My ballot is cast.
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"Let me put this in terms that even the most ideological libertarians can understand. Say you think there should be precisely one regulation that governments should enforce: honoring contracts. For the government to serve as referee in that game, it must have the power to compel the players to honor their contracts. Which means that the smallest government you can have is determined by the largest corporation you're willing to permit."
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Called for a tow to take our disabled car to the mechanic. The muffler was dragging on the ground. Not only did they not send a flatbed (which they're now having to dispatch) but the snow under the car has melted and re-frozen so the still somewhat attached muffler is lodged in a block of ice...
It's going to be one of those days...
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First piece of positive news all week, the part that was dragging was a heat shield, not the muffler. It's probably not as bad as we thought. Waiting on the verdict from the mechanic.
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The mechanic's trying to price out replacement parts for us. In the meantime, since the car is still technically driveable, we've taken it home. Hopefully, he'll be able to get us a good deal.
In the meantime, I take some solice in the fact that some people pay a lot of money to get a car that sounds like this one.
(my apologies to the neighbours, though)
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@Parker51 Better. The previous crisis (of which this was a part) has been tentatively dealt with. There's still work to be done, but I'm in a much better place mentally.
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Jonathan Lamothe started reading Silent Companions
Silent Companions - BookWyrm
"When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting.bookwyrm.social
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For reasons I do not have the wherewithal to elucidate at the moment, my anxiety levels are off the charts today.
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Jonathan Lamothe finished reading Guards! Guards!
Guards! Guards! - BookWyrm
Here there be dragons ... and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came.bookwyrm.social
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The wizard studied the inscription on the door. "The script is ancient Elvish...."
"Ooh!" the dwarf said. "I know this one! Speak 'friend' and enter!"
"No," replied the wizard. "It says: downloadeth the Gates of Moria App, for this is how you open the gates."
The hafling nodded. "Makes sense. Everything's an app these days."
"Just what I need, another useless app on my phone." The wizard stared at his device. "Well, crap. I can't get cell service in these mountains...."
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@pseudonym @Unixbigot @LapTop006 when I broke my arm, I got home and realised there was no way I could get my DESFire fob out of my pocket to get in to the house. Thankfully there is a way to log in on my phone, which I could just about manage left handed!
Achievement unlocked: making a Costco run on transit.
I brought a camping pack and filled it to absolute capacity. It was a bit of a challenge, but doable... and still better than dealing with the parking there.
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Is it me or does #org-mode lack a way to filter the agenda view by priority? You can filter by pretty much everything else imaginable.
PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains
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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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This man is voting as well.
If you are sane and elligible to vote please do.
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