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kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

They had dozens of towers up until the invention of photography. And now they’re almost all gone. That’s even more impressive in a sadder way.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

A word for words and names? Nomenclature, terminology, lexicon…

A word for peeing and pooping collectively? Most words have other uses, but also pertain to both bathroom activities, like Excretion, evacuation, expulsion, waste, elimination… There are better words that specifically refer to each act individually, but not collectively. Just for peeing there’s urinate and micturate, and just for pooping there’s defecate.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

If at first it doesn’t fit, you clearly didn’t hammer hard enough

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

White cop (coughmurderercough) receives the natural consequences of the same dangerous conditions that all of the non violent offenders, brown/ black people, and unjustly convicted people have been suffering for A LOOOONG ASS TIME, and suddenly only now it’s a problem. Took a little red on that white and blue ass to enlighten some people that our criminal justice system might not be handled well. Welcome to the shitty party, the rest of America. Maybe next they’ll also figure out how our incarceration rates and the revolving door of for-profit prisons that also literally write some of our laws is actually a really big problem too. Too much to ask?

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Yes, but it’s that kind of detail his lawyer and the blue lives matters folks would conveniently leave out in their “horror” over the situation. Many still consider him a martyr, not the murderer he is

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

So not your mom… yeah that’s good advice.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Space Explorer on an Eldritch Horror

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Poor Mormons can’t use Java.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

“I installed Python on my Apple notebook. Guys… am I responsible for the Fall of Man?”

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

I remember when Bioshock Infinite came out, a few weirdos were demanding refunds because in the first 10 minutes of the game, a scene with a bunch of cultists requires you to click a button to “Accept Baptism” from them. They were refusing to push the button on religious grounds, and so they soft locked themselves out of playing the rest of the game. Smh.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

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kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

A ten year old that even gets that reference is ahead of the curve. That kid is a meme prodigy.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

Also, if I rewind to the Neolithic and I see a bunch of cavemen, sabertooth tigers and a Schwinn chained to a bike rack, I’m not going to just fast forward from there. I have other questions.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Yeah, every time I have ever had to hand over footage to the police for thefts at our family store, I clip and organizr that shit. I also include a paper identifying each file, the timestamps and what happened during them, any details I identified that they can corroborate (physical description, identifiable clothing/tattoos, make and model of vehicle, license plate number, etc.). I often end up putting in 1-2 hours of work on it watching, editing and transferring footage.

If you want traction and results from the police, you need to make it as easy as possible for them by doing the heavy lifting yourself. The cynical view is that thats because they just don’t care, but also, in fairness, your case is one of dozens of cases on their desk and the cases never stop coming. This is your priority, so put in the effort instead of expecting others do so. That being said, that is much easier when you have direct access to the cctv footage. I’m guessing this student didnt.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

How close does it have to be? Is any shirt not allowed? Would a red tank top be OK? Or maybe put him in a maroon shirt? What if he wears a red shirt with a white collar? Feels like splitting hairs, but there IS a line somewhere.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

The “unfinished” ceilings are common in warehouse stores. It is largely a feature of practicality. Since electrical, water and ventilation typical run overhead and needs to be serviced occasionally, putting drop ceiling tiles up would make them difficult to work with, particularly when you need a scissor lift (rather than a ladder) to reach the utility lines. But it also has some benefits like higher lighting fixtures which means less direct/more ambient lighting, fewer places for pests to roam in the building or dust to build up, etc. It may just be that I’m used to it, but it doesn’t bother me as an aesthetic. Drop ceiling is more common in smaller stores.

