i was so confused when i visited a friend in kentucky and they were talking about the lightning bugs and how pretty they are.

they were dumbfounded when i had never heard of them; they talked for the rest of the day about how much awe i would be in once i saw them.

… they were fireflies. i had to pretend like it was the most amazing thing i had ever seen because i told them i hadnt even heard of them before.

i had forgotten about this gem. also one of the greatest hits.

i have no idea how many times i had to tell my parents and grandparents that we have decided to not have children, but over the course of ~6-8ish years, it was consistently asked more than once every time we saw each other.

was not a big fan of having other people’s wants being thrust into my life as if they are more important than my own.

thankfully, still kid free at 41.

aaahhh, okay; thank you! i am on the west cost where all trains go as fast as heavy freight, heh.

tracks in the US usually have freight heavy rail on them, anyways, so you’ll probably get 4 minutes at that speed before travelling 40mph for the rest of the trip. :/

as a software engineer who didnt go to college, i am not talking about programming; i have peers at work who have a masters degree in CS who know nothing about computers.

i’m talking about troubleshooting problems and fixing them by telling your boomer aunt what to do over a video call when her keyboard makes her computer too slow for her cat to read her favorite comic when she presses the “G” key.

not the person you replied to, but i have been using cloudflare zero trust for my streaming needs; have not gotten a complaint yet.

just make sure you have the upload bandwidth.

paint’s cheap.

presidents probably spend over 1,000 times a bucket of paint to rape children on a private island.

i did the world a favor and decided to not have kids. sadly, this also means i am unable to hand down a generation’s worth of computer knowledge, heh.

this kinda made me giggle:

…so that no hitches were sticking out into traffic

they are all sticking out into a pedestrian walkway.

i am happy you got one of those beefy arms on there for good measure.

i figured gen z would start fixing my computer once i hit my current age (41); turns out i dont know any gen z’s that understand how computers work.

im really tired of being everyone’s tech support :(

note: launching this game launches ubi launcher; ubi launcher launches anno 1800.

quitting anno 1800 only closes anno 1800, and leaves ubi launcher open.

because steam actually launched ubi launcher, not anno 1800, steam counts this time that ubi launcher is open as game time in anno 1800.

i was ~1,000 hours into anno 1800 by the time i finished one game. i then uninstalled it and ubi laincher. fuck ubisoft.

please look into using a platform other than one owned by microsoft or host one yourself <3

$1400 is extremely cheap here. its honestly closer to double that and smaller than what one expects.

the councilmembers that voted to oppose (district number in parenthases):

Traci Park (D11)
Jon Lee (D12)
Heather Hutt (D10)
Ysabel Jurado (D14)
Tim McOsker (D15)
Imelda Padilla (D6)
Monica Rodriguez (D7)
Katy Yaroslavsky (D5)

LA district map: https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/city/districts/map-of-los-angeles-ca-council-districts

vote.

did he do it in the back of his dragula?

if it is illegal to go on strike, then this union is not a union. the power of the workers comes from the ability to withhold required manpower for operations to continue if you are treated poorly. when workers do not have this leverage, corporations will treat its employees as poorly as possible.

y’all motherfuckers need Bash

got it. so we are still being violated. D :