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rektdeckard , 8 days ago

If your delicate sensibilities can’t handle reading this, imagine how these prisoners feel. This SHOULD shock you, and maybe that shock will motivate you to action against it.

rektdeckard , 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

I’m not OP, and it’s literally in the title. Be an adult.

EDIT: I obviously don’t understand what the issue even is, because you just said rape. Is the word okay for comments but not titles? Or is the problem that you don’t have the reading comprehension skills to read the word in the title and infer the nature of the content behind the link?

rektdeckard , 8 days ago

I am truly sorry if I hurt any feelings. I honestly was not aware that we as a society decided that using that word is insensitive. I (34M) was sexually assaulted when I was 8, FWIW, and I understand that words have power. I just didn’t get the memo in this case.

What is the considerate way to title this post?

rektdeckard , 8 days ago

You just said the word tho

EDIT: sorry, not trying to be snarky. You’re right, but your misstep points out the problem

rektdeckard , 14 days ago

Most interesting definition, I think, comes from contrapposto. Can it die? No. So long as it retains its “shape” more or less, it functions. If heated or denatured, it no longer functions. More like broken than dead.

rektdeckard , 15 days ago

Wrong. Talk to him every day. Hang out on some weekends, and become friends. Plant subtle notions of egalitarianism through your friendship and generosity. Ask him thought questions about his beliefs, but not in an accusatory manner. Teach him to actually think for himself, to keep an open mind, to seek evidence rather than faith to form convictions. Slowly show him by example what it means to be a good person who cares for their fellow human beings.

Then you plant some drugs on him while at work, and call HR with your suspicions.

rektdeckard , 19 days ago

Mexican Bowl

rektdeckard , 23 days ago

This is the New McCarthyism, there’s a different enemy now didn’t you hear?

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

I’m actually surprised at how little they spend on lobbying, even with the recent uptick. It must be the other thing, you know, our representatives are shareholders.

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

I think they’re proposing personal time zones, where every individual’s clock shows their precise solar time, and nobody ever manages to be on time to work ever again.

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

I’m imagining something more fluid, where the time it is depends on exactly where you’re standing and the position of the sun in relation to it. You’d need to factor the direction you’re traveling as well as the distance whenever you went anywhere. We’d have a lot more intimate relationship with our current celestial situation.

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

How stoned are you right now

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

What you’re describing is LITERALLY the system we have. UTC is a global, coordinated time that tracks solar time to a precision of less than a second. As far as my computer is concerned, my time is UTC (technically GMT, but they both refer to the same time) minus 6 hours. We all could choose to say, “hey, wanna meet for dinner at 3AM?” and have that be a normal thing to say in my area, and an odd thing to say odd in Europe… but nobody wants that.

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

This is the same fucking thing. It is simultaneously 12:25am MDT and 6:25am GMT where I live. If you ask my computer what time it is, it knows it is 06:25:00-06:00.

Two sides of the same coin buddy.

rektdeckard , 1 month ago

Damn me neither

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

Wait, why? Is the TV spying on me any more than my phone, every app I use, my desktop OS, every website I visit, all of my smart home devices, my car, my bank, traffic cameras, and my bottom left molar?

Can’t I just slap a PiHole on my home network and pretend I’ve done something about it?

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

I bet they’re always on your lawn too

rektdeckard , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

She doesn’t reside in the state, and the state is Hawaii (an island). We can assume she also has no social connections there, at least none near the property. Do you expect her to be telepathic?

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

You can. But should you be expected to? Lol. It’s an empty lot in a residential neighborhood. I think it’s fair to NOT expect people to be putting unauthorized structures on it.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I own property.

I’m just saying it’s incorrect to characterize this woman as ass-headed, because it’s not a reasonable expectation to assume somebody might build on your land, or to have to spend your time and money to safeguard against that specific problem. Making sure there are no uncovered well, sure. Constant surveillance to keep out rogue construction companies? In a neighborhood? No.

