Doug [he/him]

Florida attached to Europe looks mildly like a penis.

Nah. I’ve had a domain registered with them for years and I just got the email too

Look for the little joys. Seriously. You know that light that always seems to be red when you get there? Celebrate the times it’s not rather than getting annoyed when it is. Make up words from the letters on a license and consider what might make a person want that. Come up with bad answers. Absurd ones. Find shapes in clouds.

Not all of that is easy but it can be worth the effort.

Happiness can be chosen, just not all the time. Look for the places you can and try to do it. Like anything it’ll get easier with practice.

*There are hard things that will make choosing happiness nigh impossible. If you find yourself in one of these places you need external help, very probably professional. It’s not weakness to acknowledge that any more than it is to see a doctor if you cut off your arm.

In all fairness that actress showed up fairly often for playing a dead character

Is that related to the mystic esquilax?

I thought that was a step further. Originally it was gold until Reddit made that a thing you could pay them for so people started doing silver and the wheel turned again

Or even make your own, with blackjack and hookers!

You’ve got a point. A whole lot of boomers are annoyance issues leading us millennials to not answer our phones

If there’s any you thought you should’ve gotten and didn’t that’s probably what happened there too

I can actually explain that.

Gmail will ignore periods and things after a plus sign.

So if we assume my name in so if you have Man.And.Wife@gmail it’s the same as ManAndWife@gmail as well as M.a.n.A.n.d.W.i.f.e@gmail or anything in between.

You could also use ManAndWife+roebuck@gmail if you wanted to filter out the emails you get from a defunct retailer.

It’s all very useful for categorizing emails and tracking down who is selling your email address to spam lists

I’ve had an email in my inbox for over a decade. The subject is FYI. The sender is listed as Allen Large, but in all caps. And the body is as follows

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Email Mr Allen now.

Realistically it’s just bad spam but sometimes I get myself wondering what shady deal fell apart because they sent something urgent to the wrong person

I’ve had an email in my inbox for over a decade. The subject is FYI. The sender is listed as Allen Large, but in all caps. And the body is as follows

--
Email Mr Allen now.

Realistically it’s just bad spam but sometimes I get myself wondering what shady deal fell apart because they sent something urgent to the wrong person

What can you tell me about the pompatus of love?

Computing resources got cheaper so development didn’t need to be as careful.

If one month you have $100 for food, but the next month you’ll have $2000 are you still going to eat like you’ve got $100? Of course not!

But another part of the problem is that when development was slim you also weren’t running very many things at once. I can remember writing different autoexec.bat and config.sys files to boot straight into whatever game I was going to play. Most to all of the resources were available.

Now we’re constantly running a handful of things. The OS itself is huge, plus a browser that you haven’t closed with a handful of tabs, plus the app for the store you bought the game from, and whatever else is in the background, and so on. So you feel the drag more because everything wants as many resources as it can grab before something else does.

Which is weird. I don’t know how they even hold the fork.

I don’t feel you replied to anything I have said in good faith.

That’s fine. I don’t feel like you’re here in good faith either, so I guess we’re on equal footing.

misusing the word “citation” isn’t noteworthy

I disagree. It’s a misrepresentation. These are common in your rhetoric, like your position on sanctions, but we’ll get to those in a moment.

You didn’t respond to the US artificial famine in Yemen that is active today at all.

Or any other genocide the US has participated in, but you choose to specifically call out this one.

I didn’t anticipate you talking about Russian or Chinese sanctions and wasn’t thinking that way.

Then perhaps you should be more careful with your language choices. You said sanctions are bad, but these ones aren’t. Yet you didn’t address where the line is for you, despite just admitting these ones aren’t bad. Whether they’re good or not is, presently, immaterial.

I was mentioning sanctions in regard to oil rich nations

No, you mentioned sanctions. You may have intended to be more specific, but you weren’t. No one else knows what is in your mind so if you want to discuss things in a productive manner you need to be able to do effectively. Saying one thing and meaning another is not that.

the wars and sanctions that I have looked into

Are not the entirety of the wars and sanctions that have been taken. If I judge you only by your worst actions would that be fair? This is by no means a claim that the US is any one thing or another, but pointing out that you can’t pick and choose when you’re trying to make a judgement of morality.

at the expense of starving children and causing unneeded suffering.

I will point you at any international policing action ever. Do you think innocent German children in the 1940s felt no repercussions from the war? The same question works in the 19-teens and following. Whether they’re right or not, unless you’ve got a better solution, they are, on occasion, necessary. Innocent have suffered because of the actions of the powerful, both above them and against those above them, for as long as there have been people. In the words of John Lennon, “you say you’ve got a real solution? We’d all live to see the plan”.

I don’t know where you’ll separate new lines of thought from existing ones. I frankly don’t care. You can reply to everything or nothing. It’s more important that you come to understand you do not have the position you appear to think you do. I doubt you’ll get there today, but I hope you can at some point.

I really cant be bothered citing more

You haven’t cited anything. You’ve made reference to them at best. Saying a thing is not citing it.

Sanctions in general impoverish and kill many. They are a type of light economic mass murder.

So then things like Russia sanctions are bad too? If so what do you suggest as an alternative? If not when do you draw the line?

I think what we actively do and did, is MUCH WORSE.

You made that clear, but you didn’t really express how. Have we been responsible for more death? More negative impact to lives? If that, how is it measured? Does it make a difference how much time it has been going on? If we’ve killed less per year is that better?

If one guy kills your family in front of you, but the other pokes you with a needle every day of your life, who do you have stronger feelings about? Who is the bigger villain?

Yes, America has a history of being terrible, and it doesn’t look like it’s stopping any time soon, but it’s just the most obvious, current bad guy. That doesn’t make it the biggest in history or now. That doesn’t excuse current practices, but it also doesn’t mean hyperbole (real or perceived) is going to help you.

I’d wager prevalence is part of their problem. Jokes get tired after a while, but that doesn’t always mean they stop.

PHP, like any language, has its problems, but it seems to get poked at a lot more often. But making the same joke over and over has been a problem long before reddit was a thing.

I assumed it’s the one who used the phrase “these days” regarding a social issue like it’s unique to now.