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- Comment on And the cold in particular. 4 days ago:
No fucking way… Am in the northeast US… gimme at least two weeks of sub-zero (in farenheits) weather so the cold can kill the black fly eggs.
Because again, northeast and of course… Fuck Black Flies.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 6 days ago:
Hmmm. I think I won’t be reinstaling the Epic Games Store app on my gaming PC any time soon. (My old drive failed December of '23…) I’m only playing two games anyhow - Horizon Zero Dawn and No Man’s Sky and both I got through GOG.
NGL, I only tried the Epic Store to get Bioshock on one of their free giveaways… and it turned out to be a bit much.
Really not into body horror games… Or people that make excuses for maintaining platforms that enable the creation, and distribution, of CSAM.
See ya later, Tim.
- Comment on Important video of a pudú fighting a rhinoceros you should watch 1 week ago:
I was thinking at 13 seconds in, the little dance-hop it makes then wags it’s tail… the body movement… That rhino kinda was giving off “let’s play!” vibes.
- Comment on Important video of a pudú fighting a rhinoceros you should watch 1 week ago:
Oh. My. word… that is adorable.
What do you wanna bet they are actually friends and playing?
Thank you for sharing this gem!
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 1 week ago:
Oh, I hope it does get banned and Elon Musk charged for facilitation of creation of CSAM…
I hope, I hope, I hope…
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 1 week ago:
…200 million perverts…
1 insecure individual.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
Uh-huh. And you’re being blind to how the people in this administration are thinking. Your white-passing Venezuelans are on borrowed time.
Let me add that Trump has only groused about the lack of Scandinavian and Germanic - that is, minty-green white northern europeans - coming to America.
Decades ago, people were mocking this kind of thinking. (Can’t find the videos aywhere, but scroll the page and take note of the BUSH ads that were spliced into that particular episode. The third one in particular. I remember seeing it the night it aired.)
We laughed our asses off at the absurdity of it all, now it’s become political reality and I am not laughing anymore.
Take care.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
So… they’re olive-skinned southern Europeans.
Unless they can pass as northern WASPS, and they do not have “ethnic” sounding names, they can try and act as white as they want. However, it will only be a matter of time.
President Drumpf is angling for the 4th Reich and self-loathing acolytes like Steven Miller will happily oblige.
elbarto777 my friend, I know MY people as well.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 week ago:
I’ll say yes… Yes they do.
Trump has made it crystal clear that any non-white South American is subject to deportation on the whim of Steven Miller.
There’s 100 million Americans of latin/african/asian ancestry to deport, after all.
Lilywhite America is gonna want to stay the dominant group, any way - legal, moral or not - it can.
- Comment on Grippy handles too. Luxury. 1 week ago:
Center loo gets the win!
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 week ago:
Ah, yeah. Times and terms change.
I still will pick up old CD’s at thrift stores and flea markets fr a few bucks and rip them to my computer system.
I have a monstrous music library. (don’t even get me going on the vinyl LPs I’ve got)
Had a friend give me a used service drive from a computer repair shop and it had a customer’s backup music library on it as large as my own at the time. 80+ GB of stuff.
Incorporated that in a hearteat.
For years I did repairs and drive replacements for the kids in the neighborhood and often they’d be more than happy to let me duplicate their music libraries. I didn’t charge a lot so it was a win/win situation.
That and finding a shocking amount of music on dumpster dive laptops… esp machines from the 2008 - 2012 era.
Know a family (fairly well off) that sold a summer home a few years back and they moved on a ton of stereo equipment and one was a crazy big Sony CD changer that had a carousel of 100 disks in it… Guess what was still filled with CD’s?
Granted it’s “grandma” music, and lots of stuff like Burt Bacharach and Barbara Streisand, but some of that is actually really good, solid songwriting. Not my favorite kind of music, but given the AI slop online now, it makes it easy to hear how shitty that is.
What, if I may ask, does „Ripping“ mean to you?
Am always interested in different takes on words.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
The 4G one she’s got from her service provider offers some form of limited access. Not sure, maybe the fancy ones have it? My mom will occasionally text me links to news items she’s found.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
When i’m saying “Older mostly” am talking about people in their 70’s and 80’s that don’t use their phones for much more than texting and email.
NGL, at 61 I can’t use my phone for much more than that. I just cannot SEE it well enough for it to not be a massive frustrating ordeal.
Just wait until presbyopia strikes. It’s a bitch when the collagen breaks down in the body and the lenses in the eyes start to stiffen. Hit me in my mid 40’s. Fuck.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
Indeed! Of all things, uncle turned me on to higher bitrate 320k VBR, highest quality .mp3 rips.
I got his CD collection after he died (his own music was lost as the drive had failed while he was in the nursing home) and took a few weeks and re-ripped everything for him. Gave him a junker MacBook and loaded up it and his iPod with his favorite music.
The last day I saw him - 3 days before he died, he was already seeing people that weren’t there and talking to them, which is part of the dying process I’m told…
I put his iPod on him and played him his favorite artist - Miles Davis and he stopped when the song Générique (go listen to it, it is a beautiful song) came on and he looked at me - SAW me - and smiled and said it was his favorite Miles tune.
We chatted for a few minutes more and he fell asleep and I told him I loved him and gave him a kiss and left for work. Passed away the day after the Eclipse last spring.
