ThePowerOfGeek

Not a bad place to end up! Hopefully he can get there.

Hopefully he can get amnesty in another country, like Canada or New Zealand. Because this administration will continue to relentlessly go after the poor guy.

Ah okay. Thanks for the heads-up.

During the election campaign many Trump campaign rallies had sign-up tables for people to apply for a government job. Many younger gun-nut guys and proud boy types there were encouraged to sign up. And now there’s a bunch of them in ICE driving around terrorizing latinos and people of color. Hmm, write the coincidence, right?

Thank you for this! I need to come up with some stocking stuffer ideas for my wife to get me. And I’ve been struggling. But something like this would actually be useful and fit the bill very well.

FIFA officially now stands for Fawning Incompetent Feckless Assholes.

There are usually two factors that can cause auto insurance rates to change:

1. Something happened to you personally that caused your rates to change. Like if you were in an accident (and especially if you were deemed at fault), or if you’re vehicle changed in some way. There are other factors too, but those are probably the most common ones.
2. Your zip code was reassessed and is now deemed to be more or less risky from an insurance perspective. This decision is separated from your personal actions, but it can still have an impact on your individual rates. And there’s no really transparency on how or why the insurance company comes to a conclusion on this aspect. Which sucks.

My guess is the second factor is thinking into play for you and your rates.

Setting up Jellyfin as a local media server is very simple. Setting it up with easy access for remote friends and family is a hassle.

Dementia.

ETA: As in, Trump kinda forgot who he was, and that he should be irrationally hating on him.

No mention of Obama being invited.

Nothing says “I’m innocent” like “you are going to come to regret this!”

Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.

Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.

Whataboutism at its finest.

Whatever. Lock all the predators away.

Literally went missing. As opposed to his followers. Their brains went figuratively missing when they started following him and his modern acolytes.

Your 15 minutes of game is over, Kim Davies. Stop trying to milk it. Go back under your bridge, you miserable little troll.

The ultra wealthy already got their ‘tariff dividend’, in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.

As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.

“I don’t always like my own butthole. But when I do it tastes of Dos Equis beer” -The Most Interesting Cat In The World

“Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably

Who am I kidding. They have no idea what unit testing is.

Pretty well, all things considered. I played off and on for about 15 years (more on than off). Got into an awesome family-friendly guild and made some very good friends. I still regularly chat with and occasionally play other games with some of them.

I became the leader of that guild eventually, but by then it was well into a slow death spiral. It was sad to see everything slowly fall apart and there being nothing anyone could do to resurrect it. That was kind of a painful life lesson.

But I also have some very fond memories playing with both my wife and my son, and with those friends.

Maybe I was to much of a ‘filthy casual’ to get drawn too deeply into it (I only casually raided sporadically). But even still, it did hook me in for a while. And even now it’s left an itch I can’t scratch. I miss the Wrath era and how vibrant and dynamic and crazy the ‘world’ could be.

Overall I feel like it was worth the time and money. But I know that’s not the case for many others.

My son still plays it sometimes and is trying to get me to come back for the new xpac. But I have zero enthusiasm for it. The last several months I was playing I would log in out of obligation and then almost immediately log off again because nothing sounded fun to do. I didn’t (and still don’t) like what they’ve done with both retail and classic. I guess I’ve moved on in life.

Maybe it’s watched vs buffered?