Wikipedia is one of the few online orgs that I donate to every year. Even if I can only throw a couple of bucks their way, I usually try to gift at least $20 or something.
Wikipedia is one of the few online orgs that I donate to every year. Even if I can only throw a couple of bucks their way, I usually try to gift at least $20 or something.
I started off in the late 1980’s in a mid-sized midwestern city… I was smoking cigarettes, a lot of pot, drinking and carousing with the same friends that I’d had since high school, but I was in my second year of college. I was getting decent grades, but I was really distracted and having some drama with bad girlfriends.
Two weeks after my 21st birthday, I left for Southern California - I had a parent out there, and I ended up staying for 16 years. I stopped smoking basically the minute I got there, spent a lot of time driving around a new city and thinking… and basically came to the realization that since nobody there knew who I had been before, I could approach social situations without the baggage of all those previous decisions that I’d made with my old circle of friends. I was less of a “pleaser”, less of a doormat, and less afraid to speak my mind - and my new friends responded positively to it, so I was encouraged to cultivate that. It helped me be more decisive and independent, and gave me a foundation for everything that followed.
I finished an associate’s degree, got a black belt in a martial art and taught for about six years, and met the woman who is now my wife. We got married, traveled to other countries together in Europe and Central America, quit our jobs to live on a horse ranch, and eventually moved BACK to that same midwestern city to start a family.
I wish I could say that since we moved back, I’ve never felt like the person I was before - but I have to confess that I feel like being back here HAS eroded some of that confidence, like I couldn’t hack it out West and ended up back here after all.
I know it’s not true, but San Diego is where I became the person I wanted to be. Back here is where I had been the person before that. They say “you can’t go home again” - I submit that you CAN, but that maybe you shouldn’t.
Could just be propaganda, but this claims that they’re marching towards Russia again:
There’s a special place in hell, for people who mistreat the animals that trust them
Yoooo, you’re singing my song - GNU Terry Pratchett, love his writing so much.
And thank you; that’s very true, and it’s good to be reminded from time to time.
Please don’t stab my cornhole!
Well, I just asked the weird “message Carrot” option in my weather app, and it replied:
Oh, look at you, trying to puzzle your way through the depths of set theory. How amusing, like a chimp trying to juggle chainsaws.
Well, my dear meatbag, the answer to your question is a resounding NO. Just like you, that set cannot contain itself. It's like expecting Johnny Five to date Stephanie from "Short Circuit." Simply not gonna happen! 🤖💔
I haven’t tried deleting my comments, but I’ve seen a lot of posts about comments being restored, left subs being re-subscribed to, etc… the evidence seems to be mounting that Reddit is trying to prevent the loss of content by keeping users from removing their own content.
I’ve seen people talking about overwriting their content instead of deleting it. I think I’ll go that route myself soon, hopefully that will stay under the radar.
Nice, kudos to you - I’m one of the only people in my city still wearing a mask, and I get a lot of scowls from the idiots who just want to sweep the whole thing under the rug and pretend like it never happened.
Keep doing you; thanks for looking out!
Haha I envision a tweaked-out back-of-the-house employee approaching the table with a scoop full of popcorn chicken… “open wiiiide!”
I think the judges would also have accepted an eggplant in place of the pointing finger.
But pretty spot-on, in the second response - that’s how I remember it working, anyway!
Some of you have never spent time feeding a large number of chickens, and it shows!
I learned about this when we got a new microwave and every time we used it, it would kill the wireless connection to my laptop!
Something to see, baby…
Telling that the song was written as a criticism of class in America, but conservatives missed the point and ran with it as a model of what they thought America should be - little pink houses, for you and me.
Mint tea and thin mint Girl Scout cookies… I don’t really either at any other time, but if I’m under the weather, nothing sounds good to eat. I do my best to drink water and stay hydrated, but guzzling water all day when I do t feel good is a chore. So I’ll have tea and cookies instead.
I’m so habituated that it’s frequently when I realize that I AM sick, because I’ll find myself looking in the cupboard for thin mints.
Amazon, Apple and SpaceX. The first two for staggering short-term monies before they figure out I don’t know anything, and kick me out, SpaceX because I think rockets are cool! Maybe I’d kill off Starlink since that’s pissing off astronomers and astronomers are also cool.
I used to browse Reddit multiple times a day, but so far I haven’t been back since the blackout started.
It took a little figuring out at first, but I really like the community “here”, So far!
You’re right, and I generally remember that I have many blessings to count… but like you said, primate brains doing primate brain things.
I miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack… I saw a community over here called VX Junkies but it seems more about hacking.
Three weeks ago, I totally would have… Apollo was life! Now, I don’t think anything could lure me back…
With Spez’s comments about how Reddit has all this data, and “we’re not going to just give that away for free”, I think anyone left on that platform is going to get sold so hard to anyone with two nickels to rub together, that they will effectively have zero privacy or anonymity… no thanks, Spez.
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I think I’d set up a foundation. I’d decide what the foundation would pay for (tuition, maybe small business loans up to $25K, I don’t know…) and then any relatives can apply to the foundation and leave me out of it.
Ooo, that was a good one - now I miss it too!
I Also miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack
Ooo, that was a good one - now I miss it too!
I Also miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack
They’ll clutch at anything they think they might be able to use to piss off their constituents, won’t they?
“They’re coming for you gas stoves, citizen! Where will it end? What will you cook food for your family on?! Pic up a ‘don’t step on the gas’ ballcap for only $49.99, and go get ‘em!”