shalafi

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

I'm a man whore. Of all the sorts of sexuality, that's the one I can't wrap my head around. Bi is kinda hard. "You don't have much of a preference?!" But I can get it. Kinda.

"I have no desire to fuck anything." HOW NOT?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Having lived Hurricane Ivan, shit like this shakes me to the core. That's death you're watching.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It was the locals who refused spending on alarm systems, in a blue county. In general, your point still stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You've never personally seen that sort of death and destruction. I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Been a functioning alcoholic my whole adult life. Got my first bad test for liver enzymes. Looked the numbers up, holy shit that's fucking off the scale! Quit kratom powder for 2 weeks, keep drinking as normal, perfect retest.

Doc: "I'm so proud of you!" Uh....?

Another anecdote: Good friend crashed her liver with Tylenol. This was before it was widely known to fucking kill you. Hardcore alcoholic. 90-proof generic vodka, hiding bottles kinda alki. She got a transplant after being in a coma for 2-months, poster child for success! Doctors wanted her to speak at medical events as to how she no longer needed anti-rejection drugs after only 18-months. Imagine that!

Surgeon to family: "Believe it or not, her alcoholism had nothing to do with her liver failure."

All that to say, yeah, other factors we didn't evolve for can kill your liver. We been drinking for 10,000 years, the weak livers are largely weeded out.

Let's hear from Kurt Vonnegut!

"Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise." I feel personally attacked. :(

Anyway, Julie got run over by a random dude while crossing the corner with her husband, my best friend. So it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Great article! So I understand the place is still standing and we're still experimenting? Had no idea!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Donald Trump: 'What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening'

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It's hard to overstate what these guys see. If you've ever experienced this magnitude of disaster, you know damned well that all the pictures and video in the world doesn't do justice to the actual destruction and suffering on the ground.

Ex-FIL was in the Mississippi Guard. Earned 2 Bronze Stars on two (three?) tours of Iraq. Humanitarian aid, not combat, a detail relevant to the story below. He was just fine.

Came home and fought his way through Katrina on the tip of the spear. Those men chainsawed houses in half and pushed them off the road to get in. After all that he suffered PTSD, hooked up with another Guard member, left his wife of 32-years and stopped talking to his only child. He was not fine.

New Orleans got the news coverage, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast was fucking wrecked. We went to see the man in Gulfport, then headed north. The last of the damage we saw was past Hattiesburg, 80 miles of destruction. And that was going straight away, the blast radius closer to the Gulf was wide.

Some of these people are digging for corpses, some are little corpses, with their hands. Many, most?, of these people are facing serious PTSD in the near future.

Anyway, after living Ivan, I cried my eyes out over Katrina. I still tear up when I think about it, still cry thinking about what I saw the next morning. Cried when the Florida Guard rolled in to save our asses, thought I was on my own.

Taking the kids swimming in the creek now. I'm out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't game anymore but I am fucking HYPE! If there's an option to play first-person, I'm buying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I feel sorry for Europeans who aren't geared for this. Couple of years ago a monster heat dome sat on the Pacific Northwest. Many of my coworkers lived in and around Seattle and were suffering the lack of AC. My brain can't imagine living without.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Want to solve the evil landlord problem? These are the evil landlords, not some dude with a few houses to rent. Blocking these sales is one of the no-brainer solutions we need, but fuck no, our politicians are bought out.

 

I made this!

 

Impossible to quantify "hard use", but they've seen some miles. I'm only 145lbs. and the tread is nearly gone, surprising for me. Guess I worked 'em out?

Here's the pair I bought, thinking on buying another:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WHTSJF4?psc=1

They're still tough, nothing unraveling, zippers still tough, original laces, sole not peeling anywhere, not in the slightest. Only reason they need replacing is that the left heel kinda kicked out sideways. Noticed it made my leg slightly sore today, and slight problems become big problems in the boondocks.

