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Cake day: January 24th, 2024

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  • Oh, so you managed to destroy the tracks last election? No? Hmm, sounds like you did nothing then and the trolley continued down the path its currently on. A path that numerous people tried to tell you was worse than the other path. But it’s ok! You chose to dismantle the system and operate outside of it!

    Except you didn’t do that. You had no ability to do that. Your actions are the exact same as someone who chose not to pull the lever, and the outcome is the exact same as if you chose not to pull the lever. To anyone observing, you are just as worthless as someone who didn’t pull the lever. Because at the end of the day, there WAS a lever and you DIDN’T pull it.



  • We get it. You chose not to pull the lever.

    You can try to ease your conscience by saying that at some vague point in the future you can destroy the trolley entirely, but that is the future. The trolley problem already occurred. It already went past the switch, there’s no going back and changing that. You chose not to pull it, you have to live with that.


  • The failure in understanding here is that “refusing to play along” is STILL playing along. You are making a choice that you’re ok with whatever the uneducated masses decide. This is like basic trolly problem shit. You are given two terrible choices, there is no option for a magical third choice. You can’t get out of it by saying you just refuse to participate, because that’s just choosing not to pull the lever.



  • I’m not in IT, just a lowly office grunt who is forced to use Windows on their laptop. I know most people here have forgotten that 99% of the working world has to use Windows, so let me remind you how much it sucks.

    It doesn’t matter how you change the laptop power settings, Windows will look at your settings and then just do whatever the fuck it wants when the lid closes.

    Sometimes it goes to sleep

    Sometimes it stays powered on and quietly overheats in your laptop bag.

    Sometimes it completely freezes up and forces you to hold down the power button.

    Sometimes it just logs you out and does nothing else.

    Sometimes it will go to sleep, but the moment you open it back up it decides what you REALLY wanted was to restart.

    Changing the settings has no effect on what Windows decides to do.

    I know people on this site like to sit on their gilded Linux throne and sneer at all the lowly peons forced to use “Microslop” instead of their clearly superior, self-hosted, FOSS, Linux distro; but it is a real problem with Windows laptops.





  • Unfortunately there’s not one source, I used multiple guides and videos, and started over multiple times. This video was maybe the most helpful, but he doesn’t cover everything. You have to do some hunting on where to find the product keys for each system that needs them, and some systems require some extra steps to get working.

    The only system I can’t seem to get running at all is Sega Saturn for some reason. The PS2 emulator needed some extra fiddling with the graphical settings on some games. The WiiU needed a lot of extra steps to get working, both in the set up and in the settings. And for the switch, I managed to get the Eden emulator working, but don’t ask how I did that. I tried a couple times with no success until one time it magically showed up as an option. I also havent tried emulating any XBox games because most of them are available on other systems, but I might try getting the 360 working soon.

    I think the biggest thing that tripped me up is that the bios/keys files don’t typically go in their respective folders (with some exceptions like the WiiU), instead they all just get dumped directly in the Emulation\bios folder together. A lot of guides I found were giving the wrong directions for that.

    Just keep at it; if I can figure it out, I am certain you can too!






  • It raises it exclusively for the Costume Institute at the Met, which the group that preserves historical clothing. I just… Fuck. Are you really serious? How the hell do you look at that amount of money, look at the people starving on the streets, and conclude that this is a worthwhile function. Thats just fucking insane.

    Sorry, we can’t afford to build new housing or addiction centers, but thank God we can continue to preserve an evening dress from the 1940’s. That’s truly what matters in society.



  • I’m sorry, but I do not think that raising money for high fashion is in any way important given the current problems the world is facing. It’s like asking for donations for fancy new curtains while your fucking house is on fire.

    We do not need high fashion to survive. If every fashion designer dropped dead tomorrow, I promise you society would not crumble. We need healthcare. We need housing. We need our basic fucking needs met. Until that time, I will call events like this a collosal waste of time and money.