uralsolo [he/him] @ uralsolo @hexbear.net

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Me but with Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Space Ghost Coast to Coast.

I carried a lighter for a while. It worked fine when I put it in my pocket, but the first time I whipped it out for someone it didn't work at all. They say that that happens to lots of guys but I haven't carried a lighter since that day.

You don't. It's probably got grounds or something settled into the bottom and the cup is shaped like that on purpose to prevent you from drinking them.

I mean they could, but they won't.

I can't pin it down to just one, but holy shit school shootings and the way we've responded to them completely broke whatever part of me thought that our society was still capable of doing things. They keep upping the ante with how horrifying they are too - the high water mark currently is Uvalde, and I think that the next one that shocks the nation will involve the cops (or a "good guy with a gun") gunning down multiple kids or parents while trying to "help" and our collective response will still be to do nothing.

Defining moment of a generation, in the way that 9/11 was for the one before it. I don't even think we'll really understand the impact for another couple decades - and just like with other major events the ruling class will learn the wrong lesson entirely from it, probably something like "we should never lock down for any disease ever".

I would shy away from big proclamations like this. You get it in both directions - people in 1989 saying that the USSR would last a hundred more years, people declaring China dead for the last two decades, etc but big historical events are only ever obvious in hindsight when some research into all of the contributing factors has been done.

Damn you're right that was awesome.

Me at home: I'll have some hot wings as a meal.

Me at restaurants: I'll have some hot wings as an appetizer, and a burger for the meal.

The alternative is my car which sometimes triggers its alarm even though I'm holding the key.

idk why you wouldn't unless you live in a really cold or cloudy place.

The transporter basically requires it to be a clear sunny day with nothing unexpected in the way to function properly, and even in those conditions we see it malfunction quite a lot. TBH if I were in Starfleet I would invent a religion that eschews transporter use and take a shuttle everywhere because they seem safer.

doing something you love

I love cooking for family, but I've also cooked for Denny's and a getting through a meal service is something else entirely. There's a reason cooks in general are one of the most alcoholic professions, and it's not because they spend most of their day doing something they love.

I've used them for about a year, so far no complaints. High speed, high privacy, only a couple things have required me to turn off my vpn to access them.

thinking you'll get to retire

lmao

To be fair, in the US we did ban admission of polygraph evidence in court, but that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of problems they and other psuedoscientofic "investigation" techniques create.

I think that while a lot of reasonable people know that lie detectors are bunk, a surprisingly large number of people don't know that at all - and many of the people who seemingly know better still haven't actually confronted what that knowledge means. Like if you say to someone, "I took a lie detector test", it lends credibility to what you're saying for a lot of people even though it shouldn't lend any at all.

Take this out to the whole world of phony pauedoscientific criminal investigation techniques, and the number of people in a world poisoned by shows like CSI who would rightly support banning such things is going to be shockingly low, even though everyone with knowledge on the subject can probably tell you that's what should happen.

So that's why there's no public pressure to do it really. Add to that the fact that law enforcement doesn't want their psuedoscience taken away from them because they see it as a useful tool in getting convictions, and any politician who tries to take this issue on is going to be acting alone against entrenched power for basically no political gain.

I've made the mistake of trying to watch regular cable TV the past couple of days.

Getting ads out of most of your life really isn't that hard, and once you do it the times when they're there are so much more unpleasant. I get that people can get used to anything but there's no way having a bunch of loud shit blaring at you that you actively try to ignore is good for you.

We all know that propaganda is bad. And yet we let corporations do it to us anyway.

DF is also free and there's fan made installers to run it on Linux, the Steam version just has an enhanced UI and other features.