Chris Caple

@chriscaple
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Toronto person who is a person in Toronto.

Strongly in favour of things that are good. Firmly opposed to things that are bad.

PronounsHe/him I guess, sort of. Mostly. More or less. Probably.
AgeYes
CO2 at Birth331.36 ppm
A few things I knowRuby, Rails, JavaScript, some AI and ML

@StillIRise1963 The "something he did" is genocide though.

Which is the terminal point of fascism. The ultimate horror that people fight fascists to prevent.

Biden's already done it. Continues to do it.

If the argument here is "you have to re-elect the guy currently doing genocide because the other guy will genocide even harder" we're really at a point where the lesser of two evils rationale has entirely collapsed.

I didn't appreciate that zeppelins carried passengers within their envelopeโ€”I figured everybody went in the gondola, and thought they just couldnโ€™t carry many people. But, no, the gondola was just for the pilot. This setup reduced drag and could carry nearly 100 people at about 80 mph.

Bring back airships! They're as fast as U.S. trains, but don't require tracks, and are really efficient means of travel.

@waldoj That looks like vastly more fun than traveling by plane. Or train for that matter.
@338Canada We're in for some severely bad times, man.

A fun geoengineering project would be to terraform Venus. Reverse its runaway greenhouse effect, render it habitable for humans.

We should do that, collectively. As a species. As a unifying long term goal. Aim to have it completed by, say, 3800 CE.

Finally got to try a #vegan burger at Soy Boys on Church at Maitland today. Superb! Deeply satisfying classic burger experience, sans murder. Highly recommended. Best vegan burger in #Toronto that I know of. Beats Odd Burger handily. https://www.soyboysburgers.ca/
HOME | Soy Boys

Soy Boys is the only plant-based fast food joint in the village. Satisfy your hunger with a burger, fries or swirl of soft serve. For every burger purchased, one tree is planted through the Eden Reforestation project. Soy Boys is the only plant-based fast food joint in the village. Satisfy your hunger with a burger, fries or swirl of soft serve. For every burger purchased, one tree is planted through the Eden Reforestation project.

Soy Boys

#Meta will not be pleased that @BBCRD has abandoned #Threads while still maintaining their self hosted #Mastodon account.

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ #BBC Gives Up On Threads (By #Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon https://darnell.day/bbc-gives-up-on-threads-by-instagram-sticks-with-mastodon (via @[email protected])

Too Long; Did Not Read:

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ Many brands are abandoning Threads (including #NFL)
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ Metaโ€™s geo news ban of #Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ could have spooked BBC
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ Lack of public Threads API makes it difficult to automate posting news
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ BBC just prefers Mastodon

BBC Gives Up On Threads (By Instagram), Sticks With Mastodon

So numerous brands are giving up on Threads by Instagram, allegedly due to lack of engagement (ironically, most of them are still using...

Darnell (Seize The Day)

Friend of mine who works as a waitress just came down with her sixth #covid infection.

Sixth. Six times.

@arstechnica I super-hope this is pronounced "seskweeterpeens".
@Pxtl True! You're the first. Use it in good health - bsky-social-brr3u-rqvzr