I loved that show, and this was probably the best bit from it.

Unicron. Not to be confused with Unicorn.

I’ve never used your $20 Luxe bidet to know the difference, but I’m going to assume it doesn’t have a heated seat, heated water, variable pressure settings, massage settings, and an enema setting. If those features don’t interest you, then nothing at all makes it better. Use what you like. My wife just really loves the heated seat in the winter time.

I own a BioBidet 2000. My friend Brian has one at his house and he convinced me to just try it. I did. And then I ordered one for myself before I left the bathroom.

Had a woodshop teacher steal my dad’s hat exactly like this.

Came here to suggest this.

Lemmy.blahaj.zone, startrek.website, sh.itjust.works are all good.

You assume that the majority of them live there by choice, and not because they lack the resources and opportunities to move. It’s kinda hard to pull up roots and move half way across the country when the economic and political realities of where you currently live force you to remain firmly entrenched in poverty with deliberately restricted access to any means to improve that situation.

By your logic, black people must love prison, too, because they represent a disproportionate percentage of the prison population. I’m sure it has nothing at all to do with disproportionate enforcement against them, right?

Depends. I’m dead serious when I ask this, but are you black, Latino, a woman, queer, Jewish or Muslim, trans or non-binary, liberal or any flavor of politics to the left of Right wing authoritarian fascist, or any combination of those groups? If so, then stay the hell out of any state south of Virginia and east of Illinois. They aren’t just bad. They are potentially deadly, increasingly as a matter or literal public policy. If you aren’t one of those groups, than you aren’t in physical existential danger. You’ll just be stuck in a nightmare hellhole of poverty and ignorance. But you’ll be safe. Mostly.

Honestly, I’ve been everywhere in the continental US. Been to every state, seen just about all there is to see driving over the road for fifteen years, and I can tell you that the southeast is damn near a third world country compared to everywhere else. The infrastructure is so bad it reminds me of when I stayed in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1993. And it’s only gotten worse. I have no desire to ever return now that I’m not required to for my job. Florida used to be the one shining exception, except now it’s embracing a return to 1930s Germany. Stay out of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas in particular.

I do love me some Gunpla, but I wasn’t thrilled about the computing equivalent of having to sand, glue, assemble, and paint a Master Grade kit every time my distro upgraded and everything inevitably broke. Granted, a lot of that boils down to matching the right DE for your distro, and I liked to try to make KDE fit where it wasn’t necessarily the best option. Eventually, I learned to enjoy GNOME, but then started messing with distros that weren’t a good fit with that. The freedom Linux offers is both its greatest asset, and biggest weakness. It can make just setting up a basic, decent-looking desktop environment feel like you need IT classes just to know what the heck you’re supposed to do to get things working the way Windows and MacOS do right out of the box.

It’s excellent when it works. But a frustrating, often times deliberately obtuse mess when it doesn’t.

My expectation of Linux was the sports car, my experience varied wildly from Distro to Distro, and occasionally lived up to the expectation, but usually looked like:

Nazism hasn’t been stamped out. It’s just been given a number of new names to make it more palatable. A sizeable percentage of American “Conservatives”, especially in the MAGA cult, subscribe to an ideology that is every bit as fascist, nationalist, white-supremacist, and Christofascist as the Nazis. The only difference is the nation they represent. We’re currently seeing a meteoric rise in antisemitic rhetoric from those same elements.

Nazism is just a specific brand of fascist nationalism. Make no mistake, there’s every bit of effort to push several nations, and especially America, into a new fourth Reich in everything but name and nation.

Gilgamesh, a king. At Uruk.

This may be the funniest thing I have found on Lemmy yet. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Darmok is one of my absolute favorite episodes of Trek!

It’s definitely a very narrow colloquialism you hear in New England. Honestly, I think it may be specific to the Seacoast Region of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

It’s used in the same context as “bastard”, but solely as a term of endearment.

“What’s up, dubba?”

Dubba. Mostly cuz I haven’t lived in New England for over 20 years.

Have you read Russian news in the past decade? Defenestration is the preferred method of retirement in the Ruzzian government.

Yo. And the more time that passes, the less I miss it.

The issue with that line of thinking is that it is either ignorant of or deliberately ignores the fact that Reddit actively undermines your ability to build community as you see fit. They don’t view subreddits as communities, they view them as commodities, and their users are unpaid content producers that they are happy to steamroll over the moment your “contributions” don’t exceed any impediments to monetization you may be causing.

Reddit is no longer an actually communal space. It’s a virtual sweatshop for online content so Reddit Inc can monetize ads ads ads all over.

Shall we fiddle now, or fiddle later? Either way, there shall be fiddling!