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I’m not on kbin, just federated, but the posts I’m seeing are concerning. Spam is way down, do that’s good.

Hope you guys are OK over there.

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This seems like a pretty good measure of the quality of lawyers Trump can afford, or who are willing to represent him.

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Many of us already are. And I know there’s selection bias at work, but a lot of my fellow vet friends are siding with the left.

I worry most about companies like Blackwater (now Academi in an attempt to dodge the negative press); those guys tend to be right-wing, and unlike the rest of the fascist militia wannabes, they’re actually trained and with good supply chains, and younger than us old-timers. That’s why I’m personally focusing on sniper-style training than run-and-gun; I can’t compete with those young bucks in stamina anymore. I’ll be more effective at camping.

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Netanyahu’s govt is more evil, if you just go by bodycount of innocents, and methods of murder. Hamas hasn’t starved any children.

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What are possible uses for these elements?

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I promise that I’m not the kind of person who looks at a tree and his first thought is, “let’s chop it down!”, but I really wonder - with that name - what the wood is like.

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Hey, nice reference source! Thanks!

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It’s good advice.

There are two kinds of ways people approach computers, IME. The first aren’t afraid that they’ll break the computer; the second group is afraid to do anything they aren’t familiar with. The second group are afraid they’ll break something, or get it into a state they can’t get out of. It’s my theory the second group is the dominant force in Apple’s success.

And I’m not using “fearful” pejoratively; I think it’s driven by experience. They’ve explored in the past, gotten lost, gotten their computer into a state they needed help getting out of, lost data, whatever. It’s Pavlovian: they got shocked a few times and are now afraid to explore. The explorers tend to be technical, understand computers in general and how they work, or were lucky enough in their exploring that they built up some confidence that got them past places where they did get in trouble - and were able to get themselves out. Which was a positive feedback loop that helped them be more confident and helped the next time they got bitten.

The fearful ones tend to be older, boomers and old Gen-X. Younger generations I think have enough experience with technology as children that they’ve built up this exploration confident; I suspect the latter group will largely die out until the next technology convulsion, and there will always be mental decline issues among the elderly that tend to make people fearful.

But regardless, I think the OP picture is off. When’s the last time any software came with a manual? How many people read what little documentation comes with software? Where are the “software documentation specialist” careers that were around in the '00s? The expectation now is that people will figure out software by exploration, not through documentation. And that the gap will be filled in by YouTubers making tutorials.

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For all the Dr McCoys who don’t want their molecules scattered all over the Universe.

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Dr. McCoy has (had? Will have?) opinions.

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I have to say, I’ve yet to come across this meme where it wasn’t actually clever.

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Agreed. OP did well.

And it’s an opportunity for me to re-post this seminal picture (or, one instance of it):

https://files.catbox.moe/zvuh1p.png

Image by Wendy D. Stolyarov

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😆 that’s a good one! I haven’t seen it before, and I thought I’d gone through all of them (to date)! Cheers!

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Not often you see cursive these days, much less in a meme.

90% chance this was posted by a Gen-Xer.

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I mean, the kid does look nice and plump… tender… juicy, even.

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Alligators, not crocodiles. Crocodiles would be stupendously to do this with; alligators are much less aggressive.

This thing operated for nearly 50 years, from 1907 to 1953. I couldn’t find a single report of any incidents of people being hurt by the alligators; it only shut down because attendance had dropped to fewer than 50,000 annually.

I an frankly a little surprised; I thought for sure it got shut down because it alligators ate one to many kids… or pets. People brought their dogs. But, apparently, well-fed alligators are pretty docile unless you make them feel threatened, and the domestic bred ones were used to people handling them from babies.

They’re still reptiles, and crocodilians to boot; this whole endeavor sounds batshit to me. But 50 years with a yearly attendance of more than 50,000 people is a lot of evidence.

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I mean, I’m not about to go swimming in alligator-infested waters, but if I were forced to share a cage with any alligator or a crocodile, I’ll pick the alligator.

Nile and saltwater crocodiles in particular have notoriously dangerous reputations.

Oh! Oh! This seminal video explains all you need to know about crocodiles!