Not sure what you mean by the drab colors. The floor looks like it could be whiter and probably needs a polish, but the blues look nice enough to me. There’s not much to decorate though as most of the story is wide open with very few surfaces that aren’t covered in products for sale.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

In fairness from the perspective of someone who has had to pull a lot of network cable in buildings before, drywall ceilings SUCK, drop ceilings are fine but can really be a pain, and open ceilings are chefs kiss soooooo much easier to work with. I promise that’s true for your HVAC, fire sprinklers, electrical/lighting, and plumbing guys too. Particularly when you have to work on a scissor lift for those high ceilings, rather than on a 6ft ladder. From a practicality standpoint, open ceilings are way better for maintenance and new installations.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Yeah, I’m sure that is the primary reason.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

I work 9a-5p and I do my best work after 11pm.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

There’s a decent occult/sci-fi novel series called the Laundry Files wherein people sometimes stumble across or come up with forbidden mathematics that actually functions as a form of occult spellcraft. They then get forcibly drafted into this secret government organization that works to protect the world from extraterrestrial threats, occult creatures like vampires and succubi, and the lovecraftian horrors from the depths of the oceans or the fridge fringe edges of space. They’re like the men in black crossed with Lovecraft crossed with a British comedy about monotonous office life and bureaucracy. It’s a pretty entertaining series. Highly recommend.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

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kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

Yeah, I listened to them on audiobook myself. Also about 6 of them, give or take, oddly enough. I have been doing audiobooks a ton the last few years, as I rarely have time to just sit down and read. Perfect for when you’re doing menial tasks that aren’t mentally engaging. Doing dishes, driving, going grocery shopping… audiobook.

I’ve been on the Dungeon Crawler Carl series lately which is another great series that’s also weird as hell. Weirder even than the Laundry Files by far. A half naked protagonist fighting for his life with his girlfriend’s cat in tow, meth head llamas, and a dungeon-controlling AI with a thing for feet, just to name a few things from early in the first book. And the narrator for Carl sounds a lot like Patrick Warburton. Thoroughly recommend if that sounds like your kind of thing.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Amazon will track your progress between the audiobook and the Kindle book and sync them.

I did not know that. That is actually a nice feature. I used to jump back and forth between ebook and audiobook on my phone but it was a pain to find your spot again when you swap if you didnt do it at a chapter change.

I was looking as a Kindle the other day for night time reading but wasn’t sure if I wanted to do it or not. I dont know if i can trust it to just be an ereader. I bought a cheap fire tablet for my wife a few years ago and found out too late that it was a cheap vehicle for ads. Apparently I bought the wrong one. They have a more expensive model that is ad free, but I didn’t know about it at the time.

I’m jaded about buying amazon tech now. Not just for anti-competitive, anti-union stuff (which unfortunately is not just an Amazon problem), but the products themselves not just being a product you buy and own. They make their product into a tool to inundate you with ads and get you to consume more. Feels like you are getting tricked. Do you have ads on your paperwhite?

Also, since you asked, I’ve been on a LitRPG kick lately. Two series in particular. Well… two authors/settings in particular. The first is He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon. An aussie nihilist smart-ass finds himself naked and hairless in a new world that operates on RPG rules, gains abilities, saves some people, joins an adventuring party and guild, pisses a lot of people in power off, and has to constantly grow stronger to keep those people in power from controlling or destroying him. I like the world, there is a lot of laughs, fantastically descriptive fights, epic world-ending stakes and even some really deeply emotional stuff in later books. He publishes the stories chapter by chapter on a website, then compiles them into books, then they get recorded into audiobooks. As a result, there are a few times where the story was noticably disjointed or retreads the same point a bit that I think is due to these chapter releases and disconnected edits. But I love the characters, even if the protagonist is an ass with plot armor sometimes. Good dumb fun.

