wjrii @ wjrii @kbin.social

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I have family by marriage in the Sikh community, including my father-in-law. I have all the respect in the world for anyone who can take that level of ignorance and instead of making the decision to try to escape the situation with simple demographic facts -- a decision which is both rational for their self-preservation and vital to their self-identity -- they instead volunteer to stay in danger because standing up for the oppressed is the right thing to do. It's a very peculiar and heartbreaking burden that Sikhs have in many countries, and I've seen it taken on bravely much more often than not.

Then you haven't met my wife's extended family, LOL. A couple of them are real pieces of work. People are people after all.

That said, Sikhism as a non-proselytizing and minority religion (outside Punjab) will tend not to have as many religious zealots up in everybody's face.

Yeah, well those folks can go to hell. They're the worst, I assume.

My parenthetical seems to have mysteriously vanished!

For English speakers, you can mentally substitute "idiom explained" and "example given" as a mnemonic to help remember the difference.

Then let employers shift hours or start times if they rely on daylight. Nothing that comes from DST is useful enough to be universally mandatory.

Yup, 11 is the restructuring one. Very little will happen automatically, but they will try to renegotiate their leases. In a world where big companies are adjusting to WFH being a norm, though no longer the the norm, this has the feeling of pissing on a house fire. When their Chapter 11 restructuring fails, that's when they'll file for Chapter 7 (liquidation)

WeWork: It's not a real estate company, it's a tech company!

Theranos: It's not a healthcare company, it's a tech company!

Juul: It's not a vape company, it's a tech company! (though oddly enough, they would have also accepted, "It's not a vape company, it's a healthcare company!)

FTX: It's not a pyramid scheme financial company, it's a tech company!

I don't actually follow the release schedule of the Linux kernel, but yeah, I was a little confused when I saw the mid-story link where he said roughly the same thing about 6.5 over the summer. That said, if we are going to call out middle aged men for repeating jokes, I'm in trouble.

Captain Batel approves.

Crank it to 11.

New ensign. Warp core explodes.

And no cogged tractor feed nonsense here!

everything except the bootlegging is still true

Oh, I don't know. In-demand mind-altering substances banned due to unrealistic policy goals inflamed by small-minded moral panic, leading customers to seek out a high-risk/high-margin black market that attracts violent criminals and results in adulterated product. Which year is it again?

It's the future, though, so I bet they're all 24-pin dot matrix that can use A4 or letter paper.

Archive.is link.

As it turns out, Alaska Airlines made a mistake in hiring AFC Richmond's bus driver as a pilot.

Ha, yeah, I am not a huge hand plane guy, but I know the 46. I’d be miffed too if I was hunting one and somebody yanked a good deal out from under me.

I have one Japanese wooden block plane, a little green German block plane I saw on Matthias Wandel’s channel, a harbor freight smoothing plane, and a post war vintage no-name Jack plane that still cost more than you’d think.

Somebody has a bad case of capsular contraction and needs to sue her plastic surgeon for malpractice.

So what kind of hand plane was it, LOL?

I’m in my 40s, and in particular I don’t find I love the AAA, over the shoulder action games. Assassins Creed, Spider-Man, Jedi Outcast, all of them feel very samey to me and more like the evolution of Dragons Lair + SF2 special moves than anything else. I find the cinematic complexity of the actions caused by my simple button press actually disconnect me from the world. I don’t feel like the character is my avatar, more like an actor in my movie. And then it all usually happens with a lot more barriers and more linearity than the design implies, kinda the difference between playing make believe in the park, and visiting Galaxy’s Edge at Disney.

Now I don’t think it’s bad on a philosophical level or anything, but it doesn’t work for me personally. I grew up with a very direct and often simple relationship what it means to control a game, even those SF2 style fighters; whatever is there to be done, you’re in complete control. I just get taken right out of it when “back + A” does a 360 spin melee while simultaneously targeting three enemies and summoning my helper NPC (I’m exaggerating, but you see the intended point).

Like others, I don’t really find as much time for gaming, what with work, family, and other hobbies, but when I do, I like retro gaming, RPGs with a fair amount of stat and inventory management, Minecraft (that blunt instrument of click to “mine”, rclick to “use” is the opposite of cinematic AAA actioners), and other stuff that naturally connects inputs to resulting actions, like driving games.

Okay, so surely that will also involve removing the maritime blockade and giving Gazans responsibility for the land border with Egypt, RIGHT?

Though even if it did, I would tend to think that the flip side would be increased settlement and repression in the West Bank.