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- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 hours ago:
I’m not trapped in here with you. You’re trapped in here with me!
- Comment on How we are brought into this world 2 days ago:
- Comment on Linux rules! How do you like my desktop? 2 days ago:
It really kicks the
llama’sgnu’s ass - Comment on Ads used to be different 💔 1 week ago:
The actual ad, if one is feeling like a fuddy duddy.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 1 week ago:
Like a candle in the wind…
- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 1 week ago:
The first Fantastic Beasts movie is set in New York, and it makes several appearances in the supporting lore books. Apparently, Americans don’t really like Quidditch, preferring some sort of magical-explosions basketball-ish game.
- Comment on I assure you, it's not good. 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so I’ll point out that Murray Rothbard and David Gordon are prominent in the “Everything should be completely equal and fair as long as we first enshrine my generations of privilege” Austrian-school economists, beloved of white guys everywhere who never got over their Ayn Rand phase.
- Comment on Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside. 2 weeks ago:
With apologies to the baseball fans in the room…
The definition of woke:
You can’t just be up there and just doin’ a woke like that.
1a. Woke is when you
1b. Okay well listen. Woke is when the woke mob
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The blue haired liberal is not allowed to say to the, uh, patriot, that prohibits the patriot from doing, you know, just trying to oppress the fringe groups. You can’t do that.
1c-b. Once the blue haired liberal is in the kindergarten classroom, she can’t be over here and say to the patriot, like, “I’m gonna get ya! I’m gonna teach your kids about pronouns! You better watch your butt!” and then just be like he didn’t even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you’re about to teach about racist history and then don’t teach it, you have to still teach. You cannot not teach. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, pooping in the right bathroom, and then, until you just wash your hands.
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the drag queen, like this, but then there’s the children you gotta think about.
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. Woke is when the teacher, err drag queen, says or does a thing that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the history and CRT
Do not do a woke please
- Comment on I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel" 2 weeks ago:
My buddy’s older brother did the thing where you remove the little filter cylinders from the coax in, I think(?), the curbside junction box. I saw the cylinders and the result, but not the deed.
- Comment on Get. Out 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it can repost racist MAGA slop, creep on the granddaughters of ex-girlfriends, and put private messages into the public feed, just like your dad!
- Comment on Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network 3 weeks ago:
This is pretty much what I said to my wife while scritching my dogs. First it’ll just be expanded to missing kids and olds, because of course everyone wants to reunite families, but eventually it’ll be something that “law enforcement” can request for whatever the hell they want, because after all they’re the good guys keeping us safe!
- Comment on Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste. 3 weeks ago:
But, and here me out, it’s also wicked cool.
Ours is more stick-shaped though, and really only good for candle wicks. If we smoked, you might be able to get a cigarette into the arc. It’d probably also work well if your grill’s or gas stove’s spark iginter was broken.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 3 weeks ago:
Interesting. These say they’re from Mexico. It would be pretty underwhelming if there’s a blander variety.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 3 weeks ago:
But the tart ones are the good ones.
- Comment on Would the tart blueberries taste as good if you didn't have to randomly power through 3 to 5 bland ones between each good one? 3 weeks ago:
Raspberry for me, though I’m not sure if it’s fully artificial or “just” ultra-processed. It’s also partly because I like that flavor but I’m mildly allergic and about 25% of the time I eat it, my lip swells a bit, so I try to minimize how often I have it.
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- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 3 weeks ago:
I was using a 2012 “vintage” minitower PC that originally came with Win7 as a crappy little plex/local FTP/Minecraft server, and I had been wanting to try MacOS after not seeing it for a while, so I got a Mac Mini with an M2 in it, and while I’ve hardly stressed it, it seems really nice. It’s small and completely silent, and if I did want to use it more, Apple has certainly tried to keep their walled garden pretty and well-organized.
- Comment on The boiled peanut is superior to the baked bean. 4 weeks ago:
…boiled peanuts are best purchased from the elderly or a fat kid at a minivan in a parking lot.
and if any word is spelled correctly on the sign, that’s a sign that they won’t be quite as good.
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
I always liked them better when they were Corvettes.
- Comment on Smuggler's Blues 4 weeks ago:
Naaah, fill it up with weird saber-tooth deer meat. We already know that shit’s irresistible to Wookiees.
- Comment on Noooooo 5 weeks ago:
For it’s not so much that it’s going to be an unnecessary call than that the person just doesn’t want to collect their thoughts or (worse) doesn’t want to say what they want in writing. It’s usually going to be some ask that’s completely apart from anything I’ve been thinking about in the past 5-10 days, might be sketchy, and they apparently seem to think it’s urgent and/or nuanced, yet they’re just going to completely hold out on providing context and time that would let me be prepared for whatever pile of shit they’re about to dump on me.
If you can’t communicate it to me in a slack message or two, there’s a very real possibility that either you don’t know what you want, or that I can’t help you with it on a cold call.
- Comment on Noooooo 5 weeks ago:
I can literally feel myself deflating when I get these, like it’s a huge involuntary sigh accompanied by the classic heart-sinking…
…followed by a deep breath and a “Sure! 👍”
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 5 weeks ago:
Both things could be true.
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 5 weeks ago:
7-11 theoretically already has it for their app; you scan with your phone and pay with Apple or Google Pay. The only thing is that you’re supposed to sort of wave the completed transaction at the cashier as you go, but the only reason you’d really need to use portable self-checkout is if the cashier is busy, and when they’re busy they don’t want you breaking in line or to stop what they’re doing to see that you’re showing them a plausibly legitimate checkout screen.
In a completely, utterly, definitely unrelated story, I got accused of shoplifting by a 7-11 cashier the other day.
- Comment on R.B. Hoadley 5 weeks ago:
It drives me nuts that I can’t quite tell if that piece of tongue-in-groove (LOL) flooring is white oak, possibly varnished, or some sort of tight-grained pine.
Also, apparently Professor Hoadley was a really nice guy and very well respected.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 5 weeks ago:
I hadn’t actually looked up any numbers on the RAM shortage. Less than a year ago I got 2 8GB sticks of no-name PC3200 DDR4 for less than $25. I didn’t even really need it for my use-case, but it was so cheap that “why not” felt like a perfectly viable reason to upgrade to 32GB total. Six years ago I got the original two-pack of 8GB sticks for $75. Now that same amount of old-ass DDR4 would be $90-$100. Jeezus. No upgrades for me for a while.
- Comment on This hotel has a map for roof access in case of a fire. Most men have issues figuring it out 1 month ago:
“Hotel,” nothin’. That’s clearly the Selina Meyer Presidential Library.
- Comment on Linux Slicer 2 months ago:
This is my experience. I do CAD in Windows, but Orcaslicer only works properly in Linux. On Windows, it tends to crash when I tell it to generate gcode for anything but the smallest prints.
Just as well, really. It reminds me to reboot, so I haven’t tried to fix it.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 months ago:
Very little has been tested yet, but the general thinking is that there’s probably no longer any generation cap, except for babies born since the new change went into effect a couple of weeks ago. The real trick is in proving it. From what I have read, the Canadian bureaucracy that processes these has usually asked for primary documentation, so actual birth certificates or centrally maintained religious records, and only once those have been exhaustively searched and the relevant local offices throw up their hands (via an official “we tried” letter) will they consider things like census forms and border-crossing logs.