Phone sex was awkward enough, but when I randomly got invited to a discord session… I don’t know, it was great to make the other person feel good but the headphones just killed the mood for me.

Yeah, I was reading through an old sex blog, and it was sort of difficult to read a post from (as a made up example) 2011 about a very positive group of individuals making a particular type of porn and the blog author suggesting that the reader support the creators if they liked it, then in 2012 the blog author wrote a review saying the creators had really come a long way in their editing and videography and praised them again, and then in 2013 writing a fond farewell note because they had not been financially successful in it. Especially for counter-cultural stuff, where the sex is ‘wholesome’ and the actors are actually eager to be on camera without the drives of rampant commercialism, there were some neat sties around last decade.

As a thought experiment, what do you think would have happened if they wound down their involvement with the u.s., and actually tried to come to their own arrangement with Iran? Maybe a united front of the OPEC countries would have been enough to give the middle finger to any country that supplied Israel with weapons…

Get in bed with china, make their own deals with African nations and india to get industrial capabilities up and running, and we’d see a very large and sudden swelling of the global south.

I’m not comfortable having to type these weird long-winded commands to do everything.

You don’t have to touch the terminal if you don’t want to touch it. The majority of linux distributions have perfectly fine guis. I don’t think I have touched the terminal for anything besides fun for at least the last six months. In installing and setting everything up, it was all gui unless I specifically didn’t want to, and, speaking of…

Best example is setup installation files. One tap, everything is installed automatically. Not the case with Linux.

Absolutely the case with linux. Unless you think opening your distribution’s program manager, searching the name of the program, clicking the install, clicking the ‘yes, install the dependencies’ if you don’t already have them, and then entering your password to let it be installed is any more difficult than opening your browser, searching for the program, hoping you find the real website and not the three scam websites that some dumb search engine lets advertise based on your keywords, finding the download page for the program, downloading the program, double clicking the program, and either clicking the install button or the ‘yes, I want to install this program’ button and then the install button…

From my experience, there’s a weird sensor/processor mismatch. The light to go straight will turn green when I’m in the left turn lane (the default is the cross traffic has the green light unless someone is sitting on my road), but won’t ever trigger the left turn. I’ve gone across the road, u-turned, and then taken a right in order to go the original left… but sometimes I just run the red light to go left in the first place.

Humorously, the intersection is probably within eyesight of the local police agency, except for a giant office building blocking the view. I’ve never even seen a cop nearby.

That’ll be fun. If I know I’m going to die overseas, with my skin peeled off or bones shattered, or I can die at home with a few bullet holes, I know which one I’ll be choosing. Easy enough to make sure bullet holes magically appear in assholes, as well.

Luckily it’s all hypothetical for me. Too old, too sick, and too busy not even having a permanent address :/

Don’t worry, I get enough calls for surveys that I immediately hang up on to count for both of us!

most of all people stopping at a red then deliberately running it because nobody else is coming.

Ah, shit, I feel called out. I feel that one’s defensible in certain circumstances. The stupid underground magnet sensors never seem to detect me, it’s nearly midnight with a traffic rate of 20 cars an hour, and I can sit at that intersection for 10 minutes without the light changing…

Even without those circumstances though, stopping at a red light, ensuring the way is clear, and then proceeding seems responsible enough.

Dailies, and other similar grinds, are one of the worst crimes against humanity in mmos. Surely we can move beyond the ‘take twenty hours to level up your character so you can progress’ idea that crystallized in jrpgs and now sits in the center of the late game experience like a giant aragog sucking your enjoyment. Let me just log in and raid, gorramit!

Okay, look, I loved my grandparents, but spending time with them at the end was horrifying and I really would have watched paint dry in preference.

Kids, dogs, and partner could also have some time off my hands by taking care of certain limited tasks. Cooking, cleaning, wiping ass… Don’t tell me you want to cook every breakfast, lunch, and dinner compared to playing a board game with the dog while the android dices your onions and peppers and the partner and kids take a nap on the ceiling.

I’m halfway with you, and halfway just considering that people think it’s relevant to include a tl;dr in a barely three paragraph comment. The feeling with tl;dr for me is a summary similar to a closing paragraph, and if anyone thinks that one sentence (“Ai coding can help a lot in accelerating software development.”) is somehow worthy of being summarized as if the point was proven (“Ai can be very powerful in the right hands”)… well, it sounds like shit because it is shit. Maybe it’s ai, maybe it’s just a really rushed dude making a throwaway comment in the fediverse, and maybe it’s just a person who is confident enough in their mind that they forget they haven’t made an actually decent argument outside of their past, and concluding as if they brought that past argument forth here is eye-raising.

Considering he’s on his own instance… I’m going to bet the context is somewhere between throwaway comment and invoking past assertions without citing them.

Well, with the loss of lemmynsfw, it could be you as the founding member!

What kind of engineer? Because while the physical world, with all of its mechanical and civil and aerospace engineers, has its shit figured out with professional standards and very clearly defined responsibilities and duties, the world of social engineers, tire engineers, procurement engineers, supply chain engineers, sandwich engineers, project engineers, lead engineers, and yes, software engineers, definitely is a little too loose with any definition for me to care that these ceos were once ‘engineers.’

You mean up, right?

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You mean up?

I’ve sometimes wondered if people read the replies (because I know there was ONE time that someone answered me), and when I get bored I just pull up the text message list and start in on a random topic. Maybe a volunteer will learn about why rabies vaccines aren’t a big deal, but are still super important, or why animal husbandry is a very vital industry for the government to invest in even though we need to transition to vegan lifestyles.

Where’s that space jam website?

Huh. That’s an interesting idea.

Doh. Thanks.

That has to be faked, right? The casually displayed beer at the end is just too much of a giveaway.

Oh? They made a tv show about that republican mayor already?