ElderWendigo

I've only ever watched the show in passing, as in literally just passing through the room. And it is painfully obvious in an instant that her character is the ONLY one that is pleasant, eloquent, intelligent, and kind in any appreciable degree. That's what's fucking sexy about her character.

Moreover, those other waifs don't even know what sex is, but that girl FUCKS with nerdy literary passion and will let you cry like a baby into that cleavage afterwards.

Just in time for Google to kill RCS and move on to something else.

'Struggle with generosity' is to greed, like 'died as a result of an officer involved shooting' is to murder.

Who else thinks those bags are mostly full of substrate (and the mycelium growing throughout it), not only the edible psychedelic parts that the headline and article implies? They'll be able to really bump up those charges if they add the mass of all that other stuff that would never be sold as a drug.

This is such a weak argument. The police have a wide latitude in their discretion in the way they execute the law and almost no individual liability for any actions they take (e.g. murder, theft, rape, etc.), especially when they fear for their own lives or think someone may have broken an imaginary law that only exists inside their own head. But, when someone needs actual help and protection, suddenly their hands are tied by red tape? It's more than frustrating, it's straight up Orwellian doublespeak.

Have you seen the way those hipsters guzzle PBR? Do you really think it tastes any better than Budweiser? Image is EVERYTHING when you're selling cheap beer. Budweiser could have cemented its place as a progressive all-inclusive all-american beer. Instead they gave in to the bullies, an act that no bully can respect.

I say that computers work because we tricked some rocks into thinking by carving special runes into them.

They don't need to walk into the school's library in order to file a false police report.

I'm surprised anyone working at a movie theater is being paid enough to care enough to ruin a disabled person's day over this shit.

I think the more nuanced take is that we should be making "piracy" legal by expanding and protecting fair use and rights to make personal copies. There are lots of things that are called piracy now that really shouldn't be. Making "piracy" legal still leaves plenty of room for artists to get paid.

I'm not used to seeing this with so many pixels.

because most Linux systems don't even use DHCP

This is the dumbest thing I've heard all day.

Sounds like they are admitting that their cars violate FCC rules about interferance.

I'm not sad that Google turned out to be evil because I care about Google. I don't care about Google. I'm disappointed in no longer being able to search for and find the things online on any search engine.

They subsidize soy, oats, and almonds too.

Having healthcare tied to your employer is both a way for companies to pay less while offering more benefits to entice new workers and also keep workers from fighting too hard for their own rights because now maintaining a job is directly related to health. If we had universal healthcare, companies would have to compete more directly on wage and that would cost them more. Providing healthcare, while negotiating for deals for said healthcare means they can say that they are providing more benefits than they actually pay for.

Why are you making this so complicated?

Create a shared directory outside of home. Put both users into a group. Make sure that the directory and the files created inside it are owned and writeable by that shared group.

Read up on permissions and ACLs for more on doing this. (I'm being deliberately vague on specifics here because I always seem to fuck up the details here and need to go back to the manuals anyway.)

Home is for your stuff. It is possible to setup sharing of stuff from within home, but there are always going to be more problems with this route because it's designed to be private by default.

You can't hardlink directories. Hardlinking files wouldn't help anyway because each link would get identical permissions. I can't even hardlink at all between home directories on my system because each home directory is a separate filesystem.

Porn sounds cheaper and less embarrassing to explain to a date.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is still the name of the game.

And the cherry on top is this. You may notice a bit of misogyny built into a first couple books in the series, which is surprising given that Ursula is a woman. She not only noticed, admitted, and confronted that patriarchal slant, but corrected it by writing later stories in the same world that reversed that course. Those stories end up being much better than the foundational works in the series. I have become an instant fan of any author that can confront the flaws of their earlier writings and deliberately alter course to do better in their life and their writing.

Tell me you're not really a fan of either franchise without telling me.

LMAO. No. You can't convince an overconfident idiot with facts and experience.

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector?

That's a lot of mental gymnastics to blame the victim. Not cool.

People that ask annoying questions never do.

