Oh yeah. Last year, a local garden center had a sign up that said, “Thanks for 50 great years! Founded 1973”, and I thought, “Wait, that can’t be right - because then I’d be getting close to 50…ahh fuck.”
We were getting supplies for my sister-in-law’s 50th birthday a few weeks ago, and my wife kept saying, “Well, if we don’t use it, we’ll need it again in a few months!” Thanks, dear.
I was on an airplane one time when someone was doing that. The flight attendant heard it and said something like, “Oh no, that’s not okay,” then figured out who it was and had them turn it down. No one even asked - she just did it. Excellent.
I’m wondering how many people skipped your comment because it was too long.
I’ve had people go “I don’t have time to read 3 paragraphs!”, as though that’s some kind of argument against the point I’m trying to make. Attention spans are down.
Can confirm. Last week, I got home from a ride, stopped in front of the garage, couldn’t unclip, and promptly fell over. It turned out one of the bolts fell out from the cleat during the ride, so the cleat just rotated, instead of unclipping. D’oh. Fortunately, I mostly landed in grass, though I did scrape my ankle a bit.
I gave up running an email server long ago - I thought it was basically impossible because too many spammers were doing it for nefarious purposes.
The second one gave me a message that the domain has been seized. :(
I’d add that quite a few of them have also been intentionally misled. They’ve been fed a diet of shit information over the past few decades, and it has an effect.
The whole page is the point. You don’t seem to be very informed on the situation; you claimed it was just a few friends. I was trying to tell you it was a systemic issue, and the long page is evidence of that.
I’m guessing you’re religious and trying to avoid facing the fact that religions do bad things, too. Well, guess what? They do.
“Ragging on religious institutions” lol. Seems like you just want to bury your head in the sand.
I’ve scrolled through your comments and realize now you’re a Trump fan, so I now realize I’ve been wasting my time. There’s no point in trying to explain something to Trump fans, you guys are beyond help. And I’m guessing your “government school” comment is referring to the (insane, untrue) claims that schools indoctrinate kids to be trans or whatever the hell they are claiming today. So, don’t bother replying, I’m just going to add you to my block list, and I won’t see it any way.
Trump fans. Just keep drinking that Flavor-Aid. Still supporting that jackass after all of the stupid shit he has done. The “party of law and order” supporting churches that covered up pedophiles for years. Insane.
And yes, he is racist. If you think otherwise, you’re burying your head in the sand, again.
Please read up on it. I’m sure now they do have that policy, but…it was an extremely widespread problem, literally all over the world. Any claim that they’ve fixed the problem is going to be met with skepticism for a long time, and rightly so. They worked HARD to hide it.
I do think the Catholic church was right about one thing - it likely happened in other churches as well.
Uh, it was more of an institutional policy. That’s why it was such a scandal.
Unfortunately some churches have a reputation for covering up the crime and not punishing the perpetrator.
It’s one thing for the crime to happen; it’s much worse when a bunch of people decide to hide it.
You’re missing the point. That compromised xz made it into some production distributions. The point here is that shit can happen to Linux, too.
I love how quickly everyone has forgotten about that xz attack.
I use and love Linux and have for over two decades now, but I’m not going to sit here and claim that something similar to the current Windows issue can’t happen to Linux.
How I imagine that would go:
Or a statistician. looks around nervously
I bought a Lenovo about 2 years ago that I’ve been really happy with. I wanted something with a metal shell because I carry my laptop around sometimes and use it balanced on one hand, and my previous Dell (plastic) started flexing and having weird issues with the TouchPad as a result. The Lenovo has been solid. I’m running Kubuntu on it, but my plan is to go Debian at some point.
Our state has speed cameras in school zones. I would like to see before-and-after statistics showing that fewer kids have been hit since the installation of the cameras.
Of course, said data doesn’t exist, because no one bothered to collect it. It “feels” safer and generates revenue, so they do it.
All these comments, and I’m wondering who would ask someone about their height like this…it’s pretty easy to estimate someone’s height just by observation.
Great question - during the pandemic there were a lot of memes about how dogs are loving the humans being home all day, while cats were hating it. Our cats were glad to have us home all day (as was the dog, who kept demanding walks at odd times until he settled into the new routine).
When we get home from errands, the dog will of course be at the door - and there’s about a 85% chance the one cat will be nearby, too. Another cat will often show up as well. (The third cat, never. He’s too busy hiding.)
I always loved this Penny Arcade comic about the first iPods and CD players.