Yeah, I almost typed “(rhetorical question)” there but I figured it was obvious.

Shah Alam had been in the Erie county holding center for the past year, after being arrested by Buffalo police in 2025 on charges of assault, trespassing and possession of a weapon. The arrest stemmed from an incident in which Shah Alam got lost while on a walk and ended up on the porch of a woman’s home. He had been using a curtain rod as a walking stick, according to his attorney. The woman called the police, and when Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they tasered and beat him, his attorney said. He was released on bail, and then transferred to border patrol custody. Border patrol agents then dropped him off at a Tim Hortons about five miles from his home. Neither his attorney nor his family were notified of his release.

Holy shit! Will there be any kind of accountability for this at all?!

charges of assault, trespassing and possession of a weapon.

Sounds bad? Translation: Assault = cops beat him for being disabled/unable to follow instructions; Trespassing = Finding his way to someone’s porch after getting lost and needing help; Possession of a “weapon” = holding a curtain rod he was using as a navigation cane.

As long as his mother doesn’t turn him in he’s safe.

Wish Mastodon had like a default “what’s hot” or “Discover” feed. Really helps find people to follow as well.

You mean like Mastodon’s “Trending” and “Discover” feeds?

Those must be pit vipers.

Let’s see, you have a lighthouse, docks, market, – What is the large building with blue windows?

You could add a couple warehouses, maybe a dry dock where ships are built or repaired. I think your ships look pretty good, I can’t give you any advice on that, since I never build ships. :) Maybe a dock could extend out more and have a section at right angles to it where a ship could pull up alongside for loading/unloading cargo.

Maybe toward the water’s end on the left behind that one ship you could have a marina area for the small personal boats of the townspeople and/or house boats.

Oh yeah, good idea. Catching zombie villagers is probably easier than transporting villagers from elsewhere. And you get better prices.

Making progress!

Interesting, I don’t know how you would have gotten the experimental villager trading rebalance turned on by accident, that’s never happened to me.

But I thought there were still no naturally generated Swamp or Jungle villages, so you have to bring in villagers and make your own village there and breed them to get the swamp or jungle villagers. Did they add them later? Have you ever found any already existing villages in the swamp or jungle? That would be cool. And how do you like the new trading system compared to the old/normal way?

You found a really nice location for it.

I hate it because I won’t be able to escape from it. It will permeate everything and destroy whatever bit of functional society we have left. Forget about the internet becoming nothing but AI bots talking to each other, eventually most IRL interactions will be diverted to AI or have to be screened through AI. You already can’t talk to a human at any online businesses, and even companies that have phone numbers route you through endless menus–those will all become AI bots too, and repeating “representative” into the phone will do you no longer do any good.

Even doctors are already using it now, to shave a few more minutes off each appointment, by getting an AI summary of the patient’s records (probably full of wrong info) so they don’t have to bother to read the chart. Then they record the visit and get an AI summary of it (again likely full of errors), so they don’t have to write anything either. That is already happening now. It’s bad enough now when you can usually only get in to see the nurse practitioner instead of the doctor (while paying the same fee as when you do see the doctor), it won’t be long before we’ll be limited to chatting with an “AI practitioner” (and still paying the same rate).

Um … boomers and gen-x finished raising their kids a long time ago. Even their kids are done or close to done raising their own kids.

No, it isn’t. No more than concentrating on anything else is. It’s kind of sad that so few people read books anymore that it’s perceived as being like a trance. What about daydreaming or watching a movie or playing a video game? Are those trances or like drugs? I’d say those are at least as if not more escapist than reading a book.

She’s a Repedolican, but I can see why you’re confused because everyone likes to pretend she’s somehow less extreme than the other ones. She’s not, just puts on a little show of “being concerned” about things, but always votes right along with the rest of them.

She knows it gives her the best chance of being re-elected.

Do these people think they’re going live forever? Something twists the minds of everyone who gains power. They become absolutely incapable of giving it up voluntarily.

In reverse chronological order:

• The Good Place.
• The Sopranos
• Seinfeld (maybe not the character depth, but the writing)
• Shogun (6-episode miniseries, does that count?)
• The original Bob Newhart show, the one with Suzanne Pleshette.

The suggested 9.5 percent increase would affect more than three million single-family homes, co-ops and condos and over 100,000 commercial buildings, Mr. Mamdani said as he delivered his preliminary spending plan.

The mayor acknowledged that his proposal would not merely force the wealthy to pay more taxes, but would also be a “tax on working- and middle-class New Yorkers,” and stressed that this was not his first choice.

Welp.

Because they want it covered up as much as the US government does.

Yeah I thought it was ironic that the guy giving false testimony about “Corolado” is named Todd’s Lyin’ (Todd Lyons).

Go to an ophthalmologist if you haven’t yet, they are a real medical doctor eye specialist. Optometrists only deal with a few basics and while they screen for eye diseases, they mainly just measure and prescribe corrective lenses, they don’t give a diagnosis or prognosis.

BTW my eyes used to get more and more nearsighted over time until I got bifocals. They have a different prescription in the bottom part so when I read or do close up work my eyes aren’t fighting against a far vision Rx. If you read a lot or do a lot of close up stuff you might want to ask about that.