Texas. Our last federal election, Alberta was 92% conservative. The premier there (basically governor) is also a MAGAt Trump supporter and was trying to fight for more independence which probably means joining the States. Not that it’ll happen but that’s the mentality of the government there, and a lot of its people too.

USD 3/gallon = CAD 1.109/litre

That’s still cheaper than I’ve seen for quite a while, though I have seen close. When converted, the gas prices where I live are closer to around USD 3.5-4/gallon. It does occasionally dip down to closer to what you were saying, though not quite.

Edit: just checked, gas station near me is 138.6 (we measure in cents here, so CAD 1.386/litre). That’s USD 3.75/gallon.

USD 1.98/gallon = CAD 0.733/litre

I haven’t seen gas that cheap in a long, long time.

That’s what makes it so good though.

We just signed a lease on a new place. Most of the paperwork we could do online but a couple things needed to be dropped off in person at the realtor’s office. It’s a decently large office and there’s TVs there with info and stuff for staff. A few panels that show up talk about seminars for how to better sell a property, and one of them was called “The AI Revolution in Realty”. I have no idea how AI can help with selling a place, everyone I know wants to view places in person. I guess if you’re selling a place to someone overseas who’s about to come here for school (pretty common where I live), then maybe AI can help deceive them so they’re more likely to purchase/rent? That’s the only thing I could think of. Realty is a decently in-person job, that’s not something AI can be integrated with. Maybe I’m wrong and there’s a good explanation for it, but I can’t think of one. It’s the most forced integration with AI I’ve seen personally.

I read this in Jeremy Clarkson’s voice before I even read the last line. It’s like my brain knew.

The last olympics I followed was 2010 so things may have changed without my knowledge too.

Depending on the sport sometimes a bronze is a win and a silver is a loss. With some sports, if it’s a one on one thing, there’s a game that’s basically “if you win it’s a bronze, if you lose it’s fourth place” and then the next game (with different team obviously) is “if you win it’s a gold, if you lose it’s a silver”. So if you get a bronze, you won, if you get a silver, you lose.

We need a name for lemmy users running arch on their pc that they’re using to watch stuff on their Jellyfin server