Nothing valuable, but I discovered a cache of Matchbox cars, coins, spoons, and small plastic toys all in a small spot in my yard when I first moved in. Seemed cool imaging the kids playing there years prior. Building tunnels in the dirt to drive their cars through and accidentally burying them for me to find later.

Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:

• It’s set in 2021
• His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a “doubler” to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
• The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
• One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
• The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
• The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.

The fetish stuff is all created by people who can’t experience ASMR and just assume it’s what being horny feels like. Sad really.

What, you think I don’t have any friends? Sigh. You are mostly correct. But I have this one.

He’s been renting for years. He’s definitely moving. All clear.

This is going to be my new way to antagonize conservatives I know:

ME: Did you know Harris has had 5 kids with 3 different partners?!

MORON: I don’t doubt it. She’s a whore!

ME: Oh sorry, I meant Trump.

Guy on the team rage quits one day. Few days pass and HR goes to clean out his desk. Finds a paper bag full of syringes and a very graphic instruction manually on how to inject something into your dick.

Whatever it was, I guess it can’t wait until you’re at home to inject into your dong. It has to be at work.

Cherry on top was that HR policy was to box up all personal belongings left behind and have the ex-employee come pick them up. So, if he had forgotten these things were in his desk, he certainly remembered after he came back and they handed him the bag.

“The Projects” is a term used to describe government provided (or subsidized) housing for poor people. The term is generally used to indicate “a place in a city where income is low and crime is usually high”.

The consultancy I used to work for in the late 90s would have crucified any developer that didn’t write “a data abstraction layer that allows you to pop off the original db and substitute a different one later”.

How many times in my 25 year career have I swapped out the database (and been thankful for such an abstraction layer)? 0 times.

This portal is a dumb idea, but most developers know you don’t let on when a hack is attempted and you detect it. It’s common to return a “success” message in hopes the “hacker” stops trying and moves on. Meanwhile, you log the attempt (and don’t actually cancel a voter registration).

Though, I don’t have high hopes the state actually built a secure site here.

You mean by people disagreeing with me on points I never made?

Dear Mr. High & Mighty, I’ve actually seen all those things - on UL certified devices.

But again, not my point. My point was a lamp isn’t complicated enough for the UL to charge so much that the price goes up 10x. If they are charging that much, there should be tons of competitors trying to get a piece of that pie. If they aren’t charging alot, then many of the products on Amazon, that are often certified by authorities in other countries, would also get UL certified. It has all the hallmarks of a racket.

That’s not really the point I was going for. I’m not saying bad companies won’t make shit products. I’m just pointing out a lamp doesn’t require alot of effort for the UL to certify, so it can’t justify a 10x increase in cost. But they must be charging a ton or more companies would just get their products certified.

Maybe unpopular opinion, but I’m on the fence about this. I slightly subscribe to the conspiracy theory that many “certified” products are just ways to stifle competition while also justifying higher prices for “certified” products.

Take UL listed electronics for example. Sure, that might mean something on a full computer full of electronics, but a lamp is two fucking wires and a bulb. It’s not complicated. Even confirming proper metals are used to prevent shrinking and expansion is not complicated. But the same $15 lamp is $100 once it’s UL certified. The math doesn’t add up.

Like I said: On the fence. Maybe it’s the best way to ensure safe products, but it also seems like a great system for lining specific peoples pockets.

EDIT: Jesus people, read my post before you get all triggered. I’m not saying shit products don’t exist.

Me and my little brother are riding in the car with our mom. I was 12 and my mom was teasing me about my first girlfriend. My little brother had met her, so my mom asks him “What do you think of Waldowal’s girlfriend?”.

That when my brother decides to break out a new phrase he’d learned: “Let’s just say, as long as I have a face, she’s got a place to sit!”

That’s one way to ensure you get shot by the police.

Yes, you’re right, but I think Lemmy culture adds an unwritten “don’t be an overly aggressive asshole” on top of it. (Unless that’s also explicitly written)

The only unwritten rule I know of is “be civil”. I’ve yet to see those typical reddit replies of: “You’re wrong about everything and should die you fucking bag of cunt hammers!” (Except from the guy that will respond to this post with that exact phrase)

Well, more accurately, mass murders with guns do. I’m not saying we ban guns. But let’s not ignore half the issue. It’s mental health and easy access to weapons of mass murder. Some gun control makes sense. Doing something about mental health makes sense.

But you’ll never see a Republican vote for either. Government provided mental health programs? That’s communism! They are fine to let both problems run rampant.

Went down the rabbit hole on this guy a bit. He went on to participate in the CyberNinjas audit of Arizona’s ballots after the 2020 election. He claimed to have technology that could detect whether ballots had been folded in the mail, and claimed to detect bamboo in “fraudulent Chinese ballots”.

He was such a kook, the other kooks rejected him.

Come to Georgia. It’s close. We’re a swing state now. We could use your vote.