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captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

I can’t help it, seeing Godzilla and King Kong reminds me too much of an old Japanese movie where Godzilla and King Kong were fighting, and Godzilla breathes fire on King Kong. Kong doesn’t like that so he reaches down and pulls up a tree and stuffs it root ball first down Godzilla’s throat to stop the fire. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

I don’t think that would work for me; I share a name with a minor figure in the film industry, not exactly an A list movie star, but his IMDB page is mostly correct and has a relevant thumbnail image, so i kinda wonder if he beat me to it.

On the same line of thought, I did once look into getting a 900 number as my personal phone line. I’d talk about my car’s extended warranty all day for 4 dollars for the first minute plus 1.20 each additional minute.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

The little USB Image Writer utility that comes with Linux Mint seems to work great for everything but Windows. So I literally never have a problem with it.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

American here: When I was a senior in high school, I dated a junior. She was 16, I was 17. I graduated, she turned 17, I turned 18. The next semester I would occasionally leave college and pick up my girlfriend from high school.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen.

ETA: It’s just kind of a natural part of the life cycle of a musician that–barring Disney child starlets and other abuse cases like that–you’re in your 20’s or 30’s by the time you’re playing to a concert hall full of teenagers, so there you are, 30 years old, singing songs about teenage relationships.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

I’m genuinely wondering if it’s chemicals in the water.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

Please see an oncologist, I think that joke has cancer.

captain_aggravated, 5 days ago

Is anyone else reminded of the time they tried to save the Undo history in Word documents, only to realize that this was a massive security risk?

captain_aggravated, 6 days ago

Communication, GPS, web browsing, camera, occasional use as a flashlight, media player, and a multifunction clock. And yeah that’s about it.

captain_aggravated, 6 days ago

Screens suck at typing. Full stop.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

No; it should be 60.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

Lifetime appointments to the supreme court are obviously a mistake; the idea there is to make them secure in their jobs so they don’t have to politik from the bench. It doesn’t account for actually evil people digging in like parasites in the heart of our government. They should serve a single 10 year term, at which point no matter their age they must retire and then serve no further roles ever again. Like, you’re not allowed to go be a senator, or a congressman, or a governor, or a Walmart greeter. You can volunteer to speak to law students, you can retire, or you can die. Minimum punishment for a sitting or former supreme court justice for any crime: jay walking, copyright infringement, speeding, embezzling, mass murder: instant death. The guilty/not guilty verdict is read to your firing squad. The members of our highest court should be nothing less than absolute exemplars of citizenship.

The house and senate should have maximum terms of not ten years each; the senate currently has 6 year terms, that would have to be shortened, possibly to four. Wouldn’t hurt my feelings if we eliminated those mid-election years so we could have some time away from being screamed at by our so-called government. You want a full career in politics? You start at the local or state level, then you run for federal office.

I would make prior office a requirement for President. As far as I’m concerned, you have no business serving as president if you have not already been a senator, congressman, governor, state senator or general assemblyman. I do not believe town council or city mayor should count here because of the low barrier to entry for buying 10 acres of rural land and incorporating it as a town with one resident and electing yourself mayor.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

It’s those connections I specifically want to sever. Because they’re usually connections to special interest groups, enemy nations, cults, etc.

Not only do I think elderly people shouldn’t be allowed to hold office, I don’t believe they should be allowed to vote. It has been conclusively proven that they vote “fuck you, got mine.” You should not have a say in a future you will not live to see.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

Both of those statements are categorically false.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

They did not outdo the Battle of Josh.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

Helicopters and IMC don’t seem to mix particularly well.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

Given how little story they were willing to put into the last two games they made I’m not sure what they’re going to do with the runtime of a movie, and if I’m honest I think I’d rather just watch an orchestra play selected pieces from the series’ soundtrack than whatever they’re going to do here.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

You know, I think you’ve got it. The pitch for Enterprise was “What if we went back in time before even TOS when everyone was significantly shittier?”

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

It does actually attribute the quote to Douglas Adams at the bottom of the image.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

At least per my copy of The Ultimate Hitchhikers’ Guide Complete And Unabridged (a hardcover with all five books plus the short story Young Zaphod Plays It Safe):

The first book, The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, starts out with the passage that begins “Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.” Later in this passage, you find: “Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.”

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe starts with a preface: “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.” The beginning of Chapter 1 reads “The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

I might be one of the very few people under the age of 50 to know THHGttG as a radio play first and a series of books second; All of the above and more in the books comes straight from the radio play, but their places shuffled around.

captain_aggravated, 8 days ago

Microsoft is one of if not the biggest and richest companies in the world and they got that way on a strategy based on the public’s fear and hatred of reading comprehension.

captain_aggravated, 8 days ago

The flaw is in the question: terminal apps practically always include more functionality especially for batch processing and automation of tasks.

I’ll give an example: Find me a GUI application that can quickly convert a gigabyte of .doc files into .pdf format. Pandoc can do that with a single command.

Also: You’re probably comparing the process of “using” a GUI app with “using” a terminal app, in other words, if you spend 8 hours sitting in front of Premiere or KDENLIVE clicking a mouse, you expect to do the same job with ffmpeg by sitting in front of it for 8 hours typing commands, right? But that’s not how it’s designed to work; it’s designed for you to write scripts that do the things you commonly do, which takes time to do once, then you run those scripts, maybe even from the GUI.

I’ll give a real example: the software I use for my personal journal is called RedNotebook. This stores the data in a human readable markup format (I think it’s YAML?) and displays it in rich text, including the ability to display inline pictures. I like putting pictures in my journal.

First problem: what it actually does is store a relative path to the location of the picture in your file system; if ever I was to change the location in my file system where I store the journal or my pictures, or change operating systems, this would break. So I created a Pictures folder within the Journal folder to copy all pictures there.

Second problem: My phone takes 12MP or larger pictures and the journal displays them at full scale so they take up the whole screen. I’d like to shrink them.

Third problem: The app’s “Insert picture” funcionality opens a file browser window written in QT which is different than the one from most of my GTK-based desktop apps use and I’d have to manually find the file.

Simultaneous solution: I wrote a short bash script that calls ImageMagick to shrink the image among a few other cleanup details, and builds the appropriate string to paste into my journal and puts that string in the primary buffer. I then wrote a Nemo Action so that the option to run this script appears in the context menu iff I right click on exactly one image file. Now I can add an image to my journal by browsing to its location in my file manager, right clicking, clicking Add To Journal, and then middle clicking in RedNotebook where I want to paste the picture.

There are hundreds of tedious little things I would do over and over again clicking through endless menus, windows and dialogs that I can script away, like paving my own bypass lane.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

And there it is.

captain_aggravated, 7 days ago

The mathematician is naked, something about pure and direct truth. The physicist is wearing a bow tie, chippendale cuffs and a banana hammock. The engineer has on his new invention: Assful chaps.