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So before you start on with "why do rich kids get their breakfast paid for too? How come it's not means tested…" about Pennsylvania's new school lunch program.

Here's a thing.

There are plenty of rich and middle class parents who withhold food from their kids as punishment, religious nonsense, or to coerce behaviors. News flash: family can be downright evil.

Also means testing is just a fancy way to exclude the poor.

Every kid, every person, has a right to three squares a day.

If you're so upset, push to raise taxes on those rich parents.

found this refreshing drink at Lidl, anyone else want one while i’m here?

@0xabad1dea "JSON? That JavaScript thing? Nobody uses that, it's all XML."

The monkey's paw at the heart of the time machine lowers one finger.

The time traveler had started with something so small it couldn’t possibly hurt anything: the spelling of the name of some fictional bears. The timeline held. Next, they tampered with some movies. Still no butterfly effect, so far so good. Now it was time to alter something important, something worthwhile. Something that would improve the world.

The traveler nervously approaches someone in the present after emerging from the machine. “Tell me… does json support comments?”

#microfiction

ingmar bergman's the seventh seal is one of the most underrated episodes of looney tunes ever put to film

This news has caused some people to ask why "women's chess" even exists -- women can compete in the open tournament. The women's competitions were a recognition of just how far behind chess is when it comes to cultivating and welcoming female players.

Not that shocking they are even more far behind when it comes to even knowing what that would mean. (eg not excluding trans women.)

But all this misses the bigger point. They don't want any trans people at all in their games.

This has mostly been reported as "trans women banned from women's chess" but it's much more sinister. (as if it weren't already.)

ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.

If you play or know anyone who does take a stand on this. It's ugly.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/international-chess-org-trans-women?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

i love furries we're so funny

[commenting on a nsfw furry tf comic] i really appreciate how you've rendered the protagonist's tits getting bigger by having them increasingly spill out of the panels page by page until the grid is finally enveloped by her mammoth mammaries. not great fap material but the comics is good

Boost if you think trans people are neat 🏳️‍⚧️

Say it with me. Locking a hardware feature your product ships with behind a paywall is neither a "service", nor is it something that entitles you to receive a subscription payment.

Lately, I've seen a lot of publishers/developers using machine translation to localize their store descriptions and/or achievements. This is doing more harm than just leaving them in English! If I saw such a description, I would assume that the whole game looks like this and, therefore, not buy it. And it's particularly annoying for the game's translators, as players may assume they're responsible. Please don't do it. Thanks! 🙏

my solution for inheritance works perfectly 😤 and it's beautiful 🥺 https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/c6837f4eaf7ad61655aee09d268780adbe19081f

I CAN FINALLY TALK ABOUT SECRET PROJECT!

My dear friend and colleague, Jamie Garner, and I are now OFFICIALLY under contract to write and publish a scholarly book on the rhetoric and cultural retransmission of transgender comics, particularly webcomics! Yes, this is an outgrowth of "Can I Offer You An Egg In These Trying Times," and I'm delighted and excited to get to work writing a whole book on why the Queerantine flood of trans comics was something really special.

#Trans #Transjoy #academia

I WILL CHASE ALL OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CATS AT NIGHT

HOLY SHIT I HAVE A WORKING NVD MY LIFE IS LITERALLY PERFECT

Different surface patterns on the tower. On each level, the tower will have a different pattern.

I wonder how I can eliminate the visual banding in the texture mapping.

exciting programming problem in touchHLE: supporting inheritance for instance variables. look at how gnarly this is:

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/ae5b7a8d6513e3204d3c2eab1f250cdcf8930ee5

i have an idea for a neater solution, but it will involve descending further into the land of Anys and 'statics and 'as and dyns :3

THE BAD NEWS: i have ran head-first into the borrow checker struggling with mutable borrows in loops again ;_;
THE GOOD NEWS: unsafe { &mut *(a as *mut _) } is my friend and would never hurt me :3