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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Back when I was working as a flight instructor, president Obama did a bus tour across my state. The President has a TFR surrounding him at all times, and when he’s on the move, so is the TFR. It was real fun shutting down our business for a day so that the President could get absolutely nothing done because everyone had their minds made up who to vote for before the candidates were even announced.

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President Camacho saw his nation’s problems, and to fix them he sought out the smartest man on the planet, asked him for solutions, gave him the power to enact those solutions, and promoted him when those solutions showed positive results.

Gimme politicians like that instead of the empty Viagra packets we’ve got now.

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Not so much that he didn’t get results fast enough, but that his solutions had unforseen side effects re the ecominy automatically laying everyone off because the reduction in Brawndo consumption caused the stock to decrease. At that point, it looked like Not Sure hadn’t actually solved anything and created yet another problem.

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Wait, I-95 runs all the way to Maine. Has the Earth’s magnetic field reversed? They’ve been talking about it for awhile now. What do you know, Truckerman?

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I’m not afraid of phone calls. I hate phone calls. Same way I hate boiled pizza. Makes me judge your parents for the decisions you make.

Let’s walk through the average phone call, as the technology is currently implemented and people interact with it, because my username checks the fuckout.

Phone might ring. Who fucking knows? There’s one volume rocker on the side of the phone and it controls like nine different and independent volume sliders depending on what app is in control of it this specific nanosecond, so trying to turn Tom Scott down while trying to fall asleep to Something You Mighte Naught Have Knowne, you also turned your ringer off. Shrodinger’s fucking ringtone.

Phone actually rings. It’s a number from your area code you don’t recognize, which means it’s either the local Republican wanting money, or a criminal in India.

Phone actually rings, it’s someone on your contacts list for once, so you pick up the phone. Apple patented the horizontal slide, so real phones can’t use it. Instead sometimes it’s a button and sometimes it’s a touch-here-and-slide-in-any-direction. When the phone was new you set up a “gesture” where an upward motion and placing the screen near your face would automatically answer the call…that feature might have been deprecated. Did you set it up where pushing the power button would answer the call? Nope. That just hung up on them.

Phone rings again, you do the stupid slide gesture. “Hello?” Silence. Silence. Silence. Line goes dead. Okay, this is one in three phone calls that just don’t work.

Phone rings again, stupid slide gesture. It doesn’t recognize it, you try it again, it works. “Hello?” “Hello?” “Hello?” “Ah, can you hear me?” three second pause “Yeah I can year you.” (audio quality that resembles a 90’s McDonald’s drive thru speaker that’s only been pissed in once this week)

I don’t know why I haven’t started answering the phone “what the PITY FUCK did you call me for?” Because I don’t think anything more subtle will get people to get. to. the. POINT!!!

“What’s up, Bob?” “Hey Greg, it’s uh. It’s Bob.” I knew this before I answered the phone because caller ID has been a standard feature on phones since I had my first handjob, but the lead in your synapses has prevented you from internalizing this concept. We’ll try and let it soak in for another 20 years I guess. “What’s. up. Bob?” “Uh, well, nothin much, what about you?” “WHAT’S UP BOB?” “Well uh, me and uh, me and Cindy are gonna go to the uh, the uh Chinese place and get some, like, takeout or whatever? You want anything?”

“No thanks.”

“Uh well, uh, you sure, I mean like, we can get you somethin.”

“I’m sure.”

“Well uh, okay then I guess. You been doing okay?”

“Bob I’ve got something on the stove, I’ve got to go.”

“Oh alright, well, uh, I guess I’ll let you go then, talk to ya later”

take phone away from face, wait for the screen to light up again to see where the end call button is because it’s not a fucking button anymore because the amoeba that ate Steve Jobs’ brain escaped and multiplied to the rest of the tech industry, by the time you find it, the other party hung up.

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The same exchange via SMS:

“hey wer gettin chinese want some”

“nah. thx.”

“k”

‘Ranting, rambling, and paranoid’: Federal appeals court suspends 96-year-old judge until she passes mental exam (lawandcrime.com)

Judge Newman has threatened to have staff arrested, forcibly removed from the building, and fired. She accused staff of trickery, deceit, acting as her adversary, stealing her computer, stealing her files, and depriving her of secretarial support. Staff have described Judge Newman in their interactions with her as “aggressive,...

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There is a mandatory retirement age for airline transport pilots. 65 years of age. There are also mandatory medical examinations for ALL commercial pilots.

