I wonder if Hillary regrets her “Pied Piper” strategy to elevate Trump during the primaries in 2016 through her media connections yet.

This is a direct result of her own hubris, but I bet she still blames the voters despite directly having a hand in getting to where he is.

Woosh.

In April 2011 he also made a sockpuppet account on MetaFilter to jerk himself off with self-aggrandization while pretending to just be a fan, only to be called out basically immediately by regular MetaFilter users.

https://www.metafilter.com/211809/Consider-Catbert-who-was-once-handsome-and-tall-as-you

https://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos

There’s so many ways to suck and this guy tried basically all of them.

Gave up on Windows fully on my desktop/laptop over a year ago after running numerous Linux servers for years (starting with a Raspberry Pi in 2016). I used to dual-boot for several years, and now I have a Windows VM I keep around in case I need it for something… but in practice I don’t actually need it for anything and haven’t spun up the Windows VM six months or more.

So why not just not subscribe to news focused (especially US news focused) communities?

I don’t understand why people have such trouble with this. I have curated my own feed of subscribed communities and I already only see stuff I want to see. Is this really that difficult? Don’t want US news? Don’t sub to US-centric news communities (whether in name or not). Don’t want furries? Don’t subscribe to furry communities? Don’t want anime? Don’t subscribe to anime communities. Don’t want politics? Don’t subscribe to political communities. Don’t want memes? Don’t subscribe to meme communities. I genuinely don’t understand why that’s not enough for people.

It’s already here in all but name, which I think is what this article is also implying.

More than half.

Yeah you don’t hear this kind of criticism about unlikeable characters in a lot of fiction, like say Walter Sobchack from The Big Lebowski. He is legitimately terrible, selfish, and controlling. He tries to steal the Big Lebowski’s money and then lies to his face at the end of the film saying “as if we’d ever try to steal your dirty money!” What makes Walter such a good character is because of how disarmingly real that is. He’s not a person who is actually very likeable at all, but you don’t usually get people saying they don’t like The Big Lebowski because they don’t like Walter.

I think what gets missed a lot by folks who don’t like her character is that it’s good to have a character who is flawed and that sometimes those flaws arise from what they’re going through.

She definitely has her issues, for sure. Yet it read to me that her issues arose far more from the combination of this world-changing event and losing her romantic partner in a very traumatic way. Not a lot of time has passed, at the end of the series less than three months have passed since “the joining” and Carol losing her partner. These traumatic events combined: losing the person you trusted and love the most and the whole world changing overnight with everyone thinking the event that killed your loved one is the best thing that could possibly ever happen. She has not had a lot of time to grieve and she obviously is grieving badly partially because her entire world has been turned upside down and she lost the person she loved. Carol’s partner isn’t one of the “others” waiting to be pulled out of their joined state back to normalcy, no she’s dead and gone forever.

None of this justifies her being kind of an asshole, but I think that’s the point. That she’s imperfect, she knows something is wrong, but she doesn’t have the skills to do anything about it, and she is spiraling from grief and loss of not just her loved one but her entire known way of life. She can’t even do simple things like go to a grocery store and have it bustling with individuals anymore. Every aspect of life that was normalcy and comfort has been torn from her and she’s in a bad way. This new world leaves her uncomfortable and feeling alienated. I can see myself spiraling and making selfish bad decisions in a similar situation as well, especially when only two and a half months have passed.

You could have big writing “FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY” all over it and you’d be suprised at how few would actually fucking read that text.

Unraid probably is in the pay resort area as well.

A Trump never pays their debts.

Endgame

Gosh those Marvel movies really do have everyone in them, don’t they?

Rule 3789 of the Pirates Code: never keep your device fully charged.

He’s here to do some business with the Big Iron on his hip

I thought drones were just going to be a fad, but they’ve become huge, especially in terms of government and corporate surveillance. I should have realized the way it was going when America started using them militarily. American military inventions almost always end up becoming popular consumer products/applications.

Man I think all of us mistakenly thought this. The early internet had such promise.

Blockchain would be so much more useful if it contained enough data to store photos/audio/video.

Literally the fact that you can’t is the only thing that made the entire NFT craze stupid as hell, because it’s just a link to a file, not the file itself.

It seems so shortsighted, especially in an era of such massive computing power and high internet speeds, to not be developing a chain that can support that kind of data if you really want to make “ownership” of specific data a thing.

And it would help in exactly this scenario because not only you would have the fact that it was added to the chain at the moment it happened, but you would have the original cryptographically signed and able to be proven to be the original every time.

Blockchain really does have so many good uses, and hardly anyone uses them for that, it’s all just conmen and criminals who use it primarily. Like those Judges for the ICC that the US is sanctioning, one aspect of cryptocurrency was originally to help debanked people still partake in public life, and those people could use something like that right now as the US locks them out of all US-based services.

https://mander.xyz/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1

I count 25 serious communities just on the first page of your instance showing all communities from all instances (37 on the second page). This is the primary way to find new communities, and it’s relatively simple to use, imho.