shalafi
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- Comment on I've no related pic but this morning FUCKING MICROSOFT SHIT deleted my account. I lost passwords, favorites, etc. 10 hours ago:
And THAT kinda bullshit is why I have two copies of my data on site.
But I’ve been close to your friend’s position! When I got a new phone, the only path to getting my login back in the past was authenticating on my $20 Amazon tablet that I read epubs on. Need to up my game, but I got spoiled to having two phones for several years. Wish I could get a modern Palm again. :(
- Comment on Truly a day to remember 16 hours ago:
I’m not into graphic novels, but Watchmen is really something else.
- Comment on Even more of a challenge if you were smoking a butt while driving this type of car 16 hours ago:
Stripped my clutch twice on that damned system. Then dad found a magazine article titled, “Why you shouldn’t buy your left-handed son a column shifting truck.” tl;dr: They’ll strip the clutch.
- Comment on I'm just too nosey for my own good 18 hours ago:
I’m not all that bright, but I’m far too skeptical to get sucked in. As to status and hierarchies and obedience, aw hell no, not going to play along.
So would I get rejected right off, or are there strategies to hook people like me?
- Comment on Anon has buyer's remorse 18 hours ago:
There are companies on eBay that do nothing but refurbish Androids. My last purchase was $120 because it had a line of bad pixels at the edge of the screen. No problem!
- Comment on Anon has buyer's remorse 18 hours ago:
People can’t afford Fairphones because they don’t get a deal on them from their cellular provider. An extra $7/mo. on the cell bill is easier to swallow than $650 up front.
- Comment on I've no related pic but this morning FUCKING MICROSOFT SHIT deleted my account. I lost passwords, favorites, etc. 1 day ago:
However it turns out for ya, I’ve spent 25 years telling people that they cannot understand the importance of backups until they lose it all. I don’t blame them! Understanding a thing logically doesn’t have much to do with understanding it emotionally.
If anyone cares, I use Google for backup. Yeah, I know, hateful around here, but for $100 a year I get my data offsite. At the house, it’s all on my own drives and backed up again nightly to more drives. You’d have to cancel my Google account and burn my house down for me to lose it all, and I’d snatch the backup drive on the way out the fire.
Is this solution perfect? Hell no! But rewiring my Windows libraries to Google Drive gives me peace of mind. Drop a pic in the Windows Pictures folder, it’s backed up in two places, automatic.
- Comment on Environmental Storytelling: 1 day ago:
It could have been smart! Maybe it is, we don’t have any evidence except (one helluva) coincidence.
Route optimization is one of the solid uses for AI/ML. It was already tested and working in DC and parts of Florida. That’s how you implement a sane rollout. Test and check results. We shall see!
- Comment on Environmental Storytelling: 1 day ago:
I suspect a cascade failure as well. Being almost wholly ignorant, my plan would have been to implement the system on the side with no interface to “real” systems. “Read only”, if ya get me.
- Comment on "Wedge, I've lost my gunner. You'll have to make this shot. I'll cover for you. Set your harpoon. Follow me on the next pass." 1 day ago:
The tranq did take effect. Knocking a large mammal out stone cold is a very different proposition from stunning it with barbiturates.
Who knows though? Maybe they have a limited supply?
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 1 day ago:
He looks like a rhino dying of some bizarre skin disease.
- Comment on Environmental Storytelling: 1 day ago:
The initial rollout was Tuesday and should have been easily ignored if it went sideways.
“AI says this route is better.”
Fine. Humans still had to agree and implement. Money says it conflicted with an older system and something shit the bed.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 1 day ago:
Understand, pigs go straight bald, excepting a fine layer of 3mm hairs. He looks diseased half way through. :)
- Comment on big mug 1 day ago:
I’ve done that in Zoom meetings with beer in a thermos.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
You can absolutely have a “mini” pig in an apartment. They don’t need any more space than a large dog. But in my longer comment I spell out why it’s going to be a PITA.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
About the exact size of my “mini”.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
There are “mini” pigs like my potbelly, and yes, some people starve them to make them look tiny for cute pics.
