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Lazarus Long
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Burrito of Peace
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I am not a lovable cranky old man with a secret heart of gold. I am a staunch misanthrope who cheers for the death of the entire human race. Nothing of value will be lost in our passing.
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Since February 24, 2020

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July 8, 2004
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs
Mar 15, 2024, 01:23
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs Mar 15, 2024, 01:23
Mar 15, 2024, 01:23
 
Prez wrote on Mar 15, 2024, 00:36:
I lost a bet once and I had to walk around in high heels all day. My ankles were absolutely killing me. I would rather wear panties. Ah, to be young and stupid again...

I lost a bet to Mrs. Burrito once and had to wear a dress out in public for a day. I rocked that shit and discovered that dresses are ridiculously comfortable. That night, I ordered three Utilikilts and still wear them to this day.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Embracer Sells Saber Interactive
Mar 15, 2024, 00:32
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Re: Embracer Sells Saber Interactive Mar 15, 2024, 00:32
Mar 15, 2024, 00:32
 
Why waste money on Russian game companies when you could be spending it on games made by 4A and GSC? Both Ukrainian founded studios.

Also, it's more than the Russian government being dickheads. At least half the cybersecurity threats coming from Russia are from organized crime which is at least quasi-civilian. So the people of Russia don't get a free pass, either.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Mar 14, 2024, 23:19
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Re: Morning Metaverse Mar 14, 2024, 23:19
Mar 14, 2024, 23:19
 
MeanJim wrote on Mar 14, 2024, 21:29:
Has banning anything ever worked?

Are you regularly getting sprayed with DDT or rolling in asbestos?
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs
Mar 14, 2024, 22:12
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs Mar 14, 2024, 22:12
Mar 14, 2024, 22:12
 
Prez wrote on Mar 14, 2024, 21:24:
Isn't BoP a Texan? Not asking for any particular reason; it's just a question that randomly popped in my head.

Not by birth!

Though having seen quite a lot of panties on my wife, I cannot imagine for a second that I would find them comfortable. Boxer briefs FTW!
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Morning Safety Dance
Mar 14, 2024, 21:31
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Re: Morning Safety Dance Mar 14, 2024, 21:31
Mar 14, 2024, 21:31
 
ForgedReality wrote on Mar 14, 2024, 14:35:
How many fucking times are we going to retread the same bullshit propaganda in order to appease some right wing talking head, only to find out, oh, there's no truth to it? 🙄

At least 99 times. So long as right wing mouthbreathers are still dumb as Hell. But then again, if they weren't dumb as Hell, they wouldn't be on the right.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Evening Metaverse
Mar 14, 2024, 21:28
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Re: Evening Metaverse Mar 14, 2024, 21:28
Mar 14, 2024, 21:28
 
The FTC isn't going far enough. Minimum definition for broadband should be 500Mbps without any concessions for "wireless" bullshit products that never materialized and never will.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Quoteworthy
Mar 14, 2024, 21:27
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Re: Quoteworthy Mar 14, 2024, 21:27
Mar 14, 2024, 21:27
 
Prez wrote on Mar 14, 2024, 15:42:
On a side tangent, does no one care about making concise story headlines anymore?

Headline: "We shitpost to give you just enough information to generate enough rage that you'll click on it to read all about the bullshit that is mostly just trivial and then dump that in to an RSS feed so it gets picked up everywhere else because we really need to increase ad revenue or AI will take our jobs and we'll be asking if you want fries with that order."
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs
Mar 14, 2024, 21:23
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Re: Evening Legal Briefs Mar 14, 2024, 21:23
Mar 14, 2024, 21:23
 
As a Texan, the state government is dumb as shit. The average, mouthbreathing Rapepublican may not know about VPNs but I guarantee you that the kids will shortly if they do not know already.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Epic Games Spring Sale; Get Deus Ex - Mankind Divided and The Bridge
Mar 14, 2024, 12:58
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Re: Epic Games Spring Sale; Get Deus Ex - Mankind Divided and The Bridge Mar 14, 2024, 12:58
Mar 14, 2024, 12:58
 
Snatched up DE:MR like a fat kid snatching up the last slice of cake.

