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Kai
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They don't want to understand, they want to be tankies
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Minneapolis is great
The Mary Tyler Moore statue in Minneapolis but it's dressed up like a Founding Father and holding an American flag
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Trump on No Kings: It says no kings we're allowed to have one
A ginger telling a young Homer Simpson "it says no homers were allowed to have one"
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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this one definitely got a bit of a double take from me...
October 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Eh, read the actual description of the service, it's absolutely useful for a security system to be able to do this...

And yeah it's part of their paid Google Home tier
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Nah, these are legitimately useful for a security system (certainly much better than the current mess of scrolling through a ton of borderline useless 'package/vehicle/person detected' alerts or scrubbing through hours of video to figure out what happened)
Three new features of Google Home Get alerts that tell the whole story: Gemini now provides AI descriptions directly in your alerts and your camera video history. This gives you a full narrative of what’s happening instead of just seeing a “motion detected” alert — you’re learning if it’s a delivery arriving or just a shadow moving. Catch up on your day in seconds: Previously if you were away at work all day or on a trip and need to catch up quickly, you had to manually scroll through a long timeline of individual video clips, or hundreds of notifications to try and piece the story together yourself. Now, Home Brief cuts through all that noise for you. It automatically identifies the day’s important events and summarizes hours of footage into a quick, digestible summary delivered each evening with relevant video clips from that day’s events. You can read to catch up on what happened at a glance and ask follow up questions. And you can customize your home brief to make it shorter or longer or focus on the things that matter most to you like your pets or packages. Find any clip, just by asking: But what about when you’re not looking to catch up but to find a specific moment? With, Ask Home you can search hours, even days, of your video history using natural language. It's perfect for convenient questions like, "What time did the kids get home?" and also for getting critical information fast, like asking, "Did I leave the car door open?" You can type your question in the app or just ask your speaker or display.
October 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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When someone replies to your email
a bunch of people praying
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I don't know what I expected but ... ah!
An eye made out of a tooth
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Well this was a lot of fun to wake up to (in Koh Lanta, Thailand)
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I was missing the NYT needle so I made my own
the nyt election needle but one side says "pope pizzaballa" and the other side says "some other pope" - the needle is leaning pizzaballa
May 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I text a lot of politics so for some reason google photos thinks these are people I know
April 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Ah, time to bust out my favorite haiku
April 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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What you don't like to play "one of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn't belong" every time you open the goddamn start menu?
April 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Oh god I did this exactly at 36
April 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I did a bit of googling and I found this, might have to manually update drivers in Windows before it gets detected... If NOTHING shows in Device Manager, I'd try a USB 2.0 hub specifically
1. Download dfu-programmer. 2. Plug a USB A-A cable from PC to Teletype. 3. Power up Teletype holding the push button to boot the MCU into the bootloader. 4. Your computer will setup the new device, go to Device Manager and update the drivers manually, pointing to the driver folder included with dfu-programmer when prompted. Don’t try to skip installing the proper drivers, or dfu-programmer will throw errors.
April 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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lol, lmao even
March 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Hotel Nacional, Cuba, NYE
A messed up plate IDK it was like lox on an extremely mayo heavy coleslaw
March 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Post a warning
An IBM slide from 1979 declaring, “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
March 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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I did that two years ago and never looked back (granted, the other car is a cumbersome expensive electric SUV)
March 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Ah, that special time of year when we get a foot of snow overnight and the Jeep gets to play
A plugged in hybrid green-grey Jeep Wrangler covered in snow
March 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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lmao there's a Malcolm Gladwell BMW podcast ad and this is basically my thought every time it comes on
February 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Just a shockingly stupid guy
February 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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wait it's fucking Blackwater are you kidding me
February 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Sadly accurate
February 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The pomelo kept reminding me of the hybridization of citrus - intentional?
It's a chart of the different citrus fruit combinations - pomelo being one of the 'mother' citruses
January 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM