shalafi
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- Comment on Dazzling! 1 hour ago:
OP means it. The neurodivergence around here is astonishing compared to what I see in the real world.
- Comment on Dazzling! 1 hour ago:
I… uh… applaud how bored you must be. That was honestly impressive investigation. My daughter is low-key autistic and I think she would be impressed at the useless dedication. Not even joking, I am impressed.
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- Comment on Ripperonis 8 hours ago:
And get hammered and cry together.
- Comment on Ripperonis 8 hours ago:
To this day people are pronounced dead and waking up.
- Comment on Ripperonis 8 hours ago:
There’s a scene in Blindsight where they’re getting blasted with unholy amounts of magnetism, fucks with everyone’s head. One chick thinks her leg is dead and is screaming and trying to pull it off. Not sure I count it a horror novel, but it has it’s moments.
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 8 hours ago:
Science has become political, projecting an antivax attitude resonates with the rubes. Nothing more to it.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 9 hours ago:
Hey buddy! I came to post that video!
I know what is happening. I know why it is happening. My brain is still screaming at the feather to slow down.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 10 hours ago:
Among other things, I was in charge of on and offboarding and buying IT gear. HR basically told me if the employee won’t return the laptop we just have to suck it up. I may be misremembering, but legally speaking, we gave them the gear, no matter what paperwork they signed. And in no case would it pay to so much as begin legal action.
And no, we don’t want the monitors. Just not worse the hassle and shipping.
- Comment on ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments 1 day ago:
They should read my comments.
Single shot through the engine block!
- Comment on Outsourcing 1 day ago:
I play a pretty good straight-man, but he nails it. Take me more than one take to spit that with a straight face.
- Comment on Outsourcing 1 day ago:
Media literacy not only fails the conservatives.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
All agreed! At 52 I considered a relationship with a 26-yo friend. If she didn’t have 3 tiny children, maybe? But no, just couldn’t see it working. I’d be 80 and her at 54? I’d be robbing her of her youth when she could have had a younger man to share that life with.
Funny enough, my Filipino wife is 6-months older than I, and she was fucking horrified to learn that. Her friends are all married to white dudes 20+ years older. Cultural thing. :)
- Comment on Ever seen a drunk pig? 1 day ago:
Russian farmer walks into the kitchen with a pig under his arm.
“Look at this pig I must fuck!”
Babushka: “Filthy peasant! Fucking animals!”
“Was talking to pig.”
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
Meh, I won’t put strict age limits on sex. Relationships? I can guess what would and wouldn’t work for me, but the world is a big place and people are wildly variable.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
Only saying, we had far more in common than I had thought. I was replying to someone who said winter/spring relationships are only about physical attraction.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
Agreed! But we had solid conversations, deep and involved. I was astonished at how mature and educated they were, forgot what I was like at that age.
I’ve found papers I wrote for school in my teens, thought, “Oh boy, this is gonna be some bullshit.” Read them and was surprised at my understanding of the world!
Guess my point is, I will never undersell the youth, not ever again. Dating someone half my age, meh, can’t really see it, but I do see it as possible for some.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 1 day ago:
Sounds like a great idea. OTOH, impossible to calculate the damage to local ecosystems vs. traditional methods.
Totally uneducated guess: Probably better? Cooling is a major power suck, as well as consuming water.
Roughly 40 percent of the electricity consumed by an ordinary data center is for this purpose.
We’re draining aquifers that take thousands of years to build up. Don’t read up on that, it’s horrifying. So if we have to have data centers, I’m gambling that underwater is the lesser of two evils.
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- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 1 day ago:
Fucking hate shit like this.
BURN!
Well, uh, could I see the reply.
NO!
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
I’m 54 and most of the people I know are in their early 20s. We get along great and have plenty to talk about.
- Comment on Directions 1 day ago:
I was one of the guys deploying the fix in '98. You’re all welcome.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 1 day ago:
Seems you’re correct. So how are poppy seeds so common if they’re Papaver somniferum? Weird.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
ALL true, but the GOP has given up the “fiscal responsibility” angle. I knew Republicans who were fucking enraged by Bush’s spending and wars. They GOP no longer pretends to be saving our treasury. Sure, they say their policies will eventually enrich us, but they’ve utterly given up saying they’re trying to save money. Maybe I’m splitting hairs, but I clearly remember their scream of “fiscal responsibility!”, and now they are silent.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 day ago:
Love it!
Funny thing I was thinking on the drive to camp:
We had 3 TV stations, 3 sources of the nightly news. (Nightly news for national and world news, local paper for local news.)
The talking heads always said the same things. Sounds like state propaganda, doesn’t it? But the reality was that none of them wanted to show even a whiff of bias. The #1 metric of who one watched for their news was trust. Like Cronkite or Rather? Who do you trust? Bias was verboten, propaganda. LOL, after Watergate, journalists hunted politicians for sport.
Al Jazeera America started with the promise to report “just the facts ma’am”. Now I don’t know shit about their worldwide operations, I only saw the American version, and I was horrified. I realized I was so brainwashed on news-as-entertainment that reading their version was like watching grass grow. Hadn’t seen news reported as straight facts in so long I was bored shitless.
I have some experience. Edited my high school paper, not like that’s a big deal, but I had some solid journalistic training. Same in college. I can point to bias in any given article you care to show me. Not Al Jazeera, nada, no bias.
Predictably, they gave up within a year.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
Thank you for your take! American gun nuts tend to think Europeans can’t own a weapon, at all. Funny enough, what you’ve described is most of my gun collection. A dozen shotguns, mostly single shots and vintage/antiques. Loads of .22s, but my wife’s Walther .22 is a total POS! How funny is that? And yes, American hunting rifles are typically bolt-action. I think there are a couple of states where it’s illegal to hunt with an AR platform? The rounds are too wimpy for clean kills. (That’s a joke meme.)
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 2 days ago:
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
First day teaching my little kids I took an empty beer can and holed it with a .22. Tiny hole on one side, tiny hole on the other, no surprise.
Then I pointed out that humans are mostly bags of water. Filled the same sized can full of water, shot it with the same gun, same round. They shit kittens.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 days ago:
What you’re describing is clearly foreign propaganda.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t say the Groyper is totally baseless, but “Robinson’s romantic relationship with his transgender roommate” is pretty telling.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 days ago:
They haven’t talked “fiscal responsibility” since they let Bush Jr. blew Clinton’s surplus. Just dropped it.
