“There were a large number of ranks in the armies of the Empire and many of them were untranslatable. Three Pink Pig and Five White Fang were, loosely speaking, privates, and not just because they were pale, vulnerable and inclined to curl up and hide when danger threatened.”

Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times

I bought a two bay Synology for $270, and a 20TB hdd for $260. I did this for multiple reasons. The HDD was on sale so I bought it and kept buying things. Also I couldn’t be buggered to learn everything necessary to set up a homemade NAS. Also also i didn’t have an old PC. My current PC is a Ship of Theseus that I originally bought in 2006.

You’re not wrong about an equivalent NAS to my current pc specs/capacity being more expensive. And yes i did spend $500+ on my NAS And yet I also saved several days worth of study, research, and trial and error by not building my own.

That being said, reducing e-waste by converting old PCs into Jellyfin/Plex streaming machines, NAS devices, or personal servers is a really good idea

Conversely…

It’s simple, really. You can’t get an economic downturn without human misery. And the big money people can’t consolidate their holdings and acquire profitable companies at bargain basement prices if the economy is doing well. They don’t want some messy financial crisis or pandemic creating unexpected problems. They want a predictable downturn that only affects the poors and a few unlucky upper middle class types. Then they can keep the funding they want and have a large and desperate labor pool to staff their newly acquired holdings. Win-win, at least for the people that matter.

You know. Not us

It’s not that “both sides are the same”. It’s just that enough on all sides are bought and paid for that it doesn’t matter if a few actually are trying to do good. Personally I don’t see a reality where Schumer is not bought and paid for. And any efforts to circumvent the powers that be will be a nonstarter while the compromised ones hold power

Edit: While the last part is still something I believe, I posted this late at night and started rambling. It’s not relevant to the OP and can be picked up in a more appropriate conversation another time

🎶 This Christmas, on Hallmark… 🎶

It was the dishes and public spaces before i got earbuds and twenty-seven podcasts to listen to.

It was before sleep until I started taking edibles before bed

It was the shower until i got waterproof earbuds

Now I just overthink while I’m trying to have conversations with people

You must be fun at parties

Equal Rites

Great book, Terry Pratchett was pretty prescient

It’s not about trans issues per se (that would be closer to Cheery Littlebottom’s storyline starting in Feet of Clay), but it is similar to the premise in this post.

The eighth son of the eighth son will always become a wizard. But what happens when the eighth son is a daughter?

On a scale of jorts to rickroll that punch line was definitely | || || |_

I miss VG cats.

Actually i miss being in my 20s and being online for fun instead of work

But what if Eric Adams was part of the administration?

(It’s not white ppl it’s people in power abusing their power but yes they’re mostly white)

I’ve got a couple.

One was a dark comedy sketch that a friend showed me in, I want to say '99(?). A couple appear to be in therapy, and the doctor asks how this started. They recount through flashbacks a series of more extreme requests under the guise of “if you loved me, you would do it”. At one point one of them definitely made a piece of toast and put nail clipping on it, then told the other that “if you loved me, you would eat it”. The sketch concludes >! showing that they were actually in a final surgical consult and the last scene is them being wheeled into surgery to be joined at the hip!<

The other is a comic strip where a couple people are working on their computers when either a song starts playing, or one person starts saying “shoop shoop shoop shoop-a-doop” and stylistically dancing while putting on their jacket. As they dance to the exit the other person says “shoop a doop?” and then the first dances their way off frame

40, but yes

Wait, the need for external validation is a symptom of Always Discovering Hobbies Disorder? I thought it was just my upbringing and personality 🤔

Is that need part of the neurodivergence or a result of it?

That’s probably my nephew out there screeching like a dinosaur

I love him, but goddamn that kid is weird

It is indeed very strange

Just like killing an asshole, I don’t think it’s right, I just understand why it was done (and low-key agree tbh)

Basically

• Is it wrong? Yes
• So I understand why? Yes
• Would I do that in their shoes? Maybe
• Does that make me a hypocrite? Probably, I do lots of wrong things