Fantastic choices. Outer Wilds for me.

Just write a script that runs periodically to check the log’s size and delete when its near the crash threahold.

This is genius but too high effort. You may sit on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of shitost.

Red Bilk is the best.

Human beings are subject to the laws of physics. If you eat more calories than you consume and do not otherwise eliminate from the body, they will still be in the body. The body stores them as fat. This is simply the mechanics of biology. If it weren’t, things like Ozempic would not spur massive weight loss.

We have more obese people now than have ever existed. Countries that do not have US/Mexico levels of easy access to heavily processed, calorie-dense foods do not have obesity problems like we have. Clearly, calling people names and making them feel bad is not a good way to get them to adopt healthier habits. However, there are plain, uncomplicated things that people can do to lose weight that will work, but they will ONLY work if the people want to change, are honest with themselves and truly stick to the changes they need to make.

Losing weight is absolutely within reach of 99% of obese people, but comments like this reinforce the absolutely incorrect notion that getting healthy is some big mystery that’s for a different class of people to solve. It’s defeatist and makes it seem like a problem that a person can’t solve on their own, which is straight up wrong.

The plain, uncomplicated things you can do? Find out how many calories a body of the weight you want to weigh uses in a day. Limit yourself to those calories. Given time, you will be that weight if and only if you stick to the plan. It may shock some people how many calories they actually consume in a day, especially if they drink soda or juice with any regularity.

I supported myself with Blackjack for a few months. It was fun until it wasn’t fun at all.

He’s Clock King, he’s Clock King, he’s Clock King.

Exactly. As far as Linux has come in terms of ease of desktop use and hardware compatibility, there is still a barrier in knowing how to know which flavor is right for you and, almost more importantly, why that flavor is right.

The kernel is too old for newer AMD gpu drivers to work, but switching to a newer kernel isn’t too hard. I had to when I built a new computer last winter, but I have also used various *nixes for a good long time.

Knowing how to discover you need a newer kernel is a bit tough for recent convert, though.

Male gorillas and lions both top out around 500lbs. Do you think you could kill a cat the same size as you if that cat wanted you dead? With your bare hands?

Paralyzing is super broken in Skyrim. It doesn’t actually matter how long the target is paralyzed, because paralyzing them at all causes them to fall, starting a lengthy stand-up animation, during which they’re vulnerable. Hit them, they fall. They start to get back up, so you hit them more. Eventually, they stay down.

Ah, the Harrison Bergeron school of parenting.

Robots can be from other planets.

Everyone knows the Bulls logo is an upside-down alien giving it to a crab.

I worked with a Scott that was awful. He was on-call one weekend but didn’t feel like actually leaving the house when there was an emergency, so he called a new hire that was junior to him who he was not in a management position over and told him to go on-site. I was in a management position over the both of them, so when I learned he did it I made sure Scott took over four of the new hire’s on-call weekends once he was in the rotation. Fuck you Scott, don’t take advantage of new hires.

Scott later had a bit of very important of project work. He was a senior IT dude and the project called for senior-level knowledge. The motherfucker took the time that he was supposed to do the project work that I worked hard to carve out for him and just fucked off. Didn’t matter that I had coordinated a downtime window with multiple vendors, the client and the client’s clients, he just did not do the work. When asked why he didn’t he simply said “Oh, I’ll get to it.” I sent him the email chain where he had acknowledged the downtime window and asked how he would do that. He never got back to me, as he had been called into a meeting where he got fired for OTHER SHIT. Fuck you Scott, I’m the reason your unemployment insurance claim was rejected. The other managers didn’t want to fight it but when I brought up the on-call shenanigans they all got on board with giving you the finger.

Half your age, plus seven. If you’re 25 that’s 12.5+7=19.5. You’re good to go.

I, too, wasted scales on the Drake Sword.

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