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crazybutable

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An unlikely quantum superposition of the best dad in the universe and the worst dad in the universe, according to my children anyway.

Terminally online since 1996. Interests include DIY #synthesizers, #photography, #cooking and #woodcarving. He/him.

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MLE_online, to random
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This is me! This is why I don't make youtube videos anymore!!

crazybutable,
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@MLE_online for me, I’m literally out of disk space on my laptop, I don’t want to work on any of my in progress videos, and I don’t want to move any of the in progress videos off to make space because that’s disruptive

So I’m at an impasse with myself

crazybutable, to random
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@StillIRise1963 I know a few weeks ago you were complaining about search engines

I don’t know if anyone else has recommended it, but try mojeek.com

UK based, so no Russia or China governmental manipulation of results. And no user tracking!

Mojeek isn’t as good as Google was when Google was good, but a search engine thst would be third place in 2008 is MILES ahead of the current Google/Bing AI infused garbage we have today

crazybutable,
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@StillIRise1963 I was searching for a series of recipes last night on Mojeek and got a whole bunch of good results. I needed a roasted potato recipe at 400 degrees (to match the other things I was cooking) so I searched for “roasted potatoes at 400 degrees” and it came through perfectly with multiple good results.

I would never trust Google with that query because they do shit like rewrite “400” to “425”, like what the actual fuck Google

StillIRise1963, (edited ) to random
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I used to be a huge Knicks fan back in the day. The day being late ‘80s/early 90s. I’m watching them right now and have no idea who anyone is.

crazybutable,
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@StillIRise1963 I heard someone say a few weeks ago that the NBA draft was full of team names they recognized but they didn’t know any of the players.

Whereas the WNBA was the opposite: they knew all of the players but they didn’t know any of the teams

StillIRise1963, to random
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So, if police departments sell their guns, what do they do with the guns they get from the gun drives that take them off the streets? Where do those guns go?

crazybutable,
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@StillIRise1963 they sell them to companies who say they dispose of them, but those companies disassemble them into parts, and sell the parts

Nobody is melting down guns in America

crazybutable,
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@jalcine @StillIRise1963 all of these people thinking they are doing something good by getting guns off the street and all they are doing is giving money to the police

Because the guns just get resold as parts, then people assemble the parts

StillIRise1963, to random
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"CBS News, in partnership with The Trace and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, reviewed records from hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the United States and found that many had routinely resold or traded in their used duty weapons -- a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.”

Our lives mean NOTHING to these people. THIS IS A SICK GAME.

https://www.cbsnews.com/police-selling-guns/

crazybutable,
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@LenW @StillIRise1963 @Aviva_Gary @_L1vY_ in Minnesota the concealed carry permits are conditional on the gun owners obeying posted signs banning guns on private or public property that has the appropriate signage. I went to the baseball game last night and they had signs up banning guns, knives, or any weapons

Is that universally respected? Probably not but I hope so. Any private business can post the signs. I don’t know how it works in other states

jwz, to random
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The mail settings got screwed up somehow on my mom's iPad and she went into the Apple store to get them to help her reset it. They told her, "Your iPad is too old, mail is no longer supported on it."

crazybutable,
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@jwz I had a ridiculous bug in iMessage where every time I messaged my friend, it would create a new 20 person group text with random contacts. So when my friend replied, it went out to the group text.

Every time I removed everyone from the group text and started over, we’d get a new group chat with 20 new random people in it.

Nobody could help me. When I updated to a new iPhone, the entire chat history from my friend was completely deleted. But hey now I can message him again.

MLE_online, to random
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I'm being discriminated against by a model train

crazybutable,
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@MLE_online the T is the whole train, the T is the whole point of the box

MLE_online, to random
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I was at the grocery store last night and every checkout line was very backed up. A pair of women with an extremely full shopping cart got into the 15-items-or-less line and caused further delays by asking questions about the prices of many items, and having the wrong items for coupons they had (necessitating them going back to the aisles to get the right items).

The customer in front of me, who was buying a gallon of milk and a box of cereal got increasingly disgruntled over how long it was taking and started talking shit to the cashier for letting the women bring their giant order through the express line.

The cashier didn't really know what to say, so he was deflecting, and I felt bad for him. When he left to go get a bottle of alcohol from the locked liquor cases, the disgruntled customer turned to me and apologized for making a scene.

I told him it was fine, but he shouldn't be getting mad at the cashier because retail employees aren't really allowed to say anything to bad customers.

When the cashier came back, the disgruntled customer apologized to him several times, and said he knows he's just trying to do his job.

And then he started talking shit to the two women instead.

crazybutable,
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@MLE_online some of the worst shame I’ve ever felt is when I was clearly over the line for the express lane, but just barely under the line of “oh no go fuck your self” and didn’t realize I was in the express lane until just before the cashier started ringing up my items.

