My mother was a professional hot air balloon pilot, and I was her ground crew chief. We had a bunch of regular crew members, and I was shocked by one guy who confessed that he had fallen in love with our hot air balloon. He asked permission to spend a day in our garage, and explicitly told us he wanted to unpack the envelope (the balloon part) and fuck it. He also said he had been having dreams of fucking the suede and padding that lined the top of the rattan gondola.

He was never called to crew again.

The fact that they have a record.

Look for a pattern, not a single instance. And yet companies and people hold bad decisions of the past against most folks.

I've been quite happy with antennapod. Discovery is kind of a pain in the ass, but it's open source, and management and playback have been solid.

You lose the ability to differentiate between a fart and a poo.

I am curious if the platform is going to take action. I certainly don't support SSSniperwolf or her channel, nor do I find Jacksfilms all that entertaining, but no one deserves to have their info squirted out to 50 million people. A certain small percentage of which will be simps for SW, and a percentage of those willing to take "revenge" on Jack to try and impress her.

Parasocial relationships are a bitch.

I admire your positive thinking, but it may also provide plausible deniability for legitimate CSAM, by your own logic. Either way, I see this being used to bully, blackmail, or worse. It's not that we are going to stop AI development, nor that we should. Perhaps as it improves (remember, right now it's the worst it will ever be), we can teach AI to recognize when it may be used for purposes like creating realistic CSAM or other such material, and have it log or report such uses.

I honestly don't know the solution, but I don't see the world ever getting "ho-hum, it's all fake anyway" about minor involved pornography.

I'll give you two, one living, one passed.

Randy Feltface is great with crowd work.

Mitch Hedberg was a genius with delivery, and even though I've seen most of his recorded work multiple times, I still laugh out loud.

Reminds me of the old Whitney Wisconsin case from a few years ago. She even made a video defending her choice to fuck her dog, and encouraged others to try it.

Damned if I can find that old vid, and honestly I'm not putting in the effort.

Dear Santa:

All I want for Christmas is for someone to mod this into FO:NV.

You have about a week or so. Get to coding you fat, jolly, bastard.

Started with the 8" bastards on a dedicated word processor (with a 12" CRT, green phospher glow, and typwriter style printer built right into the top of the unit!) that my dad had for medical filekeeping at his office.

It's been amazing watching storage tech from those to zip drives, and now, floppies of any kind are dying.

Well, I've learned something today. Who knew how dangerous those flavorings could be?

Humans gotta human, and I'll fight anyone that says otherwise.

Alright, that's it. We are taking this outside.

I have no idea what we will do with it when we get there, but I'm pretty sure it involves fireworks and fingerprinting...

And if you're in a school zone, or hanging out in front of a Boys' and Girls' Club, or Chuck E Cheese, there are (depending on state and local municipality, please check your local listings) other expectations of dress and decency. You may have to register, even if you didn't directly commit a sexual crime.

As an Aquarius limp ramen noodle, I can relate to this horoscope. Trick is, I HAVE gotten used to being alone, and enjoy it. Now I'm going to go and weep quietly in the corner.

We had very few rules in high school until a new principal came in during my senior year. We didn't even have attendance, as the school believed that it was the students' responsibility to succeed and graduate (it was a laboratory school, basically part of a college, so it was weird. It was K-12, and I graduated in a class of 25.).

This new principal comes in and lays down new rule after new rule, most were either ignored or caused enough uproar from tenured faculty and parents that he caved. For some reason, one day, he walks through the hallway and cleans out all the lockers, as well as picking up the unattended backpacks left on the floor. He takes ALL schoolbooks, notebooks, supplies, and electronics. Amazingly, he left some lockers alone, deaming them organized enough to satisfy him. They all belonged to his daughter and her friend group.

Then he takes all this stuff into his office, and proceeds to charge students $50 each to get school issued books back. He keeps all other supplies and electronics, announcing that he will have a sale at the end of the year to raise money for school athletics (which, being an extension of the college, had shitloads of cash to play with).

The University Police department showed up and were ready to arrest him for theft. It took nearly a week to redistribute everything, and he ended up in front of a local judge who was the father of a student.

Then he abruptly ended music, theatre, art, and home econ. classes by locking the rooms and firing the staff by posting signs that these were a waste and unnecessary strain on the school budget. All of the teachers were tenured through, and the classes and programs paid for by a combination of parent donations and a hefty amount of money from the university, which is well known for its communications, theatre, teaching college, and school of music (these are the programs that sell the university nationwide).

At the end of the year, during commencement, the University president made a speech that basically dressed down the principal publically, and then he announced that the principal was not taking part in the ceremony, and should go home as he would not be returning next term. The principal was in his robes, sitting on the stage, and waiting to hand out diplomas while this happened. The entire gathering of parents and students cheered.

And that's how a principal who thought he was going to be adored for "cleaning up" a school for the gifted like he was trying to run a drug riddled, inner city, school in the middle of Chicago, instead of school basically run by the students in a mid-sized University town surrounded by corn fields in Indiana.

X-crete? X-pell? X-ume? X-it?

60 miles away from the broadcast center, but luckily in a very flat area. I still have an old-school antenna set up on a tower and rotor, and can pull in between 25-30 stations if you include the digital substations.

