I struggle with anime in general and Miyazaki specifically. There are different storytelling conventions and it’s weird when you’re struggle with the structure, don’t understand any of the Japanese cultural references, and they don’t put any edgier into explaining it — things just are the way they are and you have to go with it.

My brain gets overwhelmed and shuts down in self defense. I had to watch Princess Mononoke about 7 times before I got through it without falling asleep. It’s a good movie but like a lot of Miyazaki’s films, nothing makes any sense except internally and you have to watch the whole movie and understand the themes and internal logic before it makes sense.

But I have to say, Studio Ghibli movies are worth it. I’ve enjoyed all the ones I’ve seen. They are ethereal and surreal but they tackle real shit whether directly or allegorically.

I’ve always loved The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Ian McKellen as the bad guy (Chauvelin? I can’t spell French worth a shit). It has all of the above. He was so good in that movie.

They are so much better when you get together with friends to watch bad movies every so often. It helps to have someone to verbalize the ridiculous shit to or feed into the humor with you.

I’ve been a full stack developer for nearly thirty years. They keep adding so much to the stack that these days I will only claim to be a Java developer. I know way more, but there’s no point in laying claim to it. I can do JavaScript, css, and typescript, but I don’t really know react and I don’t want to because it’ll be replaced in another five years anyway.

I have worked with so many CI/CD systems and there’s a new one around every corner and what you know for one doesn’t apply to others.

Like, whoever you hire is going to take months before they are able to do significant stuff independently and 2 years before they can do the full scope of the job you hired them to do, and most folks are looking to move on after 2 years. About the time they’ve been around for a full Java/spring upgrade, build system change, and you’ve moved cloud providers, they will have encountered every problem often enough to know everything they need.

Page break isn’t really a thing without exporting to PDF or printing, though. I haven’t really done that.

AsciiDoc is similar to markdown—to the point you’ll wonder why it isn’t just markdown—but it has a way to specify page breaks and it exports to PDF. I might actually prefer it slightly for project documentation, but it’s far less ubiquitous.

Obsidian specifically has boxes that work, though you get some kind of icon with it. I think you can also export to html or pdf.

Forgive the work focus of the examples. This is from Obsidian on my phone.

I use markdown for everything. Just thought I’d add: for organization of the markdown, Joplin or Obsidian are great. I’m a recent convert to Obsidian, but used Joplin for everything for story plotting to campaign organizing and notes to personal time management. Both are just simple markdown documents (with some custom syntax) and folders under the hood so using SCS to sync or store documents makes sense.

Plus both have templating so you can do a common character or encounter format in the middle of a document, cross-linking like a wiki, searching, tagging and a bunch of other stuff.

The key is the markdown, but if you want to take it one step further I can recommend either of those apps to interact with it.

I’m here, aren’t I? Guess that could be interpreted either way.

I’m picky, but also not. I steam the hell out of Disney Plus because I like pretty much everything Marvel and Star Wars. But I’m always on the verge of cancelling Netflix because other than Stranger Things and KPop Demon Hunters I haven’t watched anything on there in years. (I haven’t because every time I do one of the kids remembers something they want to watch and I have to resub a couple of months later.)

Cold leftover pizza.

Indian—Chicken Vindaloo and Samosas and butter naan. I’ll be honest though, I’ve never had anything I didn’t like at an Indian restaurant, and when you ask for extra hot, they don’t give you a pussified “white people” extra hot, no, they try to murder you with spice like you were personally responsible for English colonialism and I’m here for it.

Thai—Chicken Panang is pretty good most places I go that have it. I’ve had plenty of Thai food I don’t like, but most places have something pretty good if you try a few different things.

I don’t think I have mainstays at other types of restaurants. I will say, for all the shit it gets, avocado toast is pretty good if you’re at an indie restaurant or local chain breakfast place. And try their specialty Bloody Marys. They are sometimes shit, but sometimes good, and if it’s shit their regular Bloody Mary was also shit so you didn’t miss out on anything. But if they have a dozen different kinds—they are all shit and just have a mimosa.

I’m right here, Pam. I’m antifa. Come at me.

Mate, your judgement on the basis of nothing I’ve actually done means fuck all.

Used to commute 212 miles daily, so that’s about 4500 miles a month with lunches and stuff, plus errands and leisure travel would make that easily 5000 a month on average. Currently commute about 3 steps from my bed and about the only driving I do is taking my kid to and occasionally from school. So I figure about 500 miles a month which checks or math-wise.

Circ’d here but I’ve struggled with this decision myself. Lucked out in the matter and had girls. Society has changed. Circ rates have recently fallen just below 50% national average (much higher in the Midwest).

If your only reason for considering it is to match his peers, you can have no concerns either way.

That said, I do think people make a much bigger deal about this decision than it really is 99% of the time. You’re going to make thousands of decisions for your kids and most are more impactful than whether they have a penis hat or not. Saw someone here saying circing flat out makes you a bad parent. I don’t expect they are a parent because that’s not the kind of decision that keeps me up at night wondering if I fucked up, you know?

Go with your gut and it’ll be fine.

Ordinary movement isn’t an issue. When flaccid, the corona is generally still covered and underwear moves with it so there isn’t really friction. The only time I’ve ever had an issue is when bicycling. For some reason the mechanics can lead to side to side friction right on the tip and it’s pretty uncomfortable when that happens.

I feel like this would happen as well to folks that are circumcised often enough

It’s kinda hard to bully someone for matching the vast majority. Circ rates would have to come way down before it would be submerging to be bullied over.

Of course, there are regional differences. I just looked and in the Midwest the circ rate is about 75% which is way lower than I’d have expected based on personal observation. (OTOH , I’m older and the majority of penises I’ve seen were 30-40 years ago) YMMV.

National rates have declined to just under 50% according to John Hopkins, which suggests many fewer circs are performed outside of the Midwest.

At any rate, I think bullying folks for being cut is a ways off yet.

Videos of her knowing her shit and taking power to task for spouting bullshit is my fucking drug. I don’t know anything else about her, but when some motherfuckers get hauled in front of Congress to answer questions, I want her to be asking some of them.

Sometimes, all Trump would have to do to score a big win would be to shut the fuck up. Covid-19 is a prime example. No one could possibly have blamed him for a global pandemic. He didn’t even need to lead, he just needed to shut the fuck up and let people hand the problem.

But he thought he could politicize a natural disaster. Weaponize it. And we all saw what happened.

Same thing happens here. He just needed to shut up and take credit for 5, 10, maybe 20 years of relative peace while Israel goes back to genociding Palestinians the slow way again. Instead, he can’t resist charging in with threats to show how tough he is. Now, who could blame Gazans for keeping some weapons just in case Trump decides to score some political points by murdering a bunch of them?

Maybe he’s planning to argue his case with St. Peter and wants to accumulate proof of his deeds.

I have almost never put leftover pizza in the fridge. Generally store it in the oven. That’s how my folks did it. Never had any problems. Was not expecting to come into this thread and see universal adoption of fridge pizza. I find the crust gets wet and gooey. You all do you, but after fifty years of doing it my way without any issues, I can’t see any reason to change.