The other ones I ran through recently are all by the same author and in the same setting and even happen (nearly) contemporaneously, but they are 3 separate series. The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and The Grim Guys, all by Eric Ugland. They have some overlapping side characters/events, but they are each largely contained to their own narratives. They are also LitRPG series, so as you would expect, the setting is another world with gods, monsters, and magic that operates on a RPG-like system with character sheets, levels, skills, etc. In The Good Guys, a dude who had lived his life doing awful things gets a second chance in this fantasy world and somewhat reluctantly becomes a hero, a leader, and an overpowered pile of muscle. In The Bad Guys, a serial burgler with a soft spot for kids gets a chance in this new world to make something of himself. Though he planned to be the best rogue he could be, he ends up more along the lines of a Robin-hood figure, using his criminal skills to help others that depend on him. And in The Grim Guys, two best friends and partner ghost hunters are brought to this new world to be monster hunters in service to a patron goddess. They basically become the Winchesters from Supernatural, an observation that is actually made by themselves in the story.

I’m caught up on all those series waiting for more and nearly caught up on the Dungeon Crawler series too. Don’t know yet what I’m picking up after.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

I recently got the G Cloud for the same reason. I’m sitting in the same room as my playstation, not allowed to exist in the other room all night or my wife feels like I’m mad at her, and don’t always want to sit and binge tv with her. Now I can us PSPlay and Steam Link to play games from my PS5 and gaming PC while sitting on the living room with her. It’s not as nice an experience as playing on a full sized screen with a lighter controller and no occasional connectivity issues, but it beats not being able to play at all. Been using it all the time.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

The problem with the Wii U wasn’t the concept. It was the execution. The idea of a portable handheld console is a sound one, it’s just not a universal need. Making your console dependent on a niche feature and only having like 2 exclusive launch titles and bunch of third party ports is not going to compel people to buy a whole new console, especially when everyone and their grandma already owns your previous console that had hundreds of games available on it. I bought one with my brother mostly so I could play Breath of the Wild when it was impossible to buy a market price Switch. It’s perfectly fine as a console and I used the portable mode on occasion. It just doesn’t have a lot of other reasons to exist.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

There are reversible heat pumps for home heating and cooling. They’re like science magic.

In a rare move, Pope Francis forcibly removed a Texas bishop who had called him too progressive (apnews.com)

Pope Francis on Saturday forcibly removed the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a firebrand conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy....

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Isn’t it when he’s acting as the Holy See, or something like that? I saw a video explaining it a long time ago, but I can’t recall all the details.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

That’s… not accurate. The average American family has $62.5k in total across savings, checking, prepaid cards, money market accounts and call deposit accounts. That’s more than an order of magnitude under $1 million. Those households with $1 million dollars in assets (which also includes investments and homes/property) are in the 87th percentile. At $2 million in assets, they’re already in the 95th percentile. You’re not wrong that a million dollar net worth is not what it used to be, but it is still far far far above average.

The bay area/San Francisco does require an inordinate amount of money to be financially comfortable, but that is an outlier, not the norm. Even other major metropolitan areas like Houston don’t require even half as much money for the same financial comfort. In non-urban areas a million dollar net worth would make you among the wealthiest in the area. The context of the environment, house prices and local cost of living play a major factor in one’s relative wealth in a given area. The inequality of those factors in different parts of the country is as great as the wealth inequality in America in general.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

For real. Once you are a billionaire, with even the most basic investments, you have to try REAL hard to become broke again. Spare money begets money. Spare dragon hoards begets dragon hoards. Any bitch baby billionaire whining about taxes can kiss every single asshole of single working parents, people struggling to cover student loan debts, people who perpetually rent because they can’t afford a home with a lower mortgage payment than there rent is, and every person who got ill and lost there job and home as a result. They don’t need more dragon hoards. They’ll be just fine.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Practically a rounding error.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

For clarity, the scale in difference is the same between a terabyte and a gigabyte as compared to a billion and a million (a factor of 1000). But a gigabyte is not a million bytes and a terabyte is not a billion bytes Kilo = thousand Mega = million Giga = billion Tera = trillion

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

uh huh, uh huh, yep, uh huh…

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Emergency fund, man. What if the air conditioner dies?

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

If you have no insurance, sure. If you have even crappy insurance and max out both your in network and out of network out of pocket maximums, you are talking tens of thousands, not hundreds.

