While we’re telling voodoo tales, The Case of the 500-Mile Email.

Fuckin’ A! Two fingers of unleaded in a pickle jar, stuff it in there. You can fit a whole TV worth of packing in a quart jar.

PRO TIP: Dry in the sun on an old cookie sheet, cut up with scissors, pack it out.

The Battle of Thoth Station is my all-time favorite space fight. (Amos hangin’ in there below decks was a bit unreal, but I can suspend disbelief for this one!)

One small detail that was lovely; they empty Rocinate’s atmosphere so hits don’t turn into fireballs.

EDIT: Watching again and realized the detective’s gun is a Chiappa Rhino. Guess you can’t improve on some things!

At this point in history, I am 100% fine with Israel being “wiped off the map”. They have abdicated all moral authority and their right to exist.

A “self-solving problem” could be described as a “self-correcting issue,” “inherently resolving problem,” “naturally resolving situation,” or “auto-remediating issue,” depending on the context, as it implies a problem that has a built-in mechanism to fix itself without external intervention.

I’d only concern yourself with where he’s getting his idea of “manly”. I never questioned my macho, and I’m quite feminine in ways. Maybe it’s just adolescent insecurity?

I take my own unsweet tea to work in a thermos. If that runs out, I drink the bottled water they provide.

These are the same people that bitch about the plastic waste in Keurig pods.

We have this in Florida. Haven’t signed on as I’m continually trying to slash my bill, get more eco friendly.

LOL, no. Are you just making up hypothetical scenarios? FFS, even our crappy, private power company doesn’t pull that shit, even in Florida.

Now that is the first real bullshit I’ve seen on this thread.

Taking online payments costs the receiver money. You OK with making everyone pay more to level it out? Or, you can use you bank to send an electronic check for free. You do you.

Well, yeah? It costs the landlord to take online payments. Should they spread that cost to other people who choose to pay differently?

Use your bank, or hopefully your credit union, to send a check. There. Neither of you are out a single dime, no hassle for either party.

Oh shush. We don’t want to learn how the world works or how to effectively navigate it. We just want everyone to give us free shit while not having jobs.

Seriously, I can go on for ages about how to manipulate capitalistic systems for our own benefit. Nope. “Kill the capitalists!” OK. Then a system by another name will abuse you instead.

While we’re at it, if you’re not a business with special banking needs, why is anyone using a filthy bank?! Credit unions are the dictionary definition of socialism.

Rich people don’t pay for stupid shit like this, it’s how they stay rich.

Somebody came up with the idea, implemented it, saw a jump in revenue, got a promotion or fat bonus, all to make our lives just a little crappier. Unfortunately, it’s that simple.

AOC and Ted Cruz got the same response, as did “who is $X”.

Y’all would scream if you knew what it was like in the Philippines. This story wouldn’t rate a shoulder shrug, a 20-year gap is nothing and neither is 17. My wife is the only Filipino I know with a husband her age, rest are 20+ years younger than their husbands.

A 17-yo is a child and should have no choice over what she does with her body because she’s not mature enough. Oh WAIT! You guys didn’t mean it like that? Well, here’s your chance to practice talking out both sides of your mouth. Go.

In only 10 American states and the only European state is Turkey. I’m guessing the rest of the world makes it even lower, 14 in China for example.

Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.

Perhaps you’re a bogon emitter like my wife?

Learn more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_bogodynamics

Charles Stross put it succinctly in The Atrocity Archives:

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

This explains why computers suddenly start to work when help arrives. Becoming a bogon sink takes much suffering and practice. You’re already on the path.

I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive “RAID” array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.

I’m not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.

tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.