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The Free Palestine Movement Seinfield’s referring to is the one with mostly Western students protesting on college campuses, not the Free Palestine Movement located in Lebanon that was involved with armed conflict with Syria too. We have proof of this:

Here’s a quote from this article:

“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.

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The KKK has killed literally thousands of people (mostly black, but some Jews, and whites) source

But apparently according to Jerry here, the KKK gets a pass because “that’s honest”.

Fuck off, Jerry.

Remind me again how many extrajudicial lynchings the Free Palestine movement has performed vs the KKK.

There’s a pronunciation guide in the original documentation, and that didn’t end the debate.

Humans are even more horrible that this first glance suggests. Imagine, one day, the debate truly ends and a single pronunciation for GIF is universally established and recognized by everyone. A group of humans will start to intentionally mispronounce it (or misspell it) just for the aggravation it will generate in others or for their own amusement.

This is where the meme-like behavior of deliberately misspelling the popular phrase (at the time) “all correct” as “oll korrect”. This was later abbreviated as “o.k.” and then eventually “ok”. A phrase we likely use dozens or hundreds of times a day is meme-speak from 1839. source

Mine was replacing a failed hard drive in array.

• Check array health, see one failed member
• popped out the hot swappable old drive , popped in the new one
• Check array health to make sure the array rebuild is underway
• See array now has TWO failed member, and realize I feel the drive in my hand still spinning down

shit.

Blasphemy!

You’re on a great path and you know exactly what you need to do to succeed in your goal. I know you’ve got this!

I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with that. Many of those things you’re describing in your roommates are signs of entitlement or immaturity. Decades ago, I did a lot of the things you are citing. In time I grew up. Those people existed long before the term “adulting” existed. Perhaps the term does end up being some kind of shibboleth for your age group, but I use the term myself, am much older than you, and never use it as excuse to shirk my adult responsibilities to myself or to other.

If you aren’t yet ready to live on your own because of finances, would it be possible to seek out older roommates? Perhaps a married couple? There’s no guarantee you’ll find sane responsible people no matter what demographic you’re shopping in, but older and more established folks give you a better shot of having matured and have their shit together.

Debian? Did you see the title of that book? “Linux from Scratch”. Clearly its a Gentoo guide book.

I’d like a Romeo & Juliet story where one house uses VI and the other Emacs.

“adulting”

I hate that word, its so stupid. It implies self infantilization, when in reality its use is just indicative of one’s attitude towards work or getting anything done.

I don’t mind the word. Its more specific. People can still get things done, but they may be things that give them a dopamine hit like completing a personal project or finishing off the final boss in game. It doesn’t get things done that deal with adult responsibilities. Further many of us suffer from mild mental health challenges such as ADHD and various locations on the spectrum so there are very real challenges beyond just “one’s attitude towards work”.

Its okay to use the word “adulting” to recognize efforts that need to be undertaken to take care of your adult responsibilities. This doesn’t mean that someone can be allowed to simply delegate their own adult responsibilities on others using this word.

As soon as I save up and move I will be so happy to finally live alone for the first time in my life. Rent will be more expensive and I’ll save way less but at least there will be fewer human variables like that to deal with.

Having your own living space is wonderful! Its also a good test to know if you have all the life skills you need. I am hopeful you can get this soon.

In the 1950s for white men, America was pretty great. For just about everyone else no one would say it was “great”. So when they say “Make America Great Again” they mean “Make America Suck Again For Everyone But White Men”.

What a disappointment.

That’s my thought on both the book and the movie. Perhaps its not the book’s fault. There was so much hype surrounding it when it came out I thought it must be awesome. Instead I found the same simply story I’d read in a dozen other books, except this one drowning in a sea of 80s and 90s pop culture references. If it was a simply summer read without the hype I likely would have liked it for what it was.

I had similar disappointment when I finally read Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”. I read that same type of story a dozen times in other much better books but everyone was saying it was a groundbreaking book.

Though in this case I was granted a reprieve because they couldn’t stay as long as expected.

There must have been some lower income children about to receive needed healthcare or perhaps a nutritious meal that your wife’s relatives had to prevent from happening.