Source: Just did a bunch of worst case scenario comparisons between options insurance options for my wife and I.

Edit: There is a caveat here, I didnt consider originally. If you have insurance that ONLY covers in-network, then yeah… you can get fucked real hard in an emergency medical situation that puts you out of network. Dont get that kind of insurance, people. No amount of cost savings is worth that risk.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Fair point. Generally, emergency minimally life saving care is covered by default. That’s the point of getting insurance. I’m sure there’s many examples of that failing to hold true, though.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

I don’t know the breakdown of the statistics, but yeah there are different kinds and levels of blindness. Blindness can be due to physical damage to the lense, retina, optic nerve, or the visual processing area of the brain. It can be due to clouded lenses like cataracts. It can be due to malformations of the retina, non-functioning cones/rods, or shape of the lens or eyeball itself. Some of those lead to total blindness, but lead to varying degrees of vision impairment, up to and including legal blindness. Some of those can be corrected for with glasses, contacts, surgery or even electronic neural interfaces in some cases. Some are just permanent and can’t be improved.

The kind of blindness I find most interesting is when the eyes and optic nerve function normally, but the party of the brain that processes vision just doesn’t function for various reason, but the part of the brain that processes spatial awareness does still function. Those people have no sight at all, but they are still able to perceive objects and space around them and, for example, avoid obstacles when walking, despite but being able to see the obstacles in a visual sense.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

If you had bought normal store brand buns instead of artisan brioche, they are a third of the price. You are paying 2.50 per veggie burger pattie instead of a bit more or less than a dollar per pattie in morning star and great value brands. 5 dollars for a Danish that size is not ludicrous, but I bet you could have shopped around better for that too. You could have cut the total price in half at least if you were paying attention to prices and brands. Not saying that prices aren’t getting out of hand, but it doesn’t look like you even tried.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

DS9 certainly took it to a more intense point, but there’s not a single Star Trek series that wasn’t constantly swimming in politics, philosophy and ethics dilemmas. Anyone who thinks there isn’t real life politics in Star Trek isn’t paying attention.

kryptonianCodeMonkey , (edited )

My wife had me put up the Christmas tree on Oct 30th. We didn’t even make it to November. The night before Halloween, she was playing her Christmas Spotify playlist. 🙄

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Yeah, but the food was 🔥!

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Dishwashers are a necessity in the kitchen if you have the space. I almost never hand wash a dish.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

If it can’t be cleaned in the dishwasher, it isnt for me. Dont care what the label says. I put every dish through the crucible. If it melts, it’s trashed. If it cracks, it’s trashed. No pussy dishes in my kitchen. Get in the magic scalding water box and quit your bitchin’.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Yeah, the worst of Trump isn’t limited to what political actions he took as President, but also the wider cultural impact he directly spawned, escalated and continues to propogate even outside of office. He contributed so much to this cultural shift that has provided legitimacy to crooks, crackpots, and literal nazis. And worse, he’s pushed the Republican party to coddle those people, capitulate to their whims, promote their voices, and endorse their views and elections. Not that the Republican party had been respectable in a generation, but 20 years ago, they weren’t publically allied with open fascists, far-right militia groups and domestic terrorists. They are now, though.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Some witch sealed the soul of an axolotl into that persimmon

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Rest in peace, Matthew. Like many, I’ve been concerned about him for years. This is terrible news.

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Ancient city-sized dragon that is eons older that any surviving historical text or man-made structures in the world, speaking to the dwarf that stands bravely before her: “Well ain’t chu just the most precious lil’ thang I ever did lay eyes on! Wut’s yer name, sugah?”

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

This Jamaican Grim Reaper thing might have some merit

youtu.be/DP_2664OXks?si=oxuSJBd10EMs6tCq

kryptonianCodeMonkey ,

Or that the Civil War was fought over states rights. To do what, AI? The right to do what?

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