I will give it to you, when it works, it does some magical stuff. But try designing such complex things that are miracles in coding and then it have to run on a half-ass computer. I want to say terminal, it’s not that, but it’s those small fake computers that companies seem to think are better to get than an actual desktop because they’re cheap. I know that’s hardware, not Excel, but Excel does not run well on that, so…

Or worse, you get moved to 365 which doesn’t do most scripting and breaks all that was working. That cloud shit is a problem.

Not at all. You just haven’t gotten deep enough into the beast to see the horror.

None taken or meant either. I just see it a lot, and I guess this morning it triggered a response. :D

I don’t know what to call myself, I just know what ideas and values I believe in, and the ones I hate.

That actually helps, at least with your post. All the more why I hate labels, when they totally flip around depending on the perspective of the person using them. This isn’t just a US/Europe thing, it’s true of history too. Hence the “Party of Lincoln” trope that Republicans like to wave around, ignoring that the party names shifted and flipped over time.

Socialists and other US extreme left ideas merge in with the Democrats because when they first materialized as political movements and a third party, thanks to our political system they either had to die out or pick a side to stay alive.

I always thought I was liberal. Why am I here? Maybe the labels have shifted around and I’ve held on to the same ideas?

I just find it weird when people group liberal and conservative in the same bucket. Labels are about as dangerous as parties, they muddy the discussion.

You assumed it was the sunlight doing the burning.

Real Genius

“This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold. This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated.”

Legend of so many films.

Sauron only saw Gandalf as an even more powerful and useful tool for him. Who would want to destroy the Ring? Madness.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. Jesus, the incompetence.

Also, thinking things are part of a big conspiracy helps some people rationalize that there is intelligence behind all this chaos. Because if that’s not true, then there’s no one at the helm who has a clue, and THAT is frightening.

Saruman has left himself in chat idle and AFK. He had forgotten to take Gandalf off auto-invite after their ordeal.

I think it’s even worse. They didn’t tell us what was and wasn’t recyclable. They used symbols very similar to the recycling logo to stamp on various types of plastics to classify them. Most of the types used are one time use, they never were meant to imply recycling, that’s just the symbol appearance.

Recycling started off as the third R and last resort, the first two were Reduce and Reuse. Those were not compatible with an economy based on consumerism and growth, so Recycling became the focus, creating an industry to pick through the few things that could be recycled and trashing the rest, and encouraging the public to buy more because it’s not a problem as long as you participate.

And if you don’t participate, all the problems are your fault. Not the companies making the stuff, they’re just doing what you want.

The insane part is how many are going along with it. Not just yes men around him, but so many others from public officials that don’t stand to gain anything from this, to the public who is either so far in they can’t rationalize basic information, or somehow still are seeing some fantasy pained for them by their media they prefer, because “liberals bad” mentality. When you lose your job and healthcare and prices are skyrocketing and it’s still someone else’s fault, not the guy and his minions doing all this shit…you’re lost.

I wish that commenting would automatically upvote a post. It’s far too late to fix the use of an upvote as approval of subject discussion and not just an agree arrow, but I often…no, I almost always forget to upvote the initial topic even after leaving a few paragraphs. One would hope whatever algorithm is used also considers activity and number of comments in a rating or suggesting it to others.

Hosting tools point to Toronto, Canada via Cloudflare.

Isn’t fire not a thing itself, but the effect from a reaction?

He’s just do an executive order to have them upgrade it up to the best economy in the world. Simple.

To be fair, the car flags and stickers appeared after 9/11. Iraq was a convenient rotate into revenge for Daddy.

Not justifying the flag stuff, but at the time briefly it felt like the country had been as a whole attacked and we were one. Then the shit started, the blaming Americans here who looked like the ones who did it, the Patriot Act quickly being agreed to while some of noticed there wasn’t even time to read it, etc. But just saying, 9/12 and the days after, the whole flag thing seemed rational.

It’s not even a good circus. The clowns are scary and the tent is on fire.