Huh, this always seemed like such an institution it never occurred to me that people have to produce Farmers' Almanac. Which of course they do. Didn't have this on my bingo card today, makes me a little sad.

The brand has 200 years of value. They could easily sell it. It’s a respectable decision to shut it down instead.

I bet County Highway would be interested in acquiring this. https://www.countyhighway.com/about

Content farmers, you mean.

Engagement Farmers Almanac, A Guide to Brainrot

Especially as data centers start displacing the amber waves of grain in America's hinterlands.

Isn't the Server Farmer's Almanac basically stuff like the UNIX handbook and the like?

Ah yes, the soul of humanity reduced to silicon.

Maybe intended as wordplay with scrutable, which is a word?

It's a perfectly cromulent word

Is a cromulent word a cromule?

I like to think of continuity as always having more "resolution" available if a sharper "picture" is required. It is _weird_ though.

Constructive mathematics can handle rational numbers. Rational numbers are continuous, in the sense of being infinitely sub dividable. That is, between N/M and (N+1)/M lies (2N+1) / (2M).

The issue there I think is the idea of two reals having a "between."

Any two real numbers x and y are either equal or have an infinite number of reals between them don’t they? If your real numbers are x and y, then (x+y)/2 for example. The density of the rationals in the reals means that one of the numbers between them is provably a rational number.

For sure, I meant something more like a slot with a name.

(I work in social media content moderation.)

Echoing some other comments here, I highly recommend (in strongest possible terms) that you sit down with a lawyer well versed in Internet law wherever you are based out of and lay all of this out on the table for them.

All it takes is a bored official finding this thread or your site directly and your sincere effort here will transform into some kind of nightmare. Particularly given some of the major political swings recently, you have a target on your back and no megacorp legal team to protect you.

It is crazy easy to end up hosting an image known to NCMEC as seriously bad news and have no idea. Or NCII and not have an adequate reporting/actioning mechanism. Or someone tosses your user DB and people get harassed, swatted, or worse.

Not to mention you yourself are a target. By working on your passion project you've definitely already crossed lines that put you at physical risk if your info gets out. And over time the chance that it will climbs toward certainty.

I don't mean to dissuade you or wrap subtext in plausible corpolegal BS. I do mean, one human being to another, that you aren't merely building a fun community for people, you've also entered a field where very real, very heavy consequences--legal or not--now need to be a core part of your daily risk calculus.

Yes, huge +1 to this OP, especially if you're American bc you are heading for a big collision with FOSTA-SESTA and other legal issues that could put you and your users at risk of harm.

Someone should set up a website with nothing but LLM generated content, to troll these officials.

GP mentioned NCMEC, those guys don't care if it's generated or not. Anything aligns their preference gets labeled as "nonconsensual child pornography" and they come after your hosting, DNS, payment, visas, so on. Consensus or IRL children aren't their concerns.

Well LLMs don't generate their precious blackmail material so there's no legal reason to hand anything over.

Ultimately they'll flashbang you on a Sunday morning, put you on a no-fly list, and circulate warrants, at least until you add heavy geoblocking and start framing them right so they'll be the socially awkward side. They won't ask you for a list of clientele, they can look that up, they're after contents.

this administration in particular has made it a priority to make examples of trans people and use them for political points. make sure you have ALL your legal ducks in a row if you're going to run something like this.

DPR is free!! I'm very happy for him and hope he makes good on this second lease on life.

My read of the end of this is that the author of TFA replaces the "elevated" interpretations in the cited academic works with "the fly scene's purpose is the be awesome (Leonesque)"--is that right?

Love this movie and the scene but definitely don't relate much to more involved interpretations. That said, I'm the first to admit I'm no sophisticate and am interested in other takes.

One _possible_ out for Snakey here is that in old percussion cap revolvers (like Colt Dragoon), the safe thing to do was keep an empty chamber in front of the hammer when not engaged in active shooting. It's been a while though, and my fuzzy memory leans more toward the guns supposed to be Single Action Army-esque and not cap/ball era so maybe no excuse for Snakey after all.

Did your mechanic visit happen soon thereafter? Was it alive?

The visit was a few months afterwards, and he changed the air filters without comment. If it was still alive, or mutated into something ungodly, I would've known. Unless the mechanic is now host to something worse, and that's the reason he didn't speak... I think I'll change mechanic for good measure.

My read of responsible people are corporate officers and executives--people who actually choose what to work on and are substantially rewarded by the corporation.