MrMcGasion

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[–] MrMcGasion 2 points 52 minutes ago

I heard on Bluesky that due to a time zone bug in their bot, it ran early and missed it.

[–] MrMcGasion 2 points 2 days ago

I also don't want to end up locked in, sinking in a lake, like Mitch McConnel's sister.

[–] MrMcGasion 7 points 3 days ago

I feel you. But at the same time, I'm also afraid that as they dismantle the government, the brain drain from departing/retiring federal workers and knowledge about how the parts of government (for example the NIH or the NOAA/NWS) function on the day to day (including things like historical climate data) will be lost in the chaos. I'm not paying attention now, because I think it will be more important to pay attention in a month. I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it then either, but I don't want some of what we do have to be lost forever because some assholes didn't like it, and the rest of us thought they deserved it. Maybe they do deserve it, but the rest of us don't deserve to lose it forever either.

[–] MrMcGasion 9 points 3 days ago

Musk is ketamine-addled, his puppet is dementia-riddled.

[–] MrMcGasion 6 points 3 days ago

It's just all tied up in AI and crypto right now. Because everyone wants to get in on the next get-rich-quick scheme. Coked-up investors don't have the patience to stick it out and wait for a return, they've moved on to shiny new toys (that have very little chance of real growth or market viability) and are gutting and cutting the games industry to pay for it.

[–] MrMcGasion 3 points 1 week ago

Unless they decide they can't trust any of us to operate their hotline and decide to run it on AI. Then it will sound like premium treatment, but will be about as useful as our poor schmuck hotlines are.

[–] MrMcGasion 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but think how many part time jobs the people working 70 hours a week would create because they no longer have time to take care of their own basic needs. There'd be whole new industries like "professional asswipe" because time is money, and time spent wiping your own ass is holding you back from the grind.

(this is sarcasm in case for some reason that wasn't obvious)

[–] MrMcGasion 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While I personally agree with your sentiment, and much prefer arch to debian for my own systems, there is one way where debian can be more stable. When projects release software with bugs I usually have to deal with those on Arch, even if someone else has already submitted the bug reports upstream and they are already being worked on. There are often periods of a couple of weeks where something is broken - usually nothing big enough to be more than a minor annoyance that I can work around. Admittedly, I could just stop doing updates when everything seems to be working, to stay in a more stable state, but debian is a bit more broadly and thoroughly tested. Although the downside is that when upstream bugs do slip through into debian, they tend to stay there longer than they do on arch. That said, most of those bugs wouldn't get fixed as fast upstream if not for rolling distro users testing things and finding bugs before buggy releases get to non-rolling "stable" distros.

[–] MrMcGasion 13 points 2 weeks ago

My guess would be that Ciri looks older now, she was 21 in Witcher 3, and there are a lot of Leonardo DiCaprio types out there who get offended by any suggestion they should be attracted to women their own age. And as you point out, assume that any women in media are there for them to sexualize.

[–] MrMcGasion 4 points 3 weeks ago

Got mine in the mail today. Do it asap if you can because you have to send in the originals of your documentation (I used my birth certificate) and you don't get it back until a week or so after getting your passport. I'm probably just paranoid, but I have no desire to be waiting on the next administration to send my birth certificate back.

[–] MrMcGasion 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure getting rid of presidential pardons is right either. There are cases of provably innocent people on death row who have been saved from execution by presidential pardon because the justice system otherwise failed them. It's not a perfect system, and it has failed more than it has saved, but until we reform the justice system (and probably ban the death penalty) stopping presidential pardons is a terrible idea.

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