RememberTheApollo @ RememberTheApollo @lemmy.world

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Wait, what? There was a Bloom County + Calvin and Hobbes crossover?

Where might I find this? Two of my favorite strips!

Depends. Most of my Pi’s are 3 or under, and they’re doing mundane tasks like printserver or VPN. This takes little power or speed. I did use a pi B+ with Kodi and that tended to choke up occasionally, I think mostly due to heat though even after applying heat sinks. The 4 and 5 should handle that job a lot better.

The Space Battleship Yamato, seeing as you said “Battleship”.

You said it yourself when you compared cars to guns. Can’t really have it both ways by holding some manufacturers liable for the unintended uses of their products and giving others a pass. You could argue the same for knifemakers, baseball bat makers, etc. They’re both fairly good at causing traumatic injury or death. Cars OTOH are designed to prevent injuries or death as much as possible, even if they hit a pedestrian.

That said, you are absolutely correct about guns purpose being to deliver injury or death at a distance. That’s why they exist in the first place. No equivocation can change that, I don’t care if people target shoot with them or whatever, they’re killing machines.

Problem is that guns are a right in the US. There is absolutely no way on this earth that the people who wrote that right as an amendment had any clue of what guns would turn into, how they would be politicized, how people would have personal arsenals, or how much death they would cause among the population. Their shortsighted brevity when writing that amendment has killed tens of thousands of people every year.

Going to university means you have a better chance than average at getting a good paying job*, not that you will get one.

*assuming you didn’t degree in some low-pay field or something.

Now what’s a shanny?

a small European blenny (Blennius pholis) that is olive green with irregular dark spots and has no appendages on the head

Of course it is.

I can assue you they do not open and check returns, at least not with any regularity. I bought a 3d printer, used, off of amazon, via sold by/shipped by amazon, and the previous owner/returnee had simply dumped it in a box with some inadequate padding. Amazon never opened the box, and when it arrived on my doorstep it had broken glass, bent frame parts, missing screws, etc.

Aww, I was hoping it was going to be insanity causing makeup or something.

Those would be steppe worms. Wat r u doing, steppeworm?

Doesn’t help that the film is from ‘71, over 50 years ago, so the pool of people here who have actually seen it is gonna be pretty small.

Do you feel lucky, punk? Well? Do ya?

I bet everyone is hyper-conscious of which hand they are using to do what right now.

Billionaire worshippers

Politician worshippers

Wealth worshippers

Fame worshippers

Basically people who defend people who don’t deserve or need to be defended. Wealthy people have lawyers to defend them, they certainly don’t need or want you, and they don’t need you to justify them making a million an hour in dividends or interest while sitting on their asses.

Politicians work for you, why do you worship your employee?

Famous people can fuck right off, especially influencers. Why do you defend someone destroying a $200k car or wasting absurd amounts of food?

E: oh, Military worship, too. That shit is right up there with fascism and autocratic rule.

Make a generalization and people attack your argument with exceptions and lack of specificity.

Make an argument with specificity and it has to be written with exceptions, caveats, disclaimers, becomes long-winded and nobody wants to read it. Or they throw a generalization at you.

Can’t win, but conciseness and a level of brevity are still good policy.

Far more profitable to screw honest players by being soft on cheaters or people engaging in harassment and the like.

If they created the fee they can list it. I’m sure accounting has a breakdown of how profitable each and every fee is.

Hah. Mine aren’t old enough yet to get the connotation.

We’re still here. We’re the latchkey kids even on the internet. We show up, pop a TV dinner in the microwave and watch the boomers and everyone after us fight. We remember the “good old days” of MS DOS, C64s and get cranky at having to fix both our parent’s electronics as well as our kids stuff; because ot seems most anyone after the advent of the iphone tends to be clueless about tech and would rather take a selfie than learn how to assemble today’s dead-simple PC components.

We’re the last group that had a shot at getting the cheese in the laid-out easy maze of graduating college with a degree and walking into a place we wanted to work and dropping off a paper resumee.

We’ve also been at the tail end of seeing things disappear. Pensions. Affordable health care. Affordable education. Realistic retirement. Company loyalty. Etc. so we’re caught between everything the boomers had and the generations after don’t. We’re a transitional group between rotary dial phones and the modern internet.

Nobody knows what to do with us. Not even ourselves.

So we get forgotten.

According to everyone you talk to in FPS games nobody ever cheats.