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valthonis

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Autumnus Dux. Second most popular peer of the Court of Seasons. Your favorite fake Duke of your favorite real season.

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"Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into the middle of a war with the groundhog in the backyard... So lets get to taking out their command, one by one.” - Me, this afternoon, in my best Zavala voice after the spouse showed me video of a groundhog ransacking the garden.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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Also, what even is the purpose of a beard?

From what I can tell, the benefit is that it gives me the option for another face. If I want to be mildly unrecognizable, I can just grow out my facial hair.

But other than that, I have no idea why men grow beards.

valthonis,
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@atomicpoet I maintain a beard because I like the feel of having it. It is soft, it insulates my face from both cold and being directly touched (to a degree), and it hides skin imperfections that I'd otherwise spend a lot of grooming time to obfuscate.

It's absolutely not for everyone, but I find it to be handy and worth the cost of maintenance. YMMV.

valthonis,
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@atomicpoet Ah, I see. I do wonder if it's less of an adaptation for modernity and more of a holdover in the genetic noise from our predecessors.

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Writing a blog post! 😅

valthonis,
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@bitprophet We... we can still do that?

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How do speech impediments like lisps and such affect native speakers of tonal languages? My brain keeps insisting that using tonality to encode information is introducing a TON of ambiguity into a language, but I've also been wrong about stuff I know way more about, so…

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The amount of energy my parents' generation spent trying to scare us with the spectre of "flipping burgers for a living" really belied the degree to which they'd come to rely on the mere existence of “burger flippers" for all parts of their comfortable lifestyle.

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Boomers be like “we didn't start the fire..." while acting like I didn’t spend my entire childhood and early adult years watching them gleefully pour lighter fluid onto it at every opportunity.

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I am now an Uncle x10, which is a very strange feeling.

Half of that is from one very prolific sibling-in-law, mind, but still.

valthonis,
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@bitprophet I feel like I need a coffee mug that reads "10x Uncle” now. 🤣

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I understand why currency bills have security features (to defeat counterfeiters.) What I don't get is why so many treasuries and national banks advertise their security features. It feels like they're just telling would-be counterfeiters what new hardware to buy to pull it off.

Am I missing something?

valthonis,
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@rivetgeek @johnwsheldon So they're basically MFA, where M > 8 or something. That makes more sense.

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Never forget that a single Black president... just ONE... scared white America so much that they're wholeheartedly embracing fascism to reinforce their cultural and political hegemony.

valthonis, to random
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If I seem a little agitated tonight, allow me to illustrate:

jenniferplusplus, to random
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Reminder not to eat the rich.

The rich are apex predators, and they accumulate high concentrations of environmental toxins.

Instead, you should compost the rich

valthonis,
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@jenniferplusplus @trabern Just half a litre of billionaire spread over your vegetable garden will make for a bountiful harvest!

valthonis, to random
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It is wild to compare the increasingly shrill news coverage of the college protests to the on-the-ground reports I get from my kid. Really drives home that media and politicians care about what something looks like, but not what it actually is.

valthonis, to random
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Asked my son today what it was like living next to an protester-occupied lecture hall. He said “not bad, actually. They're better neighbors than the cops.”

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The final episode of Voyager!

The crew is now old. Harry Kim is now a captain rather than an ensign.

Apparently you can fly a starship through the Golden Gate bridge.

valthonis,
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@Cassandra The relative scale on starships is not something that is always depicted accurately on-screen, but that sounds about right for Voyager. She a svelte little ship.

valthonis,
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@Cassandra The big span in the middle is like... 3/4th of a mile, I think? The bridge as a whole is deceptively huge.

Anyway, I'm just nerding out. Enjoy your episode!

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Thicc dames before thicc frames.

Dealing with MTU mismatches at work. Jumbo Frames: not even once.

valthonis,
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When "they" come to haul me away, I'm either going to be ranting about MTU, DNS, or some stupid change Wizards will have made to D&D by then... 🤣

valthonis,
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@rivetgeek Jumbo D&DNS.

darth, to gaming
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Can you recognize her?

valthonis,
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@darth Is this a screenshot from Wesnoth?

valthonis,
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@darth Yes. Bad habit on my part. Curious how close you could get to the subject before you can't see the image for the pixels.

valthonis,
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@darth Oh, nah... that wasn't a request! Pardon me for the lack of clarity. This was just an idle thought from the math section of my mind. 😅

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Me: “We are having a problem with feature Y on device X. We have performed steps A through F as advised by the knowledge base. These are our observations. Please advise.”

Support: “Hi, we understand you're having a problem with device X as regards feature Y. Here is some copy pasta from the same knowledge base page with the steps you said you already performed. Please let us know if this helps!”

Me: 🤨

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