Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

hey fedi can yall help me out? a story went around a while back, where some state's government was working on passing a bill that requires durable medical equipment (ie, wheelchair) repairs to have wait times within weeks, rather than months

i can't find it, don't remember what state, what phase the bill was in/if it passed, etc

edit: someone found it!!! thanks yall!!! https://brooklyn.news12.com/incredibly-frustrating-new-law-will-dramatically-speed-up-wheelchair-repairs

it's fucking wild to me that we have a real life Voight-Kampff test and it fucking works

please boost for more answers 🙏🏾

just trying to gauge if people feel something like I do:

when you see your name written somewhere, do you "feel it in your heart" ?(like a pull or a strong identification with it. it is really fucking hard for me to describe it)

given name, chosen name or... something else.

The developers of that revival engine were pretty pissed off about the leak and said the launcher is "incomplete" and that it never should've been released, and that they're still working "behind the scenes" and made "a lot of progress" in it...

It's been DECADES since then and nothing else really materialized from it, and the launcher honestly works flawlessly for most of us, so honestly if it weren't for the leak many of us would've never gotten to use it at all :/

To elaborate: When EA shut it down in 2003, one of its developers got pissed off and leaked a developer build of the game that has (VERY) limited offline playability.

Then, later, some people tried to work on a revival engine for it, but it became vaporware and never amounted to anything... then its developers had a schism and one of them leaked the mostly-functional GUI launcher for playing it in single-player... purely out of spite.

And now everyone who still plays the game nowadays uses it!

I know nobody really cares about this stuff, but

I find it both funny and sad that the only reason I can even still play Motor City Online nowadays is because of two different people leaking important files out of spite

Want to say to anybody who is disabled and financially struggling:

You didn't fail. Society fails. There is enough money to take care of you. Please don't add self-blame and self-doubt to your struggles.

Society failed you. They chose to not see your needs.

being a programmer is hard when you wanna share your work like your arty friends but your program output looks like this and no one will ever understand or appreciate the complexity involved

I hate that when I write a particularly good email at work, nowadays everyone will just assume I used ChatGPT. Even if I’m still better at it than the bot. Something I’ve always taken pride in has been commoditized. Without getting into whether or not that’s good for the world, it’s a bad feeling for me personally.

Heeft iemand van jullie wel eens mensen met de auto naar station Gouda gebracht en kun je bevestigen dat je daar gewoon van zuid naar noord doorheen kan teleporteren? Apple Maps denkt dat het kan namelijk.