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shalafi ,

So what are you gonna do? Send the cops to kill them? Because that’s how it plays out.

And then there’s the apocryphal boating accident. Prove I still have the guns.

shalafi ,

“I lost my guns in a tragic boating accident.”

Now what?

shalafi ,

My wife’s legal, but not a citizen. She doesn’t fuck around with the law, not the tiniest bit.

shalafi ,

Next up: The cat box.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLwxKmor-xo

shalafi ,

Poor guy had a permit and still had to spend the night in jail.

“Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish Prison…”

shalafi ,

all because some bozo decided to drive drunk

“The bus, a 2010 International, was heading west on State Road 40 when, “for unknown reasons,” a 2001 Ford Ranger “traveled toward the centerline” and the vehicles sideswiped each other, Highway Patrol Lt. Pat Riordan told reporters.”

Just a thing I was thinking about last weekend while following a questionable driver. Whenever there’s an accident and one party is DUI, that party is automatically assumed at fault.

Say I’m hammered, but driving fine, staying in my lane, sane speed, all that, and another vehicle side swipes me, causing an accident. Interesting to think on.

shalafi ,

“Not Modified”?

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shalafi ,

Better article:

theregister.com/…/unisuper_google_cloud_outage_ca…

They restored from another cloud service. Were I in charge, I’d still be leery of not having that data on my own drives. I have my Windows libraries mapped to my ghetto RAID 0, and those folders are in turn backed to Google. If all else fails, I have a local backup. And this story reminds me, I haven’t installed VEEAM on this new PC…

shalafi ,

I don’t care for Dylan or the Beatles. At least I understand the ground-breaking work of the Beatles, but Dylan is incomprehensible.

shalafi ,

About every reply here is taking the headline at face value. Imagine that.

shalafi ,

Might stem from sorts of verification like writing checks.

shalafi ,

The media has pumped us full of terror. The gun thing is a perfect example, but comments on that aren’t welcome around here. I’ll just say, the danger is nothing like most imagine.

Went to pick up a kayak from FB Marketplace, got the wrong house. Lady wouldn’t answer at first, and that’s with a German Shepard barking at me though the door and a Ring doorbell looking at me. When she finally came, she wouldn’t open the glass, talked to me through the door.

For context, this is in the bougie suburb and I’m a well-dressed, middle-aged white guy. And I’m small. Hardly a scary man for the time and place.

On Nextdoor.com I see 1,000 idiot posts.

“Did you see the strange man walking down Oak Street?! I’ve seen him twice now!”

“A teenager came to my door today and I didn’t know him! Has anyone else been terrorized like this?”

shalafi ,

They’ve done the right thing in many cases. Been collecting them for giggles.

shalafi ,

“1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”

shalafi , (edited )

Could a reply be any more perfect?!

Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.

“Woe is me!”

I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:

“Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”

shalafi ,

It may well have already been dead. They’re performing a necroscopy.

I’m no marine biologist, but I’m guessing a small whale is plenty fast enough to dodge a gigantic cruise ship. They don’t exactly haul ass. OR, there was something terribly wrong with it so that it couldn’t get away.

shalafi ,

Imma sell a “smoke diverter” that’s a wide piece of cardboard on a stand. Put it opposite your seat at the fire, boom, no more smoke.

shalafi ,

Nah, read about this in the 90’s (I think?). The article was about a specific Atlantic fish, I forget, been a long time. Scientists were puzzled as to why the fish were shrinking.

Fisherman are only allowed to keep the big ones, throw the little 'uns back. This creates evolutionary pressure for younger/smaller fish to come to maturity and start reproducing sooner.

shalafi ,

Nailed it. Exactly the answer I read in an article way back when. Commented on it above.

Remove the big fish, only the smaller ones that came to maturity faster get to reproduce.

shalafi ,

Same. And I still steal Prime videos. Why hassle?

shalafi ,

Say it out loud. We’re both pirating content we’ve paid for. What a dumb system.

shalafi ,

Or shotgun shell sizes and loads.

“It all started in 1840 when the dram was a common unit of measurement…”

shalafi ,

IRL Betty White.

shalafi ,

Those were the good old days. ABC, NBC and CBS only reported facts. No one dared step out of line for fear of appearing biased. Journalists took great pride in being unbiased. Any whiff of opinion on the nightly news was a career ender.

Hell, a major broadcast metric back then was, “Which news anchor do you trust the most?” And that’s with all of them basically saying the same thing.

The networks were powerful, as journalism is meant to be. Now our “facts” are splattered across hundreds of platforms and none give a shit about being seen as biased. Today it’s pick your own truth.

shalafi ,

Yes. This is exactly how capitalism is supposed to work. The corporation bows to the wants and needs of the consumer, or they risk being replaced.

And this is an even greater example, consumers telling a mega-corp to get fucked and getting results.

But don’t let me get in the way of you kids and your anti-capitalism bent, typed on a machine made possible by capitalism. If I could send every fucking one of you back to the 70s and let you get an eye full of communism, I’d deport every one of you to the USSR.

shalafi ,

They’re easy to swat. Two things: They always launch backwards and the react to shadows.

Creep slow from behind. If you have to cause a shadow, move very slowly. They jump into your fist.

