It appears dementia has set in.

JV;DR (just video;didn’t read)

Talents leave

Tell me a “journalist” has no concept of mass nouns without using those words.

They shouldn’t even be connected to the internet.

Yes. What’s also true is that sometimes they must be. You will disagree until you find the exception.

There’s nothing great about companies dropping support and also keeping the code in-house so we can’t contract out improvements and fixes, but unless we change that we’re stuck in a world where ridiculously expensive hardware either needs an old OS or becomes astoundingly expensive e-waste. And yes, it needs to connect sometimes. And yes, that’s a scary as shit.

Soooo, supermium, then?

Has any country bought in?

My disk purchases this year: Crucial, WD, and then Seagate.

I’m the cause.

It’s weird how the NYT laments preventable deaths.

Ah; volunteers, then. This one is - stay with me - involuntary, done on children, without parental consent for an experiment - absolutely unethical.

hand over your passport and occasionally answer a few questions

Questions about one’s stay in the country are not the same questions this guy was facing. You’re reaching, here.

And I get that it’s Mr Carlson, who is a bit of a dick, but if they’ll detain him, they’ll detain many others.

Apparently, the joke is, vegan menus in Texas restaurants are all chicken dishes. Turkey also may not be ‘real’ meat in Texas?

“People. What a bunch of bastards.” – The IT Crowd?

People suck. But some people are pretty damned awesome. And we evolved from solitary animals to tribes because interdependence and complementary roles promote better success to the group members than going alone. We need people.

So the goal is, be open to discovering people who don’t suck right now. As long as they don’t suck, bring them along with you or let them bring you along as long as you don’t suck right now. Some day that’s going to end, and one of you will ditch the other; and that’s okay. That means you also should be worthy of group membership. Don’t suck. Be adequate and friendly enough so you don’t get kicked out of the cave for being a dick.

We’re all just refugees hiding in a cave from the shit out there, so find a survival group and thrive.

Well the midterms aren’t going away otherwise.

Correlation is not causation.

breech

breach, right?

Coast guardsmen are under DHS and may currently be unpaid for their apparently-expendable work.

I am not sure how this changes the “the post was against the states rules which are there for a reason and the mod was the absolute most gentle about it” facts.

Did I get the facts wrong?

You’re chipping hand cheese off the rollers on the top and the side, or today when you need to do the same to the rolly third/middle mouse button. It’s the same thing!

You don’t have to see it clearly, just see it. And you can be fooled, too, by level lines that look like horizons: the corner between wall and ceiling in a room with slight contrast in paint colours can light the reflex and calm the spin. This is stone-age lizard-brain stuff so it doesn’t have to be perfect.

I think it’s the same thing that lets a chicken or an eagle track a spot while turning.

I caught a virus at college that was going around. They didn’t try to trace it but like a dozen of us who met during treatment all suffered damage to our vestibular network in one or both ears and were staggering about until this secondary thing took over full-time. The damage is permanent but this reflex thing keeps us vertical. It’s really astounding.

Blah blah both sides.

1. See who the viable¹ options are and their plans
2. Pick the least-worse option
3. Repeat

¹ can they actually get in?