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Look, I know you don’t know me, but you have to believe what I’m about to tell you. Sometime in your future, I get stationed here in Blood Gulch and we meet. And this guy here, he gets promoted to Sergeant of the red army and we spy on them. And they get this new jeep and I’m all like, “There is no way you can pick up chicks in a tank!”

JaymesRS OP ,
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We need you to go to the store and get two quarts of elbow grease… and, uh, pick up some… headlight fluid for the Puma too.

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I love Joe. And even though its last update was a while ago, it’s still my preferred editor.

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I read this in Maurice Moss’ voice

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See also tvtropes.org

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There’s a reason I didn’t type it with the markdown for clickable link.

JaymesRS ,
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Yeah, a couple of them compensate, Arctic on iOS does too.

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Run Cera, there’s a Sharptooth right behind you!

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According to Google, it’s called Deep Water, I can only presume it’s specifically relating to the Ark story.

JaymesRS ,
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Is 4 out of 55 Chinese ethnic groups a good percentage?

JaymesRS ,
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I hear those things are awfully loud.

JaymesRS ,
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The Simpsons did an episode where a monorail salesman tries to sell Springfield on installing a monorail, and there’s a song somewhat evoking the 76 Trombones scene from the musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson. Mine and other comments are lyrics from that song.

Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (Cory Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)

Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through....

JaymesRS ,
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I’m torn. While I highly support right to repair, I also support measures that make high-value theft targets like cellphones and catalytic converters worthless or extremely hard to convert to a payout.

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JaymesRS ,
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If it’s replies to a post of mine I upvote virtually everything. If something is so incorrect is borderline misinformation or so off topic that there’s no connection to the thread, I downvote. If it’s really insightful that I think more people should read it, I upvote.

Recommendations for an outsider

I learned to read in grade school like pretty much everyone else I know, and I remember really enjoying reading for a very narrow portion of my younger years. When reading books became a compulsary part of school, that enjoyment just vanished, and video games ended up filling that void of “solitary passtime”. I dont even...

JaymesRS ,
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What media do you watch? Favorite games? Movies? Tv?

JaymesRS ,
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I don’t read a bunch of strict Horror, but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve read by Grady Hendrix.

Otherwise, based on your answer, here are a few books I’ve read that line up for one reason or another. I’ve placed them in a specific order but they are all enjoyable:

Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziJohn Dies at the End by David WongDark Matter by Blake CrouchThe 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart TurtonThis is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles YuEcho Wife by Sarah Gailey

JaymesRS ,
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Something else just occurred to me, you might try the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman or This Quest is Broken series by J.P. Valentine too. They are a newer genre called LitRPG where the conventions of gaming (like things being “quests” or health/mana bars are directly apparent to the characters and it makes for some interesting moments.

JaymesRS ,
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That was my take too. Their overall point wasn’t bad but the start was a complete non sequitur that made me question if I wanted to finish because it’s a bad foundation for their actual argument. 

JaymesRS ,
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Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” He was mostly right, this is also true about personal identity.  From spending a bunch of time hanging around in anti-conservative libertarian spaces, I met a bunch of people in the early years of this movement (and in the spirit of full disclosure, I did occasionally use the spirit of communism as a repudiation of thoughtless defenses of capitalism). It’s absolutely about anticapitalism and a reactionary swing 100% in the opposite direction. And when anti-capitalism is the only motivator, you haven’t argued yourself into a position based on reason, and therefore, your chosen position is unassailable by reason.

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🎻

JaymesRS ,
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Seems like a simple acronym to me:

Everyone Do Your Thing, Just Episode Downloads (for) Home & Great Movie Downloads. Happy Media.

JaymesRS ,
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Pssst… (all Mammals have fur, not all animals are mammals.)

JaymesRS , (edited )
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They shouldn’t have had storage issues, they were never going to host images or communities. They simply were an instance that only federated with nsfw instances so all could be only porn.

JaymesRS ,
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My guess is RoE is supposed to be Return on Investment (RoI)

JaymesRS ,
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“I’ve never abused or borne witness to anyone abusing their title,” she said.

Wanna know how I know she’s never met a chiropractor?

JaymesRS ,
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Thank you very much, Mr. Ducksworth. Quack, quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth!

JaymesRS ,
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I have a Porteus USB that I keep handy with my old Hirens USB. It’s Slackware based and a bit goofy when it comes to installing other apps, but because it’s a USB portable OS first I feel it’s one of the ones that handles that limitation best. I used to use Puppy IIRC.

Hey, I host a lemmy instance focused on books and reading (and all the communities that fall under that umbrella) (literature.cafe)

I don’t think this was posted here already, but this instance has been up and running for a bit. Apologies if this isn’t the best place for it, feel free to remove if need be! The instance has been running for a few weeks now and has a few users already, but if there’s people invested in that specific niche interest that...

JaymesRS ,
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Do you have a place to post when we find significant discounts on ebooks?

JaymesRS ,
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The extent of my moderation experience has been a few old phpbb forums and a few admittedly large Facebook groups. Let me think it over and I’ll get back to you shortly.

I also wonder if it might benefit from ebooks being separate because authors could post updates about them as theoretically as well as it’d be easier to manage spam.

JaymesRS ,
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(i.imgflip.com/1fmxhp.jpg)[this is a picture of the guy from the history channel who suggests aliens for any ancient technology, suggesting that the skull is an alien.]

JaymesRS ,
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this is a picture of the guy from the history channel who suggests aliens for any ancient technology, suggesting that the skull is an alien.

JaymesRS ,
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Is this what Roman Nagel had to rig up to save Livingston’s butt?

JaymesRS ,
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That’s why I’m still running A/UX.

JaymesRS ,
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Why would you want to be behind the heated seats? Seems like it’d be warmer on the seat, not to mention that there’s no 3rd row in a Tesla so you’d be in the trunk…

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    JaymesRS ,
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    Fantastic Fiction is great for this. I learned about it from a friend who worked at a bookstore.

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    As long as there’s one published, there should be a shorter one listed lower on the page by the box that gets you a link to an online retailer.

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    This isn’t a book tracker like bookwyrm et al, this is only a list of books in a series and a method to notify you when upcoming books are announced that meet criteria you set.

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    I love my kobo. I’ve had ereaders from each of the major current eink brands, as well as iPad and iPhone.

    I like having a eReader because reading on my phone makes it too easy to swipe away to go back to doomscrolling the internet.

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    Afton Uckers hates this company

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    If you’ll be my bodyguard, you can call me Al.

    The US government seized b-ok.cc

    So If you don’t know about the site. It was a site to get free text books and reading material. Essentially a library archive where any person could get access to any book that was put on the internet for free(novels, poems, short stories, textbooks, etc…) However the U.S. gov shut the site down under two U.S. fed laws. U.S....

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    This was just one of the front end links for ZLibrary, and it’s so distributed that it’s not difficult to get around with other links. This has been going on for a bit with the US Government seizing its front end links.

    Other sites are serving similar purpose now and if you’re interested they are at the lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy community.

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    Fahrvergnügen

    Da Da Da Ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht

    JaymesRS ,
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    Hey! Welcome to my corner of the world.

    JaymesRS ,
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    I’ve lived in much bigger cities and much smaller and It’s really pretty good for its size, imho. If I can answer any questions feel free to let me know.

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