“Planned Parenthood’s twisted conception of “reproductive health” doesn’t extend to the baby that has been reproduced.” - Metallicfloydfan4l on YouTube “The pastel colors changing with the seasons, the grey rain of sadness, white snow of stark loneliness, and those cascading, rotating pink blossoms of optimism and joy, all experienced from within the quiet village nestled in those saturated green hills. No outward moments in childhood could ever compete with that vividness on the screen, leading you to wonder: Does that special place exist somewhere in reality for you to seek when you grow up...or will it just be an arrangement of glowing pixels forever echoing from deep in your mind--ever faintly calling out to you as the decades turn?” - @rhythmdroid on https://youtu.be/KL9Gnx42Xf0 “But if a person can't be bothered to create a thing, why should a person be bothered to enjoy it?” -- @venya@musicians.today, regarding people using AI to generate responses to people they're talking to. “The low cost of low fidelity prototypes can help us avoid attachment to worse ideas.” ~ "Maya Tung"? (Found on YouTube) “if you can’t control your anger, someone else will.” ~ @2wonderful2u 's dad (Found on YouTube?) [In response to "I'm still perplexed by the idea that GPU drivers contain per-game optimizations and this is considered normal and desirable."] “@wolf480pl@mstdn.io This is what consumers want. They want things to work immediately no matter how much duct tape is used under the hood. BUT they will also complain if they can see the duct tape, and they will complain when the technical debt causes problems later.” ~ @quad@akko.quad.moe “They're going to say you can't have any privacy, for national security reasons. And when you ask why they have privacy, they'll say it's for national security reasons.” ~ @mhoye@mastodon.social (https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115747555840063050)