eighthourlunch @ eighthourlunch @kbin.social

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I'd wager over half that sub is posting from Moscow.

I used to live there a long time ago. It wasn't terribly stable then. It's sad that it's only gotten worse. It's a beautiful place, with some of the kindest people I've ever known. I hope they find a way out of this.

Well shit. :(

Governor Caillou sucks.

I'm not so sure about that. It took me forever yesterday to get my international keyboard setup to work on Ubuntu the way I wanted it to. I'm saying that as someone who's been using Unix/Linux in a school, IT and home setting for 30 years. It was unforgivably difficult.

Sociologists call it anomie.

I think you might have it backwards. An empathy deficit (sociopathy) is highly correlated with the C-suite. It's not that sociopathy makes a person a better leader. It doesn't. It's more that a person with dark triad traits isn't going to care who they step on or what lines they cross to get there.

In other words, they were already screwed up.

Ben Folds. He's got classical, jazz and rock chops, with a full helping of the wit and mischief in his lyrics.

There's nothing objective about that opinion at all. I think Mariah Carey's song is cynical corporate kitsch written for one reason and one reason only: to make money. That's why I hate it.

I can tolerate some of the secular big band/swing songs, and there have been a few decent ones since then. Fiona Apple does a brilliant cover of Frosty the Snowman. Vince Guaraldi's work for the Charlie Brown Christmas show is still wonderful.

They're not great.

My dad signed up somehow years ago. He doesn't even have a printer anymore. He swears he's canceled, but I keep seeing a monthly bill. They aren't even sending him ink. Thanks for reminding me that I need to get the bank to stop charges.

I've had a Brother laser printer for years now. Zero regrets. I'm never going back to the ink jet mafia.

Honestly, I'd rather hear about it when it actually happens. I'm getting tired of all this teaser justice headline crap.

God, I can't even force myself to read his word shit salads anymore. I guess that means I'm sane.

Mostly because he wouldn't be able to fill it with booze.

According to the people who know me intimately, the AI is gonna nope out even harder than I am.

I'm not sure I realized that. Are you getting that info just from the app store, or are you detecting it somewhere else?

Podcast Addict has worked for years for me, and he's constantly improving it. Why the fuck would I ever want a paid service to manage and profit on the podcasts I've always listened to for free?

I've thoroughly enjoyed my Kindle Paperwhite. I've had it for six years now. I've occasionally cursed it when it forgets the WiFi, but that hasn't really happened a lot.

The phone app has a lot more features, but it hurts to read on something that small and heavy for very long.

It's almost exactly what happened in Utah. Voters decided. Mormons, Inc. said "nope" and that was that. Oh, and then they gerrymandered the fuck out of the state to keep it red for at least another ten years.