Bob Robertson IX @ Bob_Robertson_IX @discuss.tchncs.de

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Looks more like pigs under a sheet than pigs in a blanket.

Not just that he shouldn't have died, but I can't imagine how painful and fearful it would be to basically drown in air.

In Luigi I trust.

Speaking from my experience, I get very overwhelmed with empathy when someone close to me is going through something as difficult as an illness, divorce or job loss. I want to be as supportive as possible, but also know that there's usually little to nothing that I can do, and then I get overwhelmed by the feelings of helplessness. I will let them know that I'm there for them if they need anything, and I will check in from time to time to see how they are doing, but I always find myself avoiding talking about the 'real issue'.

I know that I'm included in the 'people suck and are incredibly, inherently selfish' - even knowing that, I have a hard time addressing it. Even when the roles have been reversed, after I lost my job and people stopped reaching out to me, I knew exactly why... I was making them uncomfortable and they just didn't know how to deal with it. And even then, I had no idea what I wanted from them, other than for things to just be as they had been before.

Even after my own experience, when a close friend of mine lost his job I dreaded talking with him because of the helplessness that I felt at being able to do anything for him, and the reminder that at any moment I could be in his shoes again. It sucks, it's a massive character flaw, and it is even worse that I'm aware of it but so far have been unable to change. I still love my family and friends, I just don't know how to show them that during their times of greatest need.

'And Another Thing...' was fun, and I feel it belongs on the shelf right next to the others. I hope you give it a shot, and also enjoy it.

Yeah, that's the one I wasn't counting as a book, but from that list I can see why some would count it.

Six if you count Mostly Harmless.

I think you mean six if you count 'And Another Thing .. '

'Mostly Harmless' was the 5th book.

Same. I bought the lifetime pass on sale many years ago, my setup is still working fine without me having to have touched it for at least the past 3 years outside of applying an update from time to time. I don't stream their free shows or movies and have those setup so that they don't even show up as an option on my tv.

Do I wish it was still the same company it was a decade ago? Of course... but so far they haven't impacted my experience to the point that I feel the need to replace it with something else. The second that happens I will be spinning up Jellyfin.

Except he was tried and convicted. According to our laws that means that he did it. This is the correct way to write about it, whether it is accurate or not.

I have an M1 MacBook Pro that I mostly connect with via ssh and it is currently running as an Ollama server, but it has run various projects over the past few years.

I don't think I'd consider Detective Pikachu or Sonic to be animated. Just like I wouldn't consider Fallout or Last of Us to be movies.

I don't know, just because the video game isn't real doesn't mean that the movie isn't based off of a video game. I think it just shows that the reason most video game movies fail isn't because the movie is bad, but because the fans are too harsh. If Wreck It Ralph replaced the main characters with characters from Mario but still had the same basic plot I don't think it would have been as well received.

First, it's A24 and they put out amazing movies .

Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I'm not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.

There have been killings of white South Africans, but police statistics show they are not killed at a higher rate than other South Africans.

Now, can we compare that to US statistics for the killings of black Americans vs other Americans?

They wear magic underwear. It's a whole thing.

Now I need to go reread it. I have the original comics, so time to go on a hunt!

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I felt that Snagglepuss was even better. I don't want to give any of the story away, but he's a counterculture playwright in LA Hollywood during the McCarthy era red scare of the early 50s.

It's an amazingly beautiful book and story.

Exactly... "Deepseek is a threat against our freedoms!!" also "No one can make any laws to put any restrictions on any AI models". Cool.

My employer has stooped so low as to call it "return to work". Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?

I'm currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don't expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.

Money, meet mouth.

Do it!