Stamets has been on here, for multiple years across multiple accounts. He’s made and moderated a decent amount of communities. He’s active in the “side communities” like instance related matrix chats. His pedigree is proven.

He’s also had some pretty intense emotional moments (could call them crashouts) from time to time. He’s also done drastic detective work (with mountains of fucking receipts) on ne’er do wells in the fediverse. It’d be pretty hard to fake all of it.

He might be using a script to schedule his posts out, but I’ve not seen any floating around, and karma doesn’t accumulate here like on reddit. There’s no end game with a cash out option for “being vaguely known on the fediverse”.

Look, no one’s above skepticism or investigation, but If you’re going to go after a well known member of the community, at least bring some receipts rather than telling people to look for themselves.

They don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. Facial recognition has already resulted in false arrests, damage to people’s homes, vehicles, livelyhood etc by normal police. ICE has even less supervision and is known to willingly hire people with violent crime records.

I’ll say it again: If they remotely deserved the benefit of the doubt, we wouldn’t be looking at the reality we currently inhabit.

This would go great in reactionmemes too.

Customizing my pet pages on neopets made my later web design classes an absolute breeze. Granted, css and js weren’t really a part of the early ones. But it still meant I had one of the core parts down.

Watched everything before the gap for the “final seasons” I think the last episode was an AU of them all living happily in the more developed enemy state. Last thing I remember Eren doing is running off and becoming this big doomsday titan with an exposed multi mile ribcage thing leading a stupid big horde of titans.

I’m not surprised. They made the licensing for the new/current version needlessly obtuse, and I’m pretty sure the info is still only in a Microsoft blog post, not in any of their licensing documentation sites.

Beyond that, if you have a hybrid exchange environment (using servers and Exchange Online) upgrading to the newest server version requires that you make large, sparsely documented changes to your hybrid setup. You have to get rid of your existing hybrid connector in Azure and set up a new one using entirely different underlying shit in Azure.

If you’re trying to get rid of all your Exchange Servers, as you only use them for recipient management (editing properties of mail objects synced to the cloud, with no mailboxes or calendars still in use on-prem), Microsoft makes that absurdly difficult instead of just fucking documenting how to do it. There’s literally a documentation page about getting rid of your last Exchange Servers, and the “we want to get rid of it entirely” option tells you that you’ll end the instructions to get rid of your Exchange Servers… with one server still.

Some of the Microsoft provided PowerShell scripts spell “group” as “grop” repeatedly.

Fucking clown show.

So, reading the short article, only one infected monkey escaped, per the sheriff’s office. Then the University they are from clarified that their infected monkeys are not contagious, and there were no infected monkeys on that truck.

The monkeys are for primate virology research.

Nice reminder of just how hard spun headlines are.

Welcome to the new global military industrial complex, where Palantir masturbates using international militaries pitched against each other.

You know you can link accounts as family to share prime right? You don’t need to let her on yours. I think it’s a limit of two “adults”.

Oof, I was already having trouble with the MC’s last fucking minute heel turn that didn’t seem to be built up quite enough. Guess I’ll just skip that ending.

If you’re talking about the more recent, serious show, I understand where you’re coming from, but I binged through the series a few years ago during the lockdowns and I feel like they were signposting the weird religious sort of ending the whole way.

Gaius and blondie being angels was weird as fuck, but the whole show had a pretty heavy religious undercurrent. Maybe I’m too used to time travel shenanigan stories, but the whole “it’s all kind of a loop” concept didn’t feel like an out of nowhere ass pull to me like it seemed to for a lot of people.

I used to play runescape with a neighbor from elementary school up through middle school. We even gifted each other membership a few times for birthdays.

Lost touch with him in high school, except for one time he showed off that he was up pretty high on the leaderboards and doing competitive shit.

Ran into him this weekend, it’s been like 20 years. Both had our kids out at a park. Caught up.on a bunch of stuff, but my dumb ass forgot to ask him if he still played, and what he though of the upcoming sailing skill release in Old School Runescape.

I worked at a gym doing sign ups and check ins (before it was all fully automated), and quickly lost count. One that still sticks out to me though is Thomas T. Thomas. Pretty sure the middle name was also Thomas.

Republicans are traditionally, and on paper, the party of “small government”. “Fuck off feds, it’s none of your business” type shit. Some just wanted a small central government that let states and local government make their own choices, some wanted as small a government as possible at all levels.

