2112 does go fucking hard, Temples of Syrinx was one of my all-time favourite songs, and I listened to it for years on a bad audio system without being able to understand the lyrics properly. Once I started hearing them properly, though, it started feeling a bit sus (I’m a big lyrics person) which lead me to find the interview above. I’m glad to hear they’ve changed since then, though.

Wrote several books about how the rich are rich because they make society gooder and invent all the things, and the poor workers would be lost without them (therefore libertarian capitalism is the best system). Among other proto-fascist ideologies. If you want a longer form, Angela Collier has a really good video that goes in-depth a bit more, “Billionaires want you to know they could have done Physics” on YouTube or Nebula (Ayn Rand portion starts at around 26:00, but the whole video is pretty good)

Slander, Weird Al would never follow the teachings of Ayn Rand (sorry to anyone that this may have killed the band for, it certainly killed them for me).

Edit: I seem to have missed them growing with time. No idea where they stand now

Was he Roderick Heffley???

People say “RTFM” then you get to the manual and it’s this

IDK, a lot of people seem to talk about the Bizarre Summer.

Yes, but it would probably be a multi-decade, career-defining project if you want it to be any good. It would likely work with all files since it’s all just data once you get to the FS level anyway, but other devices would need an appropriate driver (that you would also need to write) in order to use it.

Note that I’m not an expert in this field, so others should correct me if I’ve got something wrong here.

This… Might just be the modern-day Monopoly

My Jong? Isn’t that the game Chinese grandmas play? (/j)

TØP is probably the band Twenty One Pilots (stylised as Twenty Øne Pilots), and from Google they have an album called Trench, in the music videos of which people hold flaming torches (haven’t watched the videos, so I don’t know why).

Is that a Robots reference? In the Year of Our Lord 2025? Incredible…

https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#ass

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination

That is a great theory and until an excited nerd tells me otherwise it’s what I’m going to choose to believe (albeit without telling anyone else just in case)

Senn-torr

The “taur” is probably the same root as in “Taurus” and "el Toro"¹, which I’ve only ever heard said like torr, so I say it the same. The first part I don’t think is ever said anything other than “senn” right?

¹I can’t back that up, since they mean bull not horse and I have no sources. We do see the same root pop up in “Minotaur” from the same language though, and that is a part bull part man.

He got a transplant after 100 days, according to the article. This was just to keep him alive until he was able to receive it. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/12/australian-man-survives-100-days-with-artificial-heart-in-world-first-success

There should be an “all” tab or feed that you can go to on your platform - Mastodon has one, not sure about Pixelfed, and Lemmy has one too, that may give you the diversity that you’re looking for?

Free as in freedom, not as in beer.

I drink the water, and then I have to go somewhere else to undrink the water 5 minutes later!

Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek Question mark (;), provided they’re working in a language that uses semicolons at the end of every line, and their IDE doesn’t highlight the difference (which some do now)