I got this set up from Radio Shack in the early 80s. Cable made me regret it for a long time, but let's hear it for laziness allowing me to get good use out of it since I clipped all but internet service.

Bonus: you can split out the signal and hook the antenna up to home stereos, and get TONS of FM stations that even my car won't pick up.

Old stuff gets useful again! Yay!

I had an old flip phone that came with a demo of Uno. I could play a single hand, then reset the demo and play again and again. There was only a nag screen when you were exiting/restarting the demo, and not a single other ad.

Passed hours with that little game.

I miss mobile gaming when it was like that.

I remember the controversial launch of Grand Theft Auto. The first game.

GTA 5 is ten years old.

Sigh.

At random times whenever you are traveling in any vehicle, you simultaneously feel a sneeze coming on, and yet have to pee a little bit too. However, you can neither sneeze nor pee until you are out of the vehicle.

Inconvenient on a bus/train or as a passenger, deadly if you're driving. Bicycles are right out, I suppose.

"Cold snap" he says, staring at you Wisconsinly.

I float between Connect and Boost. Both excellent.

Fistula maybe? They are more common in cows, but not unheard of in pigs.

Either way... Well, if you can't bring yourself to eat the meat...

Get to know a taxi driver. Ask locals where to go and what to see. Stop by a visitors bureau or welcome center. Hit up a local colleges student center.

When I traveled a lot, I used to start with the local phone book. Not only did it have business information, but government info, and a section devoted to local arts and museums. These days I (gasp) talk to people at pubs or bars or coffee shops. Obviously, if they are annoyed, I let them be, but you'd be surprised how many people are happy to brag about their community.

First time I've seen your username and I laughed for a solid three minutes. I was on the edge of a breakdown, and it was exactly what I needed to distract my brain and keep me from going over the edge. Thank you so much.

Excellent photo, too. Well done!

Loved Ferguson. His books are worth a read, too.

The princess bride, Stripes, Airplane, Top Secret, The Room, Birdemic, a few others.

Bakula, Baio, Joplin, Walker, Welland, Foley, Stapp, Van Pelt, Hamilton, Glenn, Adams, Ian Rosenfield, Adkins, Steiner, Peterson, Travis, Murray, Aukerman... And so many more.

All the Scotts.

Not to be confused with the Scots, which are people from Scotland.

Oregon Trail, on cassette, on a RadioShack TRS-80 in the school library.

Gaming heaven.

Been on a warm brie with apples and prosciutto kick lately.

I find them useless because you often lose the necessary title and post text that accompanied the image, plus you always lose the relevant discussion. This last bit is almost always the most engaging part of the post.

I suppose they could be useful in adult communities, or for memes and shitposting where titles and text are either redundant or useless.

All in all, I say we get rid of them.

[singing] Welcome back to Timber--borners!...

I don't know why I'm laughing, but I'm laughing harder than I have in a long time. Quality posting.

Im amazed no one has mentioned Blade Runner. The 80s movie Flash Gordon is gloriously cheesy and fun-bad, but the Queen soundtrack is a classic banger!

Keeping in that line, Tron had a great soundtrack by Wendy Carlos. She also did Switched On Bach.

Well, it was a fun childhood. Plenty of other stories.

Bojack Horseman has one of the best openings in TV.

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex has my favorite Anime themes (though tied with Cowboy Bebop)

I agree with Interstellar.

For video games, The Outer Worlds was a meh game with a great theme, Mass Effect's soundtrack was great, but I have to dip into two Licasarts classics for the best music- Curse of Monkey Island, and The Dig.

The Sopranos had a great opening theme. So did GoT.

As for movies, Pump Up the Volume had a killer soundtrack, as well as the original Ghostbusters.

If anyone would like to check out experimental electronic jazz, I suggest an album called Deep Breakfast by Ray Lynch. Then there is Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield, made famous by the movie The Exorcist.

Jean Michelle Jerre has done a couple of great albums, including Zoolookologie, Oxygen, and others.

Art of Noise is worth checking out. You've heard them, you just don't know you have.

Well, that's media music and a few "out there" suggestions. Enjoy!

Not if you're coming from the other direction.

Ahh, yes. The refined taste of feet, but in a good way, somehow.

Well, I am not sure...

No way to toast a bowl effectively in an oven that I can figure out. Not without destroying the integrity of the bowl.

Then you introduce melted cheese, and depending on the cheese, it might disintegrate right into the soup....

Plus, remember that toasted and dried bread absorbs a lot more moisture than fresh, so by toasting the bread you're running the risk of it soaking up the soup. You would end up with a spongy mass tasting of tomato soup, which would just leak out all over your plate and be rather unappetizing.

Best to stick to the traditional sammich, I think. It's a classic for a reason.

You might be able to mix some cheeses and serve a tomato soup with a topping similar to French Onion soups... Then toast up some breadsticks, and serve the soup in a crock. That way, you have the fun of dipping the breadsticks into the cheese/soup for a little added fun. Might be a good way to use stale breadsticks, especially if you cut some texture into the crust and really let the interior soak up the cheese and soup.