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  • How common was it known that ★checks notes★ Morton Thiokol o-ring subcontractor HydraPak (originally Utah Tool & Die, later Western Precision, and now “NewEra Manufacturing” based in Cedar City, Utah), which was started and run as a front operation for the FLDS church by its prophet Rulon Jeffs (father of currently imprisoned prophet Warren Jeffs), made the o-rings of the Challenger that failed on 1986-01-28, killing the entire NASA crew?

  • I think it's more a case of “Don't be a surgeon in a county where surgery is illegal because surgery isn't in the Bible” situation.

  • Let me channel your loved ones: Bring a walking stick with you whenever you go. They make convenient collapsible ones. But better yet, just use a stick wherever you go. They're convenient to have when encountering rough or slippery terrain since it's like adding another limb to your body.

  • Ya'll need to add ”walk an hour”, “eat a salad”, and “do calisthenics” to your daily routines.

  • I too wish I could inhabit a blåjaj.

  • Looks like something the part in Atlas Shrugged Explained in Memes explaining Hank Rearden's unwillingness to sell his steel foundries and secret steel recipe.

  • monkey paw finger curls You get free healthcare coverage and half minimum wage for each child just for existing. However, you and your child must renounce your citizenship, forfeit your passport, and accept indentured servant status until you can buy back your citizenship after repaying the government child support in full.

  • I doubt the Library of Alexandria had permission from all rights holders to hold copies of many books. /s

  • It is such a horrifying entity that even digitally compressed rasterized photographs cause any intelligent being to perceive SCP-4974 as a house. Efforts to split up raw photographs through automated computer scripts in order to analyze piecemeal portions of the image still yield portions of images of a house, indicating even incomplete digital copies themselves may be intelligent. So far, the only proof that SCP-4974 is not in fact a house is its persistence through storms and water damage that should have destroyed it long ago.

  • At some point, prolonged US tariffs against Taiwan make rule by China and expulsion of US military assets there politically acceptable. Same argument applies to Japan and the Philippines.

  • If the operating system is FOSS, I'd be willing to pay 50% the cost of a Windows license but to the FOSS maintainers and the upstream distros they rely on. Gotta close the causal loop.

  • Most problems people have with Linux, I think, come from trying to be Linux power users from the start by performing very advanced techniques beyond their time and patience: dual booting multiple operating systems (so they don't have to buy Linux-dedicated hardware), using any graphics card (the latest and greatest GPUs are all closed source and developers who work on Linux do so because they despise closed source), using the least expensive hardware (which are typically closed source and buggy with anything except Windows), and emulating Windows apps so they don't have to learn new workflows or abandon their favorite games (technically, Proton with Steam allows Windows games like FFXIV to be played, but it's a neverending journey to get it working and keeping it working.

    If you switch to Linux, accept that for a smooth experience you'll have to pay more than you would for a Windows machine (e.g. System76, Framework) And if you want graphics card support for your emulated Windows games on Steam, you're going to have to use the specific flavor of Linux the manufacturer supports.

    That said, if you value free/libre open source software, then making the switch from Windows is totally worth it.

  • Reminds me of a quote from Hogfather (1996):

    Maybe someone said, hey, how’d you like to hunt this evil bastard of an eagle with his big sharp beak and great ripping talons, sort of thing, or how about instead you hunt this wren, which is basically about the size of a pea and goes “twit”? Go on, you choose.

  • Which website gave you those instructions? Name and shame.

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  • Promise him eternal life if they let us freeze him in a cryonics facility and then let his loyalists maintain the freezer with his disembodied head in a jar figure out how to make him their God emperor or whatever.

  • It only takes one person to make 1 cubic meter of black hole to destroy the biosphere by ripping Earth into an acretion disc.

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  • Donate if you regularly use Syncthing. Help close the causal loop.