Now, the general public has a uniquely great interest in an airline pilot’s cardiovascular health, aka “is the geezer in the cockpit going to have a heart attack between here and Newark?”

In a job like a judge or other government official whose job is largely paperwork, no heavy equipment is operated, I can see perhaps extending it to 70 years old or something, possibly with a part-time stipulation and possibly on condition of passing some cognition test, something.

But yes something has to be done about the age epidemic in our government offices, our country should not be run primarily by the People Who Should Be Dead By Now If God Had Any Mercy demographic.

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I’m “so fixated on physical well-being” because there are folks in this discussion saying that no one should be working at all over 65. Let me reiterate my points, low attention span listicle style:

  1. There is an industry with a mandatory retirement age. Airline pilot. 65 years old.
  2. This limit is largely in place for cardiovascular health reasons aka we don’t like pilots having heart attacks and less about cognition.
  3. Many retired airline pilots continue to fly smaller planes, often offering flight instruction, demonstrating mental wellness beyond the age of 65.
  4. Since many governmental roles such as judge etc. aren’t as immediately safety critical as airline pilot, much of the reason for an age limit can be relaxed, but I still feel that senility (or just plain being out of touch) is a significant factor in such cases.

So there needs to be some practical limit to the age of government officials.

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I don’t believe our nation should guarantee the financial well-being of people over a certain age, I believe there are lots of old people who deserve to starve to death for the harm and destruction their unchecked greed has caused.

But they might not be who we’re talking about (though we’re on the subject of greed, they probably are.) If a fucking JUDGE can’t retire at 70 on a pension we might as well starve us ALL to death because I’d take that as mathematical proof that hope doesn’t exist.

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On the topic of "Should GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS have mandatory retirement ages, I don’t see what the little old gramma working at Walmart has to do with anything, other than trying to dishonestly build false sympathy for a group of people who has overwhelmingly voted Republican demonstrating a strong hatred of social safety nets, so as far as I’m concerned no social safety nets is what they should get. It’s called consequences.

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One of several systems for self-hosting video files. I’ve lost track if Jellyfin is a fork of Plex or what. I personally use Kodi.

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No but people are weirdly okay with making them from scratch.

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And the thing is, the product everyone’s got their butts in a bunch over is garbage television. Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, HBO Max, Maytag Plus, there’s nothing good on any of them.

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I buy used DVDs off eBay, sometimes from pawn shops or thrift stores.

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From one of the songs in the video game Redneck Rampage, “My family tree’s a STUMP.”

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On what platform do you need to “rely on complex operating system settings” to change the default browser?

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Jesus you see why I use Linux?

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I edit videos in Shotcut and do photo manipulation with either ImageMagick or GIMP. I don’t personally do much vector art, but when I do I use Inkscape.

For video game creation I use mostly Aseprite and Godot. I’ve got Blender installed and I’ve been meaning to learn how to use it for aeons.

Though for my current main hustle I mainly use FreeCAD and LibreOffice.

Anheuser-Busch Says It Has Stopped Amputating Tails of Budweiser Clydesdales (www.nytimes.com)

Facing pressure from animal rights activists, Anheuser-Busch announced on Wednesday that it had ended the practice of amputating the tails of its Budweiser Clydesdales, the familiar equine figures in the brewing company’s advertising campaigns for nearly a century....

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Anhauser-Busch announces that until recently it routinely amputated its horses tails for some stupid reason.

There, I fixed the title.

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Ah for just one time, I would take the Northwest passage to the sea.

Westward from the Potomac, t’is there t’was said to lie The sea route to the orient for which so many died

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It’s been six years since we sailed away, and I just made Halifax yesterday! God damn them all!

What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)

I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....

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I just do not get on with Gnome, I hate when Gnome’s design language leaks into Cinnamon, you open up an app and it’s a big blank window with a hamburger menu in the top right that doesn’t have the functionality you need and you go “Yep, That’s from Gnome alright. I guess it’s time to download the other app that does this job whose name starts with a K.”

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One stupid thing I’ve come across…you can either choose per contact or overall what the chat bubble color is, but when I do so, MY chat bubbles are colored and everyone else’s are grey. That seems backwards to me. If I want to do “Pink is this person, blue is that person, green is that person” it ends up going “wait whose end of the conversation is this again?”

Does someone have a patent they’re trying not to infringe?

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What the California new money is this?

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I don’t think it was Oglaf but this reminds me of the Sword Of Up.

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