Same, and I also thought Kamala would win because our voters couldn’t possibly be dumb enough to elect the dipshit fascist again after how badly it went the first time and how he was talking about all the awful shit he’d do.

I was wrong to put any faith in my fellow citizens, clearly.

I had moved away a few years and my mother was homeless due to her own choices and lack of effort to do anything. My wife and I were in town visiting her family, and we decided to take my mother out to dinner. During the meal she was (rightly) complaining about the perils of being homeless and having to watch out for the pigs. I suggested that she look into getting into some government housing. You know her response?

“I don’t want to be the light in he dark.”

If you’re as confused as I pretended I was, she means she didn’t want to live with/around black people. Which was really fucking surprising to me, considering we had lived with, around, and had been friends with all kinds of POC growing up (as you you tend to do in poor and mixed neighborhoods and when you have to rent out rooms to get by). That level of racism was rather surprising, but she had become toxic as fuck in the years before I moved, so it shouldn’t have been.

What’s a downvote?

Minecraft is the one I keep coming back to year after year. Throw in a massive automation based mod pack and I’m set for months until the save lags to the point of unplayability.

Can you explain? I thought Roman numerals was just chaining together the various letters

I, unfortunately, have had all nostalgia for WinXP removed after having to support it in corporate environments. I wish I could say that was a decade ago, but no, I’m still supporting it periodically.

THAT’S A LOT OF NUTS

Nudist Colony of the Dead is awful and fantastic at the same time. I love getting a friend to go into the movie blind.

The day I got my best bud fucking blazed out of his mind to watch it has to be one of my favorite experiences.

Since they handle redundancy and backups I think it’s fine staying with them (+ great product)

This. I love self hosting services, but anything that I 100% can’t live without isn’t one of them. Because I don’t have the funds for proper redundancy/high availability, and my backup practices at home are… Not ideal. I’ve had a couple brushes with data loss due to gaps in backups, lack of monitoring for impending hardware failures, and had 2 disks suddenly die together in a raid array, all in over a decade of self hosting.

I have cold backups of most of my critical services, but they’re not nearly regular enough for me to trust my passwords to myself.

Your POV is laughable. 😄

Right back at ya champ 😎

Don’t you know that everybody has that one friend, nephew, neighbor, colleague etc. that they ask for advice when buying a new laptop?

I was that guy and did front line tech support for a few years, and still do when I have to.

Plenty don’t, or can only rely on their work IT guy who may or may not be able to help them. Assuming they have an IT guy and haven’t farmed the work out to an MSP who doesn’t always have the time to help.

Just because your limited life experience says it doesn’t happen, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

You’re really saying that they’d buy a laptop for cheap and install a new OS and aquire a key and all that? While I have your attention, are you interested in this bridge I have to sell you?

Suggesting that the average end user is more likely to reinstall an OS and aquire a key than to just learn how to use the new OS is fucking laughable.

You start with mass murderers, proceed with torturers, sadists, animal abusers, child abusers, rapists, and from abjection to abjection you end up justifying to yourself not forgiving your neighbour for letting his dog poop in your yard.

"But muh slippery slope!’

“Never forgive, never forget” sounds cool but from a spiritual standpoint, it’s not much less dehumanizing than horrors such as mass murders

but from a spiritual standpoint, it’s not much less dehumanizing than horrors such as mass murders

not much less dehumanizing than horrors such as mass murders

Sorry, I can’t respond to the reductio ad absurdum response of saying that mass murderers’ do not deserve forgiveness and that not forgiving them is any way close to the mass murder of people.

I get the point you’re trying to make, but we fundamentally disagree on the concept of even the most basic morality, clearly, if you can find any moral similarities between the two situations.

And I think in that ideal world those ludicrously wealthy people can translate that wealth into political power.

Well boy howdy, do I have some good news for you about the world you currently live in.

This seems insane for those of us trapped in this present,

That’s because we’re seeing the results of the hyper wealthy being able to turn their wealth into political power.

Anybody is eligible to redemption.

Even people who engineer the mass murder of entire ethnic groups for their own political or monetary ends?

You’re right in most respects, but mass murderers’ only forgiveness should be given at the end of a rope.

So now we know how to instantly delist any project on GitHub.