It was the Midwest so nobody said anything but I paid and did the walk of shame to the car

StillIRise1963, to random
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Target fools no one. They didn’t want to support the gay community and now, they’re not.

crazybutable,
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@StillIRise1963 Target said “shoplifting” was the cause of shutting down stores that were just underperforming. I am wondering if they are using the boycotts to scale back their pride merch as a way to save face for the fact that last year’s pride merch was pretty underwhelming. Like they had already decided Q3 2023 not to do this and are just saying this shit now

Ah well who the fuck knows. It would be nice if we had institutions in this country we could trust not to be weasels in any case

rasterweb, to random
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Computers are like table saws... they can be useful tools to create things, but also extremely dangerous and harmful to humans.

crazybutable,
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@rasterweb hear me out: what if the computer realized that the continued functioning of the computer would cause harm to the human operator, and it triggered a small explosion, jamming a small knife right into the power supply

rasterweb, to random
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I had two assumptions in the past.

  1. People who drive for Uber do it because they need extra cash.

  2. People who buy a Tesla have too much cash.

But while in California last week a good number of Uber cars were Teslas.

Can someone make it make sense for me?

crazybutable,
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@rasterweb cheaper operating costs for a Tesla? So cheaper per mile.

Also I know Uber drivers consider “choice of car” very heavily, to the point that there are certain dealership programs and financing options specifically targeting Uber drivers (I do not know if Tesla is part of this though). It’s possible that for some markets,the difference between the monthly cost of the financing for a Tesla, compared to financing an ICE car, can be made up by offering premium Uber-X rides

crazybutable,
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@rasterweb and finally, lots of layoffs going on right now. Maybe some of those folks are looking to Uber a bee bucks between jobs

vadhakara, to random
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Google is sucking so much ass lately that I actually looked up something with Bing for the first time on purpose.

crazybutable,
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@vadhakara try mojeek.com

MLE_online, to random
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Some lady approached me on the cat food aisle of the grocery store and asked if I had a dollar to spare. I didn't because I had no cash on me, but she clearly thought I was lying to her and acted like it.

Whatever to her if she thinks I'm a liar, but then we both ended up self checkout at the same time and they were backed up, so we had to stand there next to each other while.

crazybutable,
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@MLE_online I used to live in a part of town that had a lot of panhandlers. I always kept a few bucks in my back pocket.

One day got asked for a few bucks as I walked out of Target. Gave him a fiver. Walked into the parking lot. Someone else asking for money, I gave them the rest of my change.

Then just as I got to my car another person came up and asked me for money and I lost my temper a smidge (just a smidge) and said hey man, ask those two guys for money, I already gave them all I have

ifixcoinops, to random
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Yaknowwhat, it's not by any means ready yet but I'm heading out the door in a minute so I'm just gonna post my website and see if it holds up under the Fedi Hug, here ya go lol

https://gamedad.club

crazybutable,
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@ifixcoinops I love it, I already have one, but I have a question. You alluded to things that are powerful enough to run PS2 games. Do you have any links or names of such things off the top of your head?

Last time I looked for one they didn’t quite exist

crazybutable,
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@ifixcoinops ah gotcha. I have enough computers I don’t need another one

I do love my game dad, I got it last year based on one of your threads. So thanks! I basically downloaded all of the games I already have because my physical consoles have been slowly dying.

I had to get the magic HDMI cable so that I could use it on a big screen because it’s more comfortable than peering at the screen with my reading glasses. I just wish I knew how to remap the buttons for one of the emulators

BigAngBlack, to random
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Unfrosted Brown Sugar with butter melted on top

crazybutable,
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@BigAngBlack it never occurred to me to frost the damn things myself lol

anathema_device, (edited ) to random
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Okay, I’m back. Sort of. I’m suffering from back pain from hell, so touching grass is almost impossible right now, but doomscrolling has lost a lot of its appeal even with just a few days off.

You’ll probably see fewer posts from me. I’ve decided reposts are probably not worth it since I figure most people have them turned off.

I really don’t know why I’m telling you all this since I’m not a train and you don’t need to know my schedule :)

crazybutable,
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@anathema_device hope you feel better soon

North, to random
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Little green bois popping up all over

crazybutable,
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@MLE_online @North one of yall need to send me some seeds if you collect some this year. It’s too late for me to get a seed started and in the ground and have enough growing season up here in Minnesota but I’ll be able to next year

rasterweb, to random
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After feeling like crap most of the week I saw my doctor yesterday and I probably have a viral infection. I'm on medication, and I'm supposed to avoid the sun due to higher risk of sunburn. Also, I'll be in Palm Springs, CA all week, and there's a pool.

crazybutable,
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@rasterweb augh

jeffjarvis, to random
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This is damning about The Times & A.G.:
"'All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day,' one Times journalist said. 'It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.'"
How The New York Times Became the White House’s Least Favorite Paper https://politi.co/4b9avJs

crazybutable,
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@jeffjarvis I expect nothing less

StillIRise1963, to random
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"Home Office staff have privately warned that there is a risk of thousands of asylum seekers disappearing once removals begin, keen to avoid receiving notification that they are being sent to Kigali.”

WTF.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/rwanda-deportations-bill-passes-parliament-sunak

crazybutable,
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@StillIRise1963 what the fuck

Are they deporting everyone to Rwanda? No matter where they are from? Either way it’s fucked up to do deportations before the process is complete

crazybutable,
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@StillIRise1963 😩🤬

Are we even trying to be human beings anymore?

I’m thinking of this bullshit at the same time as thinking about the SCOTUS case about where people will sleep if they are homeless. It’s the same horseshit. There are no words, just sorrow mixed with anger

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