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Reply to Apple Car Play. CNC machines. the, uh, GNU Image Manipulation Program. i have had awkward interactions because of all of these names for things by twovests
I only know what the double meaning is for the gnu image manipulation program and I think I'm OK with that.
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Reply to "Hotlanta". "Frisco". These are two nicknames for cities that tourists think locals use but locals actually hate. What are some others you can think of? by flabberghaster
People calling Minneapolis "the mini apple" is another one, for me. I find it really annoying.
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Reply to comment by oolong in "Hotlanta". "Frisco". These are two nicknames for cities that tourists think locals use but locals actually hate. What are some others you can think of? by flabberghaster
I don't think tourists believe calling it hell is a cutesy nickname locals affectionately use though.
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Reply to comment by cowloom in Do people generally understand that the transgender military ban in the US is a very bad thing? by twovests
It's true that no one should join the military but the right to join the military is part of what the state considers to be the rights conferred on you for being a full citizen. When they deem you ineligible to do this core thing that's part of civic life, they're saying you're less of a valid person.
No one should join the military. But the government saying "you are officially an outgroup of undesirables" is very serious.
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I think I speak for everyone, most everyone anyway, that I will be sad if you leave but if that is what you need to do for your mental health then we support you. What we want as a community is for you to be happy. I wish it weren't this way my friend.
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Reply to comment by SWORDSCROSSED in i need dried cranberries, STAT by flabberghaster
I fucked up while making this post.
I went shopping, forgot both blueberries and dried fruits, for muffins and cookies respectively, then I only posted about some of them.
I do not promise to do better in the future. I will probably do even worse.
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Reply to comment by SWORDSCROSSED in i need dried cranberries, STAT by flabberghaster
Dried cranberries work better in cookies, frozen or fresh are good for muffins tho
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Reply to comment by skookin in Any time you see a politics headline, you can mentally replace the phrase "melts down" with "doesn't care" for a more accurate headline by cute_spider
Oh Kristi Noem got a real dressing down about all the laws she's breaking by this Congress man, who will not do shit about it and keeps voting to confirm trump nominees.
They don't give a fuck about you yelling at them. They like that it makes dems mad and they know you're not even gonna do shit about it.
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Reply to Any time you see a politics headline, you can mentally replace the phrase "melts down" with "doesn't care" for a more accurate headline by cute_spider
You can replace "blasts" with "mentions"
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Reply to comment by cute_spider in more like the nope by hollyhoppet
I would be an anti american antipope.
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Reply to comment by cowloom in I should go back to being vegetarian again by flabberghaster
No, not self deprecating. Most people just aren't that good of people.
I just need to be realistic. I've tried doing it before and it never sticks. It works better and is easier to stick with if I move to it over time, because I know myself and I know that I will just slip later on and drop it altogether in the future if I don't.
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Reply to comment by cowloom in I should go back to being vegetarian again by flabberghaster
No two ways about it in that I'm like most people: not that good of a person tbh.
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Reply to comment by cowloom in Media Fullness Over Time by flabberghaster
That's just an artifact of how I made this (I just used python to stat the files and check their mtime, and not their birth time since python doesn't easily allow you to do that) and the fact that I've moved this collection from device to device a couple of times, so some timestamps are not really accurate. So a lot of files that are much older than their mtime show up as last modified on a certain day.
I think most of the files have an mtime of 2013, which is when I bought the first external hard drive this media collection lived on. It's grown over time and moved to different devices; currently it's on a NAS that has about 12 terrabytes of storage that I created in the early part of the pandemic. SInce it's SO much bigger than what I had before I ended up starting to download bigger files so the rate of increase shot up after I moved it to this NAS.
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in I have a fun idea that I don't know how to execute. by flabberghaster
This has a few errors in it (i called it % full when it's actually not scaled to 100, for starters) but it gives me an idea of what rate it's growing at so that's something.
Still I'd like it to look nicer.
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Reply to comment by twovests in I have a fun idea that I don't know how to execute. by flabberghaster
Yeah my first idea is literally just find all the file sizes and time stamps, sort by time stamp, then have a running total of the size. Then make a scatter plot with the X axis as the time and the Y axis as the total size.
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Reply to comment by twovests in I have a fun idea that I don't know how to execute. by flabberghaster
Just a simple trend line, I could just do it with google sheets probably pretty easily.
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I suggest targeting critical supply chain choke points.
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Reply to comment by devtesla in The Hater's Review of Bioshock Infinite by devtesla
A whole game that's an escort mission would probably not be much fun tbh. Everyone hates missions specifically in shooter games where you have to protect someone because there's usually not good ways to block them from damage, so if she was constantly in danger of dying and you couldn't control where she went it'd be a real slog I think.
It could be fun if done well I just can't think how to do it well
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Reply to The Hater's Review of Bioshock Infinite by devtesla
I remember thinking it was fun to play, and a more interesting and dynamic experience than bioshock 1 was, and I liked the story more or less but the politics are just dogshit.
I haven't played it since it came out though and it was never that remarkable to me that I had strong opinions beyond "this is fun and the dewit backstory is interesting but it's trying to both-sides the union wars and manifest destiny??"
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in I disagree with many of the policies of the US government and its allies. by flabberghaster
this is me right now regarding their various policies
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Reply to comment by nitori in I am GOING to eat an apple. by flabberghaster
nope pretty good apple i gotta say
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in I am GOING to eat an apple. by flabberghaster
It's done. I ate the apple.
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Reply to I am GOING to eat an apple. by flabberghaster
I've already started eating it
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Reply to man this dental surgery is taking way too long to recover from by hollyhoppet
I have not been to a dentist since the start of covid and I'm scared to go but I know the longer I delay the more the odds that something bad happens go up, but I'm still too scared to go.