This makes me want to call up the former CTO of the MSP I worked for who disagreed with me when I said TP-Link and other consumer hardware was a risk we shouldn’t let our customers take and tell him that he’s a miserable drunk who destroyed a company by taking a role he had no business in.

Menard’s fans and model railroad enthusiasts.

Ezekiel 23:20

But… PR is part of the US and is a wonderful place full of kind people. I spent one of the best vacations of my life there going all the way around the island (and Culebra!) and it was nothing but gorgeous views, great food, friendly people (it does help to speak Spanish so you understand how friendly they are) and relaxing days.

And that was when the country was getting rocked by earthquakes and had recently been battered by a few climate-change monster hurricanes. Screw people who hate on PR, that place rocks and is more resilient than your average conservative commentator.

Get towed or grab a generator and get ready to wait. Or get a plug-in hybrid for the best of both worlds.

Ranked choice baybeeee!

If you aren’t enthused you shouldn’t use the enthusiast option.

The virus seriously weakens cellular membranes, causing Soft Cell. SC leads to a breakdown of your dopamine and oxytocin receptors which leaves you with a feeling of tainted love.

USB DVD readers are pretty cheap and backing up a DVD movie to a file (either just the movie as mp4/whatever or the whole disc with menus, special content and all that jazz as an ISO) is trivial. DVDs themselves are fragile circles of plastic that store data a micron-thin foil layer that can be hurt by too spicy a laser pointer. Do yourself and your roommate a favor and make a copy of that thing for posterity’s sake.

This is just The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas with trolleys.

I think our model of cosmology is likely way more wrong than we think. I LOVE it when we get new data that challenges our accepted notions, which is why I’m loving all the “how are these ancient galaxies so big” stuff coming out of Webb.

My running theory is that what we call the universe is an inverse version of what we would consider to be the real universe, were we not stuck in this crummy inverted one.

Sorry, but it’s just too hard to have sympathy for people who think that they’ve found the financial and legal equivalents of abracadabra and alakazam.

I suppose that mathematically one could say I’m depositing a bill when I pay it, as I’m deducting the value of the bill from my bank account, which is the same as adding the negative of it. Since they’re asking me to pay it, it’s kind of negative money.

But no, then you’d be a pedantic idiot and would have said nothing of value.

Iirc he went into therapy, got a major cult-boner for his therapist and then started bossing his partner around, claiming that she was toxic by misusing therapy language.

Every single time I’m scrolling and Carter’s face pops up at the bottom of my screen I think “Oh, he’s reached the end of his long, full life,” and them nope he’s fine and older than most people will ever get. Go Jimmy!

I want a slide out keyboard like on my G1.

You’re more likely to inadvertently press obliquely just a little too much and have the whole thing fall over, spilling hot coffee and grounds all around while possibly breaking the mug you were pressing into.

You need to get the black powder version for that.

DRINK VERIFICATION CAN

But what relevance do they hold for this topic?