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Cake day: December 27th, 2025

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  • Everybody loves raymond had its moments. There is definitely a lot of relatable humor in your in-laws living across the street. The brother was always pretty fantastic as well. What was weird in the show’s setup was that raymond was often the straight man.


  • I’m not comfortable having to type these weird long-winded commands to do everything.

    You don’t have to touch the terminal if you don’t want to touch it. The majority of linux distributions have perfectly fine guis. I don’t think I have touched the terminal for anything besides fun for at least the last six months. In installing and setting everything up, it was all gui unless I specifically didn’t want to, and, speaking of…

    Best example is setup installation files. One tap, everything is installed automatically. Not the case with Linux.

    Absolutely the case with linux. Unless you think opening your distribution’s program manager, searching the name of the program, clicking the install, clicking the ‘yes, install the dependencies’ if you don’t already have them, and then entering your password to let it be installed is any more difficult than opening your browser, searching for the program, hoping you find the real website and not the three scam websites that some dumb search engine lets advertise based on your keywords, finding the download page for the program, downloading the program, double clicking the program, and either clicking the install button or the ‘yes, I want to install this program’ button and then the install button…


  • From my experience, there’s a weird sensor/processor mismatch. The light to go straight will turn green when I’m in the left turn lane (the default is the cross traffic has the green light unless someone is sitting on my road), but won’t ever trigger the left turn. I’ve gone across the road, u-turned, and then taken a right in order to go the original left… but sometimes I just run the red light to go left in the first place.

    Humorously, the intersection is probably within eyesight of the local police agency, except for a giant office building blocking the view. I’ve never even seen a cop nearby.




  • most of all people stopping at a red then deliberately running it because nobody else is coming.

    Ah, shit, I feel called out. I feel that one’s defensible in certain circumstances. The stupid underground magnet sensors never seem to detect me, it’s nearly midnight with a traffic rate of 20 cars an hour, and I can sit at that intersection for 10 minutes without the light changing…

    Even without those circumstances though, stopping at a red light, ensuring the way is clear, and then proceeding seems responsible enough.




  • I’m halfway with you, and halfway just considering that people think it’s relevant to include a tl;dr in a barely three paragraph comment. The feeling with tl;dr for me is a summary similar to a closing paragraph, and if anyone thinks that one sentence (“Ai coding can help a lot in accelerating software development.”) is somehow worthy of being summarized as if the point was proven (“Ai can be very powerful in the right hands”)… well, it sounds like shit because it is shit. Maybe it’s ai, maybe it’s just a really rushed dude making a throwaway comment in the fediverse, and maybe it’s just a person who is confident enough in their mind that they forget they haven’t made an actually decent argument outside of their past, and concluding as if they brought that past argument forth here is eye-raising.

    Considering he’s on his own instance… I’m going to bet the context is somewhere between throwaway comment and invoking past assertions without citing them.





  • I’ve sometimes wondered if people read the replies (because I know there was ONE time that someone answered me), and when I get bored I just pull up the text message list and start in on a random topic. Maybe a volunteer will learn about why rabies vaccines aren’t a big deal, but are still super important, or why animal husbandry is a very vital industry for the government to invest in even though we need to transition to vegan lifestyles.


  • I lived in a place where you’d have to walk up about that many stairs to enter. They were zig-zag back and forth, not circular, but it honestly wasn’t difficult to get used to it. Groceries were a one person affair, so I’d be able to get a full week’s worth in a single bike trip and haul it up without thinking about it. The view was worth it. The end of living there, and the subsequent effort to get the couches and washer/dryer out because the landlord was giving them to me, was a pain in the tuchus though.