Probably, but that's not the issue from a corporate perspective. You still transported a company laptop, presumably containing company IP or other confidential information, across an international border. That's the big sticking point with most corporations due to the rules about search and seizure of said data when crossing borders. Some companies might insist that only prepared clean (essentially empty, not just encrypted) machines can cross borders and you can download the data you need through a VPN once you reach your destination.

Linux users online tend to get very high and mighty every time another OS has a sucurity bug. But it's a good thing for Linux hehe

That's because illuminating security vulnerabilities is VERY GENERALLY a good thing for an open source community driven software that can be more agile than closed and private code bases that are GENERALLY entrenched in a corporate structure slowed by all of the inertia inherent in those systems.

Our corporate oligarchs already pitch a fit about collective bargaining, universal healthcare, and adjusting minimum wage to match inflation. I can't imagine they'd react well to a universal basic income except by raping the fading middle class even more.

It's funny to me how windows users expect package management from each and every individual application instead of expecting that to be a basic function of their operating system.

Drowning

You just described the categories pages many search engines had before Google. Or proto Web 2.0 bookmark sharing sites like del.icio.us. Sites like Metafilter also existed as a kind of Internet index before everyone was adding reddit.com to their Googling. It's a laudable idea, but these systems all seem to fall prey to market manipulation in much the same way that SEO helped kill Google.

Just a reminder that just because someone made a rule or law, doesn't mean we have justice. Fascists and bigots LOVE rules. The big tent corporate fascists thrive on rules, on law. Disorder is often a fundamental prerequisite for any kind of positive change.

I'd hazard a guess that financial impacts of reduced performance as a result of this torturous schedule pale in comparison to the cost due to injuries.

I've recently had to work a couple of overnight shifts when I was overwise working basically dawn to dusk. Staying awake isn't that hard. Getting real sleep becomes the struggle. What surprised me though was the vertigo, constant low grade nausea, and dizziness that disappeared after a normal full NIGHT's rest. I may feel like a night owl sometimes, but my body does not agree.

This is just an unripe avocado. It probably doesn't taste very good.

the airframe should be able to sustain any input maneuvers under normal flight conditions.

Let me frame it this way for you, my car's pretty reliable, but at high speeds I know that making a hard turn will end in catastrophe.

Seeing as how I need to eat to live, I hardly consider groceries a "short-term" purchase. By that logic all my fucking bills are short term purchases. They make it sound like eating to survive is a fucking luxury.

ThatIsPascalCase thisIsCamelCase

I know you're kidding, but you touch on a very real point that I think will pass unnoticed by many. You know that this will be in predominantly poor schools. Schools that are attended mostly by people of color. I'm reluctant to make generalizations, but I have encountered far more children of color afraid of or anxious around dogs of any size relative to white children. I don't know all the reasons why, but my gut says to blame the use of police dogs against people in their neighborhood, in their families, and people on TV that look like them. Maybe my experience is anecdotal and my experience is not the norm, but I no longer assume that all children will be friendly with or calmed by interaction with a dog, even a very calm friendly dog. Having grown up with dogs, it's hard to empathize with that, but I try to be sympathetic. These dogs are only there to instill fear in kids from a young age and to train them to abdicate their dwindling rights to the people in power.

Not really. It's usually obvious from context. Unless you're trying to be an intentionally obtuse pedant?

This is an idea straight out of science fiction that was meant to be a warning, not a guide. From "Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge.

Tiny flecks of white floated and swirled in the column of light. Snowflakes? But one landed on his hand: a fleck of paper. And now the ripping buzz of the saw was still louder, and there was also the sound of a giant vacuum cleaner...

Brrrap! A tree shredder!

Ahead of him, everything was empty bookcases, skeletons. Robert went to the end of the aisle and walked toward the noise. The air was a fog of floating paper dust. In the fourth aisle, the space between the bookcases was filled with a pulsing fabric tube. The monster worm was brightly lit from within. At the other end, almost twenty feet away, was the worm's maw - the source of the noise... The raging maw was a "Navicloud custom debinder." The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a "camera tunnel..." The shredded fragments of books and magazines flew down the tunnel like leaves in a tornado, twisting and tumbling. The inside of the fabric was stiched with thousands of tiny cameras. The shreds were being photographed again and again, from every angle and orientation, till finally the torn leaves dropped into a bin just in front of Robert.