An old-fashioned is my go-to drink for determining if a bar is worth shit.
It's an incredibly simple drink, and if you can't be bothered to actually do it right, then why should I trust you to make anything else?
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I'm trying to wire up my new BL-Touch, and apparently, BL-Touch manufacturers don't care a single whit for wiring consistency. The order of my wires appears to be entirely unlike any other BL-Touch anyone else has ever written about.
At this point, I'm barely doing more than pulling them out and reconnecting them at random, in hopes one configuration will work. 😩
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It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewedMozilla Foundation
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"if we don't heap shame and disproportionate punishments on our children, how will they ever learn that actions have consequences???"
I am so. sick. of this thinking. 😡
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how. how do you look at a beautiful, curious baby exploring the world, who grows into an excited, eager (and, I'm sure, overwhelming) toddler, and think, "it is my job to break this person"
"how will they possibly function in this world if I do not humiliate and punish them"
I don't. get. it. HOW.
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Unless we challenge our own assumptions and beliefs and learn a different way of being and relating to those in our lives, I believe we simply perpetuate the normalized beliefs and behaviors in our own parenting that we heard and experienced growing up. To me, it looks like a mechanism by which generational traumas are passed down.
The ghouls continue to recreate their ghoulish world with the tools they learned as infants and children to feel loved and safe among those that raised them, in whatever ways a child learns. Until any of us have the space and support to question those tools and the beliefs they're built on, we live our adult lives dealing with the world using the problem solving abilities, motivations, and world view of our 5-year old self, +/- a few years.
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I got OpenRCT2 working on my Deck. I can now play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 in bed.
No human has ever known this level of luxury.
It's 2023 and I can't believe* so-called "progressives" are still making fucking prison rape jokes.
*I absolutely can
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I don't have time to get into it right now, but I really want to talk about how disappointed I am by how Wizards of the Coast did New Phyrexia dirty in Phyrexia: All Will Be One (ONE) and March of the Machine.
"You mean how they dispatched the Praetors with nary an afterthought?"
Yes but also the utter Bowdlerization of New Phyrexia and the replacement of body horror ("Oh fuck, that's awful, I would never want that to happen to me,") with grotesque horror ("Oh fuck, that's unsettling, I never want that thing to catch me"). The New Phyrexia of ONE was utterly neutered compared to its initial debut, which drives me up a wall, because original New Phyrexia and the Praetors was, hands-down, one of my favorite bits of antagonist worldbuilding in any fictional universe ever, precisely because it was so unflinchingly horrific.
And don't get me started on the fucking apple-red drapery that's everywhere in ONE. Give me some fucking sinew, you cowards.
#MTG
In the Pinyin transliteration between Chinese and English, the character 'x' carries the sound 'sh'. For example, the Chinese leader's name is Xi Jinping, pronounced 'she jinping'.
I noticed that when thinking about what's happened to Xitter in the last 9 months.
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there is a lot that is grim in the indictment, but this annotation from the New York Times really whomped me so hard I had to take a break:
The speaker of the Arizona House at the time, Rusty Bowers, is a conservative Republican but resisted Mr. Trump’s attempt to persuade him to subvert the election. He was later awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for that action, which ended his political career: Last year, the state Republican Party censured him for his resistance, and he was overwhelmingly defeated in a primary election for State Senate.
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Maybe it would be gauche to describe all my contributions in detail, so I'll instead speak broadly about some of my pride points:
For this set, I wrote at least four pieces of flavor text, named a card that replaces a tournament staple, and drew flavor text inspiration from one of my favorite poems.
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Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.Reuters
As non-techy people are transitioning away from Twitter, I see them encountering the challenge of proving that the person who owns and runs an account is actually who they say they are. "Don't delete your Twitter account, or else someone else could take it and pretend to be you!"
It's prompting me to reflect on how we verify our identities online, what has been taken for granted in the age of consolidated social media. I'm hopeful this will lead to a new era of personal websites, at very least serving as online business cards. If my account isn't listed on my site, don't trust that it's me.
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rel="me" attribute is a pretty clever way to do "good-enough" verification.
at this point I just want him to go away
it's obvious everything is going to fail spectacularly, I just want it to do that tomorrow instead of choking out a painful, drawn-out death propped up on the life support of a thousand Reddit incels
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My job gives me a lot of opportunity to reflect on just how eclectic a knowledge base I seem to have.
"Wait, you know [podcast]?" says one client.
"How are you familiar with [event]?" asks another.
I love these little moments of connection.
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Wolves by Coyote & Crow Games - Kickstarter
A Semi-Cooperative Game for 3-6 Players About Community Survival From Indigenous Creatorswww.kickstarter.com
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Today's #3Dprinting fail. It was good when I went to bed, but it looks like at a certain layer, it started having extrusion issues. Unfortunate, too, because that means a narrow bridge that was held up only by supports was weak and not cohesive, so when I started tearing out the supports, it frayed and broke.
It's so consistent at that height and above, I wonder if there's a mechanical issue interfering with the filament feed...
Fuck, this song hits hard as a new parent. Jason Isbell is a masterful songwriter.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Save the World (Official Lyric Video)
'Weathervanes,' the new album from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, will be available everywhere on June 9th, 2023. Pre-order here: https://orcd.co/weathervanesYouTube
Tepache fermentation number 3 has begun!
This time, I'm using a lid with an airlock, and I've put a plastic bag with water in it inside the jar to keep the fruit submerged. I'm hoping those two steps help prevent the mold I got in batch 2.
I also added a single dried chile de árbol for a bit of heat.
Fingers crossed for a tasty drink in a couple days!
Steam Deck arrived! And now that it's here... I don't quite know what I want to do with it. 😅
Maybe that will be a question for after I've made more headway on Tears of the Kingdom.
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Do any #DigitalArchive type folks have strategies for mirroring content from a MediaWiki? The online RPG Kingdom of Loathing has a near-comprehensive fan-run wiki, and I dread the day when it goes under. I'd love to make a mirror for backup purposes.
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I also realized that I had left some peels above the water line, which certainly didn't do me any favors, mold-wise. 😖
Beginner's mistake!
I'm certain someone has done this, but I really want to make a #zine / blog post series sharing knowledge about how to do a bunch of little #DIY projects. Change an outlet. Bake a loaf of bread. Make beer, or a shrub. Change your car's oil.
Never anything huge, and not a dedicated Guide to Self Reliance or anything, just a bunch of little accessible projects that can help a person feel more knowledgeable and capable, and to take that knowledge and skill back to their own community.
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