indepndnt

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[–] indepndnt 2 points 1 year ago

I had jaw surgery this year and it was incredibly comforting that my surgeon was such a huge nerd about it.

[–] indepndnt 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was a kid I had this idea about a protagonist who's a serial killer but kills bad people. I think I even wrote a chapter or so, but it was probably shit. Then later someone wrote Dexter, so I don't need to worry about it any more.

Edit: it was Jeff Lindsay, the first book was in 2004. It was probably the mid-90s when I was having those ideas so we might've been thinking about it at the same time lol

[–] indepndnt 5 points 1 year ago

I'm a CPA and my PC runs Linux, but also has a Windows VM for when I need Excel (unfortunately the open source alternatives just don't cut it, and I'm guessing it's similar for someone who relies on Word the way accountants rely on Excel), and my work laptop runs Windows.

If you ever edit PDFs with Acrobat Pro, there's no good Linux equivalent that I've found for that either. It can be done, but you'll need a couple of different programs depending on what you need to edit in the PDF.

In general I'd say that you can run your business in Linux, but it is probably not the best choice.

[–] indepndnt 8 points 1 year ago

I tend to think of it like a garbage disposal. If you can't dispose of your garbage, you gotta keep it somewhere. Except most things probably don't check if it exists or have a backup plan, so they'll just crash.

[–] indepndnt 21 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I don't actually know all that much about it, but the anarchists that I know are all about communities and mutual support and stuff. So I guess they think government is bad and communities supporting each other is good.

Personally I wonder what they'd call it when a community gets really good at providing a particular type of support and they agree to pool their resources to efficiently provide said support to all members of the community.

[–] indepndnt 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a slightly more complicated man, I had to scroll back up to upvote everyone.

[–] indepndnt 1 points 1 year ago

What's more human than murder?

[–] indepndnt 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Met" as an abbreviation always throws me off. I thought this post was about some dudes that OP met, and I wondered how you end up meeting people during their drug tests.

The actual story is not nearly as interesting...

[–] indepndnt 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably AT LEAST two!

[–] indepndnt 7 points 1 year ago

I have a strong suspicion that these are the exact questions that folks who claim that self-diagnosis is invalid have never asked.

[–] indepndnt 2 points 1 year ago

I used to try posting stuff but it never got much engagement, I really just don't get how this shit works. These days I only occasionally comment, and even then it's only when I'm already just trying to waste time.

[–] indepndnt 7 points 1 year ago

I had gotten a small telescope for Christmas or birthday that year and it came with an infographic poster all about Halley's Comet and I was super excited, then I promptly forgot all about it until several months after it passed. I'll have my redemption in 2061!

I suspect it would've been a disappointing experience with that cheap little telescope. I have a telescope now that's like 6-10 times the size and it's still impossible to find the comets that come by. I'm sure by 2061 I'll have a much larger one with computer controlled alignment and whatnot...

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