Can a damaged hard drive slow down a computer?

My mother’s laptop has been running as fast as a turtle on a snail going uphill for a long time now. Everything has been done to it, including formatting it and installing another, less cumbersome OS, but nothing improves. I have an HHD available, I have done some tests and it does work....

shalafi ,

DM me your address.

shalafi ,

Granny Weatherwax, the witch from Discworld discussing theology with a young priest:

“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that–”

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes–”

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

shalafi ,

I think that every time I hear the frogs go off.

"Pick me! PICK ME!

“Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me…”

shalafi ,

That seems like an easily made, honest mistake. I would hope context matters more.

shalafi ,

Saving this one for next time I’m on call for weekend monitoring.

shalafi ,

When I worked at McDonald’s in the 80s people would do exactly this. Old trick.

shalafi , (edited )

Nope, it’s the government’s mileage standards. If you make a truck with a shorter wheelbase and track, it has to hit higher gas mileage standards. Easier to make a big truck that’s allowed worse mileage.

youtu.be/azI3nqrHEXM

Also, I did a brief stint selling cars in the 90s. One of the salesmen explained it like this, “What’s the real difference in a big truck and a small truck? Same engineering effort, same production work, all that. Hell, same parts for most systems.

More steel on the big one, and steel is cheap. We can charge a premium for the larger truck.”

'Horrific' violence at UCLA after counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian camp (www.bbc.com)

Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles after pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators attacked a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. Bubbling tensions on the campus boiled over following the alleged breach of a “buffer zone” between the rival groups.

shalafi ,

But we mustn’t have evil guns!! The police will protect us, I’m certain of it!

Liberals will never, ever prevail against the fascists unless they pull their collective head out of their collective ass. News flash kids: The fascists are perfectly willing to use violence. And they know you are not.

shalafi ,

Yep. I was robbed at knifepoint by a couple of goons. They knocked politely first.

Outside the door? Cop problem. Inside the door? Your problem.

TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex (en.m.wikipedia.org)

It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....

shalafi ,

I’ve read it no less than 15 times, maybe more. I think I’m finally at the stage where I’m not picking up new stuff on rereads. Yeah. It’s wild.

Read the flyleaf at the library, sounded impossibly corny. Thought it was time for some cheesy science fiction, get off the serious stuff. I was wrong. I was so wrong.

shalafi ,

While red flag laws can be sketchy, the state has no business overruling local municipalities.

shalafi ,

I’m all about storage laws. Damn near every gun law Democrats come up with is ineffective at best, backfires at worst. I could go on and on.

But I see no 2A violation, no chance of a court kicking it back, no arguments of any sort regarding storage laws when a minor is in the home.

shalafi ,

I disagree. If you’re in a place in life to take a position requiring a non-compete, you probably already knew it was unenforceable. We’re not talking teens with their first jobs here.

OTOH, I strongly agree that this is a great thing for workers. Really can’t believe it happened!

shalafi ,

They won’t be the only ones watching.

shalafi ,

This is a first-term asshole who just happens to own a bunch of Smoothie King franchises.

All the legislature did was move it out of committee for a House vote. Still has to pass the Senate and Govenor. This is not a done deal.

shalafi ,

All the, “We’re gonna DIE!” posts come from people that never lived the Cold War.

shalafi ,

And there’s so much more! Most inept murder ever.

(Read the article folks. It’s even dumber than you think.)

shalafi ,

Huh. There’s some sort of obvious difference between people then and now. But if I point it out, lemmy will assure me I’m a hater.

shalafi ,

To paraphrase James Carville, “It’s the insects, stupid.”

The older you are, the more obvious it is.

shalafi ,

Agreed. The 2A is a right, full stop. Doesn’t matter if you or I like it, the courts agree, and have historically.

You’ll get a dozen dumb arguments, but none will address the fact of the 2A. And there’s no way it gets overturned given our amendment procedures.

This is actually a pretty dumb stunt. It’s going to lose in court, zero doubt. And now there’s more precedence.

shalafi ,

you can see the particles floating around

Good god! Where do you live?!

I’ll grant that tap water may not taste great. This sounds stupidly picky, and I’m not, but there’s a clear difference in the water from our bathroom tap, kinda gross, and the kitchen tap, totally normal. Been like that since the house was new, 7-years ago.

One thing people don’t get, tap water is only nasty, if at all, when you first pour it. Take a glass and blast it full. Take a sniff, get your nose right on top.

If you let it sit for a day, it’s perfectly “flat”. This is why people’s houseplants suffer and turn brown at the tips. The plant pushes the chemicals, like fluorine and other stuff, out to the leaf tips, turns 'em dead. Let your water sit a day and it’s about like rainwater. (I know minerals like fluoride won’t change or evaporate out. Don’t know anything about municipal water treatment.)

And that’s another thing! I’ve noticed for years that when it’s dry, watering from the hose helps, of course. But a solid rain pops the green out. Very interesting to observe.

shalafi ,

Just like peppers, a sort of odd evolution when humans come into play.

Peppers devolved capsaicin to keep mammalian herbivores from eating them and grinding the seeds up. Birds have no capsaicin receptors, happily poop whole seeds everywhere.

Along come humans. “Let’s grown and refine that shit!”

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