Yes! Do it. Make your platform even less relevant, Lonnie. Run that shit right into the ground.

We got CBD oil for our kitties to help them endure 4th of July fireworks. We tried giving it to them a day early to observe their reactions before everything got loud and scary. One of them scratched me so much (out of fear, not malice) that I quickly gave up. We’re gonna try sneaking it on some tuna tonight. The store was sold out of CBD treats, so hopefully this works.

I’ve had Mullvad installed for around a year or more. I turn to it from time to time when I wanna keep things separate from my regular browser, like if I’m looking into items on Amazon that I only need once and don’t want recommendations to get polluted. For example, I was looking at the price of spinning platter HDs after one failed in a NAS. I don’t want Amazon trying to sell me more old-tech drives once I replace it.

Has worked well so far. Haven’t tried the other one.

Oh, does our war-mongering get in the way of science? How could anyone have seen that coming.

In a sane world, we’d try to build a healthy relationship with China. We’re so interdependent that it’d be a win for both sides. Instead, we need an outside bogeyman to distract from the fact that the real villains fucking us around are our own compatriots. Rich assholes get away with distracting the masses yet again!

I went something like six months without my glasses because I still had an old thin frame. It turned out they’d landed on the base of a black standing lamp. I couldn’t see them from six feet away (my rough height). It was when I bent down to plug something in that I found them. I’d probably lost them getting up to go to the bathroom after falling asleep on the couch cause they just “disappeared” one day. They were in plain sight (if I’d had them on) all along.

The military said it was investigating the incident and that it did not reflect its values.

Don’t worry everybody. They said this isn’t the norm.

/s

Fuckers.

Oh, I love this idea so much.

When the character that’s “driving” keeps moving the wheel back and forth just a tiny bit at a time.

When two characters look at something off-camera in the distance and stare at different points in space (why didn’t the directory catch that?!).

That guy can suck my unwashed balls. But lemme go workout under the hot sun for a few hours first.

Aww, I just heard about this the other day. The donkey was adopted by the elk and has a new family. Heartwarming.

I once saw a cop car moving at the same speed as a shadow cast by a cloud. It looked like the cop was bringing darkness. The metaphor would hit me much harder now; this was in maybe 2000.

How about for harvesting organs? Let’s hold them accountable for that, too. Oh, wait. Israel can’t be touched because my government (USA) protects them. Sigh…

“See? We proved that democracy doesn’t work!”

How about this: rather than go to all the effort of building a pier to deliver aid, why not demand that our “ally” do what we all know to be the humanitarian approach and just let it through by normal means.

Apple’s guy in charge of those systems called “hallucinations” exactly that last night in an on-stage interview with John Gruber.

The thing is, if a few large western countries like France, Germany, and the UK would band together and demand an end to it, there might be discomfort with political relations, but Biden and the US wouldn’t really have any room to squirm. But other than France, the others don’t seem to mind, or at least don’t mind out loud.

Things I dislike for $100, Alex.

I thought we were well past this topic. I guess everything old is new again. In fact, I’ll dust off a classic:

“Bugs fly through open Windows.”

But Palestinians aren’t human, so it’s fine, right? /s

And that’s how I decided to install Debian as my next Linux VM (just got back into VMs in the past week with Proxmox). We’ll see how it does replacing my former favorite, CentOS, now that IBM / Red Shat have borked things up on that end.