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MalachaiConstant ,

Honestly the only thing that I’d improve here is the tomatoes. I prefer them finely diced with a pinch of salt. Add lime juice and fresh cilantro and you’ve got a simple pico de gallo.

MalachaiConstant ,

Rooting has always been beyond most users, even if it’s technically trivial. It’s definitely solvable, unfortunately most solutions in this direction tend to draw attention of corporate legal teams.

MalachaiConstant ,

I’m assuming they also saw the age and jumped ahead into the mourning process.

MalachaiConstant ,

The “two steps forward, one step back” maneuver. Classic.

Workers at TJ Maxx and Marshalls are wearing police-like body cameras. Here’s how it’s going (www.cnn.com)

Retail chains like TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, are equipping some store employees with body cameras to deter shoplifting and improve safety. This is part of a growing trend in the retail industry, as stores respond to an increase in organized retail theft and violence against workers. However, some...

MalachaiConstant ,

In other words, they have a systemic issue is where the threat of prosecution isn’t enough to deter employees from supplementing income with theft.

I wonder what kind of conditions led to that.

MalachaiConstant ,

I saw this coming and switched to GIMP and Inkscape. It’s been a pain but I’ve managed. I’m just the IT guy though, and I would be laughed out of the room if I suggested our marketing team consider making the same switch.

It’s not a matter of seeing it coming. They just don’t care.

MalachaiConstant ,

I think that’s part of the problem with conservatives. They’re already living in abject fear of everything.

They’ve been groomed into believing a civil war is imminent and their neighbors are the enemy, to the point where they’ve started making moves toward actual civil war with their neighbors.

They’ve been all been told: “There is the enemy, these are their flags, here is a gun, we can keep you out of jail.”

MalachaiConstant , (edited )

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find it this explanation.

My first thought was “wait did discord saying something bad about FOSS lately?” No, nothing unusual. Must be missing something.

Turns out some people see Discord as a sort of mascot for closed source, and that is what the joke hinged on.

Edit:

Actually it’s worse than that, isn’t it? They’re seeing the coexistence of closed source as being antithetical to open source.

Good luck with that I guess.

MalachaiConstant ,

Just admiring the kill.

MalachaiConstant ,

I’ve lost 50 lbs in the past year. It is almost entirely due to the fact that I replaced alcohol with weed after it became legal here. I sleep better, eat better, I’m less anxious, and I actually look forward to working out now.

It’s very hard to see any downsides.

MalachaiConstant ,

That’s me, sorta. For the first time since I turned 21 (so almost 15 years), I can have just one drink and not want another. I didn’t even really try to cut back, it just happened naturally after I took up cannabis.

Looking back, it’s kind of incredible how much alcohol was bringing me down.

MalachaiConstant ,

Thanks for the heads up. Pretty fucked we have to live in a world where we can’t be completely open with our health care professionals.

MalachaiConstant ,

I was thinking about this the other day. I support some very, very technologically limited users and I wondered if anyone out there is working on a distro/DE that looks and feels just enough like windows to get them by

I would never have considered this before they announced Recall. Now it feels like I’m waiting to see just how hard they push it

MalachaiConstant ,

hang on let me check the big bi handibook…

yep, it’s ass.

edit:

I did not see that there was a second thing you could be responding to. I’ll look that one up too…

yup, it’s rude.

MalachaiConstant ,

Is it not clear which definition of Crypto he’s using?

Linus coming out against cryptography seems so unrealistically silly to me that it’s not even worth considering.

MalachaiConstant ,

It showed up for me about a month ago. I put up with it for about a week and then broke down and finally switched all my browser search engines to duckduckgo.

The funny thing is, I tried making this same switch a couple years ago. I legitimately had a harder time getting the results I needed and ended up switching back to Google.

Google is worse than useless to me now.

MalachaiConstant ,

How about Analogue August or Stop Scrolling September?

I’ll also say, Offline October is pretty dang good.

MalachaiConstant ,

Let’s throw out first-past-the-post voting while we’re at it.

MalachaiConstant ,

I remember this sentiment being floated around a lot leading up to 2016. If 2020 should have taught us anything, it’s that things can get worse in ways we won’t expect.

A lot of people knew a global pandemic was on the horizon. That much was expected.

Trump knew. He knew and threw out the established response plan his first year. We did not expect him to be able to do that much harm.

MalachaiConstant ,

In a two party system, voting third party will only ever result in your vote being thrown out. It is taking a stand against reality for the sake of your own personal idealism.

A lot of left-aligned voters learned that lesson the hard way in 2016. If you didn’t learn the lesson, you either weren’t paying attention or your idealism is more important to you than the actual outcome of the vote.

Doing that willingly, despite (or maybe because) the rest of your side screaming at you not to fuck this up again, is absolutely a level of betrayal.

MalachaiConstant ,

More like “you think you’re helping but you are not”

MalachaiConstant ,

So your solution is to vote in protest for a party you know won’t win.

I’m actually curious now, what possible good do you think that’s doing?

MalachaiConstant ,

A funny thing happens to a word when you give it additional definitions: the original definition loses meaning.

Great news for traditional antisemites

MalachaiConstant ,

You mean a benefit besides being a nuke depot in the middle east?

