Yeah. I’m starting to think the misspelling is not deliberate, but ironic - it’s one thing to have guns and a written warning saying you will use them. It’s another to loudly convey that you’re this dumb and also have guns.

I was in the “gifted/advanced” track too. Teachers saw this one of two ways. Half of them got the memo: you got extra interesting stuff to noodle through because we’re all under-stimulated in a typical class. The others decided to just double your homework load and call it a day. At least the teachers in the first group had some interesting takes on brain teasers and reading material.

And on that note: I must have thought about Flowers for Algernon every week since I read it. Since the 90’s. I’m tired, boss.

Sometimes teachers field stories like this to foster critical thought and encourage insightful book reports. It’s stimulating material even with a flawed premise, and that’s the point.

My teachers always seemed to be the type that had these stories in the curriculum, but weren’t the type to follow up with the thinky-thinky bits. This had rather predictable results.

Top of mind for this subject: Flowers for Algernon.

Of Mice and Men might qualify, but weighs in at 100 pages. I’m not sure what the threshold is for “short.”

On my own time in High-school, I read: I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream.

imagine what an ex-KGB agent with unlimited resources can do.

Oh, there’s no need to imagine: I’m on the internet right now. I’m probably staring at this kind of state-actor bullshit on a daily basis without even knowing it.

Put any distro in front of me and provided I don’t need to master it, I’m good. Ubuntu is fine. Debian is fine. RedHat is fine. Fedora is fine. I even have a tiny low-end system that is using Bohdi. Whatever. We’re all using mostly the same kernel anyway.

90% of what I do is in a container anyway so it almost doesn’t matter; half the time that means Alpine, but not really. That includes both consuming products from upstream as well as software development. I also practically live in the terminal, so I couldn’t care less what GUI subsystem is in play, even while I’m using it.

The only time I’ve encountered people that care a little too much about what distro is being used, is right after having transitioned to Linux; the sheer liberating potential of the thing can make you lose your head.

I’ve come across a lot of professional bias about Linux distros, but that’s usually due to real-world experience with tough or bad projects. Some times, decisions are made that make a given distro the villain or even the hero of the story. In the end, you’ll hear a lot of praise and hate, but context absolutely matters.

There’s also the very natural tendency to seek external validation for your actions/decisions. But some people just can’t self-actualize in a way that’s healthy. Sprinkle a little personal insecurity into the mix and presto: “someone is getting on great with that other Linux I don’t use, so Imma get big mad.”

Eh, don’t get twisted up about it. They took a crack at it, that’s what counts. Some times you have to feel around for the right joke.

The thing that baffles me about Wing Commander is that Mark Hamill was right there and already had an established character in the game’s canon. But even with a different story and cast, I don’t understand how anyone could have screwed up a bog-standard space opera that badly.

Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat deserve their respective paydays. They’re both stupid and fun. That’s what the source material is after all. But Mortal Kombat might do well with a little love: just throw a few million at Corridor Digital and update the CGI effects and re-release it.

Good point.

Calling in sick:

Calling in, sick:

It’s worse than that. They think that toeing the line and refusing to deviate is the strong position to take here. Always has been.

Dasus: Hey future me. So, how did Hillary’s first and second terms in office go?

Future Dasus: Yeah… about that.

Dasus: No. Oh no. Dammit. There are that many stupid people voting that trash into office? Man, where is a good old fashioned plague when you need one? /s

Future Dasus: You’re not gonna believe this…

talking about some unhinged and completely baseless conspiracy about immigrants stealing and eating peoples pets.

The fact that he was so easily riled up and went immediately off script with such wild baseless improv, only to get fact-checked by the moderator, was glorious to watch. His handlers advisors must have broken the sound barrier face-palming through that.

… and the moderators fact-checked his shit.

Honestly, Kamala didn’t have to say anything. It was all “trump v trump” for a little while there which was worth seeing and has been the crown jewel of very debate digest. All that needed to happen was for moderators to call bullshit on his hyperbole and fabrication in real time.

It’s also worth noting that the launch PS3 also had a whole PS2 inside of it, which partially explains the inflated price point. I say partially since I’m prrety sure that a PS2 slim cost a lot less than $330 in 2006 dollars; they could have just bundled both consoles or offered a rebate on a PS2 purchase and called it a day.

Thank you!

people customers always just cut it off 5 words in for some reason…

Fixed that for ya. ;)

Nothing, as far as I can tell.

I think he’s bringing up the idea of running Colorado’s openly gay governor out of his own state. That’s in line with the rest of the magical thinking from the tweet. That said, who knows for sure? I’ve already put three times as many words and ten times as much thought into this interpretation than went into the original fragment.

At this point, it’s like Nostradamus: utterly deranged word-salad if you read it from end to end. But let some intermediate scry the bones of these texts and extract meaning for you, and the true word of great leader becomes clear.

I firmly believe this is how we wound up with tabs as a feature in the first place.