I’m not sure a sacrifice is even needed. You just need to get the queen to the backline and wreak havoc.

I don’t do support like that anymore, but I hated users dropping off their laptop and stating they would be back after their one hour meeting only for you to need their credentials within 2 minutes and the person not showing back up for several hours, to then complain it’s not fixed. And no, I refused to reset their password without consent. Usually they wouldn’t even give you the time to ask for that.

Great read, thanks for that!

I’m kind of with your family on this one, but if you are going through with it I would just verify with the doctor performing the procedure whether it can be reversed in case you change your mind later on.

Ah, thanks, my formatting skills are quite limited.

Rosetta Code Global Ranking Position Language

1 C

2 Pascal

3 Ada

4 Rust

5 C++, Fortran

6 Chapel

7 OCaml, Go

8 Lisp

9 Haskell, JavaScript

10 Java

11 PHP

12 Lua, Ruby

13 Perl

14 Dart, Racket, Erlang

15 Python

Ok, sure. I do want to point out that I simply answered the question. I don’t deny my state of luxury yet also don’t feel that this bout of whataboutism is entirely warranted.

By looking at it from a larger perspective. You can always get worked up about things but if you zoom out, you see that most of it is just a temporary trend. Some things trend well, some trend poorly, but these tend to be blips in the span of a lifetime.

Especially when comparing with the past you will see that things really aren’t all that bad in general.

In Düsseldorf, after the full body scan and scan of my bags, I still had to take of my shoes, put them in a box, they scanned said box with shoes and after as I was putting on my shoes, using the metal seat to lift my feet, they complained about that because people sit there. Which is a fair point, but holy shit was I pissed off at the time. I hate that airport.

They can call it New Flevoland

That’s why I use mail relays.

I want everything as dumb as possible. I will register whatever I buy with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, but other than that: dumb toaster, dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb robot vacuum cleaner, dumb doorbell, dumb locks, etc…

If it doesn’t need internet to function, it’s not getting any.

That touches on a particularly nefarious part of guilt and why I tend to avoid it by being honest, because there always is that knowledge in the back of your mind and the consideration on whether you should come clean. I hate that feeling and it keeps my tendencies to take the easy route by being dishonest in check.

True, good sport streams are a lot harder to find than they used to be.

A friend of mine is a professor in anthropology and he told me that he stayed in academia because he was afraid of change and academia was something he knew well.

Per merriam-webster:

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

crawl
creep
drag
poke
hang (around or out)
linger
lag
poke
dawdle
    loiter
    stroll
    tarry
    shuffle
    saunter
    amble
    slow (down or up)
    lumber
    decelerate
    plod
    dillydally
    dally

Just do the dance in reverse

Them allowing unlimited book checkouts during covid in defiance of copyright law, resulting in them getting sued and losing bad in court. They knew it was going to get them in trouble and proceeded anyway.

I’m not saying it wasn’t a noble thing to do, but it was stupid and they knew better. So now they are just paying off the fine and I don’t want my money to go straight to the publishers and lawyer fees.

I regularly donate to wikipedia, the guardian, keepass2android, whatever fund raising Ukraine Matters has at the time I feel like donating and lemmynsfw. Also have a tax deduction directed to animal shelters.

I used to support the internet archive, but I’m still pissed off at their stupidity.

I have never been able to read a book on a computer. It just feels completely unnatural, even though I read a ton of articles, forum posts, manuals, etc. on my phone or computer. Not a peasant because they could historically usually not read let alone afford a book, but I do love actual physical books.