MalachaiConstant ,

Normies = lurkers

MalachaiConstant ,

I stopped being so open about the fact that I disowned my narcissistic mother, at least among strangers. I got sick of all the arguments from people who would also want nothing to do with her, if they ever had to misfortune to meet her.

She is a nasty, vindictive, obsessive person who goes out of her way to hurt people. She sees people as tools to manipulate, not as human beings. The only relationships she has ever been able to maintain are with people too afraid of her to leave.

But sure, tell me again how blood is thicker than water.

MalachaiConstant ,

Gmail has a bad habit of losing my emails anyway. Maybe yours too if you ever used Google Inbox.

I migrated my main account to Inbox and it was honestly the best email experience I’ve had. Unfortunately, the forced migration following its collapse left my Gmail riddled with problems.

Granted, it’s not losing days worth of email. It just occasionally attempts to automatically categorize emails into categories that don’t exist, removing them from my inbox and leaving them in a weird uncategorized limbo space. Once there, I have to search for them specifically before they will show up anywhere.

The worst part is, it is so inconsistent that I have no clue when to expect it. I have missed major bills this way.

I have a coworker who is also an Inbox refugee. He is the only other person I’ve met with identical Gmail issues.

MalachaiConstant ,

Given how many politicians are deeply closeted, I like to imagine they hurried this one along quietly

MalachaiConstant ,

it’s becoming more obvious every day that lemmy is where the old and out of touch people migrated to

Hey I’ve heard there’s this really cool app for lipsyncing and dancing. Apparently it’s getting pretty popular. Sounds like you’d have more fun there

MalachaiConstant ,

Okay then, where did all the young and in-touch people end up?

MalachaiConstant ,

My wife and I LOVE our house and don’t want to leave, but we definitely thought it was going to be a starter home. We straight up could not afford the mortgage payments anywhere else at today’s rates, even in a much smaller house

MalachaiConstant ,

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MalachaiConstant ,

That’ll be Slave War II

'Run, run, run': Chaos at a Sydney mall as 6 people stabbed to death, and the suspect fatally shot (apnews.com)

A man stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, police said, with hundreds fleeing the chaotic scene, many weeping as they carried their children. Eight people, including a 9-month-old, were injured....

MalachaiConstant ,

I disagree with the idea that cops should be considered good or bad. They are state force applied. A cop can be a good person, but I think the whole point of the uniform is to remove the person from the position

MalachaiConstant ,

Made me check hope, even though I knew it was a shitpost.

ftfy

ftfy

MalachaiConstant ,

NO.

If anyone has a term for this specific phobia, please let me know

MalachaiConstant ,

Times like this I wish I was still talking to her and she knew I was queer.

Ugh, same. I broke all contact with mine a little before the pandemic and now a tiny part of me will always be dying to know how deep into the cult she sank.

MalachaiConstant ,

I just installed gimpshop the other day on a whim and immediately I could work at 90% capacity just based 20+ years of Photoshop muscle memory. Gimp never lasted more than a day with me the dozen or so times I’ve tried it before.

There are ways to make it work, and the tooling out there is getting better every day.

MalachaiConstant ,

I had no clue about this. Thanks for the heads up. Not sure which one I installed but it’s on my test machine and I can check tomorrow

MalachaiConstant ,

Yep, and that’s still true even when he’s made to face the consequences of his actions. We expect so very little of him that we let him get away with pretty much anything as long as he loves his family.

Hot damn if that’s not the picture of straight-white-male-between-18-and-50-years-old privilege.

MalachaiConstant ,

True! And those people vote.

MalachaiConstant ,

For me it depends entirely on 1) which hobby and 2) how the mainstream audience shapes it; if investors believe they can make more money by promoting certain aspects of the hobby, they can change it’s entire landscape. And that’s not even getting into what can happen when IP law gets involved.

It’s a shitty tradeoff to have to make, because sometimes I just want to everyone to enjoy what I enjoy. I’ve also seen hobbies die from too much exposure.

MalachaiConstant ,

One is trying to tangle a ball of yarn into.a mess and the other is attempting to untangle it and knit a cardigan.

Building on this metaphor, one of my single biggest frustrations with the left is how many of them won’t accept anything short of a fully knit cardigan; unless they get exactly what they want, they’d rather just hand it over to the tanglers.

MalachaiConstant ,

The divinity games definitely felt inspired by DND. I’ve even been able to convince friends (including some who don’t play video games at all) to pick it up because of how similar it feels to tabletop. Larian was a natural choice for BG3 and I’m convinced that was part of the vision with their early work

MalachaiConstant ,

We’re still a lot better over distance, iirc, which is why we are able to ride them

MalachaiConstant ,

Some context that makes this one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever seen:

Adin Ross is a huge fan of Tate, to the point where he has funnelled himself into a shitty content niche trying to emulate him. He worships the guy.

He’s also a well known moron who can’t think before he speaks, which often lands him in hot water.

MalachaiConstant ,

You’re missing the point that they need those relationships to gain access to sources. You literally cannot force people to talk to you

MalachaiConstant ,

You just described it perfectly. I grew up in a conservative household and those were the exact thoughts I ended up internalizing for nearly 35 years.

I have an amazing life now, so I wouldn’t want anything to change, but damn if I wouldn’t have made some different decisions growing up if I had realized I was bi.

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