Ah the “We didn’t build a better world for our children for the benefit of the goddamn kids” attitude. My country is currently dying of that.

OMFG someone test to see if Teslas stop to eat free bird seed.

I think her end goal is to get a divorce. A prerequisite of this goal is to get married, and to get married she has to bamboozle some schmuck into proposing.

1. Do not think you can delta his mind. If he says he’s not ready: believe him & move on immediately.

See, it turns out that men actually do communicate pretty well, but we do it by saying aloud words that have widely agreed upon definitions that most closely resemble the ideas in our head, instead of whatever the hell it is women do. I bet the self-ignorant little bitch even accused him of “wasting her time.”

“I TOLD YOU I wasn’t looking for anything long-term.”

2. Careful what you say / how you speak to your partner.

Someone took mask off, didn’t she? Let him know she actually holds a very low opinion of him, that what she wants has nothing to do with you as a living being, probably spoken in a way that indicates she doesn’t even conceptualize you as one? Yeah. Keep the mask on at all times, ladies.

3. Try to compromise on certain timelines. You can’t have everything you want right now.

The euphemisticalness of this one is just delicious. Which specific timelines are these? Could you write down a comprehensive list of “everything you want”? I’m willing to wager the presence and company of the man you’re dating isn’t on that list, is it Miss Widow To Be?

4. Ego stroke. It works!

Until it came apart in whatever incident lead to point 2, we were seeing some success with fake compliments. Experiments shall continue.

5. No “cookie” w/o commitment. (share it with a guy you don’t really like the guy)

We’re grown up enough to have sex but we’re not grown up enough to talk directly about it even to ourselves. Intimacy with a man is not the goal, it is the means by which she intends to achieve her goal.

6. Don’t overshare or give too much too soon. Maintain the mystery

Men drop your ass when they find out what you’re really about, huh princess? Better keep them in the dark for longer.

7. No sleepovers before 90 days. Period!

Gotta find that dude who can’t find any better prospects than you within three months.

I had an ex girlfriend who was gonna try.

No, it drives duplicated effort on the basics, asterisks in compatibility and confusion among new adopters. We’re not innovating here; we’re talking about three parallel Reddit clones.

There’s a #10 for you: A lot of the commercial sites were new and exciting because they let you interact in ways you couldn’t before. Facebook facilitated interactions with people you knew in person, Twitter let you briefly shout at everyone in the world, Youtube became your own personal television show, Tiktok destroyed attention spans…every single Fediverse platform is a clone of one of those (plus Pixelfed is Instagram, whatever Instagram is for). To my knowledge there is no ActivityPub-based project that has a unique or innovative concept behind it, just store brand copies of pre-existing ones.

It’s going to be about equivalent to the ATMEGA328P you get on a garden variety Arduino can do, albeit with a lot less IO. You’re probably looking at the speed controller in a power tool or the onboard computer of a Qi charger or something. In a lot of cases, you just need something that can run a few lines of C.

I am reminded of my favorite moment from The Modern Rogue, on the subject of implantable RFID chips:

Jason: “Can I crush it up and snort it up my nose?”

Bobick: “If we made a list of things you could do, that would be on the list.”

Has he been shaved?

I repaired an original SNES controller last night, and a couple places on the circuit board there were arrows pointing to unoccupied pads that looked like they were for SMT resistors with the legend “Only P” which I couldn’t quite parse.

Also, cool detail: The inside of the top cover had a legend stamped into it that told you where each color went for both the US lilac and purple, and the international four colors.

I find the best thing to do is smear my cat’s mealtimes back and forth. Feed her normally at 6, well feed her at 6:10. then 6:20. Minimizes the feline escalation; not as many things get thrown or shredded, there’s just some impatient meowing for a week or two.

He keeps using that word.

That line isn’t imaginary; you can see it in aerial photos.

My understanding is we bought Alaska from Russia. We still have the canceled check we wrote. The little tail that sticks down from the side taking up most of Canada’s west coast is kind of bullshit though.

Or I would have had hoops to jump through to get the lemmy.world link where that comment is (nominally) hosted. There’s a chainlink icon and a technicolor pentagram icon, neither of those do it. I either have to manually go to lemmy.world’s website, find the comment there, copy the link from there, come back to my account at sh.itjust.works and post it, or I post a sh.itjust.works link and send everyone on an indirect path. It’s…not good.

I keep saying that the choice should be meaningful; like I had no trouble picking the Peertube instance I should join because my content would fit their theme.

I’ve picked on Pixelfed’s join page in detail before at length. I think you’d be on board with my suggestions.

both SEA and Astrum for space stuff. If you like one you’ll like the other.