It’s the only way of having a truly “popular” army, one you can’t have to do your shortsighted near-term political objectives, but will only really stand to defend their own.

There are many pitfalls in such endeavours : the first not having an entire brainwashed target population for service (no, I’m not going to name names: there are just too many), the main second is having both alternatives possible for true pacifists & no easy way of avoiding it / having it too easy through class or education etc.

Belgium used to have a choice of 1 year military or …2 years civil service. I think it was fair, if you really can’t stand to bear arms, go lift gurneys and wash hospitals floors for 2 years.

In any case, it is always better than a “professional” army where (mostly) clueless kids exchange their literal lives for a salary, some form of job security and stuff.

Igorrr “blastbeat falafel” - tho it’s not the only one from them that I tend to have on repeat.

Eating gummy bears.

My summer job gives us Mascot workwear. They’re so great I wear them all the time.

Battery life (>5000mAh) and price (<$200) comes first - long days of work, often outside, it’be nice but.

Yum Yum or Mama

Back when Vivaldi was a young punk, starved and with way too much funky ideas in his head, the only job he could find was as a teacher for girls in a convent.

Unleashing of the craziness ensued: with 60 pupils at hand, he started chain-writing pieces for string quatuors and quintets.

It’s called “Estro Armonico” and nr 8 on the Café Zimmerman’ recording is my ringtone. I always pause a bit before picking up a call.

Ubuntu Studio is an excellent choice to get you started busy doing your things. It’s a work of love, from passionate people, going at it for many years now.

The only drawback is that the bundle is overstuffed, for my use case there’s just too much stuff in there lol (sound eng)

Enjoy yourself, test your creativity against the available tools, and make stuff. That’s the important part: making!

The ethical pirate would rip them and make them available as torrents. Out of 500, there’s probably a lot that is unfindable.

Start with your favorites, go as far as you (and your bandwidth) can.

Yeah, tho I’m doing the opposite : Asahi on a macbook pro. Works great while indeed hurting conviction.

So a 12.5 screen, 12Ah battery, 2kg laptop with only USB A ports available in 6 months for a starting price of 1550€ - Please excuse the slight irregularity in my eyebrow line here.

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Singing in The rain

Casabianca

The Guardian

Mother Nature is really, really angry at us and payback is only barely beginning to start.

I am not religious or superstitious or whatever, it’s just a way of expressing that very soon we’re gonna have it very bad. The heatwaves, the storms, the utilities unable to cope, the displaced populations, the overwhelmed over-egotistic political systems - we’re in for a ride, and that ride starts yesterday.

My Debian is the best for my work laptop
My Arch is the best for my private laptop
My Asahi is the best so that I don’t have to deal with f*cling macos crap

In a way I did: shotgun marriage, she was 4 months already

Slip Kangourou

Not much to it outside of trying to convey “perfect by RPG standards, tropes and parameters (probably)”, but failed to “hit” me in any way.

Watching it, I was expecting to see something akin to a Franchise movie, where you may miss a bit or two if you’re not in on all the lore. But I was also expecting true entertainment with striking visuals, gripping storytelling, stuff like that

Imagine watching a spy movie. 20% in you have adversarial hierarchy, 30% in the car chase, 66% in the romantic pause, 80% in the unexpected traitor, 95% in the final hand-to-hand fight to avert the end of the universe or whatever… And it’s boring, but everybody around you is telling you it was so great because it’s got it all, the car chase the traitor the, the.

Doesn’t make a good movie.

It is so absolutely, terrifyingly horrible, many thanks for sharing.

I’ll never look at beans the same way from now on. Heck, I’ll never look at my microwave the same way.