Andrew Roach @ajroach42@retro.social
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I write and build stuff.
Est. 1990. (He, Him, Etc.)
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I’m sick to death of people being precious about #GMO produce. Functionally there is no difference between a grape bred to have little or no seed and a grape that has been modified in a lab for the same thing. Y’all are just scared of science.
You wanna talk about #Monsanto charging for “licenses” for their crops, ok. Talk about agribusiness killing the planet, ok. Talk about corporations copyrighting genetic code, ok. These are all valid concerns.
But the science is sound.
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@ajroach42 Rod Evans. Ask me anything about Deep Purple.
It is not.
Who is that on Vocals? It's not Blackmore, is it?
Deep Purple covering Help by the Beatles. 
The word company should be up there somewhere.
That's not to say that they were bad guys.
Most of them are pretty great.
But they are, well, young and impulsive and entitled. They 'deserve' a chance to get in to that industry, in their minds.
When I was living in DC, every single one of my co-workers wanted to work for a game development.
All of them.
Some of them were even pretty good at what they do. But most of them are married to living in DC, which means working for bethesda or zenimax.
When they found out I was going to be working for Roblox, more than one of them expressed what can only be described as nearly vitriolic jealousy.
It is sometimes difficult to take #dat serious, because everything is written like they are using "dat" as shorthand for "that".
Dat protocol, tho.
I'm listening to Shades of Deep Purple and planning my weekend.
We're so very nearly unpacked, and I can't wait to be done, so that I can focus my energy on more productive things. (Like contributing to brutaldon!)
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I need to have another creative outlet that doesn't involve a computer..
My computer cannot keep up with what I need it to do, and I am glad that 1) I will be getting paid soon, and 2) I'm getting a new computer soon.
“The current political situation is a situation of constant surveillance. Not only are we constantly watched and monitored, we are also constantly being recorded. Any collection of data becomes a treasure trove of information. A target.”
A long time ago, Sunil Shah convinced me that Kept Pages are better than keeping old revisions of wiki pages forever. This is unlike a source code repositioned. We don’t need version control software for conversation.
https://oddmuse.org/wiki/Kept_Pages
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A dangerous precedent: soda companies paid to put an intentionally harmful but potentially popular measure on the California ballot (all local taxes would require 2/3rds ballot initiatives) and then convinced the legislature to block new municipal soda taxes for 13 years in order to withdraw the measure from the ballot.
Now that large companies are aware of this possibility, I fear the extortion will happen every election year.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-cities-banned-from-imposing-new-soda-13035692.php
The orchid mantis is a big weird lanky bug, which is relatable, but she also rocks high-femme fashion while being a terrifying predator with swords for arms, which is aspirational.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE HEXAGON
A friend (a redneck mechanic) is trying to talk me in to helping him build an electric, off-road, 3-wheeled truck.
I can't think of a good reason not to, other than that driving it might kill me.
So, I guess I'm taking my life in to my own hands.
I lost my only USB C cable a few days ago, and my new little computer died and it charges over USB C and I was real sad.
But then I realized that the lady has many USB C cables to use with her macbook, so I liberated one of those from her and am charging my little computer.
I've missed it.