… or are you just happy to see me?

Well I’m just gonna have to pirate it EVEN HARDER.

Heh, thanks! No but my girlfriend hates that I don’t. I grew up reading books that my other (not crappy) older brother did and his influence greatly impacted my interest in science and language.

One brother is a psychopath, the other is literally the type of scientist that is changing the world. I’ve considered trying at writing some once I finish cleaning up my life from the people I’ve had to excise.

For what it’s worth, I just have spent my life having to constantly revise how I communicate and sometimes it helps. Usually it just annoys people if they aren’t really interested.

The orange tent is like the butt stuff version of a blue light special!

That’s a bit different, and as it should be, but then it’s likely clearer to just directly state the intent to protect the future generation.

“Family first” in my experience has always referred to the lateral or upstream bloodline. Deadbeat parents or lazy piece of crap siblings trying to justify grift or outright abuse.

I’m an ideal world, the phrase wouldn’t exist and people would just be decent; parents would prioritize their children and siblings etc would just help each other. I wish this were the case, but as with many others I’ve instead come to trust and rely on found family instead of bloodline.

And I’m forever in debt to my daughter. I will never expect her to put my life or needs before hers. My disgust at my own parents’ egotistical failings only magnified after personally experiencing becoming a parent.

Family is a sorting category word though, so while there’s truth to kids first, the phrase regarding family first is very very often abused to try forcing the hand of broken ties between the aging parent wanting the child to instead provide regardless of whether it’s deserved or not. It’s frequently an excuse for abusive siblings who’ve continually taken advantage of their kin.

Bluntly, relation is pure chance and does not immediately imply a debt with exception from “parents must care for their child” by social and biological need. I don’t owe my physically and mentally abusive parents or brother a damned thing except my disgust.

People in general, not just kin, need to earn respect and community with each other. The bond of parent caring for child doesn’t immediately imply the child owes the parent for “bringing them into this world”, and instead implies a larger scope debt toward that child then being indebted to any children they subsequently bring into this life.

“Family first” is such a contemptible load of crap. Primarily this idea only seems to be brought out by the same exact people that then abuse the notion.

The best pirates are librarians with legit ethics.

Preserve human knowledge and make it available to everyone.

I hate that you are right about mostly just greedy dipshits pissing in the high seas without contributing.

We should have taken up arms after Aaron Swartz…

Several of my utility companies and bank sites do this still. It’s absurd and in the stranger places.

What pisses me off is seeing more and more “You need to upgrade your browser for this site!” when using Firefox.

Having to use a spoof header gets frustrating frequently too.

Asiandvdclub (not the shady remake)

What.cd. - RED is great but there’s still a hole…

80s made some decent ones, but mid 90s I got some crap. Stopped trying after 3rd model that just sucked… Not smooth after a few weeks, or quality control from day 1, etc… Just not pleasing and certainly not worth the cost.

I’ve gotten Gerber most other times, and have been largely happy with their stuff… Usually if something happens, it’s obviously my own stupid fault like over torquing with the pliers or snapping the blade doing something really stupid.

Today, the Internet was good.

Me exiting the Taco Bell bathroom: “Notice me senpai!”

He is referring to turning Lemmy code itself into a decentralized tracker software.

A torrent post to Lemmy that your client would download Meta data from etc.

Yup. No clue on cause etc. even some services on the irc are hosed.

Edit: in some other irc, saw word it’s being worked on and status ”wonky"

Tech issue seems. Don’t think a takedown or malfeasance.

A respectable puddle of puss. Mirage of meow.

Coalition of chill. Critical mass of snoozyfluff.

Miniature Zen senate.

27 lives in condensed storage mediums.

High efficiency blanket gravity enforcement.

Cuddle of kitties… A veritable calamity of cute.

If you are decent with script type stuff, and have tasker, I believe you can build your own via kwgt:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kustom.widget

You can use tasker to set up variables that kwgt then can render in several ways.

I’ve only done simpler things but it’s worked well for me for years.

Toilet probably halfway through the floor… Not really hooked up to nothin but can’t afford to fix it with ammo and formula prices being so high.

… Stupid brother keeps picking up the phone.

If the gabapentin helps, have you looked at pregabalin? My doc suggested it and it’s like a super gabapentin. Much more effective, less side effects.

It’s been a huge help for me… Made the difference between active and not active most days.

Steroid epidurals also helped me a lot, but your needs might vary.