Oh God no, You’re 100% correct on all that. We were living through endorphins and we now have something in between nostalgia and Stockholm syndrome for the old days.

Yeah I did another couple of false starts over the next couple of years. This time at different jobs. I finally made friends with Redhat on a laptop with Enlightenment WM. I managed to stay Linux in the desktop for the next 14 years. KDE, Gnome , switch to Ubuntu when Red hat decided to go and split out the door, went back to Fedora when Cannocial had their bad boy phase. OSX lured me away and 2015 I think it was. Super disappointed with the level of control I had over the OS, I went back to Windows for WSL. Continued* on that until Debian got their shit back together (nonfree). Eventually slid into NixOS, I don’t know if it’s as painful as slack where I was but it certainly feels like it, and I kind of missed that.

My favorite part of the first configuration of x back then, you screw with the conf for ages, manage to get a viable video mode set, startx for the billionth time… gray screen, mouse cursor… Overflowingly happy… Wait, now what? No program manager, no apps, no terminal, No exit, no shutdown. What’s a window manager? The least apparent thing in the world being to switch consoles , export a display variable, and start an xtern in the video console.

We worked so hard for every little thing.

I had slackware on my 386DX 40. 4mb ram. It was kinda short-lived. I never got my modem working. I got a book, paged thought it. Learning shit was hard in the 90’s Internet.

You ever come across the hornet’s nest that you need to clear, where they can sting you multiple times and aren’t really afraid all that much of dying.

Unless they’re willing this is probably notably worse

HAA Alabama, the state that’s below the us average for every good metric.

The Alabama Senator is just projecting

Search anduril lattice on YouTube.

I saw a platform called anvil. I forget where I saw it on YouTube. It was a 20 lb drone with incredibly strong lift off who’s entire purpose was to target drones in It’s path and smash them to death. It was completely autonomous.

Not saying they’re using that but there are things out there that exist.

Drones are banned within something like 30 miles of DC.

Unlimited funding and permanent emplacements I can’t imagine they don’t have countermeasures.

We’re not going to make it to the 14th. He’s in a hurry.

You have no rights to that name. The eight doctor would never spew drivvel like that.

a little bit of dawn to help remove the grease,

I absolutely don’t baby mine. If a little salt will get it good, that’s what it gets. If I have something more difficult, soap and a scrubbie, if that fails, I’ll go all the way up to steel wool if I need to. If the cure starts to look a little ratty or start flaking, I just strip it in lye, de-rust it in vinegar, oil it, call it a hot dog day and fire up the grill to re-cure it. Comes out like magic every time.

Clean is a misnomer. We’re covered in bacteria and filled with bacteria. The air around us is thick with yeast. The second you wash any pan it is immediately reinnoculated with stuff around it. If you throw the concepts of brewing and canning at clean and you’ll find that nothing that we have is clean.

The bar for cookware is safe and doesn’t impart bad flavors to the food.

But this isn’t to say that you should or have to use it, But you ask why the rest of us do, It’s because it’s as clean as is necessary to cook great safe food.

Absolutely you are, We will too.

The key difference between tiananmen square and what’s going on right now will be whether US citizens are prohibited from talking about it in 5 years.

If you are citizens aren’t prohibited then it wasn’t a tiananmen square.

Right now, 50/50 maybe 60/40

Since the only way to stop the cloud trails are not to fly they should just shut down air traffic in those states. Refuse flyovers. Let’s go race to the bottom

It depends on whether we’re allowed to talk about it in 5 years.

Yeah, But it was never intended to stop things from happening from the inside. Whoever ends up on the opposite side of the military in the end is going to lose.

I mean the Nazis aren’t going to go ohh my bad we should have another try at the election.

I think they’re not theater, But I think they are definitely being used as as well to do some shit behind our backs.

Sure mush will use the drop in worth to buy more Tesla at a discount, but posting Epstein videos/pictures/links about Taco… That’s not playing around.

Still fun, I’m enjoying every little jab. Almost, ALMOST got me to reinstall twitter to watch first hand.

I wanna see DOGE archives crap out the Epstein report, or wikileaks, or whatever he can musker.

Then I want to see TACO Tuesday tenuously try to titillate the masses with real sanctions and giving NASA back a budget.