Like others have touched on, this place seems like a reasonable discussion with some real people. It’s not INTERNET BULLSHIT FIREHOSE.

It would make a pretty amazing video if he reacted to the brick like a cat reacting to a cucumber.

Slightly less poor people don’t have to be very far up the scale to look down on the slightly more poor. It’s a major part of the conservative playbook after all.

Definitely. The context just seemed to be people who know what OSs are.

I get the sense that both of those two things are somewhat true here. They’re getting rid of 10, and people want to avoid 11.

“God works in mysterious ways” + “we cannot know god’s plan” = Cognitive dissonance power washer.

These two joKes just had me laughing unKontrollably at my phone.

Irrelevant from the American perspective! People all over the world have access to the American dream!

/s for me. I capitalized it for extra snark. Totally not /s for others in this country though.

Sup, fellow XCHWM here. My first thought was to agree and say something about how people’s right to exist and live the life that is normal to them doesn’t depend on anybody understanding or approving it. And assuming it’s peaceful and all that. You know, decent human stuff.

But then I reread your last line and got saddened by imagining the mental state of JKR. Imagine you are not just rich, but an adored famous artist, an American Dream success story, and doubly mega fucking rich to the point that you could just walk around giving random people life-changing amounts of money all day while funding other big amazing shit… and your mind is distracted by anger and fear towards the existence of other people you don’t even know. And now your famous name is attached to that awful attribute.

Yeah, it was kind of a joke to say I’d probably like it even colder.

And 65 does just happen to be our default winter setting!

Wow. I am impressed from where I sit, in a house with the AC set to 66F, sometimes 65, to save energy vs where we might otherwise set it.

I simultaneously wish they didn’t change that, and understand that they were probably right to do it. I bet if they focus group tested it with random consumers, an 80/20 split preferred the battery over the distributed compute node.

I mean, to the layperson, describing neutral networks, distributed computing, system redundancy, parallelism, and everything else probably sounds like Star Trek or Terminator technobabble.

Maybe not so much in modern times dice “AI” language models and image synthesizers have put some of those terms on the evening news.

Yeah, I don’t think I’ve heard about the trans plan for the character before. But, it sounds like the perfect kind of thing to have in the Matrix. :(

There’s a good joke here somewhere that ends “Instead, only try to realize the truth… there is no dick”

Or different body parts or gendered terms as appropriate for the speaker, of course.

I like the line from the image in the OP that says how a vote is not some kind of statement of ideals, full endorsement, or marriage contract, it is your chance to influence the outcome if you care to.

I always feel compelled to make the pragmatic choice because I do very much care to influence the races that will have real effects on me or my fellow citizens.

And it sucks, because it does feed into and perpetuate the first past the post two-party system. But our electoral system is set up to be extremely difficult to change.

Author confirmed as member of the Department of Redundancy Department!

The fact that a perfect world is out of reach doesn’t mean we should give up and not try little incremental improvements to the world we actually have.

I’d say most of us benefit from the existence of a functional and fair justice system. I’m not saying we have that now, but moving in that direction is good for society.

The other issues you pointed out, those need to be improved as well.

I actually do remember an experience much like yours.

20+ years ago when PC CPUs didn’t properly idle when they had no work to do, there was a program called rain that would issue the correct idle commands or something. It lowered temps!

But when this program was running, moving my mouse would make a slight hum or buzz. That one probably took a bit to figure out.

Does it have the spacebar heating feature too?

Another cishetman here, and I even like outdoorsy shit and the smell of grass and lumber and all that.

But hell yes I would rather smell like vanilla or candy than whatever the fuck men are supposed to smell like. The deodorant I’m using now is supposed to be a lemon cookie scent, but it smells just like froot loops or fruity pebbles cereal. It kicks ass.

For soaps I really don’t care about the scent. But for something that’s going to stick with me like deodorant or beard balm/oil, it needs to either smell pleasant, be unscented, or have the weakest damn fragrance possible. Most products I’ve tried on my beard have been actively offensive to me, to where I give the entire thing away or chuck it. The stuff I use now is supposed to smell like booze, but it is so weak I never notice it except when actively applying it to my face.