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There are also drugs available that help curb the urge for some drugs; Naltrexone and Ozempic, for instance. Both make you nauseous pretty quickly if you drink alcohol, and Naltrexone blocks opioid receptors in the bargain. Ozempic has a better mechanism, in that it’s an injection once a week; Naltrexone you have to take daily, which makes it easier for opioid addicts to skip of they’re feeling urges. I don’t know of any that block nicotine.

I know about these because both of those have secondary uses; low-dose Naltrexone is used to treat auto-immune diseases, and Ozempic is a highly effective diet drug.

Better living through chemistry!

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There’s going to be numerous reasons behind this.

Sure, conceded.

Do you require email-based registration? I know it’s easy to bypass, but you may as well block registrations from domains being used as throw-away email hosts as block VPNs; VPNs are more popular, and gaining in popularity, and are healthy for users in the fight against tracking.

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I wonder if all kittens do something like this. About half of our adoptions have been kittens, and it seems as if all of them has at some point had some weird (for a cat) good fixation that they grew out of by 1yo.

We had one girl who went nuts for lettuce. If she heard my wife washing lettuce she’d careen out of nowhere and climb legs to get to the sink. At first, before we caught on, she’d just fish out her own leaves.

One of our boys lamentably took a shining to orchids. Mostly he’d just murder and eat them, but one time he got one out roots and all and ran around the house with it like a dog with a stick. I was trying to chase him down because it was a paphiopadilum, not cheap, and my most prized; my wife was laughing too hard to help.

Chocolate is supposed to be toxic to cats, but we had some candy out one Christmas and one kitten would fish Hershey’s Kisses out of the bowl, carefully unwrap the foil, then eat the candy. That one, at least, I can understand; those were probably more milk than chocolate. Yes, when we figured out where the mysteriously appearing wrappers were coming from, we took the bowl away.

All of them grew out of it. Orchid-boy still tries to murder plants on occasion (palms, especially) but he doesn’t eat them. Oh! Except cantelope. Not ours, but a family member had a cat that loved cantelope, until the day he died. But I read somewhere that cantelope has something in it that makes cats think it’s meat, and it’s not uncommon for them to like it. And potato chips; all of our adult cats love chips; I used to think it was the MSG, but they like the ones without MSG just as much. That seems less weird to me; everyone loves salt.

Anyway, I wonder how common this sort of this is with kittens.

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Bronze? Heavy AF. You have to have muscles to be waving that thing around for any amount of time. So mostly ornamental? I don’t have a clear picture of which periods kings were actually active in combat. Some periods and places, it seems common; others, they were more rear field commanders.

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It was a moment of nihilistic pessimism.

I was in the Army in the 80s, near the end but still during the Cold War. We were still training with the Soviets as the presumptive adversaries.

So one time I was home on leave visiting my family. I was out late with friends and came back in the wee hours to find the front door locked; with no key, I just curled up on the front porch and went to sleep.

I was awoken by an explosion: the sound filled the air and kept roaring. It was still night, but over the houses in the direction of The Big City dad’s house was close to, the sky was bright as daylight. I panicked and banged on the door - I was certain The City had been nuked, and WWIII had started.

Turns out, there’s an Air Force base at The City, and sometimes the jets took off and used their afterburners, which made that loud percussive roaring sound that could be heard for miles. The light I saw was… just light pollution from The City. I wasn’t used to that much light pollution, and waking up from a dead sleep to it, my brain didn’t process it.

While I didn’t quite soil my pants, the incident scared me more than I think anything else has in my life, before or since. I think, with Putin’s efforts over the past decade to resurrect the Soviet empire, I’ve been low-key expecting a nuclear incident, which is almost impossible to not have escalate.

Escalations at the Eastern borders of Western Europe alarm me more than anything else. If India and China start posturing, that’d be worse, probably. But it’s the cycle that makes this concerning, and the fact that so many Americans seem to have forgotten why our (great-)grand-parents fought WWII, and are embracing and defending fascism, deflates me.

So maybe a little joking there? But mostly just defeatist. If someone like Trump can get elected, and has a serious chance of re-election; if our supreme court is partisan and has clearly corrupt members; I don’t know. What do you think?

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It doesn’t. I was trying to reply to someone else who was saying there was more than the two extremes of drinks.

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Yeah, something went wrong. Probably PEBCAK, but let’s blame the software, shall we?

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And I love you, PlutoniumAcid!

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