One of my favorite sketches. Thanks for reminding me of it. I’m going to go watch it now.

As someone who has watched less than an hour of anything on twitch, I guess I’m going to change my avoidance of the site from passive to active.

I think the “This is Water” speech from David Foster Wallace gives a great perspective that feels relevant to this situation. There was a month or two where I listened to it every day on my way to work. It helped me through some shit.

Link for convenience: https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/

I expect he is a slow reader. He may not have gotten to that part of the book yet.

Geoff?

Yes.

I used to say I was 5’ 15". The number of times people would say “no way, your at least 6 feet” or something similar is amazing.

Sometimes? They are the only person I have ever blocked in all of my years on both reddit or lemmy. Such an odd combination of self importance, rage, entitlement and ego.

I’d almost forgotten about them until they showed up in a screenshot for being exactly how I remember.

This feels like a relevant situation to bring up one of my favorite Terry Pratchett quotes:

The Sam Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

Hmm, onions used to bother me a lot but I haven’t really thought about it in years. Apparently using a sharp knife makes a difference. At some point I got a nice knife set that I have been keeping sharp, and my onion issue disappeared but I didn’t realize until you reminded me.

How much do you really think they care about what the constitution says?

Possible unpopular opinion: I wouldn’t be upset if they dug up Arlington National Cemetery.

Thank you, though now I feel like the sarcasm in my comment was not clear.

Anyone have a tldr?

I prefer fountain pens. I usually carry a couple disposable ones in my bag, and keep the nicer refillable ones on my desk at home and at work.

How often do you exercise?

I’ve plans to brew a wheat wine. It’s just so much malt that I find it hard to justify, but I really want to try. 20 years ago it was a fairly uncommon offering at a local brewery that I loved, and I’ve wanted to try and recreate it ever since.

Sorry to hear about your unfortunate being-from-the-UK accident.

Is it the high gloss stuff, or the 80 grit option?

Wayne O’Rourke, who had more than 90,000 followers to his X account…

I don’t know why, but I’m strangely disappointed that people have stopped writing “X, formerly Twitter” and now trust that people know Twitter as X without the added clarification.