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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-vows-to-shut-down-department-of-education-in-second-term

I was going to make the joke "stop, my penis can only get so hard" but then I realized how poor a choice of words that was.

Look at Mr. moneybags over here with his Pentium. :P

Next stop is mobian. Let's goooooooooo

Pretty sure that emo loser just stopped the human instrumentality project and wanted to symbolically hurt another person because he's an emo loser and that's the first thing he thought to do after something like that.

Kind of ironic considering that half the "new features" of new apple devices are just android features.

Quake was amazing, but compared to many games of the period it barely ran on anything. Doom engine and Build engine games ran like crap on a 386, but they still ran. Quake needed an FPU, so it needed at least a 486, and as I recall at least a solid 486DX.

Quake actually was the thing that got me into Linux for the first time, because I assumed the fancy new OS everyone was talking about might be able to run it where archaic MS-DOS could not. Of course today I know more about instruction sets and the like and realize how absurd that idea was, but at the time miracles were regularly happening on PCs (imagine how mind blowing something like nesticle or zsnes was!) so it felt like anything was possible.

Incidentally, that first Linux distribution I used was incredible. It lived in a dos directory and you ran a batch file it would replace the MS-DOS kernel with the Linux kernel. It was pretty DIY after that -- I don't think it had a package manager or anything so if you wanted to try to make something run you were digging.

I couldn't help but read your post and think of this inspiring video.

While I can relate to what everyone is saying, a single family home in Toronto costs the same as over 1000 65" TVs, and in Vancouver over 2500 of them. Canada-wide at its peak was about 850 65" TVs.

That's a lot of fuckin TVs. House prices are too fuckin high.

There's also a sort of service shrinkflation or degeneration many people call enshittification but only applies to paid services which definitionally cannot be enshittified.

Rest assured I will never sell your data because I'm too fokkin lazy to.

1.4 degrees per century....

One of the details of the mouse utopia nobody talks about is that there's roving groups of mice who would find mice who were still acting normal and productive to mouse society and attack them so that normal mice could not continue doing normal stuff, causing the population to eventually drop to 0.

It's a good idea I agree with, but there need to be standards enforced so it isn't abused, or normal people won't be able to take the bus and you might as well not have a bus service at all.

You guys remember that lady from law and order? I think her name was getsuga tensho...

2 year old catches fish

Fact check: 100% True

Austrians resist turning into weak little authoritarian challenge

Challenge level: Impossible

Completely random, but I really like bluetooth mice.

Are they better than USB dongle mice? Nope, not at all! Burn more power, take longer to link up, and most of them aren't very accurate. But fuck it, I like no dongle, and they're good enough. I just grabbed a Tecknet one that's really nicely put together because toddlers and wireless mice are not a good combination.

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