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Me, before clicking the link (because kbin doesn’t handle inline thumbnails well): If that’s the entry for “twelve cloaking warbirds” I swear…

Well that sucks. I am guilty of really only following Risa, mostly due to big gaps in my watch history and wanting to avoid spoilers for the newer shows. I’m not surprised though… Reddit had (and still has) tremendous amounts of inertia.

And now that you know, feel free to join us in the rabbit hole!

Successfully pulling off a lift-and-move like that was huge. I wish more niche/fandoms had followed suit instead of staying put.

I worked in a “datacenter” where the humidifier function for the HVAC unit was turned off because it leaked under the floor into an adjoining office when it was trying to humidify. Management refused to fix the unit due to the cost, and saw no issue with running the room with relative humidity in the teens all winter. Madness.

This is about as coherent an argument as you’re gonna find on the topic.

No thank you, I just ate.

“I was unsure of whether I could trust y’all with this info, but after talking with you a bit I think it’s time to come clean.” And then start talking about Second Impact as if it happened IRL and not in a famous anime. (Spoilers for Evangelion in the link.) There’s already in-lore conspiracies and coverups to use as talking points.

It is a wrong answer. This is obviously a normal scale six string upright bass.

nonspecific positive imagery and music

Ask your doctor about [results of syllable dartboard] today.

The same reason anyone takes a USB stick anywhere: to inconspicuously drop in a conspicuous place in hopes that some rube will find it, put it in their PC, and get pwnd.

A perfect example is this guy from my last job. Thought himself a leader. Thought himself knowledgeable. Always had an answer, regardless of actual facts. Alternated between barking out orders and lamenting on how he had to do everything himself. Constantly getting schooled by people who actually knew the subject matter. Those who had been around just kinda put up with his BS because he filled a position that nobody else wanted.

Enter new management, who was very impressed with his authoritative tone, apparent breadth of knowledge, and willingness to lick boot. Suddenly management is bypassing dude’s bosses to go straight to the horse’s mouth and get the straight dope (which often involved taking credit for other people’s work and bus-chucking whoever was handy). All because someone who barely knew what he was talking about spoke confidently to people that had no idea what was going on.

American here. My ISP blackholes certain sites at the DNS level. Easy enough to work around, but it’s there.

If it was just water vapor they wouldn’t be sucking on it like it was Meet Your Future Husband Night down at the Bowl-A-Rama. They can take their cotton candy chemical cloud and blow it up each others’ asses.

I can’t think of a time in like 20 years that they actually had the thing that I went there to buy.

Like a few folks have mentioned, I bought my last two TVs there. If it sucks or it’s a bad panel or I just don’t like it, I just box it up and take it back to the store. No wondering if it’ll get damaged in shipment or ganked off the porch (or take a day off and hope it’s delivered when it’s supposed to be).

They’re also really good with getting in amiibo, but that’s a super niche thing.

This is the way.

Thank you, CaptObvious.

…you know, your username makes it difficult to sound sincere when addressing you.

Honestly immigrants … still believe in the American dream

That’s because they’re new. Just wait until they’ve had the rug yanked out from under them a few times while someone tut-tuts about bootstraps.

You can make rules network-wide, per-app, or per-incident. The latter is useful for getting a handle on app behavior. Like if you see it contacting ‘updates.somedev.com’ weekly, you can choose to allow or disallow permanently based on how benign you think the app is. But more likely, anything trying to phone home has a dozen CDNs it’s trying to hit rather than an easily identifiable URL. Block one, it tries to hit the other. Maybe today, maybe next week. It gets overwhelming (which IMO is a feature for the dev, not a bug).

As a longtime Little Snitch user, it’s freakin exhausting.