I’ve never liked how the pyramid is arranged, as if the ones on top are living the ‘right’ way, or are ‘better’ somehow.

It should be the other way around, with 8 billion people hanging to a ledge,  trying to improve the state of the world, while roughly 6.5k are throwing a tantrum, desperately clinging to the ankles of the masses, threatening to drag everything into the void if they can’t get their way.

One to break, one to fix, one to use.

JESUS WAS AN ALIEN, AND WE STAPLED HIM TO A TREE.

NOW THEY AIN’T GON COME BACK.

I can vouche for the monitor arm, feels like I have more room without the stand.

When you start using your capitol to sway local governments in your favor

If we guesstimate middle class by comparable lifestyle when the term was coined, it starts around 250k in today money. Comfortable house, lots of kids, multiple cars (but not luxury), at least one real traveling vacation every year, never worrying about paying bills or buying food, all while saving enough to retire by 55. There aren’t many people in the US with the income to match that. I’d say the middle class is dead.

Sometimes they live in bays, then they’re called bagels.

“Hmm… I’m good with statistics, scripting, and I have some extra cash on hand…”

“I can just mix all these into the cauldron, stir it up a lil bit, aaand…”

“oh my god it’s gone. it’s all gone. i owe money now…”

It’s got something to do with max fund preallocation / preauthorization. This is normal for gas stations, supposedly it keeps card thieves from armada fueling and leaving the station holding a grand of irrecoverable debt. Some banks won’t show these background transactions, some only show one dollar, some show the full amount. The exact specifics you’re shown vary between banks and stations, but it is normal and happens all the time.

KeePass and syncthing. I use Keepass2 on a Linux desktop and laptop, KeePassDX on Android, and use syncthing to keep everything synchronized and up to date, also using an old raspberry pi to act as a central server for syncthing.

Modifying the database on one device seamlessly updates the other devices once they’re visible on the network, everything works beautifully and is very easy to set up on a local network.

Pretty much default configuration all the way around, just gotta make sure syncthing starts on boot. Just did a brief search, syncthing seems to have a MacOS fork, and iOS will need Möbius Sync, which is paid but the free tier offers 20MB storage sync which is overkill for KeePass.

Minor system modification that would life-changingly benefit >90% of the population, for this generation and the next, while leaving the other 10% relatively unaffected, blocked with no support after decades of waiting: “Absolutely not, this is an unprecedented proposal, fuck you for even considering it”

Major system modification that uproots all precedent, completely changes all the existing procedures, massively benefits two people while fucking over everyone else, passed with unopposed unanimous support three weeks after submission: “Look, someone was gonna push the ‘Fuck You’ button eventually anyway, might as well do it now”

Uhh, their job?? The social contract was supposed to be that the workers specialize into specific fields, in exchange for these things. If the owners can’t support their end of the bargain, why should the workers give they’re effort away? This IS the peaceful outcome, if the system really can’t work that way what keeps the less-than-peaceful methods off the table?

Jesus Christ 120+ posts in 2 days

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Huh. I’ve… already done everything on the list. Very slowly, over the better part of a decade, piece by piece. It’s nice to have a sanity check to know I’ve kept up with the jargon. The work is never done tho, almost have a site-to-site intranet set up to make it easier to loop family in.

My siblings and I are the same way. We’ve all got iron stomachs. When we share leftovers with friends, they get upset stomachs, but we’re never careful with food being left out too long, and we never have bowel issues with it.

Probably have some sort of ungodly tolerance built up for it, parents were poor while raising us and we ate whatever was available.

Lived in an apartment complex a while back. Found an SSID while setting up my network, Ebony3HoleEnjoyer. Never found out who dunnit.

If that’s a conspiracy theory, I guess I’m a conspiracy theorist now. “Terrorist” as context in legal wording carries a lot of weight, and can be used to bypass due process. When everyone is legally defined as a terrorist, the powers that be can make anyone, citizen or not, disappear at any given time without any public notation. I can’t imagine any legitimate reason for this to be written as law the way it is, there is no “proper” place for a law worded like this to be used outside of a dictatorship.

To my interpretation, this isn’t vague at all.

Can the pope bless hotdog water? I wasn’t raised Catholic, does the water need to be “pure?” Pretty sure I’ve heard river and lake water can be blessed, does this require boiling? Can I slough the hotdog grease from the top, would it be considered pure enough to bless?

If it’s any consolation, it’s heavily biased in the training data for a reason, you’re not alone