Knowing that poem meant I got chills from the opening lyrics to the Mayans M.C. theme song when I heard it for the first time:

Mother of Exiles, the torch of hope.

In the toss of the tempest, threw us Madison’s rope.

But the brazen giant, with limbs astride, blocks the golden door to the US of Lies, screaming:

Fuck your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses.

I am a wolf, a wild cur, cut from the pack, with blood on my fur. Every howl marks the dead.

Cause a beaten dog never forgets.

My eyes are such that I can’t tell if the script on that cardboard container is Tamil, Thai, AI, or something else.

This is made more difficult by google search continuing to suck out loud and returning results that include nicknames for people and TikTok home recipe challenges instead of historical facts on international menu items.

Even “verbatim” barely works anymore.

Anyone know what other names the McTaco may have gone by in the past?

Thank you for the clarification

My first question, working only with the headline and the first paragraph of the post was “I wonder if I can flash this to a smart TV I currently own?” I was excited. Maybe we’d finally made progress and I could have something superior to my early experiments with serviio some 10+ years ago.

Then I got to here and stopped caring because this makes it worse than any Roku in my book:

This project uses various open-source components like Plasma Bigscreen, Mycroft AI, LibCEC

Why does it have AI in it?

Do some of the same shit the Republicans have been doing for ages any time THEY are in the minority.

There should be a daily press briefing with Pete B, Bernie S., or Alexandria O.C. that’s covered by every journalist who’s been kicked out of the white house. Call that shit “The American Way” briefing and compare the events of the last 24 hours of trump BS to the constitution and the declaration of independence.

Obstruct every last piece of illegal garbage the Republican Nazis are trying to get away with loudly and publicly.

Put themselves OUT THERE in the public eye as AGAINST FACISM and go full-on captain America on those Nazi Republicans.

A site that started as a forum for one particular class in one old (pre-dates WoW) MMO.

The population dipped a little when Facebook took off then nosedived again 6+ years later when reddit started getting super popular, but there are still a handful and change of us around with old friends dropping in to visit here and there.

Find an open source project that’s coded in your language of choice that you both care about (edit – or that looks interesting to you, at least) and want to add functionality to.

Download a working copy, then, since you’re learning with this, pretend the repo doesn’t exist anymore and you’re on your on with your self-imposed assignment.

Figure out what functionality you want to add, start with changing or augmenting something simple, and figure out where that would go in the existing code, and make it happen.

See if you can manage to Google search your way past any errors you run into, preferably alternating between ai answers and things like stack overflow posts, only instead of copy-pasting the code that errors out (or the solution code you get from ai or posts) actually step through things and figure out what the “solution” code is doing differently and ask yourself why and how that makes a difference or has a different effect from the code that generated the error in the first place. Then decide whether it’s actually likely to fix the error or not. If you think it’s going to? Try using it.

If it works, make sure you understand why.

If it doesn’t, try to figure out why not.

Keep going until you have a working new feature.

Then try a more complicated feature.

After a few of those, try tackling some of the bugs in the repo.

The war on Christmas CANNOT END until Christmas ceases its illegal occupation of November.

We are once again calling on the Claus regime to return to their side of the borders outlined in the Black Friday agreement.

I was actually impressed when I took a bus across state lines in the U.S. recently.

Someone was complaining about the charger on their seat not working.

Turns out that the driver has full control of the power to the USB ports on the bus and can turn them off and on at will… and they apparently they turn them off BY DEFAULT.

If someone WERE to figure out a way to get from the USB port in the seats to the CAN Bus on the vehicle itself, having a hard-wired physical switch that cuts power/signal to the ports is potentially a fairly effective security measure as long as there’s not a memory buffer you can compromise and run stuff from.

Okay, so I hit rotten tomatoes, checked movies that were both critics rotten AND audience rotten, and started perusing titles for stuff I thought rocked.

abraham lincoln: vampire hunter

waterworld

hellboy (how is this in here? I thought this was universally loved)

mars attacks! (56 and 53, I also feel like this shouldn’t be on the list. It’s too good, and not in a bad way)

x-men origins: wolverine (again, is this not considered awesome? I thought it was great)

daredevil/elektra (I enjoyed both movies)

and now for stuff I’ve watched at least five times:

the ninth gate

planet of the apes (2001)

avp

prince of persia

green lantern

van helsing

I’m dead serious, I was looking forward to MORE green lantern movies along the lines of that first one. I bought it on amazon having heard nothing about it (I was in a societal black hole for a few years there), watched it, loved it, and was like “sweet, when’s the sequel coming out? I wanna see sinestro do his thing…wow, this did not do well. Fuck.”

I wasn’t super happy with ALL of the writing, but that’s comic stuff in general and I thought the whole thing was still quite enjoyable. Like, multiple rewatches enjoyable. Seeing Hal Jordan on screen and having Ryan Reynolds do it was great.