Pull out a little notebook and write some shit in it, put it back in your pocket, look back at them quickly then continue as if nothing happened.

I like this! If they press you on an explanation for what you’re doing you could say “I have a bet going.” Glance down at the pad, perhaps flip a few pages, moving your pen like you’re counting, then say “It looks like I’m winning!” then smile.

If you don’t mine starting a fight you could even go with “I’m playing MAGA bingo. You could really help me out if you say something predictiably shitty about immigrants or perhaps something laughable about ‘small government’”.

I’m sorry to hear about your intestinal distress which will make you spend most of the visit in the bathroom with a quick in-person “goodbye” right before jumping in the car.

…or…

which means they get to “accidentally” drop little comments then titter in apology

When they do this just stare right at them, with a blank expression. Keep the stare for about 10 seconds until it starts to get uncomfortable for everyone, and then just say “hmm” while maintaining eye contact.

If you haven’t used free Over-the-air TV these days you might be surprised that most cities have a few dozen channels of live TV right now. If your in a large metro area get the simplest of cheapest TV antennas, plug it into your TV, and do a channel scan. You’ll be surprised how many channels there are now.

If you’re in suburbs or rural, you’ll still likely have quite a few but may need a more substantial antenna.

Especially recent history has shown that stable coins should actually be written “stable” coins. The analogy to casino chips is also a bit weak because casinos (in many countries including the USA) are highly regulated by the government. An example of a USA law is that if a casino goes out-of-business, the cash assets that were set aside must be made available for people that were still holding that casino’s chips so the person can turn them back into cash. No such rule exists for crypto “stable” coins.

When a “stable” coin goes under, you lose your money just like a non-“stable” coin. There are numerous examples from the last 5 years:

Most Expensive Stablecoin Crashes: The Biggest Collapses That Shook the Crypto Market

Encryption, in regards to computers, is a massive topic so I’ll take two individual examples:

• A file/disk is encrypted and the user wants to access it - Because the file is encrypted, the OS by itself, cannot open it and display the contents unencrypted. A software utility will challenge the user for the password, passphrase, or key. That will be stored in RAM in the computer (were the contents disappear when the computer is turned off). The decryption is done, and usually the utility discards the key. Another way this can be done is if the key is already stored elsewhere in the computer box. Such as an additional tiny computer called TPM (Trusted Platform Module). These have very little computing power, but the main computer can ask for the TPM to decrypt something so the main computer never knows the key.

• You want to decrypt the contents of a secure website being served to you. This is an example of asymmetric cryptography. There is one key that can encrypt and decrypt contents. This is called a Private Key. There is another key that can only decrypt those same contents. This is called a Public Key. The web site operator will use their private key (in an SSL cert) to encrypt the website contents. When your computer downloads the encrypted contents, theres a note telling where the computer can retrieve the Public Key. Your compute downloads the Public Key, and decrypts the website.

The idea of your comment disturbed me when I made the connection that historically the native populous of the the Marquesas Islands (known human cannibals) referred to human flesh as “long pig”. They would be nodding their heads in agreement with your statement.

Ah okay, thats a different problem, with different a solution.

On its surface you’re expressing you don’t have permissions to just enjoy the moment, that there is some other pressing issue that you should be putting your attention to instead.

Instead what you have is a budgeting problem. Except our scarce resource isn’t money, but time. There are only so many hours in a day, and if you let it, an infinite number of tasks to complete. Knowing that you can only do so much in a day, and only a fraction of that time can be spent on “productive” activities. You have to give time to yourself or you’ll go nuts. So first, decide how much time of the day (outside of work and sleep) you are going to put to “productive” activities. That number can’t simply be all the waking hours that aren’t sleeping, working, or eating. Be realistic. Then along with that budget time to slack off where your only responsibility is no responsibility. If you are daydreaming during that slack off time, you know there’s nothing else you should be doing. The thing you should be doing is slacking off.

More pragmatically, instead of having a daily time budget, have a weekly one. You can work yourself hard one day if it means allowing yourself a longer continuous slack off time later in the week.