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I’d have taken her gladly, over TFG, but you are abs not wrong. She was never going to be another Bill - a lot of his appeal in campaigning was that he felt approachable even on TV.

She never had that skill, and didn’t seem capable of developing it.

Can relate, lots of my work and face to face interactions are basically by rote - I’ve honed the scripts over the years to get a thin veneer of spontaneity and make it believable rather than robotic, but…. That works because I lean waaaay into it. Hillary feels scripted and robotic.

Don’t ask me how we rejected her, but our friends across the pond elected the May-Bot tho. While their politics are diametrically opposite, Hillary and Theresa are very similar personalities - or lack thereof.

FWIW, if anyone is aware of a book that meaningfully compares the two, I’d love to know about it. The handful of serious authors who approach UK political bios that I’m aware of don’t do so in a comparative way.

Can’t think of a lot of onshore places that would fit the bill in terms of weather and political climate but…

Remember Sealand? To date we’ve mostly built offshore platforms for the sake of fossil fuels, but I’m not aware of a practical reason they couldn’t just build what amounts to a drilling platform, without the drilling and at a meaningful scale.

Or, screw it, international waters on the seafloor - who’s going to stop them from declaring independence? They even foreshadowed it with Ariel.

The boots were cute, but would have been far more so on a stripper. Just didn’t mesh with his style imho.

Or lack of style in this case.

The humil kink explains the boots, and I guess even the bizarre “pudding fingers” thing.

Certainly explains some of the ridiculous things he says, as well.

Seems to be a commonality among that wing of the GOP.

Not judging ofc, we all dig whatever we dig. But maybe we should separate kink and politics, preferably with zero intersection between them. The MFL folks who enjoyed playing with another woman are totally justified in doing so - it’s the hypocrisy of it all that I have trouble with.

DeSantis should move on from existence.

Boxes that physically live in my home are mostly Manjaro. They’re also not externally accessible from the internet.

Anything in the cloud I standardize on Debian. Two distros and consistency makes maintenance much easier.

Anything in a container runs whatever it was built on because porting a docker compose file from, say, Alpine to anything else is just not worth the time and energy.

Seems you could do all of that easily enough with asterisk or any of its variants/frontends. Bonus, you can tweak the rules as you like, on the fly.

For awhile I was getting obv scam calls from china - I neither know anyone there nor do business of any kind there. That country code would be one of the first on my blacklist.

I collaborated with folks for many years in far eastern Russia - the only hard part was tracking DST and adjusting standing scheduled meetings accordingly.

Holidays that weren’t shared were much more of a pain to deal with than the time difference.

Seems reasonable to me - I got my state’s id card for ownership of a firearm, and just haven’t felt compelled to take the 16 hour class for a carry permit.

TBH, I have some concerns about the intersection of fed law and legal marijuana states that I’d rather not risk being the test case for.

You bring up a very valid point about funding of the course and equity. On further reflection, anyone who wants to learn ought to have access, whether they want to own/carry, or not.

The more educated and responsible citizens, the fewer sanctimonious fools who think “good guys with guns” stand a chance of stopping a motivated shooter with an assault rifle.

We got out about a year ago, I feel ya.

It was surprisingly low effort to GTFO, found a nice lil town just across the IL line - might as well only have moved across town for all the work involved, but with the bonus of a hell of a lot fewer unnecessary Trump flags and the like.

I wasn’t familiar with Lucas, but l lived in Terre Haute until about a year ago and didn’t realize anyone could make Buschon look any less shitty.

Awesome - I’ve been self hosting commafeed for a while and it’s pretty low maintenance but when I’m in front of a computer, too many other things are demanding my attention.

Would love to talk further with you. Mid 40s, narcolepsy, and some doubt that I’ll make it to retirement age in a way that makes SSA pay meaningfully.

Struggling thru the next twenty or so years seems like hell. Love my job, but doesn’t make up for the mess that is life for me.

On top of that, I made promises to my wife of fifteeen years, back when, and I’m bent on keeping them.

My disease is hardly akin to cancer, but I think you have some collected wisdom that would make a meaningful differentlce in our lives.

If I can - in my sole judgement - safely cast a ballot and my wife can do the same, I’ll back down.

If however there are difficulties with that…. Just wait until you see what a liberal who believes in the Constitutiom and 2nd and 4th/5th handling that.

Wanna watch drop boxes w obscured tags? Yeah we can do that too, and report every instance of threats and violence.

I can’t do 24/7 anymore, but a lil vid while I nap seems totally reasonable.

Do want!!

One can, should one desire, record screen contents in real time. If those contents happen to include something already purchased, so be it.

Suggest starting w/ bash scripting, moving to python from there - but don’t get bogged down. You can reclaim your life and movies, and even dl them, just takes a tiny bit of work.

Fountain pens and inks. Nothing like enjoying the mere act of writing meeting notes with my preferred pen, ink, and paper.

A5 Clairefontaine 90gsm, and usually Pilot Iroshizuku Tsutsiji.

It is the perfect color to be appropriate for signatures and the like, while also being interesting and having the tiniest bit of sheen.

Haven’t used a Bic in ages, I just fill pens as needed.

Got a safari in F that’s perfect for tsutsiji and I just keep filling it.

Yeah, FP are my “thing”, helped along by the insane vari lets of available inks. If I sign something [wet], it’s with a fifteen dollar safari and that ink, or on (diamine) Sherwood green.

Anything else, and it’s not my sig.

Hell, no! Give me time and space to collaborate with colleagues, and I will Get. shit. Done.

Stifle that and drag me into the off, and you get exactly what you pay for - which doesn’t include emote training of any emp etc.

They will.

I joined a company about eighteen months ago and was hired as fully remote. Advancement etc will depend on remaining so. Company looks good on my resume, and there’s no fucking way I’m moving to DFW in this political climate.

Might consider the MI office, big only as hybrid. We are settled comfortably currently. I’d be ok with driving wed night to be there thurs and fri, and make the entire trip at my leisure.

It you better believe there’s going to be a huge carrot in it for me if that comes to pass.

I don’t even have a reason to hate the MI town the company considers an office hub. For the right job I’d even consider moving, but SO has veto on that which I respect.

Not that MI sucks entirely. There just isn’t much there for us and it increases the drive to fam for holidays hy 4 hours or so.

Not averse to hybrid, could sort it out easily enough, but key is that it would be a new position or promotion.

Got the paperwork that says I’m perm remote and would happily go to bat with said paperwork, esp for the right job. Just bc the internal positions says DFW, does not mean I can’t do 3-4 days here in Kettlecorn, Ks, and another day or two at the actual office.

But - apologies to Barbara mandrel - I was remote when remote wasn’t cool.

Nobody is taking that away from me. Circa 2014 I learned how to be remote, for context, and executed well.

If hiring mgr doesn’t want to give a little on “mandatory” on office days, I’m out.

Checking in with a disability that benefits greatly from remote work, and all the paperwork on place. Just try and mandate “RTO” and see what happens.

My wife has a procedure Monday that requires me to get her there.

Tonight, a couple of beers. Then I stay up as needed.

She kept me sorted out when I had a procedure, I’ll do the same for her.