And whether you found out in a week or several months, it’s still a huge headache. So you notice a bit earlier if you’re paying close attention. Big whoop. You’ve still got a huge hole and a house foundation on your property. The developer still broke the law, and you did NOT break the law or do anything dumb by expecting others to adhere to property law, and doing what is required of you by law.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

You are right, of course. There are things we can’t condone. But you realize that by saying it you sound exactly like the “all lives matter” response to BLM: technically correct, but oblivious to the context in which the original statement arises. When we say Palestinian lives matter, we aren’t saying Israeli lives don’t. We’re saying that you have forgotten that Palestinian lives even matter at all.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

It was referring to EVERYONE ELSE’s cost of living. They’re being careful not to flaunt it while so many people (not them) are hurting.

Edit: sorry replied to wrong comment

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

News flash, even if you own your home, you still may want insurance on it.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

Brush up on YOUR reading comprehension. The only party requiring insurance is a mortgage lender, and you were suggesting moving to some shithole cheap enough to pay cash for a house. My point is, even if you own outright – shit, ESPECIALLY if you own outright – it’s probably a good idea.

I fucking hate insurance companies too, but you know what? My car was hit by an unlicensed driver less than 2 weeks ago and was totaled. I would be fucking SCREWED right now if I didn’t have car insurance. Instead I’m getting the car loan paid off and a check for the remaining $20k I can do whatever I want with. It’s gonna be to buy a new car, but I have the choice, instead of holding the bag of shit.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

Listen, I know you didn’t explicitly say “don’t pay for insurance, move somewhere cheap!”, but you absolutely implied it with your argument. Who is forced? Nobody, you’re right. But realistically, if you want to either:

A. Like where you live, or B. have even a fraction of financial safety

you must. Very very few people can afford to purchase a house with cash, especially now, and especially first-generation home buyers. That gives you a pretty unfortunate choice to make.

My main point is, your rhetoric shows that you think WE are the problem. That average Americans should give up the idea that we could live in a city where there is culture, diversity, good education, public transit, and god forbid modest housing options.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

I think they were referring to alien consipracists, who much like flat earthers believe in a global hoax committed by the elite (read: Jews and Liberals) to keep us misinformed on the true nature of our reality (for some reason). In that way they are very much cut from the same cloth.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

I just tried making sugar cookies, adding black sesame powder and replacing a portion of the butter with sesame oil. These cookies slap.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

I spilled a half cup of 175F water on my hand and got blisters. You absolutely cannot bathe in it.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

I meant to reply to the parent comment

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

The whole Republican establishment agenda right now is to do the white Christian version of Sharia Law.

rektdeckard , 2 months ago

But you need an attorney to claim the deduction

rektdeckard , 9 months ago

I love RSS too, but gradually drifted away from it over the years. After the Reddit emigration I started getting back into it, and just published a super basic TUI feed reader if anyone is interested.

It’s called moccasin

rektdeckard , 9 months ago

I dunno, probably very few. I wrote it myself in a week. From a quick glance, Newsboat does not support “open in browser” outside of Linux, and is unconfirmed to even run on Windows. We do. Mocassin’s interface also seems to be better suited to large screens and at-a-glance reading. Other than that they are years ahead.

rektdeckard , 9 months ago

The College Board should award DOUBLE college credit for taking this class to account for the missing high school credit.

rektdeckard , 9 months ago

Seriously. He can’t NOT publicly repeat every technical term that he hears, usually with next to no actual understanding.

rektdeckard , 10 months ago

Coding and computer science:

• Andreas Kling
• Ben Eater
• TsodingDaily
• Computerphile

Physics, chemistry, and engineering:

• Practical Engineering
• Applied Science
• Tom Scott
• ElectroBOOM
• CuriousMarc
• Great Scott
• Big Clive
• Nile Red
• Extractions&Ire
• Explosions&Fire
• Cody’s Lab
• Numberphile
• Periodic Videos
• Veritasium
• Technology Connections
• Steve Mould
• Colin Furze

Food:

• Tasting History
• Adam Ragusea

Philosophy:

• Big Think
• Royal Institute
• School of Life

rektdeckard , 10 months ago

Often used internally in software development to denote things like test files. feature.js might be your code, and feature.test.js would contain tests for that code which your testing framework would run automatically based on the filename.

rektdeckard , 10 months ago

youtu.be/MOb8Y9QqONE?si=Y9gunHWYvUc4nqyY