Miles O'Brien

I used to hate when this happened to me. Someone reviving a post from ages ago to answer a question that I already found months/years ago.

But hey, it could help someone else in the future if I didn’t go back and post the answer to my own question (spoiler alert: I didn’t) so now I just do what OP does and thank them for their time, move on with my day. Chuckle at the stupidity of my youth.

Some people get angry about things like that. Just be chill, they probably didn’t notice how long ago it was posted.

I got a new laptop last year, and now the old one is sitting next to my laser engraver, probably hoping I will never open it again but it’s going to be my dedicated laser laptop now.

At least the programs I’m using on it are all 5ish years old, so it’s not straining to keep up with new software.

I can still feel it heat up a lot just being idle, and I’d like to clean it up to improve it’s response time.

This comic has made me feel bad for my old laptop…

A balrog? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Located entirely within the confines of the walkway leading from the crack of doom?

I’m sure that would have looked great to all the gathered men who were still alive.

“oh yeah, the elves showed up and one of them went up to the crack of doom with Isildur after his father died, and the elf came back alone and wouldn’t tell us what happened inside. Something’s fucky. We better prepare for an attack from the elves.”

Whether anyone actually threw hands immediately or not, men and elves would have a far shittier relationship after that.

The question is, did more suffering occur because Elrond didnt do this? We can’t know.

(but probably)

But stabbing your neighbor isn’t exactly something most people are willing to do.

And any sort of attempt at organization leads to Alphabet Squad raids and whatever bullshit charges they feel like throwing at you after deciding you’re guilty of being a dirty commie/socialist/librul/not them.

I used to work at a sporting goods store, primarily bicycles but I occasionally ran the gun counter.

It was interesting over the last decade I worked, to see how the paperwork wording changed.

The only ones that stand out in memory was asking about “illegal substance use”

First it was “are you addicted to any illegal drugs” and if you checked “yes” then you got denied the sale.

Then it changed to “addicted or USER OF any illegal drugs”

Then “user of any federally illegal substances” or something like that. I’m not sure what it is now since I haven’t run a counter in years and haven’t bought a gun in almost as long.

They clearly were trying to keep the wording so it didn’t matter what the legal status was in your area, or whether the substance you use is addictive or not.

As far as I’m concerned, Marijuana use is just as valid around firearms as alcohol use. It’s fine if you drink and it’s fine if you shoot, just don’t ever do them together.

There are a lot of people who are extremely insistent that Marijuana stays as illegal as possible, and that nobody who smokes is allowed to own a gun.

And a surprising few of them can actually articulate why for either of those.

I’m not looking forward to the inevitable board-flipping, but who knows, maybe the rest of the players will tell Kevin to sit down and shut up because even regular monopoly sucks ass.

It’s a piece of media that’s critical of a fascist regime, and the person who says it’s fake is a .ml

if they ever answer, it’ll be dismissive about how all western media is biased against china/nk/Russia. That’s as close to an explanation of “why it’s fake” as you’ll get.

You should always be critical of any media that doesn’t have a concrete source though. I don’t personally know anything about radiofreeasia, so fuck if I know how reliable they are to begin with.

I’ve seen escalator mechanisms fail before, I could believe that’s a dual purpose for it (as well as presumably carts or scooters)

Yeah, fuck me for using a cane, I’m such a big fat fatty and want to be fat.

I vaguely remember seeing this exact joke in my geometry book in gradeschool. Probably different illustrator, but still.

Damn, I feel old now.

Currently stuck in Ohio

Wife and I would love to leave just to get away from family, the last year has only solidified our desire even more.

From ohio

Agreed, fuck Ohio

Every single company pouring money into the incinerator is positive they’ll be the one to crack actually useful AI or even actual GAI.

Oooh, nice interrobang.

“Felon vows to kill people”

I’m shocked. This is my shocked face.

Step 1: block archiebot

Step 2: enjoy about 75% reduced spam

Having owned a couple low end printers, the ender 3 is my favorite budget option.

I’ve installed a couple upgrades, some of which I 3d printed on the printer itself, but my favorite ones are the borosilicate glass bed with a thermal pad to help spread out the heat quickly, and a dual z axis stepper motor.

If you’re not into tinkering, I’ve heard good things about Bambu, although I do not know much about them myself. Apparently they’re more user-friendly.

I enjoy working on my devices, but I would like something with more reliability than “recalibrate everything for every single print” sometimes.

It really is a hobby where spending just a little bit more will get you a ton of extra features and user experience.

Soylent billionaires: food for the rich.

Clearly they never spoke to Bobby Tables.