Beast gift I got was that jazz library from him.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
Grandparents owned the summer camp.
Grandfather was a union electrician for over 40 years. Retired in 1994. Made fantastic coin and bought the camp in the mid-70’s, for less than $20k. Landlines only that far north into Vermont. Grandparets were both in their late 70’s early 80’s when the internet took off, so it meant nothing to them. Both were gone of old age by 2020.
Aunt was the black sheep of the family and her husband - the uncle - were old alcoholic hippies that lived hand to mouth. Welfare recipients with drug and alcohol problems who both died - one of alcohol fueled dementia (Koursakoff’s Disease) and the other of sepsis (bone infection in the foot) from unmanaged diabetes - at the start of 2024.
Your point is?
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
Some years ago, I was using an ancient (even then) Dell laptop that I took with me to my grandparents summer camp for two weeks vacation. Northern Vermont, landline phone service only. My dad had sent me Win 7 Ultimate and I installed it sitting on the camp deck. I called in the activation.
Not Windows, but I’ve reinstalled my Mac laptop OSes many times when I’ve swapped out a SSD. Also at camp. I did a full - unsupported no less! - install of Mojave macOS on an ancient MacPro that my aunt and uncle used to run their music and movies on. They had no internet and rented DVDs and ripped their own CDs. Once I showed my Uncle how to edit the track info in iTunes, he was off and running.
I know lots of people - older mostly - with computers that only have internet access on their phones. FFS, my mom only has text on her flip phone, (her phone provider switched over to 4G and they sent her a smartphone of some kind which she could not use, so she sent it back and they got her a 4g enabled flip phone) and I’ll mail her big USB sticks with movies and tv shows on them so she uses her laptop. No internet, no electricity even, unless it’s from their solar panels.
Pretty much anyone off the grid would phone in activation or roll with an OS that doesn’t require it (like macOS and Linux).
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Indeed.
Thing I’ve learned in my 60+ years is that guys that look like that when they’re younger often fill out and end up smokin! hot by their late-30’s.
- Comment on How We Lost Communication to Entertainment 2 weeks ago:
NGL, I too am ready to jump back onto listservs. I used to have several e-groups that got bought by Yahoo then mothballed years later. Still pissed off about that.
Then again, I cut the cord for cable TV in 1999 when I got cable internet, and never looked back.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
Indeed! TIL! I am going to do the fine chop on the onions for cooking and see how much more flavor I can get out of them.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
GERD… ugh.
Got a horror story and a triumph regarding that.
One of my oldest friends had GERD something terrible.
Had a bleeding ulcer from it that nearly killed her at one point.
Was put on Aciphex but it gave her terrible diarrhea with the hot shits regardless, so I suggested she try a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar after each meal. Goes down thermonuclear hot for 10 seconds or so but eases up quite fast.
It seems counter-intuitive, but vinegar is a digestive, in that it aids digestion by being an acid base, and it also tempers the acid pumps in the stomach because again, it IS an acid, so they produce less.
She was off the Aciphex inside of three weeks. Hot shits… gone.
For general stomach soothing, I put a capful of Braggs apple cider vinegar into a cup of water before bed. It makes the water spry and slightly tangy. Works a charm for my stomach - esp when I eat out.
Vinegar is the best!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
:(
Caramelized onions are soooo tasty!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
They pretty much do taste the same. The red, orange and yellow are great to add to salads for a touch of color.
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 4 weeks ago:
From The Verge page: “SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content.”
Bwahahahah! Oh, now that gave me a great laugh!
- Comment on I’m small down there and get my fiancé off with a big dildo. Do you see any issue with this? 4 weeks ago:
Am married hen with 33 years…
There are no downsides whatsoever!
If you two are in the relationship for the long haul, keeping the sex fun and interesting is perfect. This is how relationships last. No hangups, no insecurity (sounds like you’re doing just fine with that…) just fuck each other silly into the mattress, the sofa, the kitchen table… wherever!
It’s not about what you’ve got, it’s about what you do with it and YES, enhancements are totally fine. Go be the sex-beast you are and have fun!
Mad props to you kid!
- Comment on Biblically accurate tree angel 5 weeks ago:
Oh. My. Word!
I absolutely LOVE that!
- Comment on Report Exposes Instacart's Hidden AI Price Experiments That Could Cost Families $1,200 Per Year 5 weeks ago:
I hate to say this, but as long as you are doing anything other than walking into a grocery store and paying with cash, you will have NO privacy and will be taken advantage of.
Just no.
If someone is broke, the dead last thing they want to do is use any kind of online service to buy food with. There’s too much opportunism in these companies… End stage capitalism means that in order to protect yourself, you HAVE to cut out any middlemen.
This is not up for debate, the article proves it.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 5 weeks ago:
…but what stops the judges from passing an unjust law?..
Well, ostensibly it’s congress that passes the laws and the courts may say how they are interpreted or implemented.
If the courts are interpreting the laws against what the authors of the law intended, it is up to congress to write laws that are better and pass constitutional muster without question…
We’re at the point we are because of poorly written laws that have led to loopholes and poor implementation being taken advantage of.
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- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 5 weeks ago:
That’s when you show up… fine… and do fuck all but hang around and listen to music and drink coffee all day.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 5 weeks ago:
I would be so bold as to say she’s a cunt, even…
