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Sit back and enjoy an evening of fine literature.

Welcome to the new global military industrial complex, where Palantir masturbates using international militaries pitched against each other.

You know you can link accounts as family to share prime right? You don’t need to let her on yours. I think it’s a limit of two “adults”.

I used to play runescape with a neighbor from elementary school up through middle school. We even gifted each other membership a few times for birthdays.

Lost touch with him in high school, except for one time he showed off that he was up pretty high on the leaderboards and doing competitive shit.

Ran into him this weekend, it’s been like 20 years. Both had our kids out at a park. Caught up.on a bunch of stuff, but my dumb ass forgot to ask him if he still played, and what he though of the upcoming sailing skill release in Old School Runescape.

And? It’s not halloween yet, and even so, we still have a month before Thanksgiving.

But I guess just fuck the people too busy to decorate for Halloween at the start of September.

How are you doing?

You know, same piss, different pants.

I’m glad you like your city, but I’ll be over here, not living somewhere I need a dedicated two person system to avoid walking through human feces.

It’s kind of amazing just how much that simply isn’t a problem in so very much of the world, and how adaptable people are to bad situations.

As someone who works as a sysadmin/systems engineer in a Windows environment, I find your analogy is a bit extreme. Not denying the issue, it’s a constant frustration and problem. It’s just that I find you can get a lot farther than most people think.

So less “hood’s welded shut” and more “Why the fuck are the headlights a single unit? I just need to fix the high beams! Why is the transmission welded shut? Who in the fuck wired the radio and power steering together? And why in the hell is none of this documented anywhere?” Maybe that’s worse, tbh. You can get very deep, but most of it is horrors.

I like to set calendar appointments 15 to 30 minutes before the end of my shift for “paperwork” or shit like that. Clear out some emails, close some tickets that I left open, update my notes, read work related news. My work pays for training, so I can also check out training courses to see what looks useful in that time.

Still work, but not burning through tasks or todo list. Give myself time for the shit that ends up on the backburner when everything is a high priority.

A reminder to wrap up what I’m working on if I’m “in the zone” and to give myself enough time to make notes and such so I don’t have to keep shit churning in my head outside of work.

The most important thing is that I don’t look at the queue during that time. I don’t pick up any new work or start a new task. I try to enforce that almost an hour before ending my shift as I do high focus work where a single “task” can take over a hour.

Had too many times getting home late to a frustrated wife and a concerned toddler, for shit that could have waited. And please believe me: it all could have waited. If it can’t wait, that means your manager hasn’t adequately staffed to fulfill the needs. Not your problem.

Edit: You didn’t answer my question. You brought up what’s already been established.

Skull tattoo. I’m sorry, most Americans are not so familiar with Nazi symbols to identify that specific skull design as Nazi. Swastika, SS, Iron Cross, sure. A skull and crossbones? Wouldn’t clock it. I thought it was a generic “bad guy” symbol in the comedy sketch you have a screenshot from. And he’s had it covered up.

If he knew, why would he allow someone to take a picture of it?

So… your second point is just that you don’t agree with America’s involvement with those wars at all. Which is less to do with this guy than with America’s choices of war. Valid, I agree, but not a signpost that he’s a Nazi. Unless all Americans involved in those were secretly Nazis.

Look. I don’t think anyone’s calling him trustworthy or a good person, but this insistence that he must be a Nazi due to a tattoo that he’s gotten covered up, when he’s been so open about all of it is silly.

He didn’t try to get the photo taken down. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t get belligerant and say he wasn’t going to cover it up just to keep people mad. He’s not pretending he didn’t have it.

I’m keeping him on my radar, but when US politics is filled with so damn many overt and explicit racists and Nazis that are so damn comfortable being mask off, I’m not ready to stomp down on this guy yet.

A soldier, trained for warfare, and enjoying it is quite disturbing for people who never encounter it. I’m disturbed by it. That said, I’m not seeing anything about enjoying bloodshed there. He says he likes small wars because he feels there’s less inhumane brutality.

Is your problem that a soldier enjoys what they do? That makes them a Nazi?

I feel like your comment about killing civilians in the global south is making a big assumption that isn’t even really hinted at. In fact the opposite, as he talks about working with the local community.

Isn’t the pebble watch getting a re-release? Might be neat to tinker with. There’s also a conversion kit thing for one of the classic digital casio watches. Both are tinkering friendly and open source.

Is it better to inconvenience one person an infinite amount, or an infinite amount of people a medium amount?

If you haven’t read the later books in the HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, at one point it’s revealed that an ancient spacefaring society gathered up the most useless people they had (I think it was ad copy writers, telephone sanitizers, and hair stylists), shoved them in long haul spacecraft designed to crash land and destroy themselves entirely while safely delivering the passengers, disabled all internal controls, and pointed the craft at ancient earth.

They unfortunately outbred the native neanderthals. This also completely broke the earth’s original purpose of being a giant biocomputer.

Or you could just walk to room infinity + 1 and not disturb an infinite number of guests, dick.

This ancient video has ruined the Count for me. My toddler is getting into Sesame Street and whenever the original song comes on in the car I have to keep from giggling.

Dead or Alive is the name of a videogame series, not talking about his status.

Regarding your edit, you can’t do both. None of the lemmy UIs or apps make it clear, but it’s URL or image, image takes priority, and then you can put whetever you want in the body text of the post.

No clue why it’s not been made clear in any of the web uis or apps. I spend too much time here and see it multiple times a day.

This is a common mistake that and it’s dumb that none of the UIs (or apparently any of the apps) make clear, but a post can only have an image or a link as its main thing and image takes priority, losing the link. They’re mutually exclusive.

You can do whatever you want in the body text, having multiple images and links etc, but only one or the other for the “main post item”.

OP needs to just put the link in the body text.

That you’re mentally unwell.

Also lol, you aren’t anywhere near interesting enough for devotion. Pretty damn common grade online crazy. That was my first comment in this thread and this will be my last.

Also blocking you. 1000% because I’m a coward who can’t handle the truth. Enjoy your pigeon chess trophy.