SirSamuel

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looking at this picture I was reminded of the opening scene in Prometheus. So i looked it up.

Dettifoss. A particularly spectacular waterfall in Iceland.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

On one hand, it's stupid as hell to store a firearm anywhere but in a safe/cabinet designed for them. An oven is another level of stupid

On the other, I used to store our cast iron Dutch oven in the oven and I can't tell you how many times I started preheating the oven and then remembered to take it out. Usually after its oil seasoning started to heat up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Porque não tanto?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Ollie went to the neighborhood dance

And he won the big door prize

It was a toilet brush, and he took it home,

And next week some of the guys

They said, "Ollie how's that toilet brush?

"The one you won from the neighbors?"

Ollie said, "It works pretty good,

"But I prefer toilet paper"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Clearly, based on your responses, you don't think AI/LLMs are universally bad. And anyone who is that easily swayed by what is essentially a clever shitpost likely also thinks the earth is flat and birds aren't real.

You know. Morons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I appreciate it <3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm sure there are entire books full of laws that they broke

Ehhh, I've seen too many "this violates decorum and tradition but not any actual laws" since 2016 to have confidence in laws and morals intersecting in a meaningful way

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Edit: FYI this is from Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies, the same book that OP paraphrased

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Senpai remembered me :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I figured it was someone like that.

I seem to remember something similar about not registering as a foreign agent in 2016 & 2020. Funny how that keeps happening around the Trump campaign 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Kinda curious. What is the illegal part? I'm aware that political actors are required to make certain declarations about money, and I would guess that's a part of this. That being said, there's all kinds of foreign influence on US politics, including financial. So I just wonder what's laws were broken in this case

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think where we differ is abandoning a story, or a world, because it's creator is garbage. I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong, just that we're different on that point.

Part of it might be because of Star Wars.

Stay with me on this, it'll make sense in a minute.

I grew up on the original trilogy. The prequels were enjoyable, except in episode 2 where Anakin was a creep and Padme was a cock-tease (this is through the lens of 20 year-old me, mind). So I made some head canon to explain it. When George killed extended universe stuff that he had authorized, more head canon. By the time the sequels came out, I could enjoy them for what they were without being upset like so many other nerds. I could do that because I had learned to choose what was canon and what wasn't. It's make-believe. And it's now mine. The same is true for other IPs. And it's my head canon. I don't get upset if another nerd gets assertive about what is "real". We each have a universe in our own mind, and that's okay.

So yeah, Sandman is bigger than Niel. Hogwarts is bigger than Joan. If it turns out that George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni are in a cabal of pedophiles that eat babies and hate Africans, I've still got my little Star Wars universe, and it's mine.

But I get it. I can't listen to Chris Brown or Drake. It's a matter of degrees I suppose. I'm typing this on a device made using child slave labor, produced by a company that poisons well water, and sold by a company that sells personal data to the highest bidder. That's the world we live in. No wonder I take worlds and make them my own

 

A little into about me. I'm in my mid-forties, I live in Ohio, USA, and am on Medicaid. I suspect I have either ADD or ADHD but I can't get diagnostic testing covered by Medicaid. What can I do to get testing or treatment? There are lots of "in-network" providers, but every time I get the focus to try and make an appointment no one answers their phones, or they're not taking new patients, or they're not in network after all. I'm so so so tired

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