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8 days agoStratt: I believe in God.
Me: What?
Stratt: Evangelical karaoke
baltakatei
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
Website: reboil.com
Mastodon: baltakatei@twit.social
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23·10 days agoI have it in good authority that the bank robber filed the scene via the highway road system. Therefore, we are suing the road maintenance workers for failing to screen vehicles for bags full of stolen cash.
5·12 days agoThat exception probably would be twisted into permission to add an “AI summary” section to each article.
He wants distractions to keep himself and his loyal family out of prison.
My tax dollars at work.
Also somehow my tax dollars at work.
Finally he can know whether or not a given cave is a natural formation.
The pink-haired one is kind albeït a bit slow. The white-haired one is probably smuggling contraband and is not afraid to trample you in an emergency. Beating up Beavis for snickering at their horse ears constitutes an emergency.
So, instead of the length of their beard it’s the length of their socks we should be considering?
61·18 days agoSo… they removed Wordpad to push people into using Word… and now they removed Notepad to push people into… this monstrosity? Why does Notepad support hyperlinks now?
Back when I used Notepad, it was to strip out rich text formatting and reliably get consistently distinct text, especially if I configured it to use a monospace font. Now I have to worry about embedded hyperlinks sending me to God-knows-where?
2·19 days agoa large … dumpling
So… a dumple?
25·19 days ago1/3 of US renters not paying their rent in a coördinated strike for one month would unwind a lot of landlord loans and collapse Wall Street which is where Trump stores his wealth.
“You are reading at college level.”
Translation: “You are baseline literate.”
7·20 days agoLook for things with high pressure piping and/or megawatt utility power lines and you’ll probably find a chemical engineer touched it at some point, especially if they can be broken down into unit process skids like “compressor”, “pump”, “heat exchanger”, “phase separator”, “separation column”, or, especially, “reactor”. The concept of “unit process”, especially in the application of scaling up benchtop chemistry procedures, is uniquely a chemical engineering concept.
Power plants. Water treatment. Pulp and paper mills. Oil and gas (up/mid/downstream). Semiconductor lithography. Battery production. Ore processing. Biofuel production.
No one loved her enough to fight to free her, so she wasn’t worth much to society anyways. — the local DA, probably
Meanwhile, in modern times, we see the outcome of cutting funding to education is a desire for a King to tell you what to do.
2·21 days agoI tried Cosmic for a week. It looked nice but I returned to LXQt because I want:
- To display time in ISO 8601 without also messing with locales
- To customize my file manager columns
- To use Emacs in a terminal emulator
- To not have my windows scattered to the four winds every time I lock my screen because the fancy window tiling feature is half-baked
- To have the X window manager back. I’m sure some people with use cases besides mine that are compatible only with Wayland, but I simply don’t see the need nor do I wish to be a guinea pig submitting bug reports when so many guinea pigs before me had years of their lives sacrificed polishing X.
Also, the performance of programs like the default Cosmic file manager was much slower then comparable alternatives like pcmanfm-qt which I know run fast even on 2005 Compaq laptop hardware.
“It is February 27th 1933 and I am Marinus van der Lubbe, a somewhat slow young man who was just asked by some very brave good protestors to help set a small fire in a strangely unguarded nice building they doused with flammable liquids. What should I do?”
Relevant Hogfather (1996) quote:
Biers, and undead bar where everybody knows your name
Susan didn’t like Biers but she went there anyway, when the pressure of being normal got too much. Biers, despite the smell and the drink and the company, had one important virtue. In Biers no one took any notice. Of anything. Hogswatch was traditionally supposed to be a time for families but the people who drank in Biers probably didn’t have families; some of them looked as though they might have had litters, or clutches. Some of them looked as though they’d probably eaten their relatives, or at least someone’s relatives.
Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn’t mix a metaphor.
The regular customers didn’t ask questions, and not only because some of them found anything above a growl hard to articulate. None of them was in the answers business. Everyone in Biers drank alone, even when they were in groups. Or packs.