One of several. Though the most famous equivalent to Vermin Supreme in the UK is probably Screaming Lord Such (RIP) of The Monster Raving Loony Party. He was a staple of elections in the UK for a couple of decades.

Fun fact: when Such finished ahead of the candidate for the struggling Social Liberal Democratic Party (SDLP) in a by-election, the SDLP officially and permanently shut themselves down. So Such basically caused the death of a legitimate (but failing) political party.

Another UK candidate is Lord Buckethead (of the Monster Raving Loony Party).

As a side note, there have been many one-off UK prank candidates too, like the Alfred The Chicken Party (which was advertising a new video game), and the Mongolian BBQ’s A Great Place To Party (advertising a restaurant).

They did that in the beginning. But in the later seasons that went out the window and it became all “I feel a presence!” and stupid intra-team drama.

The beatings layoffs will continue until morale improves!

Fucked around ✅

Found out ✅

Yes. Yes it does.

So, a Martian Congressional Republic? It does sound like something those damned dusters would pull.

What next? The denizens of the asteroid belt calling for more rights and designating an Outer Planet Alliance, while a mysterious proto-molecule wreaks havoc on the Solar System?

The first definition of ‘execute’ on Merrium Webster is this:

To put into effect; carry out.

Which seems very in keeping with running a software command.

What’s the Lemmy community name?

Sound like it’s her brother’s ex-wife.

Yeah. A better caption for it would be:

Gen X waiting to see the snarky hellfire Gen Z will rain down on those in power.

SyFy cancelled The Expanse. Amazon picked it up and funded it to completion. Although only because Bezos loves the novels and was livid that StyFy got it in the first place.

That look when you’re low level and poor, and you have to wear whatever the quest giver hand you as rewards.

And SponsorBlock, and BlockTube.

Some Lemmy instances were also down because of it.

Edit: At least that was the case for me.

So that’s what George R R Martin looked like when he was young!

I didn’t think you’re stirring up fear. You are spreading knowledge and giving people the opportunity to prepare as best they can. Nothing wrong with that.

It’s not just your files, although backing them up is important. If we get hit by another Carrington event it will quite possibly fry a lot of electronics.

I have a very rudimental Faraday Cage setup for this scenario. It’s just a steel bucket with a steel lid that’s lined on the inside with cardboard, and with aluminum foil on the outside to seal off the joins. But if I get notice that such an event is about to hit I’ll be throwing some critical smaller electronics (notable a raspberry pi and a mini monitor), cables, and a mini solar panel+plus inverter into it (along with my backup device) and sealing it up with more aluminum tape.

Exactly.

This is going to be the next Google searches thing, isn’t it. People being ignorant to, or forgetting that corporations are saying everything they say or do. And then bring all shocked when they get exploited for profits or reported to authorities for doing shady things.

Rinse and repeat.

This is an interesting and smart use case for locally run (and properly siloed) AI. Kind of an “identify any broad trends when it comes to spending habits based on this statement data, with particular focus on discretionary spending and areas where I can save money”.

Have you tinkered with any LLMs for this? If so, which ones do better than others? I could see SLMs being really good for this eventually.

How… perplexing!