“The pig I’m selling you is this small!”
Mine’s 150#, but looks way smaller if you’re thinking of a 150# dog.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
You might be surprised. I’m 145# and look way bigger than him. They’re crazy dense and short. Were he a dog you’d probably guess him at 60-70 pounds.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
Kept a wild piglet I found for just a couple of hours. Goddamned animal almost got under my porch foundation. Pigs are mad strong and crazy smart. They will get what they want.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
Been a couple of years, but here he is after he got out and the guy on the next street drugged him to take him off to the farm.
Lady called: “Is that your signs out ‘bout missin’ a pig? My lowlife nephew got him and is fixin’ to take him to the farm. You best hurry!”
Talked to the cops first because I didn’t want to go over there armed. Supervisor said just go ask, be cool, call us if there’s any hassle.
“BTW, you the guy that had a bear in his house last year? I was on that call!”
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
My mini is about 150#., but don’t picture a dog that big! They’re dense and compact. An 80# pig would look like a 40# dog. My 135# Akita would have looked like a monster compared to Master Piggles.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
Pigs are cleaner than any dog, pretty much on par with a cat except they have to shit outside. My pig got caught out having to poop when he was tiny. He had a conniption fit to get out of the car.
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
Pig owner here. Keeping a pig in an apartment is going to be a little rough. You’d have to get them used to letting you put a harness on and walk them like a dog. I own my home, so I put in a huge dog door, worked great.
Probably the biggest problem is their intelligence and destructiveness. You’d have a huge job keeping a pig from getting bored when you’re gone. Maybe they can be crate trained? Mine figured out 3 different ways to get into the beer, even defeating a baby lock, and got hammered. He does love him some beer.
Hooves were a huge pain when my pig lived inside. They never got a chance to wear normally and I played hell getting him back and forth to the only vet in the area that would trim him. Even the local farrier had never done a pig. All that hassle, and I live on the edge of town in a redneck suburb. I seriously doubt you’re going to find a large animal vet in the city. You could probably work out the hoof thing with a rasp and 3 or 4 beers (for the pig, but you’ll both need that to get through the ordeal).
If it’s a male, you’ll probably want to trim his tusks once or twice a year. I got that done on the nail salon trips.
So, you’d have to get the pig used to a harness and car rides, find a vet or farrier for his hooves, and crate train him.
Oh, one other small thing. Once or twice a year, depending on the animal, pigs “blow coat”. This is not anything like shedding. ALL OF THEIR HAIR FALLS OUT AT ONCE. So there’s that to consider. :)
- Comment on How feasible is it to have a pet pig in an urban environment? 2 days ago:
Mini pigs don’t. Mine’s about 150 pounds and doesn’t look nearly as big as that sounds.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I think that’s exactly what OP means. If English isn’t their first language, prepositions do be confusing.
- Comment on Nothing pops the biggest stock market bubble of all time like a couple of extramarital affairs. "Artificial intelligence" is not match for natural instincts. 3 days ago:
Sorry to pop your bubble (heh), but a cheating CEO isn’t going to get millions of investors to dump a few TRILLION in stocks. I agree that it’s the biggest bubble of all time though!
And for all the people cheering the coming pop, saying the stock market isn’t real money, they’re going to find out just how real it is when trillions evaporate. The shockwaves will be historic.
- Comment on Jenson Huang ladies and gentlemen 3 days ago:
Brilliant OP!
- Comment on When obese people die, do they suck the fat out so they can fit in the coffin? Or is there a separate coffin for obese people? 3 days ago:
My ex-MIL was cremated, but they had to take a piece of wall out to move her. The family had every bit of her death planned.
- Comment on KaBOOM! 3 days ago:
I have yet to see a credible source showing that Russian disinformation campaigns slowed.
- Comment on Welcome to Central Park, New York City 3 days ago:
If those cars are there illegally, how did they get in?
