• lynx

lol you win, but it’s the only weird thing on your list

Side note, there was a gui version of lynx that ran on the early Mac.

Good luck, have fun, get Altman first.

The “GST discount”. Heavily in use in rural areas.

I do not welcome our teutonic overlords.

Calls someone a turd

Stinks up the place

What a fine example you set

Best option is to stay watchful and get more educated, I guess. One never knows when it’s your turn to pull a switch.

That “freedom” is a thought experiment that assumes equal resources. Poverty is coercive and undermines the argument. Typical econ.

My dad got cancer, he was triaged into a special unit right away where they triangulate radiation on a tiny spot in the brain, he got a room to himself for a while, then a chemo regime and limited but helpful home support, and when all that excellent and responsive care didn’t pan out he got hospice that was thoughtful and caring.

No waits. The triage is strong in Canada.

All the sudden

Ouch. Eggcorn alert

OK so you don’t know any truckers and the soccer moms are hiding it… check out the caffeine treats by the till next time you roll through a truck stop. Don’t buy any though, it’s brutal. So yeah stimulants are used widely, lead one to another as habituation and escalation kicks in and self-medicating goes off the rails for many.

I like how you are being condescending and dismissive, while confidently missing the point!

Oh yeah, that is a cool remote. My observation about the awkwardness of a laptop in the living room is more about furniture and the layout of most media rooms. A second screen or a place for the laptop usually isn’t quite right, or downright bothersome. Even a desktop can be a problem.

My media server is hiding in the tv stand because it is NUC sized, an old mac mini. It could directly play to the tv, but for various reasons I wind up with apple castoffs, so an apple tv running Infuse is the front end. If I didn’t have that gear I would be running a modified android player.

I wind up in a lot of living rooms mucking around in their media systems and the furniture aspect matters to a lot of people. Also convenience is paramount, they want a media appliance in front of the couch, computers are for desks.

I know my family is grateful that I no longer force them to mess with a computer to watch something. Inconvenient and frustrating.

This is awkward in most living rooms and the remote control sucks. Source: my house, and my job.

Less awkward, ironically, when using airplay to an appletv.

Oh, that company is run by millionaires not billionaires and they are pretty sincere in not wanting to keep data that is requested for removal.

Having been hit by accessibility and copyright legal trolls has made them kind of gun shy though.

I have convinced them that they won’t miss it, plus I set up an easy and documented workflow.

I process data deletion requests for one of my business clients, and we are quite thorough about it, but with so many intersecting apps engaged in third party data storage it can be challenging tracking down the crumbs.

I’m watching For All Mankind and enjoy the portrayal of this process.

This is one of the prominent definitions of ideology: thinking in a way that allows you to participate in your own oppression.

Some of them, for sure! I learned from covid that about 10% of the population is contrarian, and though that overlaps somewhat with conservatism, it’s also prevalent among self-described “antiauthoritarians” who are into alternative health and politics (they think). This pans out with the similar percentage of antimaskers in 1917 and during the smallpox inoculations.

Mostly because it’s a neo-monarchist kleptocracy. Wealth and Power are distributed according to inherent, not achieved, merit. Know Your Place, peon.

People who play team politics and pin their identity to certain keystone interests have to bring up their team preferences.

Sure, the Liberals have a misguided and hamfisted approach to gun law. Beliefs that guns are not relevant as a collective risk and opportunity, and that property rights reign over collective safety, are suppressing facts for identity politics.

In Canada we have a lot of long guns. I strongly support responsible hunting weapons. I don’t get choked up about the government mishandling regulation of assault and handguns, just annoyed. You can see this divide in a lot of rod and gun clubs (maybe more so in my local “god and run” club because it’s progressive rural).