The Bridge, however, is a repeat.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: OotB: Pie in the face
Mar 14, 2024, 12:54
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Re: OotB: Pie in the face Mar 14, 2024, 12:54
Mar 14, 2024, 12:54
 
The Crow (2024) is the Temu version of the 1994 version of the movie of the same name. It was really a moment in time that can't be recaptured.

/---\

Growing up, I hated math in an academic scenario because it was always the following:
1. Teacher with their back to the class, drowning at a blackboard (later whiteboard).
2. "Here's 700 pages of homework that I will dismissively condescend to explain to you if you so much as even breathe a hint that you are not the mathematical genius that I am."
3. When asked where the practical application of this would fit in: "You need to learn math for the sake of math itself! You need to know this!"

It should come as no surprise, then, that I hated math as a student and felt that I was never going to "get it".

It wasn't until later in life when I started to build engines, started building actual buildings, and other practical applications that math started "clicking" in my head. I am not sure how math is taught today but actual, practical hands-on experience would help in relating conceptual theory to practical application.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Mar 13, 2024, 15:31
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Re: Morning Metaverse Mar 13, 2024, 15:31
Mar 13, 2024, 15:31
 
Prez wrote on Mar 13, 2024, 15:23:
Am I missing something? To me, the headline of this story is that physical print media is 3 times cheaper than digital. Maybe I am old fashioned, but I look at libraries as the last bastion of printed media. I don't want any digital in my libraries whatsoever. I'm aware that probably creates problems, but if any ruling body doesn't give huge budgets to allow libraries to continue amassing as much printed fiction and non fiction as they can possibly hold, they are hugely fucking up.

No, we just kind of went off on a tangent. It's fucking ridiculous that a digital book, which costs almost zero dollars to reproduce, is three times as expensive as its printed counterpart. It's why I said, I would fully support a group of librarians getting together, stripping the DRM, and sharing those now DRM free books to whomever wanted them as a giant middle finger to greedy ass publishers.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Mar 13, 2024, 14:36
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Re: Morning Metaverse Mar 13, 2024, 14:36
Mar 13, 2024, 14:36
 
Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Mar 13, 2024, 13:20:
Dude a physical hardcover copy of "cook's island" cost the library $18 but the digital copy cost $55 and becomes unreadable after 24 months or being checked out 26 times? What the actual fuck? How is this even legal? This makes me angry. more importantly, what happens when the war pops off, and digital books across the entire country become unusable in an instant. Abandioning printed material in favor of an unreliable more expensive digital copy designed to fail is reckless AF! The library is more than just cheap entertainment provided by the government; it is a repository of knowledge.

I agree on the importance of libraries, it is why I am a huge supporter of them. If the DRM is stripped out of them, then those e-books could be printed (if not otherwise available in actual bound form) and preserved in case of emergency.

I no longer buy a lot of books but what I do buy is spiral bound and typically printed on either plastic or durable stock.Unsurprisingly, very little of it is fiction. Almost all of my volumes are how-tos on various subjects.

That way if and when I die, that knowledge is preserved and can be passed on to the next generation.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: OotB: Over easy
Mar 13, 2024, 13:15
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Re: OotB: Over easy Mar 13, 2024, 13:15
Mar 13, 2024, 13:15
 
1. Fuck Boeing. The NTSB and the FAA need to leverage fines in the billions toward Boeing. Make those fines actually effective in changing the course of Boeing.
2. Puppies are always cuter than birds. No contest.
3. Oh fuck, yet another J. Lo crapfest? I can't think of a single movie she has "starred" in that was made better because of her participation. The Cell was good in spite of her presence, not because of it. And that was because the visuals and audio did 99% of the heavy lifting.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Mar 13, 2024, 13:08
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Re: Morning Metaverse Mar 13, 2024, 13:08
Mar 13, 2024, 13:08
 
I am a massive supporter of libraries and librarians. I think they both do exceptional and important work.

