…half that time before i realised it was only half the devices on our network, too: spent a long while chasing DNS poisoning, then the other half patching devices from a mobile hotspot…

…in the end, i never actually figured out why only half my devices couldn’t resolve half of the internet, but a hard-power-cycle of our fiber modem resolved the issue…

…maybe he’ll do the world a favor and step into an industrial shredder…

(shame about his genetic legacy, but hopefully all their mothers are mostly good people who give them a fighting chance at turning out well)

YOU wOULDN’T
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CIVILISATION

…i use base 12 every day; it’s fantastically useful and foundational to civilisation for good reason…

…let’s go for a 3521% drop in revenue!..

HE’S A PERSON AND HIS NAME IS ANAKIN!

…he blew up a droid control ship; that kind of counts…

…i disassembled the factory radio in my 1990 geo prizm and soldered an auxilliary cable onto the pre-amplification stage traces; it worked pretty well suspending a portable CD player from the rearview mirror for shock protection back in the days before memory buffers were a thing, even better with those little vinyl bands installed around the disc edge for additional gyroscopic stability…

…if it was good enough for the rosenbergs, it’s good enough for the trumps…

…i believe that, officially, he’s just a consultant: some woman whose name i can’t remembre is the nominal head of the department which nominally-isn’t-DOGE…

East Asia gets a very mixed representation in western media, but it’s still better than the (effectively) no representation that is typical of SEA (bar like one or two countries).

…for all grief folks give kara-tur, they made a respectable effort to represent the breadth of pacific asia folklore and culture; no less a patois of anachronistic legendarium than D+D did with western europe…

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Malatra

…i shop women’s shoes when i can; they generally offer a much wider selection…

…my mazda 2 outhandles my MX-5s and is the only car i’ve driven which keeps pace with my elise; we’ve been waiting for an electric subcompact hatchback for about ten years now but the stateside market keeps doing everything it can not to offer me one…

"Expertise - and Patience - "

…i think the word they’re looking for is competence…

…nope; her education was 1980s DoDDS, mine was 1980s TEA…

(yes, secession; autocorrect squiggled it into another word as i was typing)

…just that, though: we were taught that emancipation was just one of many issues stemming from increasingly-fundamental differences in economic, social, and international policy, and that the war itself precipitated from the southern states asserting a right to secession and sovereignty which the federal government did not grant…

…we were also taught that the spark was actually southern states’ seizure of federal assets…

…likewise; my wife was apoplectic when i suggested that the civil war was about secession…

…call a spade a spade: the executive branch is a russian asset and anyone who’s convinced otherwise is embracing willful ignorance…

…the avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote…