Bahnd Rollard

Yah… Thats too much, if they cut that in half I would ignore it not being up to the repairability standards of fairphone, but if I cant expect that device to last 10 years then ill just wait for the next one…

But a lot of apps and sites do not display total profile votes, its a lot healthier to no chase those metrics anyway.

Can we settle on the best one under the Disney era? (The correct answer is E5 and my favorite is E6)

I do actually like that one, when introducing people to Star Wars, I do suggest starting there with a double feature into E4 in the same sitting. 1) because if someone has not seen Star Wars, they are very young or have been avoiding it for 50 years, giving them something modern feels like a good idea 2) the trasition from a 2016 film to a 1977 film (even with the remasters) is jarring and I like tormenting my friends :-p

OP has a point, if a cult shows up at your door selling their beliefs, you can take the opportunity to do some deprogramming. A few of the basics:

• Dont flat out deny interest, feign insterest and try and draw out their selling points.
• Be polite, they need to not view you as a threat, offer them tea or something.
• Attempt to address all questions or as much of the conversation to the younger of the pair (JW travel in pairs).

The point is to show that dispite being antithetical to their beliefs and not interested (your friendly neightborhood atheist) your not out to villify their group. They are trying to show the younger person that the world is out to get them, by doing the opposite, you break the illusion a little bit and are likely never going to see them again as they will not want to revisit the house talking about Kierkegaard.

Seconding, in the US, most states and the FCC have protections for amature radio equipment, there are a few introduced bills that would encourage emergency radio preparedness and extend the protections to federal law.

This would be an ideal I would love to attempt, but im too plugged into the matrix. Having the option to tell the world to go pound sand, even for a little while, and just stomp into the woods and hang with some chickens sounds more like a pipe dream.

I miss Grumpy Cat, it reminds me of a simpler time.

Exactly, never inturupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

Back when they started on that, we were worried they were going to kill ActivityPub like how Netscape got killed by IE durring the browser wars. EEE (Embrace, Expande, Eliminate), adopt the protocol, expand its capabilities while including propriatary portions of code, and lock the competition out when market saturation is achieved.

The issue is that fedivers residents are a bunch of tech-literate weirdos and called this bullshit the second the news dropped, and are 100% the type of people who make forks as soon as something like that would actually happen. Piefed being the perfect example, this part of the internet is perfectly fine just picking up their things and making something else (and we love it here for that).

Given the recent string of complex designs and the grading industry for sealing high value cards, I would imagine counterfiting them would be much harder. I view this more inline with the Italian chocolate thefts than a more complex enterprise. The product could be viewed as comodities, although they arnt consumed like food, but due to the random nature of the packs, the distributed contents wont be IDd or tagged (only the larger boxes/packs, which are meant to be broken). The reason food is the more likely target is that people will eat the evidence if you can fence a box of candy to a bunch of vendors who wont ask questions. This rings the same to me.

I dont know whats more emberassing, the fact a CA fucked up this baddly. Or that the private keys look like they were actually someones lottery numbers from that morning.

The 3D zelda games.

That was the point where I prefered soundtracks over singing. I still have the Twilight Princess trailer mp3 I cut almost 20 years ago on my running playlist.

That and the score for Battle for Wesnoth. Classic freeware, peak 2006.

The classic weekend/party safety brief

• Do NOT add to the population.
• Do NOT subtract from the population.
• Do NOT end up in the newspaper, hospital or jail.
• • If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.

We have a few addendums in my circles.

• A man should be in the newspaper three times, when he is born, when he is wed, and when he dies. (Ron Swanson)

• Never do anything you would be afraid to explain to the paramedics.

(Addressed to my college age relatives, I would always pick them up, the folks dont need to know, you do have to tell the guy scraping your sorry ass off the pavement what you broke)