Which is also why you see a minority of old school republican voters refusing to call Trump’s clown show republican.

That capitalization style is meant to be mocking, because the current dipshits in power clearly don’t have any intentions of “small government”.

I like to set calendar appointments 15 to 30 minutes before the end of my shift for “paperwork” or shit like that. Clear out some emails, close some tickets that I left open, update my notes, read work related news. My work pays for training, so I can also check out training courses to see what looks useful in that time.

Still work, but not burning through tasks or todo list. Give myself time for the shit that ends up on the backburner when everything is a high priority.

A reminder to wrap up what I’m working on if I’m “in the zone” and to give myself enough time to make notes and such so I don’t have to keep shit churning in my head outside of work.

The most important thing is that I don’t look at the queue during that time. I don’t pick up any new work or start a new task. I try to enforce that almost an hour before ending my shift as I do high focus work where a single “task” can take over a hour.

Had too many times getting home late to a frustrated wife and a concerned toddler, for shit that could have waited. And please believe me: it all could have waited. If it can’t wait, that means your manager hasn’t adequately staffed to fulfill the needs. Not your problem.

Edit: You didn’t answer my question. You brought up what’s already been established.

Skull tattoo. I’m sorry, most Americans are not so familiar with Nazi symbols to identify that specific skull design as Nazi. Swastika, SS, Iron Cross, sure. A skull and crossbones? Wouldn’t clock it. I thought it was a generic “bad guy” symbol in the comedy sketch you have a screenshot from. And he’s had it covered up.

If he knew, why would he allow someone to take a picture of it?

So… your second point is just that you don’t agree with America’s involvement with those wars at all. Which is less to do with this guy than with America’s choices of war. Valid, I agree, but not a signpost that he’s a Nazi. Unless all Americans involved in those were secretly Nazis.

Look. I don’t think anyone’s calling him trustworthy or a good person, but this insistence that he must be a Nazi due to a tattoo that he’s gotten covered up, when he’s been so open about all of it is silly.

He didn’t try to get the photo taken down. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t get belligerant and say he wasn’t going to cover it up just to keep people mad. He’s not pretending he didn’t have it.

I’m keeping him on my radar, but when US politics is filled with so damn many overt and explicit racists and Nazis that are so damn comfortable being mask off, I’m not ready to stomp down on this guy yet.

A soldier, trained for warfare, and enjoying it is quite disturbing for people who never encounter it. I’m disturbed by it. That said, I’m not seeing anything about enjoying bloodshed there. He says he likes small wars because he feels there’s less inhumane brutality.

Is your problem that a soldier enjoys what they do? That makes them a Nazi?

I feel like your comment about killing civilians in the global south is making a big assumption that isn’t even really hinted at. In fact the opposite, as he talks about working with the local community.

Well, I view money as a means to an end, not an end in itself. I don’t believe money or material possessions provide innate fulfillment.

That has nothing to do with the push back you’re seeing.

This idea that struggle is necessary for fulfillment or personal growth has never made sense to me.

This here, the personal growth bit.

At some point in your child’s life, you will not be there as a safety net when something serious happens. If you are incredibly wealthy, make good investments, and have an abundance of time, then you may be able to reduce that to coming when you die. Or it may be something outside of personal control, like a serious health issue that can’t be solved by tossing money at it for better care.

The longer they go without having to navigate a serious situation like that, the less prepared they will be.

This isn’t just “gut feeling” shit. You can find text on the importance of allowing failure and natural consequences in early childhood education books, parenting books, even some management books. Studies have been done.

Edit: Reading some of your other responses, it sounds like while you’re providing, you also haven’t just let your kid coast on by just on your support, and have made sure they’re still oearning life skills. Don’t get me wrong, the first big life problem will still hit them hard, but it sounds like you’re doing what you can to help them be prepared to navigate it.

Unfortunately, I’m used to seeing the big monetary support be tied with not giving much support to the kid otherwise. Glad to hear that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

Yeah, this reeks of the other creative writing posts that have been cropping up here from time to time.

Decent question for discussion with a minorly contreversial/odd twist, from a brand new account as the only post on it.

I’ll give OP credit for actually responding twice in the comments. Most of the time these types of posts they just drop it and run, then delete it between a few hours and a day later.

Isn’t the pebble watch getting a re-release? Might be neat to tinker with. There’s also a conversion kit thing for one of the classic digital casio watches. Both are tinkering friendly and open source.