I would also totally support if a group of librarians got together to start stripping out DRM from e-books and sharing them en masse.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Ice-T and ClffyB Join Wolves Den
Mar 13, 2024, 13:02
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Re: Ice-T and ClffyB Join Wolves Den Mar 13, 2024, 13:02
Mar 13, 2024, 13:02
 
El Pit wrote on Mar 13, 2024, 02:32:
Good? GOOD?! The first BC album is EPIC! This and Rage Against The Machine's first album were big fat "wake up" slaps into Heavy Metal's face that even Will Smith could not deliver better. Every track of the first BC album was singles material - all killers, no fillers.
I also recommend the Judgment Night soundtrack which has mostly great collaborations of rap and metal groups.

Yes, good. At least in my view. I reserve "epic" for genre defining, or re-defining, standards. Like Black Sabbath's Paranoid for example. How many bands/artists used the Iron Man riff or the double tracked, slightly out of phase guitar chorus from Fairies Wear Boots? Tons. That is an epic album.

I am not throwing shade on Body Count, far from it, by the way.

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Beamer wrote on Mar 13, 2024, 07:49:
I'd argue that Walk This Way was rock, while Body Count was outright metal, but that's splitting hairs

I don't think it is as you are referencing two distinct genres of music. For example, you wouldn't put Elvis in with metal and you wouldn't put GZR in with rock.
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“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Ice-T and ClffyB Join Wolves Den
Mar 13, 2024, 00:33
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Re: Ice-T and ClffyB Join Wolves Den Mar 13, 2024, 00:33
Mar 13, 2024, 00:33
 
Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 12, 2024, 19:34:
1991, O.G. Original Gangster -- my introduction to rap (other than Rappers' Delight and Blondie's Rapture). Unfortunately, most rap isn't as good as OG was. Still listen to that album on a semi-regular basis. His shout out at the end of the album, "Ya Shoulda Killed Me Last Year" is awesome.

He was also good in Body Count. The first fusion of metal and rap (real rap) that I can remember on the airwaves.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Nobody Wants to Die Announced
Mar 13, 2024, 00:30
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Re: Nobody Wants to Die Announced Mar 13, 2024, 00:30
Mar 13, 2024, 00:30
 
It's certainly pretty although the time manipulation mechanic is not new.
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“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs
Mar 12, 2024, 19:31
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs Mar 12, 2024, 19:31
Mar 12, 2024, 19:31
 
Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Mar 12, 2024, 18:32:
You know, the Timmothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski type.

Ironic since neither McVeigh nor Kaczynski strapped bombs to their chest nor did either use the subway or a bus as their delivery methods.

This looks like low hanging fruit to me which will only nab the stupid, like the January 6th insurrectionists. If I were to desire to inculcate extremists ideology, I wouldn't just put it out there on blast. That's like sending up a red flare when you're trying to setup an ambush. You start small. Seemingly innocuous messages that are psychologically crafted to resonate with people who already have an inkling of what they want. Then you slow reel them in and tell them, privately, if they want the "good stuff" that they will need to join a private, encrypted, and secure system away from public visibility. Then that is when you really start the indoctrination and planning. You wouldn't rely on Telegram, Whatsapp, or anything else that is not openly auditable because you need something that can't have an inherent back door. You wouldn't host your infra on anything within the US or any other Five Eyes+ nations. You'd avoid Tor, because you already know that is compromised.

So if you're serious, you'll likely evade detection for years because you're not doing all of your planning and actual recruitment in the open. I'm not saying the FBI is stupid (hi FBI agent! Threw you a bone there) but they also have a troubling track record of dismal failures and entrapment.
"Just take a look around you, what do you see? Pain, suffering, and misery." -Black Sabbath, Killing Yourself to Live.

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Re: Biz Buzz
Mar 12, 2024, 15:15
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Re: Biz Buzz Mar 12, 2024, 15:15
Mar 12, 2024, 15:15
 
Didn't Starbreeze at one point have the rights to Syndicate or did they just produce that awful 2012 FPS?
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Re: ItB: BS BS
Mar 12, 2024, 12:29
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Re: ItB: BS BS Mar 12, 2024, 12:29
Mar 12, 2024, 12:29
 
The Wisconsin satellite story creeped me out. We really are skipping happily down the road of becoming a full on surveillance state, aren't we?
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