We're bashing heads over denotation vs connotation. I'm sticking with the former. Making up or ignoring definitions is a big part of what makes politics infuriating; we don't need to do that to Luigi.
vital that they are paid during a shutdown
I'd argue that applies at least as much to the troops themselves. Making the literal entire DoD suddenly WAY more susceptible to bribes is a great way to get a lot of people (military or otherwise) killed.
100%, but eating food when you're already full is still wasting it, it's just doing so in a way that's damaging to your health; and no part of that is helping starving children in Africa, so that whole line is a pretty good showcase of an asinine kneejerk non-solution to multiple problems. Same energy as "gO to pErU" in response to a complaint about an unrelated problem somewhere better off than Peru.
It can be - depends on the motive. The word 'terrorism' stirs up some pretty extreme imagery, but it doesn't actually take much to meet the description.
If I stick a knife into a bag of potato chips on the shelf of a Walmart just for shits and giggles, I've just committed vandalism.
If I stick a knife into a bag of potato chips on the shelf of a Walmart because I don't like that Walmart drives local shops out of business, I've just committed terrorism.
Luigi committed terrorism. Don't conflate that with 'Luigi is bad' - he's a fucking hero, and we desperately need more people like him.
The scene in Interstellar when he returns from the time dilation to watch like 40 years of updates he missed from his kids.
OP didn't ask about appreciating what they have. And silencing criticism of bad by contrasting it against worse is never helpful.
That's some "fiNiSh yOur pLaTe bEcaUsE kiDs aRe sTaRviNg in aFriCa!!1!" shit.
I coulda sworn this happened like a decade ago. Idr the last time I even noticed a Party City.
Did it stop being president Putin, or is Trump just getting spitroasted by both of them simultaneously?
Idk what the American dream was, but today it's to get the fuck out.
I hit a critical milestone on the way home from school today.
Made this for a comment reply to another thread; thought y'all would enjoy it too! ^_^
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Any good options to prune out similar-but-variable bits of text from a large document?
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Skip to the tldr if you don't want the novel explaining the reasoning.
A friend gifted me their old Razer Kraken headset a while ago. The leather Razer uses is some CHEAP shit, so the couple years in a closet leading up to it landing on my noggin left it in a state of deterioration that would sprinkle my head and ears with little bits of black leather.
The speakers are good though, and free is free, so no complaints: I hit it with some duct tape and peeled it off repeatedly until all the leather bits were freed up - the cloth layer underneath the leather is now the outermost layer, and no more black sprinkles all over, so yay.
Unfortunately the tape pulling on the ear cushions was a bit too much for whatever adhesive Razer uses to stick em on to their mounting plate, and they pretty much just pulled off. Also no biggie - replacements are pretty cheap on Amazon, so I got a set and lived happily ever after...
...but now I've got the old mounting plates (minus the cushions) and an idea.
So... I do a lot of gaming, wife watches a lot of TV. We do this in the same room, so I pretty much always have my headset on, which blocks most TV noises from getting to me, and most gaming noises from getting to her. Works great until she says something, and all I hear is muffled gibberish until I lift a speaker off my ear and hit her with "What?".
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My idea is to put... idk... something... on the mounting plate of the side facing her that's stable enough to keep the headphone in the correct position (and not pressing directly on my ear) but basically leaves the space completely open to the environment so that external sound coming from that side isn't muffled.
I'm thinking something like a plastic spiral hair tie, but with an inner diameter large enough to encircle my ear, and the spiral diameter roughly the same as the cussion, at least when its under tension against my head.
something like this:
...but ofc not just a cylindrical spring, but a donut shape. I kinda suck at photoshop, but you get the gist.
The spiral hair tie is the closest actual product I can think of to what I'm picturing, but those are far too small... ideas?
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Pretty much everything I was told about employment when I entered the work force (2005ish). New workers seem to have wised up a bit, seeing us go through the hoops with nothing to show for it, but all the absolute bullshit about hard work paying off, take care of your employer and your employer will take care of you, etc.
...and it's hard to shake off that programming when you hear it your entire childhood from older folks who apparently actually did benefit from that advice.
Hearing Gen Z'ers and such say things like "act your wage" or complain about the rug being pulled out from under them without needing to stand on it for 20 years first is fucking awesome! The younger workers aren't just bending over and taking it in the hopes things will get better someday like we did. Gen Z is going to go down as a major contributor to workers' rights.