Smoking. Quit for seven years and picked it back up. Worst decision of my life. Was cutting back on vaping to quit when the pan happened. Allowed myself the vice for stress. Don’t plan on trying a third time. Too much effort.

This isn’t new. If you’re using a company-device, they can read everything you do on it. This has been true for many years. Clickbait headline.

Don’t use your company computer / phone / email / whatever to say anything you wouldn’t want your boss / HR / other to read.

The best part is how in the end-stages of capitalism, everything keeps getting worse for consumers. While prices go up, even. It’s awesome. /s

But William wanted more. He tried working at the Opel automobile factory. Then as a car salesman. Nothing satisfied him. He kept pestering his uncle for a better position, a higher title, more money.

Adolf was furious. “I didn’t become Chancellor for the benefit of my family,” he reportedly said. “No one is going to climb on my back.”

William, desperate and resentful, made a catastrophic decision: he tried to blackmail Adolf Hitler.

He threatened to tell newspapers that Adolf’s paternal grandfather was allegedly a Jewish merchant named Leopold Frankenberger—a rumor that would destroy Hitler’s credibility with his antisemitic base.

So, not someone automatically deserving of praise. Maybe he stopped being a devious, greedy blackmailer later in life, but this certainly isn’t flattering and we don’t know anything about the type of person he was behind closed doors after he served.

404 Media is journalist owned (there are four of them) and they’re doing some of the best journalism in the USA lately. I signed up about a year ago and don’t regret it. If you’ve got the extra cash and you actually give a damn about our broken media landscape, you could find a lot worse places to spend it.

But don’t worry. That asshole who played Blossom and Amy Farafowler is a zionist shithead and will make enough noise to drown out all these “anti-Semites.” Imagine treating people as deserving human rights, amiright? /s

She’s awesome. I hope she has this much fun with bigots every time.

If this is real, he’s lost all street cred.

If they just made up a bunch of accusations with paltry evidence to prove it, the scandal would make headlines. “iPhone maker found to be full of shit in court!” is clickworthy gold. I don’t think your stance is very strong. Every entity tries to spin things in their favor, but you make it sound like they’d bring an empty case and they very much would not. No one starts a lawsuit they don’t think they can win unless they’re someone with no credibility and endless money like Elon Musk (see lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI) or oil companies going after environmental lawyers.

Lemme help you spice things up: Wait until you’re passing by a guy who’s super clean cut and wearing business attire. As you go by, yell: “Get a haircut, hippy!” It’s funny every time.

Perl programmers will be like gods in this new world.

I hate to tell you this, but the mullets were very real. It was a dark time and we’re all glad it’s in the past.

I’m impressed by their operational efficiency. Here they are, making it happen 365 days per year. Someone deserves a raise.

Recently had a meeting where the organizer was summing up that we were done when someone brought in an off-topic thing that got people joking around about nothing. At the first lull, I said, “Ok, so I guess if that’s it, everyone have a good weekend.” That worked and everyone started signing off. I hate that I have to jump in to make things end, but at least it worked.

I ripped 298 Blu-Rays and a smaller number of DVDs with MakeMKV. Twice because I lost the whole collection due to my own bs the first time (make sure you have excellent backups, folks). I would not go through the process a third time, but that has nothing to do with the software.

I’m sure it’s in the terms and conditions, hence uploaders have no recourse. If not, it’s surely a violation of copyright, at least in the USA where copyright is automatically granted when a work is created.

One solution would be for people to stop uploading to Google platforms until this practice is halted and made opt-in, but that won’t happen. Too many people depend on YT to survive. And lots more desperately want to make it big there.

I feel pretty comfortable asking questions IRL because over many years I’ve had two friends who are openly Trans. But I want to show some support for the community, so here we go:

A train leaves the station at 9pm… 😆

Love and Respect.

I found a jackoff aid like this in my roommate’s closet when I was looking for his weed when I was 19.

Was the first thing I thought of. “Standard diets,” vs non-standard pretty quickly calls into question how much we need to account for the divergence from typical. If I go to India (I’m from the USA), there will be meals that aren’t standard for me that might cause distress that are nonetheless fine for the local population.

My ex was a vegetarian. We ate out at a restaurant that hadn’t updated their menu to reflect that a dish had meat added. She was “poisoned” by the high protein or something (I’m not a doctor and was only 19 at the time, so I couldn’t tell you what the doctors told us), but we had to take her to an ER because her stomach was destroying itself shortly after we ate.