To those giving you shit about cutting horrible people out of your life and saying you need to go visit…

Bullshit. Fuck that noise. I have family that I’ve cut out as well (although, luckily, not my parents). I’m 100% open to them rejoining my life, but their hatred for others is stronger than their love for me, and I won’t allow them back until that changes. Spoiler alert: it probably never will, because there’s no love like Christian “love”.

“Agree to disagree” is reserved for things like “I don’t like coffee.” Not racism, homophobia, and sexism. Not human rights. Not basic common decency. If I unfriend you during this, it IS personal. We do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in morality.

• @cdvaughn16, Twitter, 2020-06-05

I fucking hate these “personality assessments”. This is from one I just took the other day. One of around 50 questions.

I heard this in my head to the beat of “The hand that feeds,” and it actually works pretty well lol

Really fucking cool.

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Yeah, I’m neurodivergent and have a terrible memory. My life is full of alarms and notes and reminders for everything, otherwise nothing gets done.

While I’m well aware of the insidiousness of tech’s ever increasing privacy violations, I also look forward to things like AI being able to function as a full blown personal assistant to help me run my life.

Ice dispenser.

NIИ - The Downward Spiral is the common choice, but The Fragile is a much more complete album. However, my personal favorite is Year Zero.

“You can’t pour from an empty cup.”

I loved my V60 (and my V20 before it). They were such great phones.

You can’t make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!

Arizona here. My August service bill is the highest of the year, usually ends up around $425 or so with the thermostat set to ~76. January is usually the lowest, and I can get that down to about $75. Averages out to about $220/mo over the year. It’s ridiculous.

Still no real tangents. Part of me wants to keep feeding it back into itself to see if it will break, but I also don’t want to devote any further time or energy into thinking about him.

Prompt: Nope, far too coherent and on point. Trumpier.

Response:

Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today, and it’s a tremendous day, a very sad day, but also tremendous, because we are remembering the greatest, the best, Donald J. Trump. Nobody did it like Trump, folks, nobody. He had the biggest buildings, the best buildings. Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster – the most luxurious places, everyone said so. He built an empire, folks, a yuge empire. The best real estate, the best golf courses, the best everything.

And then he became president, the 45th president, the best president, believe me. They said it couldn’t be done, but he did it. He made America great again. The economy, folks, the best economy we’ve ever seen. Jobs, jobs, jobs, everywhere. The stock market, through the roof. And the wall, he built the wall, a beautiful wall. He took on China, he took on everyone. The fake news won’t tell you, but they all respected him. They all feared him.

He was a family man, a fantastic family man. Melania, so beautiful, so elegant, the best first lady. Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, Tiffany, and Barron – all incredible, just incredible. The Trump family, the best family. He loved them so much, and they loved him.

And let’s not forget, he was a patriot, a real patriot. He loved this country, he fought for this country. He believed in winning, and he won, folks, he won bigly.

We will never forget him. We will always remember the legacy of Donald J. Trump. We will keep fighting, we will keep winning. Thank you, thank you very much. God bless you all, and God bless the memory of Donald J. Trump.

Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here today to remember a tremendous life, a life like no other, believe me. Donald J. Trump, a man of great success, unmatched, really. He built an empire, folks, a fantastic, beautiful empire. The Trump Organization, Trump Tower, the best real estate, absolutely the best. And let’s not forget, he was the 45th President of the United States, a job he did like no one else could.

He made America great again, folks. Jobs, jobs, jobs, everywhere. The economy was booming, the best economy we’ve ever seen, they say. He fought hard, so hard, for the American people. Drained the swamp, big league. He dealt with foreign leaders, and they respected him. They did, they really did.

Donald J. Trump was a family man, a fantastic father, and a wonderful husband. Melania, Ivanka, Don Jr., Eric, Tiffany, and Barron, all incredible, wonderful people. He loved them dearly, and they loved him.

He will be remembered as a patriot, a winner, a man who never stopped fighting for what he believed in. He believed in America, folks. He believed in you. And he will be missed. But we will carry on, we will keep fighting, and we will never forget the legacy of Donald J. Trump. Thank you, thank you very much.

This was me a while back. I used to tell my wife that the fact that she didn’t know anything about tech meant my company would actually consider her a better employee because she would stick to the script and hold the company line, even if it was bullshit, because she wouldn’t know it was bullshit.

This is quite a few years old now, but I think the main points are still valid. As you said, everything is so polished, kids don’t need to figure out how it works.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

Indeed, not only “an accidental conversation” but an intentional one would fall outside the statute’s scope unless the U.S. citizen’s intent was to affect a foreign government’s policy in a concrete way. Thus, former basketball star Dennis Rodman most likely did not violate the statute when he traveled to North Korea and met with that country’s leader in an effort to promote “peace and love.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/logan-act-and-its-limits

then a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, and ultimately the reconstruction of Gaza and return of Palestinians to their homes.

I don’t have anything to add, but want to ask a question about this part: what fucking homes?!?!

“Ok, you can go back home now. Btw, it’s a pile of rubble now, so good luck with that. Bye!”

My dad bought me a ridiculously expensive (like $400) Samsung vacuum that I loved. It was strong, it came apart in really cool ways to make it versatile, etc.

It failed in less than a year.

The $60 Walmart special Bissell that I went and bought to replace it lasted for 8.5 years before the motor burned out (I screwed up and it got too much pet hair in it). I bought the same one again and it’s going on 5+ years with no issues.