I’m of Irish and Scottish decent. I’m white. As fuck. Not AF. As fuck. I don’t tan, I fucking burn, peel, and burn again. All the while, I suffer.

I’m from the south. Grew up in Texas, only been out of it for less than a year and still in the fucking south - so not much better.

Even I could tell… well, anyone, not to vote for Trump. “Oh, Trump likes _______” No, Trump likes Trump. End statement. End logic. End all.

Trump likes Trump.

If anyone thinks that Trump will put them, their group, or their issue, ahead of himself then they have refused to pay attention. Not that they haven’t had the chance, they have willfully refused.

I was not able to vote. Moving from Texas to Arkansas, there was in issue with my registration, which in hind-sight sounds like “I’m lazy, have some voter suppression” because I didn’t have a capital T branded on my forehead. I should have fought harder, but I was more worried about a roof over my head and food on the table. Fuck me for trying to survive and provide for my wife.

End statement: Not everyone who was unable to vote was lazy: Fuck all of you who say otherwise. Some of us could NOT vote, for whatever reason.

Erm, the Borg would like to remind you that cubes have been a thing for a bit.

Upon reading the title I thought, this person has never been severely dehydrated before.

I don’t recommend it, I must say.

If an amateur mycologist picks and eats the wrong mushroom that an LLM said was fine to eat, is the LLM liable for the death legally and/or financially?

I mean, I know better than to pick random mushrooms and eat them, but I don’t really care for mushrooms - though some have some delightful effects when metabolized, lol. The only ones of THOSE I tried, I knew who grew them, and saw the “operation,” and reviewed his sources before trying one.

Call me paranoid, but I’m not blindly trusting a high school drop out to properly identify mushrooms when professionals make mistakes to the point where any mycologist will tell you, DON’T TRUST PICS OR THE INTERNET.

It can be too difficult to tell from those sources, and I doubt the LLM and the human asking questions have the right wavelength of discussion to not produce misleading, if not entirely fabricated, results.

Yeah, I shave my head fairly routinely (damn genetics) and a bar of soap is generally fine for head, face, and body. Though if I’m growing my beard out past the “scruff” level my wife generally likes, I’ll apply some beard oil there.

I have definitely used some “girly” body wash in a pinch though.

I lived on the street next to a high school.

The primary entrance to both the high school and the rest of the neighborhood was appropriately named Funnel.

Getting out of the neighborhood was sometimes the longest part of my journey, and that was driving from the suburbs into downtown on a notoriously traffic ridden (and always under construction) freeway - they liked to close exits with little to no notice sometimes requiring massive rerouting. Was late a couple times because of that, but the traffic right at the start of the commute was the worst.

A combination of high schoolers who can’t drive, and half asleep parents who need more caffeine or less kids - probably both - as well as pedestrians and kids on bikes. I don’t know about your area, but cyclists in that area did not abide by traffic laws and no one stopped them, so they kept doing it. More than a few people died at that crossing in the ~5 years I lived there.

Thankfully, I usually only saw it bad on my way home in the morning (medical IT, I worked nights).

Covering some other shifts though? Whew, I had to leave at least 30 minutes earlier than I would for a night shift.

I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

Don’t forget most likely selling government and military secrets to countries that have a very violent history with us, and recently.

I’m a gamer, and I do…

Then again, I’m mostly excited about using CUDA cores for cracking hashes and the like, lol.

Some wrinkles, some grays… Well, a lot of grays in the beard.

I got a genetic double whammy. Baldness on my mom’s side, and my dad (and his father and brother) were gray by 25.

That being said, I blame it mostly on a certain group of people I can’t seem to escape.

They make my life more difficult at every turn.

Their mere existence is guaranteed to give me a head ache down the line.

Of course I’m talking about youthoughtthiswasgoingtoberacist end users.

My last gig was using Teams as its call handler. As in for the help desk.

I’ll just leave it at that.

I felt that way about CyberPunk 2077 and CDPR.