Should I throw more money at something tougher? Is 4-years acceptable bang for the buck? These fit so perfectly I'm afraid to gamble on another brand. LOL, unless Sketchers comes out with combat boots!

One other note if you have a recommendation: I need the high tops. Between snakes, thorns, etc., I want tall boots.

EDIT: ONE other note if you have an alternative: They're weird in that they're warm enough into the 30s(F), cool enough to march in the 90s(F). Not sure what I'd be looking for to get that, no idea how it works.

 

She's Filipino by birth and culture, dad was Japanese. She won't say a single word against the Japanese unless you really drill into her opinions, simply won't talk about it. But JFC does she hate them, deep down. It's funny that her sisters live in Japan ATM. :) They don't seem to care.

But I get it, deep down. Japan raped her country in WWII, literally and figuratively, and while she's ignorant of modern Western politics, she know plenty about the Japanese using babies for bayonet practice. Have to admit, I wondered if her dad raped her mom.

My father died of mesothelioma sucking down asbestos while fighting in the Pacific Theatre. Watched him suffer to death for two years as a child. You might think I would hold a grudge. I do not, history to me.

All that to say, I don't blame her and I'm fine with her prejudice. OTOH, she refuses to do cute shit like wear a kimono or chops sticks in her hair. Fuck me, I signed up for an Asian chick! (That is an attempt at humor for the autistic among you.)

Thoughts?

EDIT: Y'all really missing the premise of this comm.

Vote the opposite of the norm.

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EDIT: SOLVED! And good god am I dumb. Cleared cookies for YouTube. Done.

Seems like a dumb question as I'm constantly reading posts about YouTube blocking and I've been in IT for 30 years, but I'm at a complete loss.

Using uBlock Origin 1.64.0, been fine until the last week or two. Still works in Edge! But it's annoying to swap browsers back and forth and not be able to simply click a link in Firefox.

Searching the web all I get is old news, nothing about the latest fixes.

Is there something like revanced for a Windows desktop?

 

I'm applying for sysadmin type jobs and feel a lack of degree is holding me back. Should I simply lie? Can't see most employers actually checking on a degree I would have earned 30+ years ago.

 

Got a 10-foot boat running on a trolling motor and LIPO4 battery. Never came close to running the battery down, plenty of juice.

What if I slaved another motor to it? Would they interfere with one another's thrust?

 

Dumb question because I'm sure the answer is "hell nah". But maybe someone knows more than I.

I've got a night vision monocular, and it's pretty sweet for the price, much to recommend it. Problem is, the thing has such a small FOV that it's no fun, and certainly not practical. You can observe something if you hold very still, and so does the target. I got some infrared strobes off eBay, the kind that clip directly on a 9V battery. Thought they would make cool trail markers for unfamiliar woods. Nope. Again, the FOV is so tight you have to point right at them, even though they're intensely bright.

Another issue is that the screen brightness blinds your natural night vision. It has a lens cover with a pinhole in it that works well enough, but narrows the FOV even further.

Anyone tried the binocular version? I realize the range will be pretty short without carrying an infrared light that projects well. I can handle building that bit!

 

LinkedIn damned near landed me a sweet job. They were ready to offer, but HR put their thumb on the scale for their guy. Just barely missed another this week from Indeed, think asking $60-$70K was too much for that place, and if so, fuck 'em, that was a serious lowball. Networked what little I could, don't know may people any more, and certainly not in tech.

What are your go-to places to job hunt?

 

Had a Ukraine patch on my work belt and a customer piped up, "Slava Ukraine!" Caught me off guard, forgot I was wearing that! (It's on my phone holder, rear hip.)

She pronounced it: slah-vah you-crane. Reading it online, I thought it was: slah-vah you-crawn-i

Anyway, the look on her face was worth a million bucks, SO happy! Had a middle-aged guy and his son (grandson?) chat me up at Dollar General while wearing another patch. Both have the royal trident. Not disrespectful? Country boy trying to show support, not pretend who I'm not.

And I just learned: Heroiam slava! Little help with that as well?

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