CDPR hadn’t let me down. Yet. Ultimately, they redeemed themselves, sure, but at launch… whew, there were issues.

Game companies CAN redeem themselves. Business wise though? Its hard to recoup that kind of shaken faith in investors, board members, etc; let alone the people you’re actually trying to sell to.

There are so MANY fucking games out there these days, that I’ll look at something new, and decide I don’t like certain elements of the gameplay, and just move on.

If a feature looks more frustrating than fun? I’m good, thanks.

I’ve played hard games on the hardest setting for the challenge. I’ve also played “easy” just to get drunk and enjoy a story.

If it isn’t fun though? Then what am I doing here?

I already spend 8+ hours a day on the computer and hate it, but at least they pay me.

In an electronics tool kit.

Mostly because the only time recall using that specific tool was when I got my Pixel 8, and that was shortly after release, so its been a minute.

I decided to be a smartass once and made a 63 character long password.

It wasn’t too bad at a keyboard, though if you make a type you’re screwed.

Trying to use my AD account to access admin tools on printer? I got it fixed, and immediately changed my password, lol.

I haven’t heard that term for it before.

Bravo.

My wife will be horrified when I drop that in the future.

Sure, sure… but it all seems to be an interconnected web.

I could read in release order, but that can get rather disconnected… There doesn’t seem to be a good starting point.

So, that is what has stopped me.

Like knowing you need to clean up a disaster, but you just look at it and have no idea where to even begin approaching it. Throw in some executive dysfunction issues, and it seems the only time I can “find” to read for pleasure is when I have something else more important to do that I’m unable to start on.

You’re putting this on the citizens when we really have little say.

In theory, everyone should vote and the will of the people will be done.

Sadly, that isn’t how it actually works.

Lets just say that various industries spend a lot of money bribing lobbying to keep things profitable for them.

I’ll use an example from when I was younger. I worked at a big box retail store. It was 45 minutes one way, but hey, it was a job.

The nearest bus stop would have required me to drive 35 minutes to downtown to catch a bus, which is the wrong way to begin with, then get on the bus and wait over an hour for it to arrive at work.

The politicians and planners build AROUND cars here. Public transport is an afterthought, if thought of at all.

The American’s who would like to reduce dependence on automobiles don’t really have that option in most of the country - but sure, we’re all morons who don’t understand the concept of public transportation.

It isn’t stupidity or ignorance on the peoples part, its greed by the ruling class. Any ignorance on the matter has been propagandized and weaponized by said ruling class to gain support for their bank accounts cause.

At this point, I’m working from home, as is my wife. We would still need at least one car, but I’m looking to sell mine, get out of the monthly payment at the very least.

Because the word Kiwi refers to other things.

A fruit, people from New Zealand, etc.

Rain and thunderstorms used to be nice for me… used to.

7ish years ago we (wife and I) rescued a pitbull mix. Well three of them, but only one has an issue.

Wind, planes, rain, thunder, all of that kicks on the fight or flight response to 110%.

If she is crated, she will try to bust out to the point of injuring herself. At our hold house we had a two story, she broke through a banister spindle and nearly fell to the ground floor. Hard wood. Would have been bad. We’ve found her in the top loading washing machine - it was closed. She will try to go through solid objects. Walls, doors, windows, whatever.

CBD is about the only thing that helps her. We’ve tried various medications through the vet, even one they use as a sedative per-surgery.

Its been raining here for about two weeks, on top of other issues in life, and I have a migraine that may just kill me at this point. Not to mention sleep deprivation.

Also, as current day shift at my new job - I hate it, I want to go back to graveyard shifts, lol. Though, I did get some comments when I stopped at a liquor store right after they opened. Once they realized I worked overnight, they used it to mess with OTHER customers, lol.

I played the first PS. Loved it. If memory serves, I usually cloaked up, used a knife, and tried to capture stuff.

PS2, well… I played the beta, I didn’t care for the stealth changes. Then, it released and I played a little… just couldn’t maintain my interest, plus the unlock system was kinda punishing and made it seem too P2W for me.